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Doubts Down Under: American Extended Deterrence, Australia, and the 1999 East Timor Crisis

, 2014
American extended deterrence commitments span the globe. Despite extensive research on the causes of deterrence successes and failures, evidence of which US allies find what extended deterrence commitments credible is elusive.
O'Neil, Andrew, Cohen, Michael, Cohen, M, O'Neil, A   +3 more
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‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington, Bernadette Sebar, Jessica Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recommendations on North Korea Policy and Extended Deterrence

, 2023
The world is experiencing a number of tectonic shifts due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and related developments that present a perilous landscape for the U.S.-ROK (Republic of Korea) alliance as well as new opportunities for Washington ...
Katz, Katrin, Cha, Victor, Nye, Joseph, Hamre, John   +3 more
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Conflict containment in the Balkans: testing extended deterrence [PDF]

, 1995
This thesis critically analyzes a prominent theoretical framework concerning the conditions necessary for successful deterrence and conflict-containment, with special attention to historical antecedents to the current conflict in the Balkans.
Pjetraj, Walter M.
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conditional Support, Persistent Distrust: South Korean Attitudes Toward Denuclearization Negotiations with North Korea

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
For populations living under persistent nuclear threat, such as South Korea, denuclearization represents a direct pathway to peace. Yet the conditions under which South Koreans support denuclearization negotiations with North Korea remain underexplored ...
Hye-Sung Kim
doaj   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the Effectiveness of Reinforcing Bar Insertion Work with a Circular Pipe

Geotechnics
It is an urgent issue for preventing slope failure caused by increasingly severe earthquakes and heavy rain. As a conventional construction method, reinforcing bar insertion work uses the tensile force of the core bar to integrate multiple core bars and ...
Kakuta Fujiwara, Lichao Wang
doaj   +1 more source

The Extended Deterrent Value of Nuclear Weapons [PDF]

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1990
Three questions are addressed in this study: (1) Does a nuclear retaliatory capability contribute to extended deterrence against a nonnuclear power? (2) If so, is the deterrent value of nuclear weapons contingent upon the prior credible threat of conventional armed engagement by the defender? (3) Or, is the deterrent impact of nuclear weapons so potent
openaire   +2 more sources