Prior to the attack on the USS Cole and the events of 11 September 2001, the U.S. Navy was developing antiterrorism programs to address potential terrorist attacks in a resource-constrained environment. Amid unprecedented tragedy associated with these and other terrorist strikes against U.S. interests, both domestic and abroad, government agencies, the Armed Forces, and private companies have r...

Disperse or unite? A mathematical model of coordinated attack. By Joram op den Kelder Throughout the history of the western world a constant struggle has been taking place between governments and terrorist organisations. Game theory has proven helpful in enhancing our understanding of struggles between two players with opposing interests. The September 11 attacks on the USA in 2001 marked a pro...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States and the Western world entered into a new era – one in which large scale terrorist acts are to be expected. The impacts of the new era will challenge supply chain managers to adjust relations with suppliers and customers, contend with transportation difficulties and amend inventory management strategies. This paper looks at the twin corpora...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Terrorist Group processes Case study Involvement vs. events This paper offers a critical review of the role of group processes in terrorist behavior. It draws on a fundamental distinction between terrorist 'involvement' and terrorist 'events' to explore what group phenomena might contribute to our understanding of actual terrorist behavior, as opposed to the cont...

In this paper, we present algorithms for subgroup detection and demonstrated them with a real-time case study of USS Cole bombing terrorist network. The algorithms are demonstrated in an application by a prototype system. The system finds associations between terrorist and terrorist organisations and is capable of determining links between terrorism plots occurred in the past, their affiliation...

We study a two stage game in which a transnational terrorist organization interacts with an arbitrary number of countries that may differ in their political or economic power, their military effectiveness, the benefit from cooperating against terrorism and the value they assign to damage. Only a subset of countries that emerges endogenously takes proactive measures to fight the terrorist, while...

This paper highlights five areas where economic analysis of terrorism has had the greatest policy relevance during the last 30 years. These areas involve evaluating the effectiveness of counterterrorism actions, identifying the causes of terrorism, measuring the economic ramification of terrorism, analyzing the time-series dynamics of terrorist events, and formulating game-theoretic representat...

Chinese governmental repression in Xinjiang against the Uighur minzu, or ethnic group, constitutes a significant infringement on human rights. The atmosphere of repression in Xinjiang is perhaps unmatched even by that of Tibet, and it is virtually the only region in China where execution of political prisoners is still common. Uighurs are subject to severe censorship, arbitrary arrest and the d...

The article deals with the analysis of transformational processes doctrinal and praxeological interpretation concept global peace in context overcoming modern military, terrorist informational threats. tasks solved are: essence understanding is revealed; effectiveness mechanism international institutions providing counteraction to military threat analyzed; terrorism as an opposition stability s...

The paper analyzes the arrest and trial of a group opponents communist regime in Yugoslavia mid-1970s Socialist Republic Croatia, who were convicted founding terrorist organization that collaborated with Croatian anti-Yugoslav émigrés West. verdict is compared investigative documents Yugoslav intelligence service, but also authorized record conversation author this had first defendant Tomislav ...