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Journal Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 2012 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Ten Years of GWOT, the Failure of Democratization, and the Fallacy of "Ungoverned Spaces"
2. Deterring and Dissuading Nuclear Terrorism
3. Establishing Cyber Warfare Doctrine
4. Policy Intervention in FATA: Why Discourse Matters
5. A Systems-Based Approach to Intelligence Reform

Book Reviews

1. The Israeli Secret Services & The Struggle Against Terrorism
2. Ataturk: Lessons in Leadership from the Greatest General of the Ottoman Empire
3. Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of President Regan

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Journal Volume 4, Number 4, Winter 2011 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Rethinking Radicalization
2. Radicalization into Violent Extremism I: A Review of Social Science Theories
3. Radicalization into Violent Extremism II: A Review of Conceptual Models and Empirical Research
4. Disarming Youth Combatants: Mitigating Youth Radicalization and Violent Extremism
5. Radical Islamism and Migrant Integration in Denmark: An Empirical Inquiry
6. Radicalism within the Context of Social Movements: Processes and Types
7. Four Lessons from the Study of Fundamentalism and Psychology of Religion
8. Gangs, Terrorism, and Radicalization
9. Radicalization and the Use of Social Media

Book Reviews

1. The Development of British Defence Policy: Blair, Brown and Beyond
2. Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us
3. Murder and Martial Justice: Spying and Retribution in WWII America

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Authors for this issue all have terminal degrees in their respective fields of study (PhDs) and hail from the following institutions: the University of South Florida, Conventry University (UK), Metropolitan University College and Roskilde University (Denmark), University of California (Irvine), University of Cambridge, Arizona State University, and one author from NASA.

Journal Volume 4, Number 3, Fall 2011 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Hizbollah-Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience
2. Extraordinary Rendition and U.S. Counterterrorism Policy
3. Mitigating the Exploitation of U.S. Borders by Jihadists and Criminal Organizations
4. Buy Off and Buy In: Flipping the FARC

Book Reviews

1. The Rising: Ireland: Easter 1916
2. Guerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921
3. Terrorism and Homeland Security: Perspectives, Thoughts, and Opinions
4. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base

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Journal Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2011 Issue

Table of Contents

1. China's Use of Cyber Warfare: Espionage Meets Strategic Deterrence
2. Modeling Human Behavior to Anticipate Insider Attacks
3. Revisiting the Estonian Cyber Attacks: Digital Threats and Multinational Responses
4. The Science of Mission Assurance
5. Between Hype and Understatement: Reassessing Cyber Risks as a Security Strategy
6. A Relationship on the Rocks: Industry-Government Partnership for Cyber Defense

Book Reviews

1. Information Operations Matters: Best Practices
2. The Dynamics of Terror and Creation of Homegrown Terrorists
3. Obama's Wars
4. Airport and Aviation Security: U.S. Policy and Strategy in the Age of Global Terrorism
5. The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West
6. Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money: Piracy and Maritime Terrorism in the Modern World

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Journal Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2011 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Resetting U.S.-Turkish Relations: Charting a New Way Forward
2. The Financial Arm of the FARC: A Threat Finance Perspective
3. The Nuclear (and the) Holocaust: Israel, Iran, and the Shadows of Auschwitz
4. Alternative Threat Methodology
5. New START: The Contentious Road to Ratification
6. Book Reviews

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Journal Volume 3, Number 4, Winter 2010 Issue

Table of Contents

1. The Security Impact of Oil Nationalization: Alternate Futures Scenarios
2. International Security Strategy and Global Population Aging
3. Operation Opera: An Ambiguous Success
4. Devolving Jihadism
5. Book Reviews

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Journal Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 2010 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Understanding the Appeal of the Taliban in Pakistan
2. Conceptualizing Terrorist Violence and Suicide Bombing
3. Eriksonian Identity Theory in Counterterrorism
4. Social Cohesion and Islamic Radicalization: Implications from the Uighur Insurgency
5. North Korea and Support to Terrorism: An Evolving History
6. Political Terrorism: An Historical Case Study of the Italian Red Brigades
7. Book Reviews

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Journal Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2010 Issue

Table of Contents

1. The Multiple Faces of Effective Grand Strategy
2. Indian Involvement in Afghanistan in the Context of the South Asian Security System
3. U.S. Response to Terrorism: A Strategic Analysis of the Afghanistan Campaign
4. Ballistic Missile Defense: New Plans, Old Challenges
5. North Korea and Support to Terrorism: An Evolving History
6. Small to Mid-Size Sporting Events: Are We Prepared to Recover from an Attack?
7. The Weakest Link: The Risks Associated with Social Networking Websites
8. Book Reviews

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Journal Volume 3, Number 1- Spring 2010 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Geographic Trajectories of Al-Qaida and Taliban Terrorist Groups in Pakistan
2. Global Risk of Nuclear Terrorism
3. Intelligence and Its Role in Protecting Against Terrorism
4. Variance, Violence, and Democracy: A Basic Microeconomic Model of Terrorism
5. Toward a New Trilateral Strategic Security Relationship: United States, Canada, and Mexico
6. Strategic Asymmetric Deception and Its Role in the Current Threat Environment
7. Book Reviews

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Journal Volume 2, Number 4- Nov/Dec 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Revisiting Downs' Issue-Attention Cycle: International Terrorism and U.S. Public Opinion
2. Reviving the United States' Commitment to Pakistan and Afghanistan
3. The Tangled Web of Taliban and Associated Movements
4. Guerilla Warfare & Law Enforcement: Combating the 21st Century Terrorist Cell within the U.S.
5. Extinguishing the Torch of Terror: The Threat of Terrorism and the 2010 Olympics
6. Islamist Distortions: Hizb ut-Tahrir a Breeding Ground for Al-Qaida Recruitment
7. Book Reviews

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Journal Volume 2, Number 3- Aug/Sep 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Countering the Somali Pirates: Harmonizing the International Response...1
2. The Tipping Point: Biological Terrorism...13
3. START: Overcoming Remaining Challenges...25
4. What Price Security?...33
5. Decision Support for Countering Terrorist Threats against Transportation Networks...43
6. Keeping our Campuses and Communities Safe...65
7. Book Reviews...71

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Journal Volume 2, Number 2- May 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Targeted Killing: Self-Defense, Preemption, and the War on Terrorism...1
2. Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb...53
3. The Importance of Intelligence in Combating a Modern Insurgency...73
4. Fragility: Next Wave in CriticalInfrastructure Protection...91
5. Book Reviews...99
6. Film Review...104

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Journal Volume 2, Number 1- February 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Fighting Piracy: Experiences in Southeast Asia and off the Horn of Africa...1
2. Containment Revived: An Alternative Way to Cope With Terrorism...25
3. Teaching Bayesian Statistics To Intelligence Analysts: Lessons Learned...39
4. The Impact of Psychological-Cultural Factors on Concepts of Fighting Terrorism...59
5. Book Reviews...81

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Journal Volume 1, Number 1- November 2008 Issue

Table of Contents

1. Dividing up Intelligence Education...1
2. Strategic Security as a New Academic Discipline...7
3. ICWorld: An MMOG-Based Approach to Analysis...21
4. Redefining Terrorism: Why Mexican Drug Trafficking is More than Just Organized Crime...35
5. Short Takes...53
6. Research Note: Using the ITERATE and DOTS Databases...57
7. Book Reviews...77
8. Books Received...81

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