The authors make an attempt to economize the 'feeling of being secure' in times of cyber threats. They distinguish the direct costs of cyber attacks, the indirect costs that follow from the responses to deter (possible) attacks and the indirect expenditures resulting from the rules and regulations that …

Beschouwing over de financiële aspecten van terrorisme en contraterrorisme. Er kan geen aanslag plaatsvinden of verijdeld worden zonder dat daar geld mee gemoeid is.

The authors discuss the mechanism through which terrorist organizations acquire the funds they need to conduct their operations. They focus on levers of control, advocating the identification of practices that may be disrupted and context that may be changed so that financing terrorism becomes progressively …

In this paper the authors have adopted the Viable System Model (VSM), (a framework for diagnosing and (re)designing the distribution of complexity in order to ensure the viability of an organisation) to analyse the viability of an interorganisational civil military network in the context of a humanitarian …

The Royal Netherlands Navy operates on, above and below the surface of the sea. What does this mean for the naval officer? First of all, he operates in an inherently dangerous environ-ment. The sea itself, as well as life and work on board, harbours many dangers. Secondly, it isimpossible for the crew …

This paper focuses on three questions. Firstly, what causes civilian actors and the military to cooperate? Secondly, is civil-military cooperation limited to specific areas and, finally, how to decide to which civil-military alliances time and energy should be devoted? The authors describe an episode …

Ten years into the post Cold War era have shown many humanitarian disasters caused by war. In the wake of these disasters many relief organizations emerged to give humanitarian aid. Nowadays, there is a great variety of actors working in the field of humanitarian operations in order to cope with the …