Approximately 20 international authors contribute 15 chapters to aspects of the contemporary transnational security landscape. Collectively they provide a big-picture snapshot of contemporary research and concerns. Advanced students, scholars, and practitioners will want to review these studies.

Some topics considered include transnational security conversations, maritime security, influenza pandemic planning, police response to gang violence, the impact of demographic changes, economic security in the Strait of Malacca, a network mindset of critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, supply chain information security, disruption of terrorism and criminal networks, computing in compromised environments, food security, the information warfare of terrorism, and complexity and nontraditional security. All of these themes are addressed in a readable but advanced manner.

The chapter titles clearly indicate the topics to be discussed. Footnotes, tables, and graphs are utilized as appropriate. Each chapter begins with an abstract and concludes with a list of references. Email author contact information is provided as well as brief author affiliation information. However, there is no comprehensive index for the entire book. Additionally, the reader may not know what significant topics are not being addressed in this particular book.

Individuals whose work involves forward thinking about evolving security challenges will want to review this thinking.