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Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
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Asian ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction: The impact of missile defense [PDF]
The paper analyses critically the threat perceptions of the West, and especially the United States, regarding ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Asian states.
Møller, Bjørn
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Sensing the sky's edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone
Short Abstract In this paper, I demonstrate that novel and creative ‘atmospheric methods’ not only provide us with a means of overcoming difficulties around access to border spaces, but also more importantly afford us new insights into how atmospherically attuned things and the materialities of weather become entangled with and produce border ...
Madelaine A. Joyce
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US‐Japan Alliance: Emmeshing Bilateralism Into Broader Multilateralism
ABSTRACT In the 21st Century, geopolitical confrontation between the Eurasian continental powers and the sea powers works to divide Asia. The US‐Japan alliance has transformed itself from Japanʼs asymmetrical security dependence of the Cold War period into a mutual and more integrated partnership today.
Yoichiro Sato
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Additive manufacturing revolutionizes production by enabling on‐demand, customized, and sustainable manufacturing with streamlined supply chains. While metal and polymer AM are well‐established, advanced ceramic AM is rapidly emerging, overcoming traditional material challenges.
Kateryna Oleksandrivna Shvydyuk +2 more
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Missile Defence: A View from Turkey. CEPS Commentaries, 12 October 2009 [PDF]
On September 9th, the United States announced that it was planning a multi-billion dollar sale of 13 Patriot fire units, 72 PAC-3 missiles and a range of related hardware for ground-based air defence to Turkey.
Zalewski, Piotr.
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ABSTRACT This article proposes that wars are fought to bring about and monitor mutual reductions of overinvestment in broadly defined military preparedness. If two potential combatants are overinvested in military preparedness, it is in their individual interest to scale down in order to use their resources in politically more desirable ways.
Mats Ekman
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This review provides a comprehensive overview of controlled synthesis strategies for graphene–based 2D nanomaterials, evaluates their interfacial interaction mechanisms with living organisms, and summarizes recent research advances in the biomedical field, as well as discusses current challenges and future research directions.
Shi Li +7 more
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This study has investigated the viability of using commercially available biopolymers for use within survivability assessment applications. The findings highlight the potential of both traditional and vegan alternatives, which provide both economic and environmental benefits to research programmes.
James Read +2 more
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The article attempts to reconstruct the process of formation of the experimental test facility for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at the 53rd Research Proving Ground of the USSR Ministry of Defence in the 1960s – 1990s.
Roman S. Klimov, Aleksandr V. Tolochko
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