Cullen S. Hendrix, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary. His areas of research include the economic and security implications of climate change, food security, and civil conflict. He is the coauthor of Science and the International Politics of Climate Change (2010) and Food Insecurity and Vio...

To protect the information assets of organizations, many different standards and guidelines have been proposed. Among them, International standard ISO 17799 is one of the most prominent international efforts on information security. This standard provides both an authoritative statement on information security and the procedures to be adopted by organizations to ensure information security. Sec...

This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the firstand second-order indirect effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include the behavioural responses of agents and the government to security measures, akin to such effects in ins...

security issues are the main concerns for players in international relations, for they put them on guard against potential relations that might cause threats. security feeling or lack of it determines the modality of cooperation and alliance among regional and trans-regional countries. the european :union: is vulnerable to threats and crises arising in the neighboring middle east. this state of...

The gradual development of the US missile defense shield from Europe to the Persian Gulf region over the past decade and the deployment of radar components and defenses of this project, both in the Persian Gulf region and in its floating zone, have plenty implications for regional and international systems and has aggravated the fragile security of the Persian Gulf region. Some issues such as t...

criminal procedure bill resolve all defects and vagueness’s of current law about people benefiting the right to liberty and security of person and by complete omission of chances ending in compulsory detention and also omission of all compulsory detentions in all groundwork except for laws applying to armed forces, emphasized the necessity of justification of temporary detention and also reduct...