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On the importance of a drawn sword: Christian thinking about preemptive war—and its modern outworking [PDF]

, 2007
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics© 2007.This article discusses the just war tradition.This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - Theology, Divinity and ...
Clough, David, Stiltner, Brian
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Military expenditure - threats, aid, and arms races [PDF]

Using global data for the period 1960-99, the authors estimate neighborhood arms races. They find that the level of military expenditure is strongly influenced by the expenditure of neighbors. The authors estimate an"arms race multiplier,"finding that an
Collier, Paul, Hoeffler, Anke
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Security challenges in the geopolitical state of the modern world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

Економіка, управління та адміністрування, 2020
According to the geopolitical dimension, the concept of security is ambiguous. Security usually involves protection from external military threats or risks to a state by another state, as well as protection from internal military threats from non-state
V.F. Zahurska-Antoniuk, D.О. Grytsyshen
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The main indicators for assessing the level of military danger

Social Development & Security, 2019
The article deals with approaches to the choice of indicators of military danger in order to carry out an assessment of threats to the national interests of the state.
Спартак Гогонянц
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A Dichotomy of Conflicting Duties [PDF]

, 2016
This paper explores the dichotomy of a soldier’s conflicting duties found in contemporary conflicts such as Iraq or Afghanistan. These two conflicting duties, the traditional duty of kill-destroy and the mutually exhaustive duty of help-build, often ...
Montrose, Jeff
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Private military and security companies, territoriality and the transformation of western security governance [PDF]

, 2012
The field of security governance holds a special place within the context of the debate over the diffusion of power from state to non-state actors, from national to international authorities and from governments to markets in Western democracies.
Krahmann, E
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Shifting power between china’s assertiveness and India’s recalibration

Cogent Social Sciences
Regional threats and cooperation are closely associated with the international system. It is because, if one country increases its military power, another country imports arms or forges alliances with other countries to balance it.
Ishita Maity, Sumant Kumar
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MILITARY TROLLS, PUBLIC DISTRACTIONS AND THE CYBER

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2017
Threat actors have started a disinformation process across the internet targeting the larger population, which mainly are intended to rise the mistrust of the population in the governing institutions and governmental actors.
Mihai-Lucian BÂRSAN
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Creating a Regional Security Community in Southern Latin America: The Institutionalisation of the Regional Defence and Security Policies [PDF]

Interdependence, collective identities and common institutions are the preconditions for the evolution of a pluralistic security community. While the interaction of the states of Southern Latin America already meets the first two criteria, this article ...
Daniel Flemes
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Book review: America’s blind spot: Chávez, oil and US security [PDF]

, 2013
Latin America holds some of the world’s biggest oil reserves, but unstable political events in the region are hindering its potential, especially in Venezuela. Global U.S. security would benefit from a revamping of outdated policies towards Latin America,
Boscan, Luis
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