National Security Policy Diffusion: The Case of TSA Regulations

• In Event: Policy Learning through Networks and Diffusion

Abstract

This paper analyzes how national security policies diffuse from the US to other G20 countries using TSA regulations as a case study. I will first contextualize the present research on civil aviation security policy within this greater framework of national security policy diffusion, going over the literature review on policy diffusion and national security policy. Following I will go over the theory and hypotheses. Third I will discuss the methods and data structure, including a novel measurement of country relationships using network analysis. Fourth, I will contextualize and delineate the US Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001 (ATSA), and discuss how the countries in the G20 adopted similar legislation in the following years. I conclude this paper showing the preliminary results.

Author

• Laura de Castro Quaglia, University of Texas at Austin