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Profiling is a hot topic today. The post-9/11 ""War on Terrorism"" has engendered political, ethical, and scientific controversy over its use. The proliferation of recent films, television programs, and books is a sociocultural indicator of widespread interest. Designed for a diverse audience-including law enforcement officers, intelligence and security officers, attorneys, and researchers-Foundations of Psychological Profiling: Terrorism, Espionage, and Deception presents scientific theory and data on the notion of profiles, integrating essential interdisciplinary knowledge related to the pra

This book examines the definitions, history, and politics of profiling, explains how valid profiling can confront challenges such as the suitability of common scientific methods for the behavioral sciences, and discusses how schematics allow profilers to best ask and answer the right questions when attempting to predict what might happen, identify what is or has already happened, and understand and influence any related events.

This paper describes methodological and theoretical problematics in creating knowledge about the relations between politics and biology. These problematics are cited from philosophy and philosophy of science, critical theory, and scientific method(s). The case of politics characterized by the dark tetrad – narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism – and biology characterized by evolutionary theories are used as an example. The conclusion is that the relations between politics and biology are unknowable and attempts to apply putative knowledge of such relations have led to tragedy and atrocity throughout history.

'Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy' by Gordon W. Mitchell is reviewed.

'Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization' by Hilary French is reviewed.

Uses recent examples of political movements around the world to describe the conceptual problems in assuming that political propaganda is effective in achieving political power. The analysis draws on postmodern perspectives, drawing on critiques of logical positivism, materialism, realism, deconstructionism, & subjugating discourse. References are also made to traditional psychological research concerning persuasion, social cognition, & psychotherapy. Seven international examples of propaganda's effects are presented, ranging from Palestinian Liberation Organization activities in the Middle East, to the situation in former Yugoslavia, to the Persian Gulf War. 21 References. Adapted from the source document.