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Establishing Nuclear Weapons Obligations for a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
The United Nations General Assembly in 2019 held its first annual conference with the “aim of elaborating a legally binding treaty establishing a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction”.
Zia Mian
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Spectral Evolution with Approximated Eigenvalue Trajectories for Link Prediction [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
The spectral evolution model aims to characterize the growth of large networks (i.e., how they evolve as new edges are established) in terms of the eigenvalue decomposition of the adjacency matrices. It assumes that, while eigenvectors remain constant, eigenvalues evolve in a predictable manner over time.
arxiv  

Deliberative Theory for Re‐Focusing the Concept, Measurement, and Analysis of Substantive Reasons in Political Discussions

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on theories of deliberative democracy, this article explores the substantive content of reasons as a conceptual tool. Although most studies focus on procedural dimensions, we argue that identifying and mapping substantive reasons contributes to advancing empirical investigation in a theoretically informed and normatively relevant way ...
Rousiley C. M. Maia, Tariq Choucair, Gabriella Hauber, Leonardo Santa Inês   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mobilizing the Past in Revolutionary Times: Memory, Counter‐Memory, and Nostalgia During the Lebanese Uprising

Sociological Forum, Volume 37, Issue S1, Page 1387-1413, December 2022., 2022
Social movement studies have addressed the issue of nostalgia within two perspectives, focusing, respectively, on emotions and on memory. Our contribution looks at nostalgia in social movements by building upon the combination of these two streams in social movement studies.
Donatella della Porta, Rossana Tufaro
wiley   +1 more source

Protocol to the Convention on the Prohibition of Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons – History, Main Provisions, Significance and Reasons for Not Signing

Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2021
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BTWC) does not have a legally binding verification regime.
S. V. Petrov, M. V. Supotnitskiy
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Mythogeographies of anthropological knowledge: writing over the lines and footsteps of history in Southwest China

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
wiley   +1 more source

UN on Nuclear Disarmament and the Ban Treaty: An Interview with Izumi Nakamitsu

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
Izumi Nakamitsu of Japan is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. She assumed her position on 1 May 2017 and has provided support to the negotiation process of the Treaty on the Prohibition of ...
Fumihiko Yoshida
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Artificial Intelligence & Cooperation [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will bring with it an ever-increasing willingness to cede decision-making to machines. But rather than just giving machines the power to make decisions that affect us, we need ways to work cooperatively with AI systems.
arxiv  

Staying the Course: Lessons from South Africa for Irreversibility of Nuclear Disarmament

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
To conceptualise irreversibility of nuclear disarmament, it is better to think about nuclear disarmament as a historical process than a historical moment. I apply a path-dependency lens to do so in the case of South Africa.
Joelien Pretorius
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Disarmament of ETA: the era of the Basque terrorism comes to an end

Ибероамериканские тетради, 2017
Basque radical nationalist organization, which used methods of terror and violence for achievement of the political goals consisting in creation of the independent Basque state, has declared its disarmament. Though ETA didn’t declare self-dissolution and
A. A. Orlov
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