Foreword General Robert T. Marsh Part I. Seeds of Disaster: 1. Where private efficiency meets public vulnerability: the critical infrastructure challenge Philip Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Todd M. La Porte and Erwann Michel-Kerjan Part II. A Critical Challenge: 2. A nation forewarned: vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the twenty-first century Lewis M. Branscomb 3. The brittle superpower Stephen E. Flynn 4. Critical infrastructure protection in the United States since 1993 Brian Lopez 5. Evolution of vulnerability assessment methods Brian Lopez Part III. Managing Organizations: 6. Managing for the unexpected: reliability and organizational resilience Todd M. La Porte 7. Notes toward a theory of the management of vulnerability Robert A. Frosch 8. Challenges of assuring high reliability when facing suicidal terrorism Todd M. La Porte 9. Managing for reliability in an age of terrorism Paul R. Schulman and Emery Roe 10. Organizational strategies for complex system resilience, reliability, and adaptation Todd M. La Porte Part IV. Securing Networks: 11. Complexity and interdependence: the unmanaged challenge Philip Auerswald 12. Managing reliability in electric power companies Jack Feinstein 13. Coordinated and uncoordinated crisis responses by the electric industry Michael Kormos and Thomas Bowe 14. Electricity: protecting essential services Jay Apt, M. Granger Morgan and Lester B. Lave 15. A cyber threat to national security? Sean P. Gorman 16. Interdependent security in interconnected networks Geoffrey Heal, Michael Kearns, Paul Kleindorfer and Howard Kunreuther Part V. Creating Markets: 17. Insurance, the 14th critical sector Erwann Michel-Kerjan 18. Private risk management for terrorist attacks Lloyd Dixon and Robert Reville 19. Terrorism, insurance, and preparedness: connecting the dots James W. Macdonald 20. Looking beyond TRIA: a clinical examination of potential terrorism loss sharing Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan 21. Financing catastrophe risk with public and private (re)insurance resources Franklin W. Nutter Part VI. Building Trust: 22. Private-public collaboration on a national and international scale Lewis M. Branscomb and Erwann Michel-Kerjan 23. Information sharing with the private sector: history, challenges, innovation, and prospects Daniel B. Prieto 24. Sharing the watch: public-private collaboration for infrastructure security John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser 25. The Paris initiative, 'anthrax and beyond': transnational collaboration among interdependent critical networks Patrick Lagadec and Erwann Michel-Kerjan Part VII. Roots of Response: 26. Leadership: who will act? Philip Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Todd M. La Porte and Erwann Michel-Kerjan.