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Violence Against Healers in Italy: A Medico-Legal Inquiry into Patient Aggression. [PDF]

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Bailo P   +6 more
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Extending Deterrence Theory

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2008
Studies suggest that the perceived certainty of punishment has little or no effect on subsequent offending. Some researchers, however, argue that perceived certainty deters offending among some types of people but not among others. This article contributes to this line of argument by examining whether the effect of perceived certainty on offending is ...
Shelley Keith Matthews, Robert Agnew
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The problems of extending deterrence

The Adelphi Papers, 1980
It has been reported that on the eve of his assumption of office President Carter asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff to supply him with an estimate of the minimum number of strategic nuclear weapons that would suffice for deterrence; the Chiefs were specifically invited to consider the possibility that 200 icbms might be enough.
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On Extended Nuclear Deterrence

Diplomacy & Statecraft, 2018
This analysis discusses the central challenges that countries face when they practice extended nuclear deterrence.
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Capability, Credibility, and Extended General Deterrence

International Interactions, 2015
Deterrence theory suggests that extended general deterrent threats are likely to be more effective when a potential challenger views them as capable and credible. When states sign formal defense pacts, they are making explicit extended general deterrent threats.
Jesse C. Johnson   +2 more
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Chapter Two: Extended deterrence

Adelphi Series, 2010
After two decades of stagnation, Russia and the United States have pledged their support for reductions in nuclear warheads. But the vision of mutual disarmament remains plagued by doubts on all sides. Russia, the US and American allies struggle as ever with the notion that downsizing would be a step into the unknown, and hold on to the belief that ...
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Making Threats: Minimal Deterrence, Extended Deterrence and Nuclear Warfighting

The Sociological Quarterly, 1985
This analysis contributes to a political sociology of the arms race by linking the history of U.S. strategic policy with sociological explorations in the organization of power. American nuclear policy illustrates continuity and episodic change. Continuity is expressed in near-universal support among policy-makers of a policy of “extended” rather than ...
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Extended Deterrence by Superpower Alliance

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1983
Research in quantitative international politics and peace science is dominated by two puzzles and their corresponding research designs. (1) Why do some nations fight wars more often than others? (2) Which system characteristics contribute to war? What is often neglected is a third puzzle: Why do particular nations fight each other? Dyadic analyses are
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