Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism
Challenges and New Approaches
Published by: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415484398
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 224
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 9780415484398
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 224
Edition: First Edition
Book Summary
In recent years, senior policy officials have highlighted increased signs of convergence between terrorism and unconventional (CBRN) weapons. Terrorism now involves technologies available to anyone, anywhere, anytime, deployed through innovative solutions. This indicates a new and more complex global security environment with increasing risks of terrorists trying to acquire and deploy a CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear) attack. This book addresses the critical importance of understanding innovation and decision-making between terrorist groups and unconventional weapons, and the difficulty in pinpointing what factors may drive violence escalation. It also underscores the necessity to understand the complex interaction between terrorist group dynamics and decision-making behaviour in relation to old and new technologies. Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism seeks to identify a set of early warnings and critical indicators for possible future terrorist efforts to acquire and utilize unconventional CBRN weapons as a means to pursue their goals. It also discusses the challenge for intelligence analysis in handling threat convergence in the context of globalisation. LIST OF READINGS
Introduction: Detecting CBRN Terrorism Signatures – Challenges and New Approaches
Magnus Ranstorp, Magnus NormarkID: s8896 | 10pp | Copyright Fee: $1.20
Source Title: Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism: Challenges and New Approaches
Defining Knowledge Gaps within CBRN Terrorism Research
Gary AckermanID: s8898 | 13pp | Copyright Fee: $1.56
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Wmd and the Four Dimensions of Al-Qaeda
Brian Fishman, James J.F. ForestID: s8900 | 21pp | Copyright Fee: $2.52
Source Title: Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism: Challenges and New Approaches
al-Qaeda's Thinking on CBRN: A Case Study
Anne StenersenID: s8901 | 14pp | Copyright Fee: $1.68
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Indicators of Chemical Terrorism
Amy E. SmithsonID: s8903 | 28pp | Copyright Fee: $3.36
Source Title: Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism: Challenges and New Approaches
Capacity-Building and Proliferation: Biological Terrorism
Gabriele Kraatz-WadsackID: s8904 | 14pp | Copyright Fee: $1.68
Source Title: Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism: Challenges and New Approaches
Terrorism and Potential Biological Warfare Agents
Walter BiederbickID: s8905 | 13pp | Copyright Fee: $1.56
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Influence Diagram Analysis of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism
Charles D. FergusonID: s8906 | 16pp | Copyright Fee: $1.92
Source Title: Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism: Challenges and New Approaches
Approaching Threat Convergence from an Intelligence Perspective
Gregory F TrevertonID: s8908 | 22pp | Copyright Fee: $2.64
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Terrifying Landscapes: Understanding Motivations of Non-State Actors to Acquire and/or Use Weapons of Mass Destruction
Nancy K. HaydenID: s8909 | 32pp | Copyright Fee: $3.84
Source Title: Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism: Challenges and New Approaches


