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Palestinian terrorist organizations [PDF]
This paper acts as a source of information on Hamas and its relationships with the other terrorist groups.
Lyons, Alyson
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Information Modeling for a Dynamic Representation of an Emergency Situation
In this paper we propose an approach to build a decision support system that can help emergency planners and responders to detect and manage emergency situations. The internal mechanism of the system is independent from the treated application. Therefore,
Kebair, Fahem, Serin, Frederic
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Antinomies of Alignment Redux: The United Arab Emirates and the United States
Abstract Over the past three decades, the United Arab Emirates has forged a sturdy bilateral security alignment with the United States. It has also pursued foreign policies that conflict with US interests in the Gulf and the broader Middle East. This contradiction is usually attributed to a hedging strategy.
Fred H. Lawson, Matteo Legrenzi
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Empowering the Democratic Resistance in Syria [PDF]
When the peaceful uprising in Syria started in spring 2011 turned into an armed resistance after a few months in the face of savage repression by the Assad regime. Since then, the activists who picked up arms became dependent on support in money and arms
Felix Legrand
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Black internationalism, international communism and anti-fascist political trajectories: African American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War [PDF]
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Featherstone, David
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ABSTRACT Many promises have been made about digitalization in the public sector, from its potential to revolutionize government to its emancipating properties as a new conduit for democracy. In this paper, the case of a leading Supreme Audit Institution (SAI), the UK National Audit Office, is examined. SAIs are essential to the ways in which government
Laurence Ferry+2 more
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Hamas's October 7 Attack: Analysis of an “Antagonistic” Crisis
ABSTRACT The aim of the article is to interpret the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 in light of crisis management theories, seeking to draw from this event some general lessons about the nature of crises, their determinants, and how they are managed. More specifically, the article addresses three questions: (1) Why did Israel underestimate the warning ...
Federico Toth
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Decision Support Systems - Technical Prerequisites and Military Requirements [PDF]
Decision Support Systems in the sense of online alternative course of action (ACAO) development and analysis as well as tools for online Development of Doctrine and Tactics Techniques, and Procedures (DTTP) for support to operations make it possible to evaluate and forecast the command and control processes and the performance capabilities of the ...
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Multi-Agent Routing and Scheduling Through Coalition Formation [PDF]
In task allocation for real-time domains, such as disaster response, a limited number of agents is deployed across a large area to carry out numerous tasks, each with its prerequisites, profit, time window and workload. To maximize profits while minimizing time penalties, agents need to cooperate by forming, disbanding and reforming coalitions. In this
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After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East?: Libya: defining its future [PDF]
The international community is approaching the anniversary of its intervention in Libya last year. What started as a protest for greater rights and democracy quickly transformed into a military uprising against a vicious dictator intent on suppressing a ...
Alaaldin, Ranj
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