| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 448 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications Series |
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Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Foreword -- Terrorists Target Business -- The Terrorist Threat Evolves -- Business Responds -- Security Strategy Options -- Terrorism Databases Permit Quantitative Analysis -- Increasing Attention and Increasingly Sophisticated Analysis -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Host Countries Examined -- 1.3 An Operational System of Terrorism -- 1.4 Terrorism-New Challenges in Research -- 1.5 Related Conflict Conditions -- 1.6 Terrorism Definition -- 1.7 The Concept of Security -- 1.8 The Concepts of Vulnerability and Risk |
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1.9 The Security Issue Agenda -- 1.10 Definitions of Business Security -- 1.11 The Threat to Multinational Corporations and Small and Middle Size Enterprises (SME's) -- 1.12 The "Just-In-Time" Inventory System -- 1.13 Framework of the Book -- 1.14 Conclusions -- References -- 2 Concepts, Methods, and Typology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Corporate Security Crossroads-Some Major Findings -- 2.3 The Total Security Measure Index (TSMI) -- 2.4 Corporate Security Surveillance-Terrorist Assault Business Vulnerability Index (TABVI) -- 2.5 The Numerator -- 2.6 The Denominator |
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2.7 The Numerator and Denominator -- 2.8 Corporate Security Surveillance-Data Sources -- 2.9 Data Coding Guidelines -- 2.10 Coder Reliability Test -- 2.11 Relative Frequencies and Bivariate Crosstabulation Table Analysis -- 2.12 Additional Coding Guidelines for Host Countries -- 2.12.1 India -- 2.12.2 Mexico -- 2.12.3 Brazil and South Africa -- 2.12.4 Thailand -- 2.13 A Three-Dimensional Typology of Terrorist and "Hybrid" Criminal-Terrorist Group-Types -- 2.14 The Theoretical Framework -- 2.15 Summary -- References -- 3 The Case of India -- 3.1 Indian Maoist (Marxist-Leninist) Terrorist Groups |
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3.2 Indian National-Irredentist Terrorist Groups -- 3.3 The United Liberation Front of Assam -- 3.4 The Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) -- 3.5 The United Democratic Liberation Army (UDLA) -- 3.6 Indian Islamic Extremist Terrorist Groups -- 3.7 Indian Right-Wing Hindutva Terrorist Groups -- 3.8 Terrorist Assault Business Vulnerability Index (TABVI) -- 3.9 Some Empirical Observations About Indian Terrorism -- 3.9.1 Relative Frequencies and Percentages of Commercial Target Terrorist Assaults |
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3.10 Terrorist Assault by Business Target-Type, Firm Origin, Terrorist Group-Type, and Terrorist Group -- 3.11 Terrorist Assaults by State -- 3.12 Terrorist Assaults by District -- 3.13 Terrorist Assaults by Cities, Towns, and Villages -- 3.14 Business Firms Attacked -- 3.15 Variable Analysis -- 3.16 Political Ideology X Business Target-Type -- 3.17 Political Ideology X Numbers of Deaths -- 3.18 Political Ideology X Numbers of Injuries -- 3.19 Business Target-Type X Deaths -- 3.20 Business Target X Number of Perpetrators -- 3.21 Business Target X State -- 3.22 Group-Type X Political Events -- 3.23 The "Structuralist-Non-structuralist" Terrorist Group-Type Continuum-Indian Terrorist Group Placement |
| Summary |
In a world of globalization and technological change, terrorism continues to pose grave threats not only to more traditional targets such as civilians and government targets, but according to many experts, increasingly to multinational corporations and other international economic enterprises. This book broadens the understanding of the threats posed to the private sector thereby helping business executives in charge of security affairs prepare for new threats and unconventional threats in a continuously evolving world. Chasdi's Terrorist Assault Business Vulnerability Index (TABVI) now provides C-class executives with a way to measure (potential) host country and host country industry vulnerability and thus contributes a critical new standard to help appraise where and when MNCs and other international enterprises should marshal Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and other resources. In addition, his statistical findings about different country operational environments work to frame TABVI findings and provide in-depth understandings of risk in several different (potential) host countries. While the focus is on traditional terrorist groups and criminal syndicalist organizations that use terrorism in particular developing world host countries, Chasdi's research also informs the business community about the context of political issues of contention defined by terrorist groups and their constituent supporters. Business leaders, government officials at national and local government levels, the academic community, and the media benefit from ideas proposed in this book. Brian M. Jenkins writes a carefully reasoned, comprehensive, and insightful Foreword that describes the importance of this topic; about Chasdi, he writes, "...I am an admirer of his uniquely imaginative approaches and always rigorous analysis. His work is invariably intellectually challenging and thought provoking. Read on." |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Terrorism -- Risk assessment
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International business enterprises -- Security measures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031395505 |
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3031395506 |
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