National Security Policy Reform in the US: How 9/11 made way for a long overdue change

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Examining the Policy Process

Brief Overview

The US intelligence community failed to adapt to a post-Cold War world. Through process-tracing we argue it was only after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 that the National Security System was receptive to large-scale change.

Author

• Laura de Castro Quaglia, University of Texas at Austin