Chapter Six: Emergence and Influence of the Zapatista Social Netwar Summary: The fight for the future is not between the armies of leading states, nor are its weapons those of traditional armed forces. Rather, the combatants come from bomb-making terrorist groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, or drug smuggling cartels like those in Colombia and Mexico. On the positive side are civilsociety a...

Sukhov went off to sleep, and he was completely content. Fate had been kind in many ways that day; he hadn’t been put in the cells, the gang had not been sent to the Socialist Community Center, he’d fiddled himself an extra bowl of porridge for dinner. . . . The day had gone by without a single cloud— almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fiftythree days like that in his...

President Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan does not pass the tests for war that he offered in his Nobel Lecture. Afghanistan is being preyed upon by a limited insurgency that feeds on Afghanistan’s poverty and desperation. Most Afghans do not support the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, but are vulnerable to their pressures. Young unemployed men often join militant factions out of the need to earn a ...

This article empirically analyzes the effects of terrorism on the electoral choices of the Turkish voters in the 1991 and 1995 general elections. It relies on a unique data set that includes the date and the place of burial of Turkish soldiers and police officers who died in the fight against the terrorist organization PKK. I employ the number of these security force terror casualties at the di...

Surveillance in a maritime environment is indispensible in the fight against a wide range of criminal activities, including pirate attacks, unlicensed fishing trailers and human trafficking. Computer vision systems can be a useful aid in the law enforcement process, by for example tracking and identifying moving vessels on the ocean. However, the maritime domain poses many challenges for the de...

Research into cybercrime often points to concentrations of abuse at certain hosting providers. The implication is that these providers are worse in terms of security; some are considered ‘bad’ or even ‘bullet proof’. Remarkably little work exists on systematically comparing the security performance of providers. Existing metrics typically count instances of abuse and sometimes normalize these c...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the integration of conventional cardiology and alternative cardiology. The world of cardiology is moving fast and in multiple directions. In this paper we will discuss the importance of inflammation and how nutraceuticals can be used in the fight against cardiovascular disease.

This study attempts to explain why a relatively resource-rich country like Botswana has struggled to combat its HIV-prevalence when other countries with far fewer advantages have succeeded. In comparing Botswana to its most stark counterexample, Uganda, one can see that it has more favorable health expenditures, per capita GDP, population size, political stability and international attention. Y...