This paper contrasts the tradeoffs of modeling the same dynamic problem at a micro scale and at a macro scale of analysis: discrete system simulation (DS) versus continuous system simulation or system dynamics (SD). Both are employed to model the influence of entertainment education on terrorist system decay, with implications for field application. Each method emphasizes different scales of an...

This study examines the importance of physical and psychological predictors work sample performance within Swedish police Counterterrorism Intervention Assessment Selection (CTIAS) process (N = 160). CTIAS consists a 4-day prescreening (Phase 1) 10-day test 2). Applicants may withdraw freely or be stopped by board (if they do not fulfill requirement criteria) at any moment throughout Phases 1 2...

Abstract In its Eurasian diplomacy toward Russia and China, India has preferred to engage these states bilaterally through the Brazil–Russia–India–China–South Africa (BRICS) Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) multilateral alignments. By contrast, views Russia–India–China (RIC) triangle as a less effective mechanism. However, despite ongoing militarized crisis with China in spring/summer of...

This essay contends that allies are vital for counterterrorism, but what we ask of them and their institutional form is quite different from what was asked of traditional alliance partners during the Cold War and its immediate aftermath. Despite these differences, some of the alliance dilemmas that plagued the United States in the past are likely to remain, though they will have different manif...