New offerings from the Homeland Security Digital Library

HSDL Critical Releases in Homeland Security [April 2011]
Every two weeks, the Homeland Security Digital Library identifies a targeted collection of recently-released documents of particular interest or potential importance. [Login to the HSDL is necessary to open some documents.*]



* Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future
United States. White House Office

* Measuring Illegal Border Crossing Between Ports of Entry: An Assessment of Four Promising Methods
RAND Corporation

* Rising Tide or a Shrinking Pie: The Economic Impact of Legalization Versus Deportation in Arizona
Center for American Progress; Immigration Policy Center (American Immigration Law Foundation)

* Security Through Partnership: Fighting Transnational Cartels in the Western Hemisphere
Center for a New American Security

* Typology of Lone Wolves: Preliminary Analysis of Lone Islamist Terrorists
International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence

* Unacceptable Risk: Two Decades of 'Close Calls.' Leaks and Other Problems at U.S. Nuclear Reactors
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group. Education Fund


The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. It supports local, state and federal analysis and decision-making needs and assists academics of all disciplines in homeland defense and security related research. The HSDL provides quick access to thousands of important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.