Behavioral Patterns among (Violent) Non-State Actors: A Study of Complementary Governance

From State to Non-State Actors: The Emergence of Security Governance

Non-state threats and actors have become key factors in contemporary security. However, little research has been conducted on the relationship between the two. The aim of this book is to address this gap by examining the growing role of non-state actors both as the cause of new security threats, such as civil war, transnational crime, terrorism, infectious diseases, and the proliferation of sma...

a comparative study of subtitled vs auditory documentaries comprehension among persian speakers of english

abstract this study set out to compare the effect of modality of presentation (subtitled vs. auditory) in the comprehension of verbal content of documentary films among iranian efl students. to this end, (30 male 30 female) students were chosen from two schools. after their homogeneity was established, the students attended the listening sessions to watch five documentary films over t...

Private Actors and the State: Internationalization and Changing Patterns of Governance

This article investigates the implications of political and economic internationalization on patterns of governance from a statecentric perspective. The actual patterns of governance in internationalized environments can be related to the respective governance capacity of public and private actors, which hinges in turn on the strategic constellation underlying the provision of a public good. Th...

“Designing Danger”: Complex Engineering by Violent Non-State Actors: Introduction to the Special Issue

This Special Issue of the Journal of Strategic Security (JSS) presents the results of a series of case studies of prior efforts by VNSAs to engage in complex engineering tasks, in the hope of informing strategic assessments of the threat of VNSA exploitation of emerging technologies. One particular concern in international security lies at the nexus of violent non-state actors (VNSAs) and sophi...

Foreword to the Special Issue on Complex Engineering by Violent Non-State Actors