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Predator empire: the geopolitics of U.S. drone warfare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper critically assesses the CIA’s drone program and proposes that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving an increasingly paramilitarized U.S. national security strategy. The paper suggests that large-scale ground wars are being eclipsed by
Shaw, Ian G. R.
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Rebalancing the geographies of financial services power : the role of sovereign wealth funds. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
As part of debates about the causes, consequences and political ramifications of the credit crisis and ensuing recession (for a summary of which see Engelen and Faulconbridge, 2009), questions about the changing geographies of power in the financial ...
Faulconbridge, James
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Russian Influence in the Czech Republic as a Grey Zone Case Study

open access: yesPolitics in Central Europe, 2021
In recent years, the concept of grey zone has been popularised to analyse the activities a State can use to influence the decisions and to limit the strategic choices of another State below the threshold of war.
Baqués-Quesada Josep   +1 more
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Global security and economic asymmetry: a comparison of developed and developing countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper tackles the asymmetry of economic interests and geopolitics between developed and developing countries. Currently, the geopolitics presupposes that the majority of novel technologies are devised and designed in developed countries with their ...
Britchenko, Igor   +2 more
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THE GEOPOLITICS OF HELPLESSNESS [PDF]

open access: yesCES Working Papers, 2014
The events in Ukraine are in the thick of actuality, at the crossroads of East and West. From a buffer zone it has become an acute space of exhibition of Russia’s interests, on one side, and of the European Union’s, on the other side. As the EU does not have a unique army or a strong political leadership, the presence - as major actors - of NATO and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Review of: Sociology of Work - An Encyclopedia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This reference resource with versions available in a twovolume print edition as well as online, consists of 335 entries from leading scholars and subject experts.
Raymond, Anthony
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COMMUNICATIONS AND GEOPOLITICS [PDF]

open access: yes
This article presents the great connection which exists between the technological development which has reverberation in communication field and how a state can exercise its power on international stage, how can consolidate its will and power, and how ...
Benea Ciprian Beniamin
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IMF lending and geopolitics [PDF]

open access: yes
There is growing awareness that the distribution of IMF facilities may not be influenced only by the economic needs of the borrowers. This paper focuses on the fact that the IMF may favour geopolitically important countries in the distribution of IMF ...
Reynaud, Julien, Vauday, Julien
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A matter of ethics and cartography. The map of the ambassador and the map of the journalist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Instead of being a neutral technical product as is generally believed, geographical maps are the subjective representations of a precise vision of spaces and the holders of performative power.
Boria, Edoardo
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Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Over the past two decades, southern Africa has experienced both exceptionally high AIDS prevalence and recurrent food shortages. International institutions have responded to these challenges by framing them as security concerns that demand urgent ...
Ansell, Nicola   +3 more
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