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The Trickle-Down War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The history of the European nation-state, wrote political sociologist Charles Tilly, is inextricably bound up with the history of warfare. To oversimplify Tilly’s nuanced and complex arguments, the story goes something like this: As power-holders ...
Brooks, Rosa
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Purging Minds Through Silencing Voices: Academic Freedom Under Islamic Republic of Iran's Security Apparatus Aftermath of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This piece examines the systematic erosion of academic freedom and the institutionalized censorship and repression of academics in Iran following the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, where universities have been reshaped into extensions of the security state through ideological vetting, pervasive surveillance, and the purging of dissenting ...
Arash Beidollahkhani
wiley   +1 more source

The consequences of Not Loving thy neigbor as Thyself: Trade, democracy and military explainations behind India Pakistan rivalry [PDF]

open access: yes
Conflict between Pakistan and India can be best understood in a multivariate framework where variables such as economic performance, multilateral trade with the rest of the world, bilateral trade, military expenditure, democracy scores and population are
Mamoon, Dawood, Murshed, Mansoob
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Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Over the past 20 years Congress has encouraged the U.S. military to supply intelligence, equipment, and training to civilian police. That encouragement has spawned a culture of paramilitarism in American law enforcement.
Diane Cecilia Weber
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Between Hype and Understatement: Reassessing Cyber Risks as a Security Strategy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Most of the actions that fall under the trilogy of cyber crime, terrorism,and war exploit pre-existing weaknesses in the underlying technology.Because these vulnerabilities that exist in the network are not themselvesillegal, they tend to be overlooked ...
Guinchard, Audrey
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Conflict, Gendered Borders, and Emotional Mobility: The Case of Kashmiri Women Seeking Legal Justice

open access: yesSocieties
How do Kashmiri women, seeking justice for the enforced disappearance and detention of their male relatives, navigate and negotiate with the gendered borders of ‘spaces of legality’?
Sweta Sen, Aarash Pirzada
doaj   +1 more source

CYBERSECURITY IN CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE: FROM IDENTIFYING RISKS TO COUNTERING THREATS

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Political Science, 2017
Today, ensuring security in cyberspace is a top priority of national security policy for most states. States’ approaches to cybersecurity can be divided into two categories: those that regard cybersecurity as a civilian task; and those that involve their
Agnija Tumkevič
doaj   +1 more source

Incremental Shifts, Strategic Orbits: The Evolution of EU Space Policy Through Gradual Security Linkages

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the evolution of European Union (EU) space policy through the lens of historical institutionalism, highlighting how security and defence considerations have been incrementally integrated into a domain originally framed as civilian and scientific.
Gustavo G. Müller, Philip De Man
wiley   +1 more source

Problems of perception of militarism and military culture in modern civil society

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Соціологічні дослідження сучасного суспільства: методологія, теорія, методи
The issues of modern perception by civil society of the phenomena of «military culture», «militarism», «militarization» in various socio-political circumstances are investigated and the trends of their spread and popularization in Ukrainian society are ...
Fedir Sandor, Marian Tokar
doaj   +1 more source

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