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Asymmetry of values, indigenous forces, and incumbent success in counterinsurgency: evidence from Chechnya [PDF]
, 2014 This article fills the gap in existing scholarship on asymmetric conflict, indigenous forces, and how socio-cultural codes shape the dynamics and outcomes of conflict transformation. Specifically, it identifies three key socio-cultural values commonplace
Aliyev, Huseyn, Souleimanov, Emil A.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez +1 more
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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Super Soldiers and Technological Asymmetry [PDF]
, 2015 In this chapter I argue that emerging soldier enhancement technologies have the potential to transform the ethical character of the relationship between combatants, in conflicts between ‘Superpower’ militaries, with the ability to deploy such ...
Simpson, Robert Mark
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Conflict and the Social Contract [PDF]
, 2006 We consider social contracts for resolving conflicts between two agents who are uncertain about each other's fighting potential. Applications include international conflict, litigation, and elections.
Bester, Helmut, Wärneryd, Karl
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The Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Trade Credit
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of escalating global geopolitical tensions, understanding how firms respond to external shocks has become a critical issue for policymakers, corporate managers, and investors. This study investigates the impact of geopolitical risk (GPR) on firms' reliance on trade credit (TC)—an essential form of short‐term financing, particularly ...
Wafa'a B. Al‐Yafei, Hamdi Bennasr
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Information Asymmetries and Their Challenge to International Broadcasting
Media and Communication, 2016 Dramatic symmetries in strategies and techniques of persuasion create challenges to the functioning of established actors in the global media ecology, including international broadcasters. This essay articulates an adaptation of the concept of asymmetric
Monroe Edwin Price
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Brexit and Its Impact on EU Financial Markets
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of Brexit on volatility spillovers across the EU countries. We introduce a Brexit intensity measure that assigns an intensity score reflective of the financial markets' reaction to the events that occurred as Brexit negotiations began to unfold.
Marwan Izzeldin +3 more
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Targeted killing as a means of asymmetric warfare: a provocative view and invitation to debate [PDF]
, 2011 The killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhou reportedly by agents of Israel‟s Mossad service in Dubai a year ago1 serves as a quick reminder that extrajudicial executions, assassinations and other targeted killing operations are taking place and are part of a modern
Bachmann, Sascha-Dominik, Haeussler, Ulf
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Intelligent materials for on‐demand electromagnetic absorption
InfoMat, EarlyView.This review introduces an innovative “stimulus‐state‐property” paradigm, facilitating a fundamental transition from static to dynamically intelligent electromagnetic wave absorption (EMWA). The key advancement lies in the synergistic integration of external fields with structurally engineered metamaterials and tunable components.
Chongyang Chai +7 more
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