To dissuade reckless driving and mitigate accidents, cities deploy resources to patrol roads. In this paper, we present STREETS, an application developed for the city of Singapore, which models the problem of computing randomized traffic patrol strategies as a defenderattacker Stackelberg game. Previous work on Stackelberg security games has focused extensively on counterterrorism settings. STR...

Drawing from statements by politicians, the media, policy analysts, and researchers, current study identifies nine myths associated with terrorism practice of counterterrorism. We focus on those that have special relevance since four al-Qaida hijackings September 11, 2001, ensuing heightened security concern. Many generated research articles that, at times, come to contradictory conclusions. Ou...

The European Union (EU) has set a goal to be global power in 2003 with the announcement of Security Strategy. Nevertheless, this was stressed more decisively and obviously within 2016 EU Global comparison between these strategies illustrates change rhetoric foreign policy EU. With Strategy, initiated shape its own geopolitics, time free from US leadership, considering migration crisis especiall...

Research in command and control is advancing rapidly through a campaign of laboratory experimentation using the ELICIT (Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust) multiplayer online counterterrorism intelligence game. In most ELICIT experiments, participants play the game through a Web interface and interact with one another solely through textual i...

T his article reconsiders the effects of terrorism on trade. The conventional wisdom is that trade with a nation affected by terrorism involves higher risks. The consequent rise in the transaction costs is akin to a rise in transportation costs, which tend to reduce trade. Based on such an argument, Nitsch and Schumacher (2004) and Blomberg and Hess (2006) find evidence that terrorism indeed te...