Lone actors -- an emerging security threat / edited by Aaron Richman and Yair Sharan.

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Lone Actors -- An Emerging Security Threat, Jerusalem, Israel, 4-6 November 2014."

Includes indexes.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (IOS Press, viewed January 5, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Title Page -- Introduction -- About the Editors -- Contents -- The Threat of Lone Actors' Terrorism -- Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat -- The Terror Next Door: A Security Analysis of the Escalating Threat of Lone Wolf Terrorists -- Gen-T. Terrorist Infosphere and i-Volution of Lone Wolf Terrorism -- Biological and Chemical Agents in the Hands of Lone Actors -- A Different View -- Lone Operator Cyberterrorism from the Perspective of a Hacker -- Case Studies -- Major Nisan Malik Hasan, Terrorist or Criminal?

The Radicalization of American Lone Wolves in Real/Reel Worlds: Strategically Mapping the Role of the Internet, and Beyond, in the Cases of Colleen LaRose (Jihad Jane) and the Tsarnaev Brothers (the Boston Marathon Bombers) -- Countering and Responding to the Threat -- Comparative Analysis of Counterinsurgency Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan: New Foresight Approaches to Counterinsurgency Operations with Special Focus on Lone Wolf Terrorism -- Center for Radicalization Prevention: A Model of Government Response to "Lone-Wolf" Terrorist Assaults -- Medical Response to Lone Actor Incidents.

Lone Actors: Challenges and Opportunities for Countering Violent Extremism -- The War on Islamism -- Legal and Ethical Aspects -- Lone Actors -- Ethical and Legal Considerations -- Legal Responses to Lone Wolf Terrorism -- Foresight and Policy Aspects -- European Union's Counter-Terrorism Policy and the Problem of Lone Actors -- A Lone Wolf Visionario in the American Midwest -- The Need for Integrated Municipal Planning for Rail Security the Jerusalem Light Rail Project -- Possible Evolution of Lone Wolf and SIMAD Terrorism.

Lone Wolves and Black Sheep in the Modern Urban Jungle -- Loneliness as a Source for Terror Threats in Modern Cities -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

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