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Islam, Politics, and Cyber Tribalism in Indonesia: A Case Study on the Front Pembela Islam
International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2018 At the end of 2016, Islamist organisations proved able to mobilise hundreds of thousands of people for political purposes in Indonesia. In order to explain their success, the role of social media should not be underestimated, as Islamic movements rely ...
Timo Duile
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Cyber-Nationalism in China [PDF]
, 2012 While Cyber-Nationalism in China examines fundamental questions surrounding the political implications of the Internet in China, it avoids simply predicting that the Internet does or does not lead to democratization. Applying a theoretical approach based on the Foucauldian notion of governmentality, the book builds on current scholarship that has ...
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
Global Policy, EarlyView.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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#WeareUnited, cyber-nationalism during times of a national crisis: The case of a terrorist attack on a school in Pakistan [PDF]
Discourse & Communication, 2018 Seeing language as a social practice and national identities as a product of discourse, the study intends to analyze discursive practices employed on social media to create the discourses of sameness and difference in times of national crisis. Following the discourse historical approach, I have illustrated how argumentative strategies and topos have ...
Salma Kalim, Fauzia Janjua
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
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Geopolitics on a Shoestring? Unpacking the EU'S Geopolitical External Assistance to Central Asia
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines how the European Union's (EU) increasingly emphasised geopolitical ambitions are reflected in the practice of its external assistance policy. An analysis of EU documents around various policy initiatives and funding instruments reveals that in the Commission's understanding, geopolitical external assistance increases EU ...
Balázs Szent‐Iványi, Dóra Piroska
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The Narrative Continent: Discursive Recognition and the EU's Technological Actorness
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Recognition in global politics is not only earned through institutions or capabilities; it is narrated into being. This article investigates how the European Union (EU) is framed as a technological actor in global discourse, focusing on the symbolic dynamics of discursive recognition.
Mahmoud Javadi
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Cogent Social SciencesThe strategic competition between the US and China in cyberspace carries significant consequences for global security, governance and economic stability. This study utilises realist theories such as offensive realism and techno-nationalism to explore how
Nistha Kumari Singh +2 more
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Export controls and the energy transition: Aligning security and sustainability
Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how the accelerating use of export controls, once motivated by narrow security interests, can now affect the pace and success of the global energy transition. As strategic rivalry intensifies among the US, the EU and China, export controls increasingly target access to critical and emerging technologies such as advanced ...
Olga Hrynkiv
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