Download or read book Terrorism and the International Business Environment written by Gabriele G. S. Suder and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume reveals how the pre-9/11-era of contemporary economic history gave birth to a nexus of a) globalization b) increased systemic vulnerability and complexity and c) the transitions of terrorism. As a result, the post-9/11-era is one which should incorporate risk analysis audits on a regular basis, political and geopolitical risk research, the use of quantitative risk assessment and qualitative risk analysis to implement risk strategy planning, its management and appropriate risk transfer considerations.

Download or read book Terrorism Development Trade written by Kevin Fandl and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been argued that globalization caused the increasing gap between rich and poor, degradation of environmental resources, domestic and international violence, and even terrorism. In this article, I suggest a strategy for approaching the terrorist dilemma by shifting the U.S. focus away from military might and toward investment and market development. ... Unfortunately for the victims of terrorist attacks, the writings of Islam do not specify with particularity the acceptable practices of a moral life. ... Economic sanctions have a significant impact on the economy of a developing country. ... Policies such as this are directed at one of the root causes of terrorism -- the failure of market development. But aid agencies are unwittingly at the front lines of the war on terror, and by addressing problems like poverty, access to clean water, disease, and starvation, these agencies attack the root causes of terrorism without firing a shot. ... International trade, when focused on human and market development, is the most effective tool in preventing terrorism and maintaining global stability. ... Will increased trade make poor, developing countries less vulnerable to terrorism? Latin America, Asia, and Africa have welcomed and encouraged trade in their developing countries, seeking increased foreign investment to stimulate the growth of their economies.

Download or read book The Political Economy of Terrorism written by Walter Enders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Economy of Terrorism presents a widely accessible political economy approach to the study of terrorism. It applies economic methodology – theoretical and empirical – combined with political analysis and realities to the study of domestic and transnational terrorism. In so doing, the book provides both a qualitative and quantitative investigation of terrorism in a balanced up-to-date presentation that informs students, policy makers, researchers and the general reader of the current state of knowledge. Included are historical aspects, a discussion of watershed events, the rise of modern-day terrorism, examination of current trends, the dilemma of liberal democracies, evaluation of counterterrorism, analysis of hostage incidents and much more. The new edition expands coverage of every chapter, adds a new chapter on terrorist network structures and organization, accounts for changes in the Department of Homeland Security and the USA Patriot Act and insurance against terrorism. Rational-actor models of terrorist and government behavior and game-theoretic analysis are presented for readers with no prior theoretical training. Where relevant, the authors display graphs using data from International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events (ITERATE), the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), and other public-access data sets.

Download or read book Trading With the Enemy written by and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing is to assess the effectiveness of current money-laundering and counter-terror finance efforts and tools when faced with a world containing new and evolving threats. The initial 6 months of operation of the Task Force shed significant light on multiple issues with regards to counter-threats finance and anti-money laundering initiatives. First was the discovery of the various revenue streams ISIS utilizes to fund its terror operation, and the ways in which the United States may effectively counter them, such as continuing to target ISIS oil infrastructure, working with regional allies to close porous borders, and a better police to travel with foreign fighters. Second, the task force brought about a consensus that there is a need for greater information-sharing throughout the financial system and between government agencies, as well as an increased integration of government databases. Trade-based money laundering is the process of disguising the proceeds of crime by moving those proceeds through the use of trade transactions in an attempt to legitimize their illicit origins. This practice allows hundreds of billions of dollars to be laundered annually. Currently, there is ample opportunity for terrorist groups to exploit the international trade system, with low risk of being caught. According to the Financial Action Task Force, key characteristics of the international trade system, including the enormous volume of trade flows and the complexity therein, can arise from the practice of co-mingling illicit funds with the cash flows of legitimate businesses, and the limited recourse to verification procedures or programs to exchange customs data between countries, have made it both attractive and vulnerable to illicit exploitation.

Download or read book Terrorist Use of Cryptocurrencies written by Cynthia Dion-Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist organizations might increase use of digital cryptocurrencies to support their activities. RAND researchers consider the needs of such groups and the advantages and disadvantages of the cryptocurrency technologies available to them.

Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Download or read book Chemical and Biological Terrorism written by Committee on R&D Needs for Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism Incidents and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The threat of domestic terrorism today looms larger than ever. Bombings at the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City's Federal Building, as well as nerve gas attacks in Japan, have made it tragically obvious that American civilians must be ready for terrorist attacks. What do we need to know to help emergency and medical personnel prepare for these attacks? Chemical and Biological Terrorism identifies the R&D efforts needed to implement recommendations in key areas: pre-incident intelligence, detection and identification of chemical and biological agents, protective clothing and equipment, early recognition that a population has been covertly exposed to a pathogen, mass casualty decontamination and triage, use of vaccines and pharmaceuticals, and the psychological effects of terror. Specific objectives for computer software development are also identified. The book addresses the differences between a biological and chemical attack, the distinct challenges to the military and civilian medical communities, and other broader issues. This book will be of critical interest to anyone involved in civilian preparedness for terrorist attack: planners, administrators, responders, medical professionals, public health and emergency personnel, and technology designers and engineers.

Download or read book Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oklahoma City bombing, intentional crashing of airliners on September 11, 2001, and anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 have made Americans acutely aware of the impacts of terrorism. These events and continued threats of terrorism have raised questions about the impact on the psychological health of the nation and how well the public health infrastructure is able to meet the psychological needs that will likely result. Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism highlights some of the critical issues in responding to the psychological needs that result from terrorism and provides possible options for intervention. The committee offers an example for a public health strategy that may serve as a base from which plans to prevent and respond to the psychological consequences of a variety of terrorism events can be formulated. The report includes recommendations for the training and education of service providers, ensuring appropriate guidelines for the protection of service providers, and developing public health surveillance for preevent, event, and postevent factors related to psychological consequences.

Download or read book Maritime Trade Security written by Parker Laite and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis finds that the increasing cost of international trade resulting from certain post-9/11 maritime trade security policies may help to promote terrorism. By inadvertently levying disproportionate non-tariff trade barriers against those countries most likely to harbor terrorist organizations, these programs restrict lesser-developed nations' ability to develop, and thus leave them more susceptible to becoming terrorist safe havens. In support of this argument, the thesis is divided into three main sections. The first demonstrates the strong link between a nation's foreign trade and its level of development through a brief survey of international trade theory, by highlighting the reliance of some international actors on trade promotion as a means for increasing development, and by analyzing several case studies in which it is clear that trade played an instrumental role in increasing overall development. The second section expands upon this argument by examining the relationship between underdevelopment and terrorism. It investigates the issue by quantitatively analyzing terrorist attacks against the United States according to the level of development in those countries liable for producing or harboring the groups responsible for the attack. The third section looks at the effect of post-9/11 maritime trade security measures on trade and more specifically the policies' adverse effects on developing countries. It outlines key U.S. maritime trade security programs - namely the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and the Container Security Initiative - and how some of their components constitute non-tariff barriers, especially for developing countries. At an international level, the chapter explores the costs associated with the International Ship and Port Security Code as well as Authorized Economic Operator programs. The thesis concludes by acknowledging that if trade promotes development, and low development is related to a nation's propensity to harboring terrorism, then there is a logical if indirect link between trade and terrorism. If domestic and international maritime trade security programs disproportionately limit trading opportunities for the countries most likely to harbor terrorist groups, it becomes clear that such programs may inadvertently promote the conditions found to be most closely linked to countries that harbor terrorist organizations.

Download or read book The Impact of Global Terrorism on Economic and Political Development written by Ramesh Chandra Das and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection seeks to address and analyse the ramifications of terrorism and terrorist activities at a world-level, with a specific focus on the economies and political systems in the Afro-Asian regions.

Download or read book Does Terrorism Work written by Richard English and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing principally on four of the most significant terrorist organizations of the last fifty years (al-Qaida, the Provisional IRA, Hamas, and ETA), and using a wealth of interview material with former terrorists as well as those involved in counterterrorism, [English] argues that we need a far more honest understanding of the degree to which terrorism actually works--as well as a more nuanced insight into the precise ways in which it does so"--Dust jacket flap.

Download or read book Terror on the High Seas written by Marjorie Florestal and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National security has become the byword in a post-September 11 world order. In the face of increasing terrorist threats to domestic ports and the global supply chain, the U.S. impulse to take protective action is at the very least understandable. The question therefore is not should the United States take security measures but how should it implement such measures? The Container Security Initiative, the cornerstone of U.S. efforts to safeguard America's ports, ships and cargo, strikes a balance between protecting U.S. interests without unduly burdening the efficacy of the supply chain. It wholly fails to acknowledge or explore the potential disruption to the trade of developing countries - the world's most fragile economies. This article maintains that by failing to consider its impact on development, CSI fails to strike the proper balances. CSI thus violates U.S. obligations under Article I of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and it is not justified under the national security exception of GATT Article XXI because it lacks a development dimension. This development dimension is implicit in Article XXI when interpreted in context in light of the object and purpose of the WTO Agreement. What does this development dimension entail? How might we craft future measures that protect domestic security while minimizing their trade-distorting, discriminatory, and development-reducing effects?

Download or read book Terrorism Economic Development and Political Openness written by Philip Keefer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent are terrorism and development related? What are the relative weights of the economic, political, and social aspects of development? What is the development impact of different responses to terrorism? This volume addresses these crucial questions, synthesizing what we know about the development links with terrorism and pointing out what we do not. Contributors to this volume examine the economic and fiscal costs of terrorism and the response to terrorism. They conclude that the economic costs of terrorism in rich countries are low, relative to the economic costs of combating terrorism; both are likely high in poor countries. They also report evidence on how development affects terrorism. This work supports the hypothesis that political development - political openness and the quality of government - is inversely associated with the emergence of terrorist organizations, but not that poverty per se is directly responsible for terrorism.

Download or read book US Terrorist Attacks On Sept 11 How Influences Economy Labor And Consumer Behavioral written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-16 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the terrorist attacks influence US economy, even consumers shopping desire? Does it impact to some US businesses to bring negative consumption desires in US? Instead of tourism industry's travellers number reducing, what are the other trade activities influenced? Does the World trade Center terrorist attacks matter bring an increase in spending on security and technology development needed to adjust to globalization? Does it bring different countries and US itself country's security products need to be increased, e.g. guns and bombs weapon number needs increase.However, it seems that different countries are influenced to feel any kinds of weapons purchase need in security and technology development aspect, because they feel terrorist attacks behaviors will have possible to occur in themselves countries in any time. So, it seems that the US World Trade Center terrorist ( terrorism) attacks will excite or encourage the different kinds of weapon products' need to be raised to different countries' security and safety need aspect. So, it can impact on the US stock market, economic growth, consumer confidence in the form of spending, foreign direct investment in the United States and fiscal policy and budgetary resources to US government.It may be one long time economic growth influence to US after the World Trade Center terrorism attacks matter has occurred. This phenomenon may occur on the scene of so many different, and substantical, liquidity pools to US economy. It used to be that significant capital to be raised in the United States. This recovery will be slow indeed, as concerns remain regarding the US' domestic economy ( given the forecasts of another recession) as well as global security concerns that continue to exist. So, if US can invent many different kinds of weapon tools to let any countries' police forces, householder personal need, every government security organizations etc. to choose the most suitable weapons for their protection tools to prepare to protect their citizen when any terrorism ( terrorists) attacks is occurred suddenly. Then, the US government 's weapon industry manufacturing number and gross income will increase, due to global's different kinds of weapon demands/needs had been increasing.In US oil industry consumption aspect, it can be influenced by terrorism attack. One primary factor for the continuing increase is due to war activities may increase as soon as possible. Clearly, several factor for the continuing increase is due to increasing world consumption (80 million barrels per day ), which has significant rosk premium to crude oil prices and is largely responsible for prices, exceeding US$40 to $50 per barrel. In addition to increased world consumption, other factors can contribute to the current oil price levels include as below: A weak every US dollar, since oil is priced in US dollars, as the value of the US dollars falls, the price of oil in US dollars goes up. The US dollar has fallen by 33 percent estimated again the EURO in th past five year. Asian economies is experiencing the rapid growth, resulting in their increased petroleum consumption, it is possible due to many Asian people feel to need to buy vehicles to drive to enjoy their life. The important factor to cause Asian people expect to buy much oil in short time from US oil supplies because they fear oil supply will reduce, after the World Trade Center terrorism attacks on Sep. 11 occurrence. They will feel that many countries will need to buy many high technological weapons and oil demand will also be increased to increase when they need much oil to be used for their weapons' energy.

Download or read book Combating Terrorism A Socio Economic Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New counterterrorism measures require one-time investments, which lead to short- to mid-term increases in the costs of doing business. These costs should be viewed as an investment that will pay dividends through reduced risk premiums and increased trade efficiency. In addition to the advantages of reducing exposure to terrorism, technological advances that enhance security are likely to boost the efficiency of cargo handling and people movement, lowering trade costs and making trade flows more efficient. The benefit of preventing reduced trade flows and encouraging investment is continued regional and global economic growth. Expansion and prosperity would enable nations and organizations to fund economic development policies and activities, which would create opportunities and expand a new middle class in communities that have traditionally supported terrorist groups. As the population recognizes the economic benefits of peace, they hopefully will work to inhibit local support for terrorist activities. Sound economic development policies can be one element to fulfill the 9/11 Commission's recommendations of identifying potential terrorist sanctuaries and preventing them from becoming operational spaces for the actors of terror. Igniting and sustaining economic growth in the poorest areas requires creativity and cooperation. Regional stakeholder nations and organizations should pool resources and capabilities to address this challenge. Cooperation among cross-disciplinary organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, governmental aid agencies and militaries, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private businesses is vital. Eradicating poverty through profits involves finding a way to alleviate poverty for those at the bottom of the economic pyramid through collaboration among the poor themselves, civil organizations, governments, and private firms. This approach is widely known as the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) concept.

Download or read book Countering Terrorist Finance written by Tim Parkman and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Parkman and Gill Peeling's Countering Terrorist Finance - A Training Handbook for Financial Services is a practical, specialist guide to the processes and skills needed to counter money laundering specifically related to terrorist financing. The book includes a CD of training materials to support each section and help compliance officers develop awareness and relevant behaviour amongst employees tasked with spotting and preventing terrorist financing activities.

Download or read book Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups written by Mark S. Hamm and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.