Natural security : a Darwinian approach to a dangerous world /
Arms races among invertebrates, intelligence gathering by the immune system and alarm calls by marmots are but a few of nature's security strategies that have been tested and modified over billions of years. This provocative book applies lessons from nature to our own toughest security problems...
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Table of Contents:
- The origins of natural security / Raphael D. Sagarin
- Living with risk / Terence Taylor
- Security, unpredictability, and evolution: policy and the history of life / Geerat J. Vermeij
- From bacteria to belief: immunity and security / Luis P. Villarreal
- Corporations and bureaucracies under a biological lens / Elizabeth M. Prescott
- Selection, security, and evolutionary international relations / Gregory P. Dietl
- Militants and martyrs: evolutionary perspectives on religion and terrorism / Richard Sosis, Candace S. Alcorta
- Causes of and solutions of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism / Bradley A. Thayer
- The power of moral belief / Scott Atran
- Fourteen security lessons from antipredator behavior / Daniel T. Blumstein
- Population models and counterinsurgency strategies / Dominic D. P. Johnson, Joshua S. Madin
- The infectiousness of terrorist ideology: insights from ecology and epidemiology / Kevin D. Lafferty, Katherine F. Smith, Elizabeth M. P. Madin
- Paradigm shifts in security strategy: why does it take disasters to trigger change? / Dominic D. P. Johnson, Elizabeth M. P. Madin
- Network analysis links parts to the whole / Ferenc Jordán
- A holistic view of natural security / Raphael D. Sagarin.