Gabriela Prelipcean Mircea Boscoianu The management of crises caused by terrorist attacks proved an insufficient capacity of the governments to manage extreme risks in most of the recent cases. After the ‘90s, the philosophy of terrorism changed and it therefore requires immediate governmental intervention. The mega terrorism that occurred on the private insurance markets triggered the loss of ...

Increasingly since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent decline of state sponsorship for terrorism, organised criminal activities have become a major revenue source for terrorist groups worldwide. Building on the precedent set by narco-terrorism, as it emerged in Latin America in the 1980s, the use of crime has become an important factor in the evolution of terrorism. As such, the 1990s c...

A model for terrorism is presented using the theory of percolation. Terrorism power is related to the spontaneous formation of random backbones of people who are sympathetic to terrorism but without being directly involved in it. They just don’t oppose in case they could. In the past such friendly-to-terrorism backbones have been always existing but were of finite size and localized to a given ...

The paper surveys the various economic costs associated with terrorism. Particularly important is the distinction between the direct and the indirect costs. While many terrorist attacks cause substantial amounts of property damage and create casualties, most of the costs associated with terrorism involve the indirect costs. Although terrorism can reduce a nation’s overall growth rate, the costs...

This book is a very comprehensive review of Bio terrorism and its impact on public health, mental health, population and vulnerable sub population. The book is divided into five parts. Partone dealswiththe introductiontobio terrorism andneed for planning. Parttwo gives a historic prospective onbio terrorism and sights examples from the past, in particular, influenza pandemic of 1918 and analysi...

As terrorism continues to raise the specter of death to levels of salience best measured on a global scale, terror management theory (TMT) offers valuable insights for communication theorists regarding the nature and psychology of terrorism. TMT provides a metatheoretic framework, which can help to unify a diverse range of communication theory perspectives. Following a review of TMT’s analysis ...

This research aims to analyze the comparison of counter-terrorism policies between Indonesia and Iraq. is a descriptive normative legal research. Legal materials consist primary secondary obtained through literature study. The approaches used include legislative approach, conceptual approach case approach. Based on results research, it known that differences in counterterrorism Iraq lie securit...

Throughout its existence as a state, Israel has had to cope with intense terrorism in three arenas: within its territory, across the borders, and abroad. This problem has been a major political and psychological factor in Israel’s reality and the need to cope with it has forced the public and governments to deal with hard dilemmas. This article examines Israel’s conduct in the struggle against ...

A population’s level of terrorism depends on two factors: people’s preferences (would they like creating damage?) and the constraints under which people act (what damage could they create, and at what punishment?). Causerelated policies, e.g. improving social stability or education, aim at appeasing preferences, thereby reducing terrorism. Symptom-related policies, e.g. embargoes or wars, chang...