Titlebook: Counter-Terrorism Technologies; A Critical Assessmen Peter Lehr Book 2019 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 201

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Outlook: The Need for ‘Critical’ Critical Infrastructure Protection Studiesm might lead to an ‘arms race’ between terrorists and counter-terrorists that cannot possibly be won especially not by us ordinary citizens who might well end up ‘temporarily’ surrendering civil rights in vain, and without getting them back any time soon since the war on terrorism is an interminable one.

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Introduction: Terrorism as a Threat to Open Societies, with the basics of risk assessment and risk management as parts of the field of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP). In particular, I briefly talk about criticality, vulnerability, and threat, to then address questions on how to manage or mitigate risks posed by terrorism. In that regard, I hi

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Consequences: The Urban Space as a (Limited) Battlespaceat became obvious: terrorists act, counter-terrorists react – and so do politicians and academics. I argue that an array of various solutions has been offered to break through this cycle – amongst them technology as the proverbial ‘silver bullet’.

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Detection: Scanning and ‘Sniffing’ Technologiesr one reason or another. Hence, in this chapter I look at yet another ‘silver bullet’ in the shape of technology that enables us to see beneath the layer of clothing, or beneath the canvass of a backpack, in order to decide whether there is a threat or not – especially in the vicinity of access poin

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Surveillance and Observation: The All-Seeing Eyes of Big Brotherselect ‘soft targets’ in the shape of unprotected locations where a crowd usually can be expected. But even if they are bound for hard targets, terrorists are likely to move through public space. In order to heighten the security of such public spaces as well, and in order to prevent an impending at