Intelligence Agencies and the Military on Cyber Diplomacy
Diplomacy is not the prerogative of armed forces or intelligence agencies. However, with the inception of cyberspace, the media landscape has enlarged significantly and the thresholds, for a variety of actors, to engage in cyberspace have evaporated. After a time of uncertainty and diffusion, government agencies—including intelligence and armed forces ...
Pijpers, P.B.M.J., Ducheine, P.A.L.
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Power Transition and Pragmatic Adaptation: Iran's Strategic Approach to China, Russia and the GCC
ABSTRACT This study examines how Iranian strategic thinkers conceptualise the country's ‘Look East’ policy (i.e., relations with China and Russia) and the GCC states. Using thematic qualitative content analysis of approximately 70 documents from Iranian state official, advisory and academic institutions (2015–2025), it reveals that Iran's eastward ...
Sara Bazoobandi
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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Power Relations in President Bush’s State of the Union Speech [PDF]
Manipulation as an illegitimate exercise of power is created by means of language. Manipulative use of language enables the speaker to control other people against their best interests, the control being aimed at the recipients’ verbal contribution ...
Rudyк, І. М.
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Thai Expectations of the EU's Evolving Security Role: Opportunities and Limitations
ABSTRACT This article analyses Thailand's perceptions of the European Union (EU) as an actor in the Indo‐Pacific, based on interviews with 13 government officials and foreign policy influencers conducted under the EU in the Indo‐Pacific (EUIP) Jean Monnet Network. It examines how Thai elites interpret the EU's priorities, geopolitical relevance and the
Natthanan Kunnamas, Heidi Maurer
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Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering
ABSTRACT Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns on social media are currently both more accessible and more impactful than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) or European Union's (EU), offering their opponents superiority and efficiency on those platforms.
Michelangelo Conoscenti
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Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific
ABSTRACT This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the ...
Matthew Castle +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Review of Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia [PDF]
Review of Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya ...
Bannerman, Gordon
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A Framework for Evaluating Global AI Governance Initiatives
ABSTRACT Efforts to develop global governance initiatives for artificial intelligence (AI) have increased significantly in recent years. However, these initiatives have generally had a limited impact due to their vagueness, lack of authority and repetition.
Huw Roberts +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Diplomatic History of the Great Patriotic War and the New World Order
From ancient times, war was called "the creator of all things". And winners created the postwar world order. The article reveals the backstage, the diplomatic history of the Great Patriotic War, which make the picture of the main events of the war, that ...
Alexander Y. Borisov
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