Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security

Network Analysis in Criminal Intelligence.- Identifying mafia Bosses from Meeting Attendance.- Macrosocial Network Analysis: the Case of Transnational Drug Trafficking.- Policing the Hackers by Hacking them: Studying Online Deviants in IRC Chat Rooms.- Why Terror Networks are Dissimilar: How Structure Relates to Functions.- Social Network Analysis Applied to Criminal Networks: Recent Developments in Dutch Law Enforcement.- The Networked Mind- Collective Identities and the Cognitive-Affective Nature of Conflict.- Conflict Cessation and the Emergence of Weapons Supermarkets.- A Conspiracy of Bastards?.- Decision Support through Strongest Path Method Risk Analysis.- Critical Infrastructure and Vulnerability- a Relational Analysis through Actor Network Theory.- Dealing with Complexity: Thinking about Networks and the Comprehensive Approach.

Anthony Masys is a Defence Scientist for the Department of National Defence, Defence Research and Development Canada, Centre for Security Science. As Scientific Advisor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for both the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and G8/G20 Summits, Dr Masys has had significant influence in the development of a 'whole of government' Major Events Security Framework. The MESF is a collaborative planning environment that is rooted in the principles of Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning. Dr Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and PhD in Sociology. His research interests focus on complex socio-technical systems, human error, safety culture, systems thinking, risk, crisis and disaster management, knowledge management and organizational learning. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences.

His recent book: 'Opening the Black Box of Human Error' focuses on the 'opaque' veneer of 'blamism' that characterizes pilot/human error and obscures the fact that it is comprised of a network of alliances. Through the lens of Actor Network Theory and drawing upon Systems Thinking, Complexity Theory, Psychology and the science of networks, Dr Masys describes a landscape of inherent relationality and a space of possibilities. Opening the Black Box of Human Error presents a new framework for exploring complex socio-technical systems revealing a de-centered accident aetiology residing within a network of heterogeneous elements characterized as the 'hybrid collectif' (Callon and Law, 1995). The analysis sheds light on a problem space in which it is difficult to separate human and non-human (technological) actors, highlighting as Latour (1994) argues, that '...every human interaction is socio-technical'. This work should be especially useful to professionals in Human Factors with an interest in complex socio- technical systems and accident aetiology.

"The texts are elegant and well written, facilitating the reading of the book. ... It is done in a very convincing way, in a text scientifically rich and very well written. ... Recommended either for beginners or experienced investigators ... ." (Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira, International Journal of Latest Trends in Finance and Economic Sciences, Vol. 4 (2), June, 2014)