Site Map - International Security

04/23/2008 - Food-based biofuels are exacerbating food shortages and could cause further social and political instability worldwide, according to a presenter at the Third International Symposium on Agroterrorism, held April 22-24 in Kansas City.

04/04/2008 - IEDs have become terrorists' weapon of choice and are being used in conflicts far from Afghanistan and Iraq.

03/27/2008 - The Department of State has broken down the top threats of 2007. Theft of trade secrets, cyberattacks, insider threats, “home-grown” political radicalism, terrorism, and political conflict were the most serious threats to U.S. security.

03/21/2008 - Two U.S. nonprofits that allege Chinese complicity in Sudanese genocide claim they have been hacked, with the attacks originating in China.

03/07/2008 - Cyberattacks threaten states as much as missile attacks, NATO's cybersecurity chief said at an e-crime conference in London yesterday.

02/25/2008 - To properly weave together the topics of science, technology, and law under the rubric of national security is a tall order. This text does so perfectly.

02/14/2008 - The European Union is considering proposals that would require all non-European visitors to submit biometric data before crossing European borders.

01/29/2008 - New research on the interaction between climate change and conflict suggests that cooperation and accommodation are more probable outcomes than global mayhem.

01/25/2008 - The CBP has increased the security of the overseas supply chain by screening more and more cargo containers destined for the United States, says the government watchdog.

01/24/2008 - Text of the Director of National Intelligence's national intelligence estimate on the geopolitical effects of global climate change and its impacts on national security.  San Francisco-based consultancy, GBN, wrote an influential climate change report describing dire consequences for national security for the U.S. Department of Defense in 2003.   The U.K. government published a detailed forecast, known as the Stern Review, of the possible impacts of climate change on the global economy. It says the cost of taking action to avert climate change now is far lower than the cost of coping with damage later.

01/24/2008 - Social scientists postulate that climate change could cause widespread global conflict over scarce resources. Two maverick researchers disagree. 

01/15/2008 - The FBI is leading an effort to get international partners to create an international criminal and terrorist database for exchanging biometric information between countries.

01/09/2008 - Sohail Qureshi is the first person jailed for the crime of acts preparatory to terrorism under the Terrorism Act of 2006.