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This volume presents the results of one of three related North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshops held in September 2006 under the general theme of "Understanding and Responding to Terrorism: A Multi-dimensional Approach," which was organized by the Turkish Institute for Police Studies, with the support of NATO and the Turkish National Police. The workshop presented here had the more specific theme of "Policing Responses to Terrorist Operations" and focused on three main topics: the role of international organizations in combating terrorism, individual countries' legislative efforts and respective law enforcement agencies' approaches to combating terrorism, and evaluation of response and recovery operations after terrorist attacks and lessons for homeland security policies and procedures and integration of crisis and consequence management activities. The papers from the other workshops are presented in volumes 21 and 22 of this series. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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"This publication concerns three main topics:- Dynamics of effective international cooperation against terrorism: Facilitators and barriers;- Law enforcement response to terrorism in different countries and regions;- Emergency management lessons for Homeland Security.On the first topic on the role of international organizations, the barriers for cooperation and their solutions are explored. With respect to the second topic, several country’s legislative efforts against terrorism, the level of terrorism, experienced threat, and how law enforcement agencies fight terrorism in their respective states are handled. The third topic includes evaluations of the response and recovery operations that are implemented after terrorist attacks in order to enhance emergency management and homeland security policies and procedures as well as the integration of crisis and consequence management activities.The articles in this publication have been categorized in five parts:- International Police Cooperation- National Approaches to Terrorism- Responding to Terrorism- Terrorism Emergency Management- Closing RemarksThis book can be a useful source to better understand and respond to the terrorism threat."
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