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Rivers as borders? Navigating in‐between the tensions of water‐state‐society geographies

Area, EarlyView.
Abstract What is unique about bringing rivers and borders into conversation with one another, and what are the implications for geographical research? This article and Special Section charts new directions in the study of rivers as borders. By emphasising a river‐centric approach, we collectively challenge traditional terra‐centric views prevalent in ...
Rebekka Kanesu, Vanessa Lamb, Eva McGrath   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hierarchical Prisoner's Dilemma in Hierarchical Public-Goods Game [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
The dilemma in cooperation is one of the major concerns in game theory. In a public-goods game, each individual pays a cost for cooperation, or to prevent defection, and receives a reward from the collected cost in a group. Thus, defection is beneficial for each individual, while cooperation is beneficial for the group.
arxiv  

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and Its Relevance for the Global Security

Obrana a Strategie, 2013
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is one of important international nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament measures. One of its pillars is the verification mechanism that has been built as an international system of nuclear testing ...
Dáša ADAŠKOVÁ, Tomáš LUDÍK
doaj   +1 more source

Don't Stare, Compare! Lotze on Attention

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Nineteenth century treatments of attention often argued that analysis (attention singles out an object) and synthesis (attention unifies some objects) are inseparable aspects of this activity. Subsequent philosophical work on attention concentrated on the analytic aspect and exploited William James's characterisation of attention as focussing ...
Mark Textor
wiley   +1 more source

The Nuclear Ban Treaty and 2018 Disarmament Forums: An Initial Impact Assessment

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
The July 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will come into force when 50 UN Member States ratify it. The new treaty has been condemned by nuclear weapon states on the grounds of its claimed adverse impacts on Non-Proliferation ...
Michael Hamel-Green
doaj   +1 more source

A New Nuclear Age: An Exclusionary Global Order?

Groningen Journal of International Law, 2017
The global nuclear power play seems to be changing form and altering courses with each passing day. The world has realised the enormous destructive potential of nuclear weapons and has even made reasonable room for curbing and containing their use in the
Amrita Chakravorty
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Dams, hegemony and beyond: China’s hydro-stability in the evolving world order

Discover Global Society
Water has remained a source of contentious and cooperative politics among states since the Sumerian civilization. The field of hydro-politics, since its emergence in the 1990s, had taken note of dams as both a source of conflict between riparian ...
Porkkodi Ganeshpandian
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No First Use and Credible Deterrence

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
Despite progress in reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the largest arsenals, a number of states are now looking to increase their reliance on nuclear weapons not only for deterrence, but also for coercion or war fighting.
Steve Fetter, Jon Wolfsthal
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ETHICS FOR ARTIFICIAL HISTORIANS

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial historians do not need to have intentions to complete actions or to solve problems. Consequently, a revised approach to the ethics of history is needed. An approach to ethics for artificial historians can be proposed through the recognition of historiographical logic, which is a hybrid of modal, propositional, and erotetic (question‐
Marnie Hughes‐Warrington
wiley   +1 more source

Towards inferring reactor operations from high-level waste

Nuclear Engineering and Technology
Nuclear archaeology research provides scientific methods to reconstruct the operating histories of fissile material production facilities to account for past fissile material production.
Benjamin Jung, Antonio Figueroa, Malte Göttsche   +2 more
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