Power Transition and Pragmatic Adaptation: Iran's Strategic Approach to China, Russia and the GCC
ABSTRACT This study examines how Iranian strategic thinkers conceptualise the country's ‘Look East’ policy (i.e., relations with China and Russia) and the GCC states. Using thematic qualitative content analysis of approximately 70 documents from Iranian state official, advisory and academic institutions (2015–2025), it reveals that Iran's eastward ...
Sara Bazoobandi
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The range of countermeasures to reduce inequalities in mental health care for socially marginalized or medically vulnerable adults: a PRISMA systematic review. [PDF]
Zupančič V, Erjavec K.
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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Integrating Prevention and Response at the Crossroads of Henipavirus Preparedness, Hendra@30 Conference, 2024. [PDF]
Halpin K +14 more
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Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering
ABSTRACT Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns on social media are currently both more accessible and more impactful than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) or European Union's (EU), offering their opponents superiority and efficiency on those platforms.
Michelangelo Conoscenti
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A preliminary assessment of the radiological impact of the Chernobyl reactor accident on the population of the European Community [PDF]
Brown, J. +5 more
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Abstract Alliances are typically understood as agreements intended to deter aggression from enemy states. By signaling an ally's commitment to a protégé state, a shared enemy may be deterred from attacking. In light of this signaling logic, secret alliances are puzzling.
Peter Bils, Bradley C. Smith
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The indispensable role of disaster preparedness in venous thromboembolism prevention: Insights from Japan. [PDF]
Bishara RA.
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ABSTRACT A supportive ethical culture (EC) can encourage moral behavior among employees and help them avoid wrongdoing. One option for fostering EC is ethics training; its longer‐term effectiveness, however, has rarely been examined, especially in countries lacking strong regulatory environments.
Pablo Ruiz‐Palomino +3 more
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Hacking continuous-variable quantum key distribution using the photorefractive effect on proton-exchanged/annealed-proton-exchanged waveguide. [PDF]
Mao N +5 more
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