Conflict and Complexity Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fellman, Philip Vos (Editor), Bar-Yam, Yaneer (Editor), Minai, Ali A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Physics.; Application software.; System safety.; Complexity, Computational.; Social sciences.; Complex Networks.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Complexity.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Security Science and Technology.

Complexity science affords a number of novel tools for examining terrorism, particularly network analysis and NK-Boolean fitness landscapes as well as other tools drawn from non-linear dynamical systems modeling. This book follows the methodologies of complex adaptive systems research in their appli...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I: The Theoretical Background
• Modeling Terrorist Networks: The Second Decade
• Complex Systems Studies and Terrorism
• The Psychology of Terrorism
• A Framework for Agent-based Social Simulations of Social Identity Dynamics
• DIME/PMESII Models
• Net-Centric Logistics: Complex systems science aims at moving targets
• Part II: Applications and Case Studies
• A Fractal Concept of War
• Disrupting Terrorist Networks, A Dynamic Fitness Landscape Approach
• Comparison of approaches for adversary modeling decision support for counterterrorism
• The Landscape of Maritime Piracy and the Limits of Statistical Prediction
• Identities, Anonymity and Information Warfare
• Part II: Broader Horizons
• The Geography of Ethnic Violence
• Food Security and Political Instability: From Ethanol and Speculation to Riots and Revolutions
• South African Riots: Repercussion of the Global Food Crisis and US drought
• Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots
• Complexity and the Limits of Revolution: What Will Happen to the Arab Spring?.