Accession Number:

ADA516785

Title:

Adapting America's Security Paradigm and Security Agenda

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NATIONAL SECURITY TRAGEDY CENTER WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Godson, Roy
• Shultz, Richard
• Hanlon, Querine
• Ravich, Samantha

Report Date:

2010-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

43.0

Abstract:

As this report documents, one key factor in the evolution now under way is that half of the nearly 200 countries in the world are weak, failing, or failed states. These states often have little control over major parts of their territory. They cannot provide security or deliver major services to large segments of their population. They are vulnerable to whoever can mobilize the population and armed groups-terrorists, criminals, insurgents and militias-within their territories. Afghanistan and Pakistan are among the most dramatic examples, but many other regions face similar problems.

Descriptors:

• *CRIMINOLOGY
• *AFGHANISTAN
• *SECURITY
• JOINT MILITARY ACTIVITIES
• INSURGENCY
• CONTROL
• PAKISTAN
• POPULATION

Subject Categories:

• Sociology and Law
• Defense Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE