Baghdad, Christchurch or Paris: Over the last years, many cities were location of extremist attacks – but only some incidents covered as “terrorism”. Journalists selectively attach label to particular acts political violence. This study analyses how characteristics and their perpetrators influence whether news media portray terrorism. Based on between 2012 2018 ( N = 86,668) coverage in German ...

in the 21st century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. as a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...

Nowadays terrorism is one of the most dangerous, domestic and international security threat in world. There are national, regional global efforts field counter-terrorism which codified international, national criminal codes, treaties. Unfortunately despite seriousness this there no internationally accepted common definition “global” law. At level treaties, some parts codes types defined. Academ...

The Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) strives to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by disseminating timely information and analysis and training the next generation of nonproliferation specialists. CNS at the Monterey Institute of International Studies is the largest nongovernmental organization in the United States devoted exclusively to research and training on no...

Benjamin Heath is a second-year graduate student at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. As a graduate research assistant at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Heath focuses on domestic preparedness issues within the Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Project. Within the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project, Heath researches and analyzes the chemical and...

This article determines the key factors inducing INTERPOL countries to institute MIND/FIND, a technology which facilitates systematic searches of people, motor vehicles, and documents at international transit points. This integrated solution assists countries in curbing international crime and terrorism. Based on discrete-choice models, the analysis identifies income per capita, population, dem...