Editing Homeland security (section)

===As a field of study===

Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Homeland security also took off as an up-and-coming academic field with a number of schools in the United States offering [[Academic certificate]] and [[Academic degree|degree]] programs in Homeland Security. The field is often studied alongside emergency management due to their similar nature and purposes. With the relatively sudden growth of the field, the quality of the programs vary greatly from one to another along with their respective accreditation statuses (or lack thereof). In a partial effort to combat these variations, the [[International Association of Emergency Managers]] offers a scholarship program with the aim of nurturing, promoting and developing disaster preparedness and resistance by furthering the education of students studying the fields of emergency management, disaster management or related programs such as Homeland Security.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iaem.com/page.cfm?p=about/scholarships/intro&lvl=1 |title=IAEM Scholarship Program |publisher=IAEM.com |access-date=2014-12-24}}</ref>

Homeland Security is often thought of as a specifically United States term referring to the role of the United States' reformed national security infrastructure beginning in 2003. However, neither the term nor the concept of Homeland Security are specific to the United States. Though terminology varies, an equivalent might be seen in Israel's [[Ministry of Public Security (Israel)|Ministry of Public Security]]. Within Homeland Security as an academic field, Homeland Security is sometimes studied in a comparative context by scholars of [[comparative politics]] or [[criminal justice]]. For example, the British political scientist [[Paul Wilkinson (political scientist)|Paul Wilkinson]] edited and contributed to a textbook on Homeland Security policy and practice from a [[United Kingdom|British]] perspective. The scholar Nadav Morag looks at a global perspective on homeland security management and strategies in the book ''Comparative Homeland Security: Global Lessons''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470497149.html|title=Comparative Homeland Security: Global Lessons|date=25 October 2011|publisher=wiley.com}}</ref>