Countering Terrorism and WMD : Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network

ISBN-13: 9780415384988 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 300 str.

Peter Katona; Michael D. Intriligator; John P. Sullivan

Opis

The purpose of this book is to explain the need for a global network approach to counter-terrorism, and to elaborate how it could be formed. As the authors see it, the world is changing today far more rapidly than ever before, and current public and private institutions cannot keep up with this new paradigm. While terrorism has a long history, it has become the focus of worldwide attention as a result of the September 11, 2001 strikes on the U.S. and later strikes by al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations on a worldwide basis ranging from Indonesia to Tunisia to Spain. Subsequently, there have been various attempts to counter this latest wave of terrorism, including the U.S. strikes against Afghanistan and Iraq, President George W. Bush's declaration of a "War against Terrorism," the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the 9/11 Commission and the very recent arrests of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Issa al-Hindi. Despite these events and reactions, we believe that there is a need to consolidate and expand efforts against terrorism through the creation of an formal and an informal global counterterrorism network.
This book contains essays from experts in various disciplines, including clinical medicine and public health; economics, political science, and public policy; and law enforcement, which are our own fields; with those of the military, politics, intelligence and the media to try to give some coherence and direction to this process of forming a global counter-terrorism network. The book identifies the nature of a global counterterrorism network, shows how such a global network could be created, and provides some guidelines forgauging its future effectiveness.
This book will be essential reading for all serious students of terrorism and political violence, security studies and for defense and policy analysts.

Spis treści

Part 1. The Historical Perspective on Terrorism  1. From poisoned wells to a contaminated postal system: the societal impact of terrorism, bioterrorism, biowarfare and the great plagues through the millennia  2. Counter-terrorism networks of the past  3. A discussion of the variety of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons and their possible future use  4. Strategic early warning for transnational organized crime and terrorism  5. Terrorist's Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction  Part 2. Protecting Critical Infrastructure  6. What needs protecting, who needs protecting, and how much protecting is enough?  7. Threat and planning in the Information Age  8. Soft targets, suicide bombers and appropriate countermeasures. Where do we draw the line when everything can’t be protected 24/7?  Part 3. The Changing Dynamics of Post-modern Terrorism  9. What is the likely motivation of terrorists, highlighting the importance of humiliation, hopelessness, lack of respect, and revenge as opposed to poverty and ignorance?  10. Responding to Religious Terrorism on a Global Scale  11. Terrorism in Algeria: The Role of the Community in Combating Terrorism  Part 4. Fusing Terrorism Preparedness and Response Into a Global Network  12. Future Directions in Combating Terrorism  13. The new terrorist treat environment; continuity and change in counter-terrorism intelligence 14. The role of the US military’s global war on terrorism and how it fits in with past and current US foreign policy  15. Actionable Intelligence in Support of Homeland Security Operations  16. International law’s response to terrorism  17. Terrorism mimicking the state: a very different, networked, decentralized, outsourcing form of terrorism in the twenty-first century of market-states  18. What is the current and possible future role of information technology in preventing and countering terrorism, including building a collaborative information sharing and visualization system or network?  19. Building an Anti-Terror Network: An international perspective on fusing law enforcement and intelligence  20. Fusing terrorism security and response