ISIS rocketed onto the world stage seemingly out of nowhere, beheading American hostages, bulldozing international borders, routing the American-trained Iraqi army, and carving out a new state that rules eight million people and a territory larger than the United Kingdom.
Explores the Nexus Formed When Malevolent Actors Access Malignant MeansWritten for professionals, academics, and policymakers working at the forefront of counterterrorism efforts, Jihadists and Weapons of Mass Destruction is an authoritative and comprehensive work addressing the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the hands of jihadists,
Managing Intelligence: A Guide for Law Enforcement Professionals is designed to assist practitioners and agencies build an efficient system to gather and manage intelligence effectively and lawfully in line with the principles of intelligence-led policing.
The Legacy of 9/11 is a retrospective about how policing, intelligence, and counter-terrorism have changed in the more than twenty years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The Legacy of 9/11 is a retrospective about how policing, intelligence, and counter-terrorism have changed in the more than twenty years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
This book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.
This book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.
This book argues that misinformation poses a multifaceted threat to knowledge, while arguing that some forms of content moderation risk exacerbating these threats.
This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power.
The Moral Dilemmas of Fighting Terrorism and Guerrilla Groups discusses the most important ethical dilemmas associated with the fight against terrorist organizations and guerilla groups by providing readers with a rigorous, yet accessible analysis of how these forms of violence can be justified and how they ought to be fought by entities targeted by groups resorting to these strategies.
On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley.
This second edition of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience continues to be an essential resource for understanding and protecting critical infrastructure across the U.
Europeanization and Informal Networks in Southeastern Europe considers the impact of political culture, including informal rules which regulate political behaviour, on formal political processes.
Las reflexiones presentadas en este libro nos evocan que las estrategias, prácticas o iniciativas de memoria descritas y analizadas, son producto de unas condiciones nacionales, regionales y locales, no solo como una determinación espacial, sino como fragmentos de comprensión de unos escenarios donde el conflicto responde a lógicas observadas en lo nacional, pero también resultan de la particularidad de su ejercicio de poder violento y simbólico sobre diversos grupos poblacionales en diferentes zonas del país; a su vez, ese pasado evocado se hace desde un presente que alude necesariamente a los procesos de justicia transicional de las últimas dos décadas, por lo tanto, se enuncian desde los derechos de las víctimas consagrados y reconocidos por los procesos y normas establecidas en ese contexto.
Warum wir den Kampf gegen gewissenlose Geldmacher, egomane Staatslenker und verlogene Propagandisten gewinnen müssen**Publikumsliebling in der Kategorie Zündstoff beim Wissensbuch des Jahres 2024**Die Welt steckt in der Endphase eines Kulturkampfs: Gier gegen Gerechtigkeit, Zerstörung gegen Nachhaltigkeit, Zynismus gegen Empathie.
Die Definition von Konflikten ist ein wahrlich schwieriges Unterfangen, zumal es eine einzige und auf den Punkt bringende Definition eigentlich nicht gibt.
En este libro se analizan los procesos y las tendencias de la participación política, en general, y social y comunitaria, en particular, en la implementación del Acuerdo Final de Paz (AFP) firmado entre el Estado colombiano y la guerrilla de las FARC-EP en el 2016.
Groß sind die Schwierigkeiten für den Durchforscher vergangener Zeiten, wo es gilt, zu den Quellen hindurchzudringen, Wahrheit und Irrtum zu scheiden und die unentstellten Tatsachen zu ergründen.
This comprehensive reference examines the history and importance of youth participation in politics, suggests reasons for their disengagement, and discusses efforts to increase the interest of young voters in the political process-a process in which they could be a controlling factor.
