Abstract
Lessons argues persuasively that the shift in policy focus from natural disasters to terrorism and the rise of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which absorbed and subsumed the Federal Emergency Man agement Agency (FEMA), has significantly weakened the latter agency's ability to address disasters. Birkland is not alone in making such claims, echoing the con cerns of Donald Kettl (2007), Kathleen Tierney (2005), and George Haddow and Jane Bullock (2006) that the transformation has severely undermined U.S. capacity to respond to its own natural disasters. Birk land's assertion may still be valid despite the establish ment of a so-called new FEMA within the Department of Homeland Security in 2007.
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