Security, Democracy, and the Rhetoric of Counter-Terrorism

Rhetoric and Deliberative Democracy

Workshop on Data Mining for Counter Terrorism and Security

Data mining is playing an increasingly important role in sifting through large amount of data for homeland defense applications. However, we must pay attention to the privacy issues while mining the data. This has resulted in the development of several privacy-preserving data mining techniques. The random value distortion technique is one among them. It attempts to hide the sensitive data by ra...

supply and demand security of energy in central asia and the caucasus

امنیت انرژی به معنی عرضه مداوم و پایدار همراه با قیمت های معقول در حامل های انرژی، که تهدیدات امنیتی، سیاسی، اقتصادی، محیط زیستی و روانی را کاهش دهد. امروزه نفت و گاز تنها، کالای تجاری نیست بلکه بعنوان ابزار سیاسی مورد استفاده قرار می گیرد.اختلاف میان روسیه و اکراین بر سر انرژی در ژانویه 2006، تهدیدی برای امنیت انرژی اروپا ایجاد کرد. در این تحقیق ما تلاش کردیم که نقش انرژی آسیای میانه و قفقاز ر...

Mapping Information Security Standards: A Counter-Terrorism Example

Although practitioners have mapped the alignment between IT-related standards, this work has rarely been reported in the academic literature. In particular the methods used have not been made explicit, which has limited the value of any reported results. The research described in this paper demonstrates a rigorous method for mapping the alignment between two example IT security standards. The t...

Terrorism, Democracy, and Credible Commitments1

What explains the variation in terrorism within and across political regimes? We contend that terrorism is most likely to occur in contexts in which governments cannot credibly restrain themselves from abusing their power in the future. We consider a specific institutional arrangement, whether a state has an independent judiciary, and hypothesize that independent judiciaries make government com...