Migration / Border Security
The concept of border security around the globe shares a complex relationship with the persistent threat of terrorism. Border security includes the protection of land borders, ports, and airports. The relationship is unique in the sense that all must constantly reevaluate and tweak its border security policy to address the threats...
Global Warming Issues
The term ‘Global Warming’ refers to the rising temperature of the earth due to an increased amount of greenhouse gases. The scientific community as a whole has determined through all research that global warming is a problem caused by...
Phares to the Asian Security Conference in India: "Jihadi Threat in the Indian Subcontinent"
01-Mar-2010 - walidphares.com | Updated: 03-Mar-2010Professor Walid Phares, Advisor to the Anti-Terrorism Caucus at the US House of Representatives and the Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies delivered a speech to the Asian Security Conference 2010 under the theme “Asian Strategic Futures 2030: Trends, Scenarios and Alternatives.” Professor...
Shi'a in Senegal: Iran's Growing Reach into Africa
18-Feb-2010 - Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) | Updated: 01-Mar-2010As the Iranian regime celebrated its 31st birthday last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first ordered and then boasted that the nuclear plant at Natanz had successfully enriched uranium to 19.75 percent purity, making, he claimed, Iran "a nuclear state." President Barack Obama responded at a White House press conference that the United States...
Emerging West African Terror-Drug Nexus Poses Major Security Threat
28-Jan-2010 - Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) | Updated: 01-Mar-2010Over the course of the last month, the foiled attempt by would-be "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a Detroit-bound passenger flight on Christmas Day has underscored the dangers of ignoring threats from Africa to the security of the United States, even as the Obama administration's handling of the case has raised questions of...
Illegal Drug Trade in Africa: Trends and U.S. Policy
30-Sep-2009 - Congressional Research Service | Updated: 01-Mar-2010Africa has historically held a peripheral role in the transnational illicit drug trade, but in recent years has increasingly become a locus for drug trafficking, particularly of cocaine. Recent estimates suggest that each year between 46 and 300 metric tons of South American cocaine may transit West Africa en route to Europe. Recent cocaine seizure...
Al Qaeda and Affiliates: Historical Perspective, Global Presence, and Implications for U.S. Policy
05-Feb-2010 - Congressional Research Service | Updated: 01-Mar-2010Al Qaeda (AQ) has evolved into a significantly different terrorist organization than the one that perpetrated the September 11, 2001, attacks. At the time, Al Qaeda was composed mostly of a core cadre of veterans of the Afghan insurgency against the Soviets, with a centralized leadership structure, made up mostly of Egyptians. Most of the...
The Iranian Saga Continues
26-Feb-2010 - Stratfor | Updated: 01-Mar-2010Thursday witnessed a series of new wrinkles in the ongoing Iran saga. For those readers who have been in a coma for the last three months, here is the abbreviated background. Israel is a state so small that it could not likely survive a nuclear strike. It feels that Iran’s civilian nuclear power program is simply a mask for a more nefarious...
U.S.-Mexico Homeland Defense: A Compatible Interface
26-Feb-2010 - National Defense University | Updated: 01-Mar-2010The United States and Mexico share a common history shaped by military incursions during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The bond between the American and Mexican people, however, has continued to grow closer over time despite occasional negative rhetoric from politicians in Washington, DC, and Mexico City.
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy: "Islam and Science Have Parted Ways"
28-Feb-2010 - Middle East Quarterly | Updated: 28-Feb-2010Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (b. 1950) is one of South Asia's leading nuclear physicists and perhaps Pakistan's preeminent intellectual. Bearer of a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , he is chairman of the department of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad where, as a high-energy physicist
5th Annual Conference Updates (Mar 10)
Updates and transcripts from this years annual conference in Key West Fl.
Read and download updates and transcripts from this years annual conference Regional Issues, Global Implications. View available documents.
Annual Conference Executive Summary (Mar 09)
The highlight of the Sovereign Challenge program year is the annual spring conference that caters to military attachés from sovereign nations.
The conference provides an opportunity for this community of interest to focus attention on creating strategies to counter militant extremism, transnational crime and migration/border security issues. Conference proceedings are available on the Sovereign Challenge website. Read the Mar 09 Executive Summary
The Combating Terrorism Center Harmony Project
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is an academic think tank that tracks violent militant extremism.
Unclassified and translated documentation captured from the al-Qaida Network in Iraq is available on the Sovereign Challenge website. View the documentation here.
Global Incident Map
The Global Incident Map is a commercially-provided kinetic display of terrorist and other suspicious incidents on a global scale.
Display is updated on a 24/7 basis and is provided to the Sovereign Challenge website registered users gratis. Visit the Global Incident Map
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Immigration does not cause crime. The desire to immigrate, however, may cause people to violate immigration quotas and regulations and may lead to illegal immigration, which in turn is exploited by criminals.
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