2012-05-25T11:16:09Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/online/terrorism-and-homeland-security.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200108.html 2012-06-01T12:00:00.000-04:00 2012-06-01T12:00:00.000-04:00

This study suggests four timely US actions to address today's competing realities of globalization and economic austerity: raise awareness among clinicians and local health departments; capture and share exemplary disaster management practices across countries; ensure that US global health investments are effective, efficient, and sustainable; and think globally while acting locally to enhance US health security.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP372.html 2012-05-17T11:30:00.000-04:00 2012-05-17T11:30:00.000-04:00

The tri-border area (TBA) between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia is a key hub of terrorist and related criminal activity in Southeast Asia. The authors analyze the security environment in the region, examine the Philippines' Coast Watch System, and consider the prospects for forming an integrated system of maritime security that would tie together the three states that converge in the TBA.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP351.html 2012-05-02T09:15:00.000-04:00 2012-05-02T09:15:00.000-04:00

The partnership between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the People's Republic of China presents a unique challenge to U.S. interests and objectives, including dissuading Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability. This paper examines factors driving Chinese-Iranian cooperation, potential tensions in the Chinese-Iranian partnership, and U.S. policy options for influencing this partnership to meet U.S. objectives.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF301.html 2012-04-16T09:15:00.000-04:00 2012-04-16T09:15:00.000-04:00

This document distills and synthesizes the proceedings of a workshop in which experts in the field of regulatory analysis and terrorism risk examined alternative approaches for estimating the benefits of regulations designed to reduce the risks of terrorist attacks in the United States. The workshop gave rise to several recommendations for improving the modeling and data collection that support the benefit-cost analysis of terrorism security regulations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9645.html 2012-04-13T08:15:00.000-04:00 2012-04-13T08:15:00.000-04:00

Current processes used by the U.S. military do not provide accurate assessments of counterinsurgency campaigns. A new process that adds transparency and context to assessments would make them more credible and useful at all levels of decisionmaking.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB526.html 2012-04-09T14:30:00.000-04:00 2012-04-09T14:30:00.000-04:00

From one of our most trusted counterterrorism experts, a sweeping, insider's account of the decade-long chase for America's deadliest enemy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120066.html 2012-04-01T12:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-01T12:00:00.000-04:00

Most local public health officials rely on their perceptions of the legal environment in which they operate, but those perceptions often do not match the actual laws enacted.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1218.html 2012-03-27T16:00:00.000-04:00 2012-03-27T16:00:00.000-04:00

RAND Europe conducted a feasibility study on a European Cybercrime Centre by reviewing literature, conducting extensive consultations with law enforcement and a scenario based workshop. The study evaluated different options for the set up of the ECC.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT374.html 2012-03-27T14:00:00.000-04:00 2012-03-27T14:00:00.000-04:00

Testimony presented before the House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on March 27, 2012.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1103.html 2012-03-27T09:45:00.000-04:00 2012-03-27T09:45:00.000-04:00

Deterrence remains a primary doctrine for dealing with the threat of nuclear weapons in the 21st century. The author reviews the history of nuclear deterrence and calls for a renewed intellectual effort to address the relevance of concepts such as first strike, escalation, extended deterrence, and other Cold War–era strategies in today's complex world of additional superpowers, smaller nuclear powers, and nonstate actors.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1211.html 2012-03-27T09:15:00.000-04:00 2012-03-27T09:15:00.000-04:00

This report investigates how the Office of Border Patrol could employ pattern and trend analysis and systematic randomness to increase interdiction rates and mitigate smuggler adaptation. The analysis shows how approaches that combine the techniques yield higher interdiction rates than approaches using either technique alone, and it examines the circumstances in which combined approaches are competitive with perfect surveillance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1200.html 2012-03-27T09:00:00.000-04:00 2012-03-27T09:00:00.000-04:00

The Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) aims to improve communities' ability to rapidly provide life-saving medications during public health emergencies. The authors examine (1) the status of communities' operational capability to meet the goal of delivering medical countermeasures within 48 hours of a federal decision to deploy assets and (2) whether there is evidence that CRI has improved communities' capability to meet that goal.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR909.html 2012-03-09T16:00:00.000-05:00 2012-03-09T16:00:00.000-05:00

Discusses approaches, strategies, and an application to understanding and influencing public support of insurgency and terrorism.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR785.html 2012-03-02T15:00:00.000-05:00 2012-03-02T15:00:00.000-05:00

This project reviewed available evidence on factors associated with exit from violent extremist groups and the effectiveness of interventions to encourage individuals to leave such groups, to inform the UK counterterrorism strategy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120026.html 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

Examines the security costs and benefits of a trusted traveler program, in which individuals who have been identified as posing less risk than others are allowed to pass through security checkpoints with reduced security screening.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120027.html 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

The authors analyze data from the 2008 National Association of City and County Health Officials Profile of Local Health Departments survey, and propose an improved composite measure of centralization that can be computed for all local health departments within a state, as opposed to a single state respondent, as done in 1998.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120083.html 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

A majority of HCP support influenza vaccination requirements. Moreover, providing HCP with information about the safety of influenza vaccination and communicating that immunization of HCP is a patient safety issue may be important for generating staff support for influenza vaccination requirements.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1127.html 2012-02-20T11:45:00.000-05:00 2012-02-20T11:45:00.000-05:00

Although irregular warfare includes a range of activities in which naval forces have played an integral role, there has been little examination of the characteristics or potential of such operations in maritime environments. An assessment of the maritime component of a series of historical and ongoing operations reveals that current notions of irregular warfare would benefit from increased recognition of potential maritime contributions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP362.html 2012-02-16T11:00:00.000-05:00 2012-02-16T11:00:00.000-05:00

This essay examines a number of issues concerning the status of al Qaeda more than ten years after 9/11, including whether America has won the operational battle but lost the ideological contest; whether homegrown terrorism is a growing threat; whether maintaining American troops in Afghanistan is essential; and whether the United States ought to declare on its own an end to the war on al Qaeda.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120019.html 2012-01-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2012-01-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

The authors discuss the correlation between economic conditions, the characteristics of suicide terrorists, and the targets they attack.