ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that the term 'domestic/global security state' is an analytical construct for use in identifying and analyzing a set of trends. In the domestic/global security state that is emerging, the central purpose is developing, sharing, and using information and intelligence in domestic/global matters to reduce the vulnerability of people and complex systems to catastrophic disruption and destruction through intentional and accidental acts. The context is a new form of technological terrorism 'global terrorism' as part of extensive interactions among global and local technological, economic, and cultural realities. The advent of the domestic security state requires a searching re-examination of the conceptual cultures of public administration. The domestic security state requires an analogue 'a vulnerability analysis concept, methodology, process, and statement require assessment of all technological and human behaviour and systems, public and private that are potentially subject to sabotage or catastrophic accident.
