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Israel's Netanyahu Trap

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract On February 28, 2026, a major regional war broke out involving the United States, Israel, and Iran. While the theory of structural realism considers this conflict the product of shifting power dynamics, this article argues that it is better explained by what we term diversionary rhetorical entrapment.
Bulent Aras
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Political Islam in Iran: Contestation, Authority, and Reform

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract Political Islam in Iran is frequently portrayed in Western scholarship and policy discourse as a unified and rigid ideological system rooted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, this article contends that it operates as a plural and internally contested field in which state‐directed, reformist‐clerical, and civic interpretations compete ...
Nagapushpa Devendra
wiley   +1 more source

Risk, Overlap, and Two Forms of Aggregation

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 673-684, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we introduce a new class of cases to the debate on rescue dilemmas and whether to save the greater number. We argue that situations involving both risk and overlap shine a new light on some of the most important issues within this discussion.
Lukas Tank   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variational Adversarial Defense: A Bayes Perspective for Adversarial Training

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Various methods have been proposed to defend against adversarial attacks. However, there is a lack of enough theoretical guarantee of the performance, thus leading to two problems: First, deficiency of necessary adversarial training samples might attenuate the normal gradient's back-propagation, which leads to overfitting and gradient masking ...
Chenglong Zhao   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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