ISBN:
981-270-515-5
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (735 p.)
Series Statement:
The science and culture series. Nuclear strategy and peace technology
Series Statement:
Science and culture series (Singapore). Nuclear strategy and peace technology.
DDC:
306.4/5
Keywords:
Science Congresses. Social aspects
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Epidemiology Congresses. Research
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International cooperation
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Nuclear disarmament Congresses.
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Nature Congresses. Effect of human beings on
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Human beings Congresses. Effect of environment on
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Environmental degradation Congresses.
Abstract:
This was the first of a number of seminars dealing with one of the most complex of the new challenges in the 21st century, which call for the participation of a broad range of experts. Eminent economists, decision-makers, defence specialists, political analysts and sociologists presented their views and participated in the debates. In the wake of the dramatic event of 11 September 2001, the Afghanistan war and the resurgence of terrorist acts on all the continents, a host of issues were reconsidered and the role of science and technology was reassessed. The 27th Session was primarily oriented
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Leonid A. Bolshov Prevention and Mitigation of Terrorist Acts Involving Radioactive Materials (contribution not available); Maria Grazia Spillantini Progress in Understanding Neurodegenerative Diseases (contribution not available); 1. OPENING SESSION; Tsung Dao Lee, Kai Siegbahn, Antonino Zichichi The Cultural Emergency; ANNEX A; 2. SOCIETY AND STRUCTURES: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES - CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY; Eda Sagarra Smile and Feel Secure, God is with the Believers: Religion and the Capacity for Global Terror; REFERENCES; Farhang Mehr The Culture of Terrorism; DEFINITION OF TERRORISM
Description / Table of Contents:
DRIVING FORCES BEHIND TERRORIST ACTSTHE ROLE OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FACTORS; THE MEANS AND WEAPONS OF TERRORISM; THE CULTURE OF TERRORISM; PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF TERRORISM; REFERENCES; Kamran Talattof Islam and Modernity: Ideology and Violence in the Middle East; REFERENCES; Ibrahim Karawan Violence and Strategic Choices: The Case of Islamist Militancy; FIRST, THE LOGIC OF SHRINKING TIME; SECOND, THE LOGIC OF SMALL NUMBERS; THIRD, THE LOGIC OF SHIFTING FRONTS; FOURTH, THE LOGIC OF PROVOCATION; 3. SOCIETY AND STRUCTURES: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL GEOPOLITICAL ISSUES
Description / Table of Contents:
K. C. Sivaramakrishnan Confrontation and Cooperation in South AsiaINTRODUCTION; PARTITION; THE CARNAGE; THE AFTERMATH; BANGLADESH; SRI LANKA; KASHMIR; COOPERATION; SOME POSITIVE FEATURES; REFERENCES; Dan V Segre Neutrality and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; Andrew EB. Tompson et al. Science and Technology to Advance Regional Security in the Middle East and Central Asia; INTRODUCTION; HOW CAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IMPROVE REGIONAL SECURITY?; OUR APPROACH; The Middle East and Central Asia; COOPERATIVE PROJECT SUBJECT AREAS; Middle East; Central Asia; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES
Description / Table of Contents:
Karl K. Rebane High-Tech Terrorism - A Rapidly Growing, Global ProblemREFERENCES; Karl K. Rebane High-Tech Terrorism as an Increasing Global Problem (originally presented at 21st Session in 1996); INTRODUCTION; REMARKS; CONCLUSION; 4. SOCIETY AND STRUCTURES: GLOBALIZATION - ECONOMY AND CULTURE; Ahmad Kamal Globalization and Culture; Lowell Wood Defending Against Mass-Casualty Terrorism: Technologies Enabling Strategy and Tactics for Robust Defense; TERRORISM; STRATEGIC ASYMMETRIES; BASIC DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES; OPERATIONAL STRATEGY; "DAUNTINGLY DIFFICULT"; TECHNOLOGIES: DETERRENCE
Description / Table of Contents:
"DETECT, DISRUPT & DESTROY"'D, D & D' TECHNOLOGIES; "DEFEAT SERIOUS ATTEMPTS"; SERIOUS ATTEMPTS' DEFEAT TECHNOLOGIES; "DENY SUCCESS TO THE MOST SERIOUS ATTEMPTS"; SUCCESS-DENIAL TECHNOLOGIES; "ATTRIBUTE AND RETALIATE"; RED TEAMS AND 'LIVE' TESTING; "THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST"; PERTINENT ELEMENTS OF WESTERN SERIOUSNESS; SUMMARY; CONCLUSION; William Fulkerson Oil Policies and Terror: Getting off Oil; Peter Lock Economic Factors of Conflict and Violence: The Economics of Armed Conflict; GLOBALISATION AND SOCIAL POLARIZATION; The normal. legally operating economv; The informal economy
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The openly criminal economy
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