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Cross‐Prudence and Optimal Prevention
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study optimal prevention in the presence of a correlated nonfinancial background risk. Under positive correlation, cross‐prudence in the nonfinancial attribute reduces optimal prevention. We establish this result in the most direct extension of the standard prevention problem with binary marginal distributions and show that ...
Jingyuan Li, Richard Peter, Lin Zhou
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The role of the military in combating the terrorist activities [PDF]
While terrorism is formally condemned worldwide, it is confirmed in practice that terrorism represents an effective weapon for certain ethnic communities to help them achieve their specific political objectives.
Gaćinović Radoslav
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The impact of artificial intelligence on close protection and surveillance
Abstract Purpose The current study assesses whether and how Artificial Intelligence could assist in threat assessment and analysis within the close protection and surveillance field. Methods The study drew on in‐depth interviews with academic experts and practitioners within the Dutch close protection and surveillance system, including the police ...
Isabelle van der Vegt
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Abstract Artificial intelligence is transforming online information environments, amplifying both societal benefits and risks. This article argues that online platforms can be understood as multi‐agent systems (MAS) composed of humans, simulated users, adversarial agents, and defensive agents operating under platform‐level rules.
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Maaike Homan
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Comparative Analysis of CVE Policies between Canada, US, UK, Sweden, and North Macedonia
In the field of counter-terrorism (CT) and countering violent extremism (CVE), policymakers are in constant need of accurate data to make informed decisions to support existing programs and develop new approaches to prevent radicalization to violence ...
Alberto Montrond
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US Influence in Post‐Assad Syria and the Limits of Turkey's Leverage
Abstract In early 2026, the post‐Assad government in Damascus weakened the Kurdish‐led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and began integrating the group through phased incorporation and gradual reassertion of state authority. While this advanced some Turkish objectives, it demonstrated the limits of Ankara's influence: Kurdish fighters were incorporated ...
Barış Çağlar
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The Plurality of Meanings ‘Terrorism’- the Theoretical and Practical Importance of Understanding the phenomena [PDF]
Systematic scientific research of terrorism has begun in the 1970s when terrorism was recognized as a differentiated security threat in social reality and public discourse.
Mirko Bilandžić, Danijela Lucić
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Entrapping the Hegemon: How Benjamin Netanyahu's Threat Rhetoric Drives US Military Escalation
ABSTRACT How do materially weaker junior allies influence a hegemon's military posture? Existing theories rely on unobservable covert diplomacy, leaving alliance entrapment methodologically unresolved. This research note introduces a mixed‐methods framework, integrating computational text analysis, time‐series forecasting, and qualitative process ...
Bülent Aras
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Deterrence, Development, and Denial: Securitising Climate‐Induced Mobility in the European Union
ABSTRACT Climate‐induced mobility poses a mounting governance challenge for the European Union (EU), where climate action, migration control, and security policy intersect in uneven and contested ways. While EU discourse frequently frames climate change as a “threat multiplier,” migration governance remains anchored in deterrence logics, producing a ...
Manasa Bollempalli
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Health Security: A Concept in Search of a Purpose
ABSTRACT Although the term “health security” is continuously gaining prominence and there are increasing calls to “strengthen” it, the term remains conceptually ambiguous. This ambiguity creates uncertainty about exactly what is being advanced in policy and practice when health security is invoked, and what consequences this has for priority‐setting in
Delaram Akhavein, Seye Abimbola
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