Ben Sheppard, PhD, is a terrorism analyst, an Academic Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and the author of The Psychology of Strategic Terrorism (Routledge, 2008). In an essay for a Government Security News series on national security since 9/11, Dr. Sheppard writes that the government's response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 may have inadvertently increased the public's fear, rather than alleviating it - and that ten years later, risk communication strategies are still falling short. Click here to read the article in full.