Explores psychological incentives for aggressive behavior and ideologically motivated hostility, as they evinced themselves in the early 20th-century Russian political setting, and poses questions related to the universality of contemporary terrorist practices and to apply psych…
The shock of the 9/11 attacks sent the American intelligence community into hyperactive growth. Five hundred billion dollars of spending in the Bush-Cheney years turned the U.S. spy network into a monster: 200,000 plus employees, stations in 170 countries, and an annual budget o…
Traces the growth of the American intelligence community after the September 11 attacks, citing the billions that have been spent on intelligence efforts while explaining why its sophisticated systems are still being eluded by enemies.
Encyclopedia of terrorism
The motivation to commit terrorist acts in the 21st century is just as likely to be religious or ideological as political. Modern terrorist organizations are more diffuse and are operating across national boundaries; and their methods have become more violent with little or no r…
The motivation to commit terrorist acts in the 21st century is just as likely to be religious or ideological as political. Modern terrorist organizations are more diffuse and are operating across national boundaries; and their methods have become more violent with little or no r…
Argues that the campaigns that fall under "The War on Terror" have exacerbated the already-broken relationship between central Islamic governments and the tribal societies within their borders.
"Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, polls showed that Americans were more anxious about terrorism than they were before his death. The new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrown enemy," domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism stru…
"Global threats of terrorism, drug-smuggling and other crimes have led to a significant increase in research on game theory for security. Game theory provides a sound mathematical approach to deploy limited security resources to maximize their effectiveness. A typical approach i…
"Mia Bloom examines the use, strategies, successes, and failures of suicide bombing in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe and assesses the effectiveness of government responses. She argues that in many instances the efforts of Israel in the Middle East, Russia in Chechnya, and th…
