Queen's Contagion Cultures Lecture - Bio-terrorism as common agency: Power projection and cooperation - Ugurhan Berkok
4:00 PM 鈥� 5:00 PM
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Bio-terrorism: Power projection and cooperation
Ugurhan Berkok
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, 九秀直播; Department of Economics, Royal Military College (RMC)
Dual-use microbiological technologies are beneficial for medicine, agriculture, and climate, but represent a biosecurity risk. An outsider, a terrorist outfit for example, or a disgruntled/radicalized insider, like the one in the 2001 Amerithrax incident, might weaponize dual-use research products such as harmful viruses or toxin-releasing bacteria. We concentrate on the outside biosecurity threat posed by a terrorist outfit, not a state actor, and we formulate a strategic game to model the essential interactions between the terrorist outfit and two countries, both of which have partially-overlapping stocks of microbial knowledge that they use to project power as well as provide deterrence through a demonstrable ability to mitigate bio-terror effects. Although such information-sharing potentially reduces the potency of a bio-terror attack, and thereby dissipates intent, it does reduce each principal鈥檚 power projection capability by releasing proprietary knowledge to the other principal.
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