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Beyond Manoeuvre Theory for European Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the debate about European defence in the light of the Russo‐Ukraine war and growing doubts about US commitment to Europe. It argues that Europeans need to fundamentally relearn the ability to imagine military strategy from a European viewpoint.
Lukas Mengelkamp, Sam Vincent
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The Unintended Consequences of German Deterrence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Germany's evolving deterrence posture boils down to continued participation in NATO nuclear sharing and an ambitious conventional rearmament program. Due to its non‐nuclear status and a result of decades of underinvestment, Germany prioritizes modern conventional weapons.
Ulrich Kühn
wiley   +1 more source

East Asian Cultural Elements in Modern Belarus as Instrument of “Soft Power” [PDF]

, 2015
Subject of the article is elements of East Asian culture in Belarus as instruments of “soft power” policy. We defined spheres where East Asian culture is spreading in Belarus: Martial arts, Religion, Cuisine, Anime / Manga subculture, Language, Cultural ...
SAKUMA, SIARHEI; Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Research Centre, Belarus National Science Academy
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Deterrence Through Resilience and Civil Preparedness: The Comprehensive and Militarised Models of Civil Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
wiley   +1 more source

Activities of the military-political leadership of the country and the state security agencies of the USSR in organizing the partisan movement on the territory of Soviet Belarus in 1941–1944

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки
Importance. The events of 80 years ago, which took place in the occupied territory of Soviet Belarus in 1941–1944, still cause controversy among both domestic and foreign historians.
V. N. Bugaev, Yu. N. Ustselemov
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Świadectwa polskiej kultury na Białorusi

Studia Interkulturowe Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 2017
Through the centuries, history united Poland and Belarus, therefore Belarus was almost completely Polonized. The history events and border moving of both nations caused that Poles are second biggest national minority after Russians on the Belarusian ...
Klaudia Soboń
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2017 – ein Jahr der Proteste in Belarus [2017 - a year of protests in Belarus] [PDF]

, 2017
2017 witnessed one of the most widespread and successful anti-government protests in Belarus since its independence. People flooded the streets of at least 17 cities. Some of these cities did not experience this kind of mobilisation for 20 years or more.
Herasimenka, A.
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of “In-betweenness”: Re-reading Abdziralovich, Miłosz, and Kundera in the Times of the New Imperial War in Europe

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
The article undertakes a critical examination of the relevance of interpreting Belarusian identity through the conceptual framework of being “in-between” East and West. In the aftermath of the 2020 protests in Belarus and the onset of Russia’s full-scale
Tatiana Shchyttsova
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