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Implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Hopes and Expectations for the Future

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force on 22 January 2021. What can be expected in the years following (TPNW)? In the first few years, we can expect that states parties will start to implement the treaty’s positive ...
Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Beatrice Fihn
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Układ INF – zimnowojenny fundament bezpieczeństwa europejskiego [PDF]

Nowa Polityka Wschodnia, 2019
The INF treaty, which was signed by R. Reagan and M. Gorbachev in 1987, banned ballistic and cruise missiles with a range from 500 to 5500 km. It was the first disarmament treaty that completely eliminated the entire class of already existing weapons ...
Rafał Ciastoń
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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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From the lab to the battlefield? Nanotechnology and fourth generation nuclear weapons [PDF]

Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 67 (October-November 2002) 3-6, 2005
The paper addresses some major implications of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) engineering and nanotechnology for the improvement of existing types of nuclear weapons, and the development of more robust versions of these weapons, as well as for the development of fourth generations nuclear weapons in which nanotechnology will play an essential ...
arxiv  

Banal Radicalism: Free Spaces and the Routinization of Radical Practices in Far‐Right Movements

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do free spaces become radicalizing spaces? Studies of far‐right radicalism have highlighted the role of insulated movement spaces in radicalizing their members. In these spaces, participants can flaunt their radical ideas and infuse them into everyday practices, forming these ideas into comprehensive and resilient worldviews.
Oded Marom
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Bridging the gulf: How migration fosters tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and support for globalization

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigration has been shown to drive ethnocentrism and anti‐globalization attitudes in native‐born populations. Yet understanding how global integration shapes intercultural relations also necessitates clear evidence on how migration affects the attitudes of migrants.
Nikhar Gaikwad, Kolby Hanson, Aliz Tóth
wiley   +1 more source

Between Pacifism and Nuclear Energy (1930-1955) [PDF]

arXiv, 2007
The atomic bomb American program known as Manhattan Project has been studied in detail. Historians argue that the beginning of this program is rooted in the letter Einstein sent to American President Roosevelt in the summer of 1939. This article examines Einstein's activities before 1933 as radical pacifist in favor of the principles of universal ...
arxiv  

Landowners Meet Drug Traffickers: Coercive Networks and Violence in Rural Colombia

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract The transport of drugs and the flow of drug proceeds have a major impact on the social and economic configuration of the rural areas affected by them. Though this is widely acknowledged, the impact of illicit economies on agrarian social conflicts remains unclear. Using the case of the marijuana trade in the agrarian societies of the Magdalena
Luis David Castillo Rojas, Benjamin Lévy   +1 more
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The Long March Through the Institutions and the Fifth Wave of Juridification

Constellations, EarlyView.
Olof Hallonsten
wiley   +1 more source