| Developing a Process to Build Partner Capacity for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction |
Jan-2009 |
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Kim Cragin; David R Howell; Jennifer D Moroney; Joe Hagler; Benjamin Bahney; Charlotte Lynch; Rebecca Zimmerman; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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 | How can the United States better support its partners' efforts to combat the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation? Although the United States has instituted a number of programs to combat the spread of WMD, it does not have the resources necessary to stop all WMD threats. Instead, it needs to pursue a more coordinated effort to enhance partners' border security, WMD detection, interdiction, and other capabilities to ... |
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| Building Partner Capacity to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction |
Jan-2009 |
143 pages |
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Kim Cragin; David R Howell; Jennifer D Moroney; Joe Hogler; Benjamin Bahney; Charlotte Lynch; Rebecca Zimmerman; DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY ALEXANDRIA VA
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 | This RAND National Defense Research Institute monograph outlines and then applies a four-step process for developing regional approaches to BPC to combat WMD. Limited resources, access, and incomplete knowledge of WMD threats create a need for working with appropriate partner countries around the world to address these challenges. The monograph offers seven key themes to consider when implementing BPC regional approaches. The monograph argues that the United States needs a ... |
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| International Cooperation with Partner Air Forces |
Jan-2009 |
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Kim Cragin; Beth Grill; Jennifer D Moroney; Eric Gons; John E Peters; Rachel M Swanger; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The U.S. Air Force faces a challenging environment as it devises an approach to managing security cooperation with partner countries. The important mission of countering terrorist and insurgent groups abroad requires working closely with allies and partner countries to strengthen security. Accordingly, current U.S. defense strategy emphasizes that the U.S. armed forces should prepare to do more to work (by, with, and through partners) to accomplish their missions. The U.S. ... |
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| Social Science for Counterterrorism: Putting the Pieces Together |
Jan-2009 |
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| Authors:
Michael Egner; Claude Berrebi; Todd C Helmus; Darcy Noricks; Benjamin Bahney; Paul K Davis; Brian A Jackson; Christopher Paul; Kim Cragin; Gaga Gvineria; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The authors report on an aggressively interdisciplinary project to survey and integrate the scholarly social-science literature relevant to counterterrorism. They draw on literature from numerous disciplines, both qualitative and quantitative, and then use high-level conceptual models to pull the pieces together. In their monograph, they identify points of agreement and disagreement and point out instances in which disagreements merely reflect difference of research context or perspective. Priorities for further research ... |
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| Dangerous But Not Omnipotent: Exploring the Reach and Limitations of Iranian Power in the Middle East |
Jan-2009 |
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Nora Bensahel; Kim Cragin; Dalia D Kaye; Frederic Wehrey; Nadia Oweidat; Jerrold D Green; David E Thaler; Jennifer Li; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Following the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Iranian threat to U.S. interests has taken on seemingly unprecedented qualities of aggressiveness and urgency. Added to its provocative positions on the nuclear program, support for non-state militants, and development of threatening military capabilities is the sense that Iran is trying to effect far-reaching changes on the regional and even global stage. Within this context, this report aims to provide policy ... |
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| Understanding Terrorist Ideology |
12 JUN 2007 |
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Kim Cragin; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This variation, by its very nature, makes it somewhat difficult to identify overarching patterns in how terrorist ideologies might motivate individuals and sympathetic communities on a global level. Having said that, I am going to attempt to generalize the findings from our research as much as possible, while still providing examples of nuances in the messages and appeal of terrorist ideology whenever appropriate. For the remainder of my testimony, I ... |
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| Sharing the Dragon's Teeth: Terrorist Groups and the Exchange of New Technologies |
2007 |
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Kim Cragin; Peter Chalk; Sara A. Daly; Brian A. Jackson; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Operation Enduring Freedom and the global war on terrorism forced many members of al Qaeda to disperse, as the U.S. Government and its allies removed safe havens and arrested a number of key leaders. As a result, the nature of the terrorist threat against the United States appears to have changed. For example, some like-minded terrorist groups that perhaps do not have the global reach of a pre-9/11 al Qaeda ... |
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| Ungoverned Territories. Understanding and Reducing Terrorism Risks |
2007 |
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Angel Rabasa; Steven Boraz; Peter Chalk; Kim Cragin; Theodore W. Karasik; Jennifer D. Moroney; Kevin A. O'Brien; John E. Peters; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Ungoverned territories -- failed or failing states or ungoverned areas within otherwise viable states -- generate all manner of security problems and can become terrorist sanctuaries. Using a two-tiered framework area applied to eight case studies from around the globe, the authors seek to understand the conditions that give rise to ungoverned territories and what makes some ungoverned territories more conducive to a terrorist or insurgent presence than others. On ... |
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| Ungoverned Territories: A Unique Front in the War on Terrorism |
2007 |
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Angel Rabasa; Steven Boraz; Peter Chalk; Kim Cragin; Theodore Karasik; Jennifer D. Moroney; Kevin A. O'Brien; John E. Peters; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This research brief describes a RAND Project AIR FORCE study of the factors that give rise to ungoverned territories and make some of them conducive to terrorists and insurgents. |
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| Beyond al-Qaeda. Part 1. The Global Jihadist Movement |
2006 |
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Angel Rabasa; Peter Chalk; Kim Cragin; Sara A. Daly; Heather S. Gregg; Theodore W. Karasik; Kevin A. O'Brien; William Rosenau; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Defeating the global jihadist movement--which we define as al-Qaeda and the universe of jihadist groups that are associated with or inspired by al-Qaeda--is the most pressing security challenge facing the United States today. The global jihadist movement can be distinguished from traditional or local jihads, which are armed campaigns conducted by Islamist groups against local adversaries with usually limited aims and geographic scope, in that it targets the United States ... |
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| Beyond al-Qaeda. Part 2. The Outer Rings of the Terrorist Universe |
2006 |
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Angel Rabasa; Peter Chalk; Kim Cragin; Sara A. Daly; Heather S. Gregg; Theodore W. Krasik; Kevin A. O'Brien; William Rosenau; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The "al-Qaeda universe" does not incorporate the entirety of the terrorist threat or potential threat. A number of other militant groups threaten U.S. regional interests or allies and pose a potential direct threat to the United States. This volume, Part 2 of the study, focuses on three categories in this "second circle" of terrorist groups: (1) terrorist groups that articulate an Islamist agenda for their own country but are not ... |
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| Arms Trafficking and Colombia |
2003 |
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Kim Cragin; Bruce Hoffman; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| The people of Colombia have experienced significant political instability and violence over the past century. While many factors have contributed to this situation-the drug trade, a protracted insurgent conflict, nationwide corruption-small-arms proliferation remains among the most serious of the country's problems. Addressing the issue of small-arms trafficking in Colombia poses enormous challenges, largely because the movement of these weapons is difficult to monitor and measure and does not conform to ... |
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