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Never Mind the Bollards: Exploring the Role of GCHQ, MI5, and the National Technical Authorities in UK Security Markets

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultures and governance of security markets in the United Kingdom are often characterised through a paradoxical narrative of simultaneous state retreat and progressive advance. In the face of repeated recent high‐profile security failures, and global changes in material political economy, we argue that UK security governance is adapting to
Ben Collier, Jamie Buchan
wiley   +1 more source

Hierarchical optimal configuration model and algorithm for counterterrorism resource allocation

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Counterterrorism resource allocation is a critical challenge, especially under financial constraints. Traditional location-allocation models often overlook the hierarchical structure of counterterrorism resources and the evolution of dynamic demand ...
Chenmei Teng, Yin Xiang, Shanliang Li, Ronald McIver, Poshan Yu, Jinglan Gong   +5 more
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Counterterrorism Policy in the Russian Federation: Furthering the Needs of the Regime

Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2023
In the wake of the September 11 attacks in 2001, countries were encouraged to enact domestic legislative changes as part of the Global War on Terror. However, it has been left to the countries themselves to define ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorist activities ...
Anastassiya Mahon, Scott Walker
doaj   +1 more source

Cross‐Prudence and Optimal Prevention

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study optimal prevention in the presence of a correlated nonfinancial background risk. Under positive correlation, cross‐prudence in the nonfinancial attribute reduces optimal prevention. We establish this result in the most direct extension of the standard prevention problem with binary marginal distributions and show that ...
Jingyuan Li, Richard Peter, Lin Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the military in combating the terrorist activities [PDF]

Војно дело, 2015
While terrorism is formally condemned worldwide, it is confirmed in practice that terrorism represents an effective weapon for certain ethnic communities to help them achieve their specific political objectives.
Gaćinović Radoslav
doaj   +1 more source

Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of artificial intelligence on close protection and surveillance

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose The current study assesses whether and how Artificial Intelligence could assist in threat assessment and analysis within the close protection and surveillance field. Methods The study drew on in‐depth interviews with academic experts and practitioners within the Dutch close protection and surveillance system, including the police ...
Isabelle van der Vegt
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Analysis of CVE Policies between Canada, US, UK, Sweden, and North Macedonia

Proceedings, 2021
In the field of counter-terrorism (CT) and countering violent extremism (CVE), policymakers are in constant need of accurate data to make informed decisions to support existing programs and develop new approaches to prevent radicalization to violence ...
Alberto Montrond
doaj   +1 more source

Unpacking Resilience in Public Administration: Insights From a Meta‐Narrative Review

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing environmental complexity and uncertainty have made organizational resilience a key concern in public administration. Yet its inherent ambiguity calls for a systematic examination of its conceptualizations, operationalizations, and applications. This meta‐narrative review synthesizes 49 studies, advancing the discourse by identifying
Jixiang Li, Shui‐Yan Tang, Bo Wen
wiley   +1 more source

The Plurality of Meanings ‘Terrorism’- the Theoretical and Practical Importance of Understanding the phenomena [PDF]

Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2015
Systematic scientific research of terrorism has begun in the 1970s when terrorism was recognized as a differentiated security threat in social reality and public discourse.
Mirko Bilandžić, Danijela Lucić
doaj   +1 more source