This article stresses the need to adjust performance management to deficiencies in results controls, whenever such deficiencies prove to be inevitable. The authors argue that management control has to reach beyond results into the underlying activities. Deficient result controls should be supplemented …

The author explains the different worldviews of Americans and Europeans and argues for a happy medium between American paranoia and European nonchalance

A three-dimensional finite element method was used to calculate the stress intensity factors for corner cracked specimens of a single crystal nickel-based superalloy. The anisotropic material properties and inclinations of the cracks were shown to have significant effects on the stress intensities. Then …

In februari 2005 heeft de Inspecteur Generaal der Krijgsmacht (IGK) van de Minister van Defensie (MinDef) het verzoek ontvangen om in 2005 in de vorm van een IGK-thema aandacht te besteden aan het onderwerp “Diversiteit in de krijgsmacht”. Diversiteit in het personeelsbestand van defensie komt tot uiting …

The authors discuss the mechanism through which terrorist organizations acquire the funds they need to conduct their operations. They focus on levers of control, advocating the identification of practices that may be disrupted and context that may be changed so that financing terrorism becomes progressively …

Ad Vogelaar reviews the psychological literature on terrorism. He demonstrates that psychology sheds light on three aspects of terrorism: recruitment, impact, and counterterrorism. On the basis of his literature review, Vogelaar concludes that terrorists act rationally but that emotional motives determine …

Militair zijn betekent onder meer bereid zijn om onder levensbedreigende omstandigheden taken vervullen. Oorlog of inzet in een expeditionaire krijgsmacht voor vredeshandhavende of afdwingende taken betekent nogal eens een confrontatie met levensbedreigende omstandigheden. Minister Kamp stelt in de …

The authors research the efficacy of Terror Management Theory. Their starting point is the disruption caused by the existential threat of death on military operations, particularly on international stabilization operations that are complicated by problems of coordination and communication between participating …

Peter Olsthoorn approaches terrorists' motives from the perspective of political philosophy. He seeks to explain the notions of humiliation, dignity and honor, which occur frequently in discussions of terrorism. He argues that Western cultures have in the process of individualization replaced shame, …