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.

In vrijwel alle Europese landen zijn de defensie-uitgaven de afgelopen decennia gedaald. Maar financiele input (personeel, materieel, investeringen) is slechts één manier om zicht te krijgen op de prestaties van een krijgsmacht. Om een goed beeld te krijgen is het nodig de verschillende maatstaven …

Dit paper analyseert de Nederlandse defensie-uitgaven van 1990 tot en met 2007. In 1990 bedroegen deze uitgaven nog 2,7% van het Bruto Nationaal Product (BNP). In 2007 was dit meer dan een procent lager. De Nederlandse krijgsmacht heeft zich in de afgelopen jaren in termen van taakuitvoering, grootte …

Analysis of the Dutch defense expenditure from 1990-2005. In 1990 this still amounted to 2.7% of the Gross National Product (GNP), whereas in 2005 it had dropped morethan a full per cent. In terms of their tasking, size and composition the Netherlands armed forces have changed drastically over the past …

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This article stresses the need to adjust performance management to deficiencies in results controls, whenever such deficiencies prove to be inevitable. The authors argue that management control has to reach beyond results into the underlying activities. Deficient result controls should be supplemented …

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 …

The articles collected in this book cover widely divergent topics, ranging from terrorist grand strategy to terrorist finances, from the air forces capacity to intercept an aerial assault, tot he experiences of a young lieutenant during a suicide attack in Afghanistan. They also draw on a wide range …

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 …