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Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World

Raphael Sagarin and Jennifer Hyndman

Abstract

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 book applies lessons from nature to our own toughest security problems—from global terrorism to the rise of infectious disease to natural disasters. The text considers how models and ideas from evolutionary biology can improve national security strategies ranging from risk assessment, security analysis, and public policy to long-term strategic goals.

Keywords: invertebrates, immune system, alarm calls, security strategies, global terrorism, infectious disease, natural disasters, risk assessment, security analysis, public policy

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9780520253476
Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1525/california/9780520253476.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Raphael Sagarin, editor

Jennifer Hyndman, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Part One Introduction

Chapter 1 The Origins of Natural Security

Raphael D. Sagarin

Chapter 2 Living With Risk

Terence Taylor

Part Two Life History and Security

Chapter 3 Security, Unpredictability, and Evolution

Geerat J. Vermeij

Chapter 4 From Bacteria to Belief

Luis P. Villarreal

Part Three Security Today

Chapter 5 Corporations and Bureaucracies Under a Biological Lens

Elizabeth M. Prescott

Chapter 6 Selection, Security, and Evolutionary International Relations

Gregory P. Dietl

Part FourEvolution’s Imprint

Chapter 7 Militants and Martyrs

Richard Sosis, and Candace S. Alcorta

Chapter 8 Causes of and Solutions to Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism

Bradley A. Thayer

Chapter 9 The Power of Moral Belief

Scott Atran

Part Five Ecology and Security

Chapter 10 Fourteen Security Lessons from Antipredator Behavior

Daniel T. Blumstein

Chapter 11 Population Models and Counterinsurgency Strategies

Dominic D. P. Johnson, and Joshua S. Madin

Chapter 12 The Infectiousness of Terrorist Ideology

Kevin D. Lafferty, Katherine F. Smith, and Elizabeth M. P. Madin

Part Six Synthesis

Chapter 13 Paradigm Shifts in Security Strategy

Dominic D. P. Johnson, and Elizabeth M. P. Madin

Chapter 14 Network Analysis Links Parts to the Whole

Ferenc Jordán

Chapter 15 A Holistic View of Natural Security

Raphael D. Sagarin

End Matter

Index