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JAPAN’S SHIFT FROM PACIFISM: REARMAMENT AMID SECURITY CHALLENGES

Journal of International Studies
Amidst shifting security dynamics in East Asia, Japan faces an evolving strategic landscape, particularly in response to mounting threats from North Korea and China.
Hazwan Dani Abdul Kadir
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THE CONCEPT OF "SMART DEFENSE" IN THE CONTEXT OF AN EFFICIENT DEFENSE PLANNING [PDF]

Journal of Defense Resources Management, 2012
The international security environment is currently undergoing a series of fundamental changes becoming increasingly complex. Consequently, international actors need to find innovative ways to manage security and defense.
Teodor FRUNZETI
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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Strategic Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Deterrence in Russia’s National Security Policy

Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика
In the present context of a sharp aggravation of interstate rivalry and escalation of traditional and new threats, the importance of policy, forces and means of strategic deterrence in ensuring Russia’s national security cannot be overstated. Fundamental
A. A. Kokoshin
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The Centrality of Ethnic Community and the Military Service Master Frame in Hmong Americans’ Protest Events and Cycles of Protest, 1980-2010 [PDF]

Hmong Studies Journal, 2016
Protest is one political strategy by which marginalized groups can try to effect social change in society. As an ethnic group with a unique historical relationship with the United States government, Hmong former refugees have regularly engaged in ...
Yang Sao Xiong
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OVERCOMING SYSTEMIC VULNERABILITIES OF THE SPHERES OF INFLUENCE OF HYBRID THREATS IN ENSURING STABILITY AND COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Публічне управління та регіональний розвиток
The article summarizes international experience and methodical approaches regarding the complex solution of tasks to overcome systemic vulnerabilities in the spheres of influence of hybrid threats and the formation of a national resilience ecosystem ...
Dmytro Karamyshev, Valentyn Suvorov, Roman Sobol   +2 more
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Feasibility study of supplying the country's defensive human resources through the transformation of military service from conscription into a professional military; the case study of Iran [PDF]

آینده‌پژوهی دفاعی, 2017
The complexity of threats to all social, economic, political, and even cultural segments of the world in the 21st century has introduced various mechanisms for national security.
Kamel Moniri, Seyed-Yahya Safavi, Mohammad Sohrabi, hossein valivandzamani, Mohammad-Reza Hafeznia   +4 more
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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