INTRODUCTION We have seen a rise in computer misuse at a global level and also the development of new policies and strategies to describe organized computer security attacks against the information society–these strategies are described as being “information warfare.” This is very different from the traditional view of attack against computers by the individual, determined hacker, a cyber warri...

The relationship between militarization and state formation in the West has been the subject of considerable scholarship,1 and there is thus some temptation to simply transfer concepts and arguments from that domain to the study of Third World militarization. Yet state formation dynamics in the two contexts were and are quite different, with important implications for the nature of national sec...

The study concludes that the reality of food security in the Arab World is unstable and fluctuated; there is no self-sufficiency to cover the needs of the Arab states. In addition, food security is connected with the power of water security, as all water resources come from non-Arab states. Water shortage may lead to the shortage of food for Arab states (famines), poverty and divisions. Therefo...

Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) resisting the security fence and other Israeli security measures are in ‘virtual isolation’ in networks dedicated to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and especially to the criticism of Israeli governmental policies and the construction of the security fence.The research reported is a hyperlink and term analysis of select issue networks on the Web a...

Recent findings suggest that exerting executive control influences responses to moral dilemmas. In our study, subjects judged how morally appropriate it would be for them to kill one person to save others. They made these judgments in 24 dilemmas that systematically varied physical directness of killing, personal risk to the subject, inevitability of the death, and intentionality of the action....

Abstract Postcolonial criticism appears today as the sole champion of study colonialism and its aftermath. However, viewed from post-Soviet Europe, it displays a number flaws lacunae: an amputated atlas modern which ignores experience Eastern Europe under Soviet colonial occupation, binarism that fails to explain more complicated mechanisms cultural colonization, in-built ideological bent blind...

We discuss nine ethical dilemmas which have arisen during the investigation of ‘notice and take-down’ regimes for Internet content. Issues arise when balancing the desire for accurate measurement to advance the security community’s understanding with the need to immediately reduce harm that is uncovered in the course of measurement. Research methods demand explanation to be accepted in peer-rev...

Ontological (in)security concept has been recently introduced to the security studies and qained popularity. Individuals states instinctively pursue their physical security, but they never feel completely safe in an environment which stability of self’s existence cannot be guaranteed. They’re a search for attaining ontological through narratives, habits, routines generate sense trust uncertaint...

This Special Section will be included in the Journal issue of the IEICE Transactions of Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, for short), which will be published in January, 2019. The objective of the Special Section is to stimulate research in the area of cryptography and information security. You are strongly encouraged to submit origina...