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Biological Threat Deterrence by Denial: Implications for Japan’s Nuclear Disarmament Vision

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Japan, a proponent of nuclear disarmament, is facing criticism for adopting “nuclear deterrence” as its foreseeable security policy without providing a clear strategy for transitioning away from it.
Kazuko Hikawa
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Malcolm Fraser and Jimmy Carter: Trilateralism and Personal Diplomacy

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies Malcolm Fraser's approach towards the United States between 1977 and 1980. The paper does so by examining how Fraser's Coalition government perceived and responded to the concept of trilateralism, which Jimmy Carter embraced at the early stages of his presidency.
Athanasios Antonopoulos
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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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Korean Peninsula Nuclear Challenges: The Imperative of Regional Cooperative Security Solutions

The Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2011
DOI: 10.5564/mjia.v0i14.27 Mongolian Journal of International Affairs No.14 2007 pp.71 ...
Wade L Huntley
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Love and the Basis of Dignity

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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Hermeneutical disarmament

The Philosophical Quarterly
Abstract When words and phrases change their meaning, we might find ourselves less able to understand and communicate, and this can be harmful to us. I make sense of this by introducing the concept of hermeneutical disarmament. Hermeneutical disarmament is the process by which a person is rendered less able to understand or communicate ...
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Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
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Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
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Towards a Responsible Liberalism

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
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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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