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Hitting America's Soft Underbelly
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Over the past decade, the United States has endeavored to increase its ability to detect, prevent, and respond to terrorist threats and incidents. The agriculture sector and the food industry in general, however, have received comparatively little attention with respect to protection against terrorist incidents. This study aims to expand the current... more...
Australian Foreign and Defense Policy in the Wake of the 1999/2000 East Timor Intervention
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This work examines key developments leading to the deployment of the International Peacekeeping Force for East Timor (INTERFET) and assesses the impact of this intervention on Canberra's future defense, security, and foreign policy planning. more...
Trends in Terrorism
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Providing a description of the terrorist threat, this book's goal is to compare the underlying risk of attack to the architecture of financial protection that has been facilitated by the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA). TRIA requires insurers to offer commercial insurance that will pay on claims that occur from a terrorist attack. more...
Non-Military Security and Global Order
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 165.00The book examines the evolving nature of national and international security in the post-Cold War era, focusing on non-military threat potentials and how these may best be countered. Six specific issues are discussed: terrorism, the heroin and cocaine trade, piracy, environmental degradation, the spread of disease and uncontrolled migration. The book... more...
The Maritime Dimension of International Security
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95The vast size and highly unregulated nature of the worlds waterways have. made the maritime environment an increasingly attractive theater for. perpetrators of transnational violence. Piracy and sea-borne terrorism have. been on the rise since 2000. While the United States has spearheaded several. important initiatives to improve maritime security,... more...
The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Current unrest in the Malay-Muslim provinces of southern Thailand has. captured growing national, regional, and international attention. This. paper assesses the current situation and its probable direction. more...
The Latin American Drug Trade
RAND Corporation 2011; US$ 9.95The Latin American drug trade has emerged as an increasingly serious challenge to regional and international security, and the U.S. Air Force can play a meaningful role in helping boost partner nations capacities to counter this pernicious threat. more...
West European Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Palgrave Macmillan 1996; US$ 148.00The book examines the dynamic of West European terrorism and counter-terrorism as it has evolved since the late 1960s. It assesses past, present and future terrorist trends and analyzes the internal security policies that have been initiated by the member states of the European Union (EU), both singularly and collectively, to combat terrorism in Western... more...
Encyclopedia of Terrorism
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 205.00This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive reference tool for understanding the latest developments in national and international terrorism?one of the most pressing security challenges facing the world today. more...
Confronting "the Enemy Within"
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, critics have charged that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, while qualified to investigate terrorist incidents after the fact, is not well equipped enough to adequately gather and assess information to prevent attacks. More intrinsically, many believe that given a predominant and deeply rooted law... more...









