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Rethinking Political Islam in Iran: Contestation, Authority, and Reform

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract Political Islam in Iran is frequently portrayed in Western scholarship and policy discourse as a unified and rigid ideological system rooted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, this article contends that it operates as a plural and internally contested field in which state‐directed, reformist‐clerical, and civic interpretations compete ...
Nagapushpa Devendra
wiley   +1 more source

Russia's Strategic Paradox: Short‐Term Gains, Long‐Term Risks from the Iran War

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract How is the Iran War influencing Russia's foreign policy? This article argues that the conflict strengthens Moscow's short‐term strategic position while reinforcing the structural limits of Russian power. The analysis traces these effects across Russia's wartime economy, its position in Ukraine and the Middle East, and its relations with China ...
Namig Abbasov, Emil S. Aslan
wiley   +1 more source

Current status and prospects of guidance techniques for intercepting hypersonic glide vehicles: A review

open access: yesDefence Technology
Hypersonic vehicles present formidable challenges to existing air and missile defence systems due to their extreme velocity, extended-range strike capability, and exceptional maneuverability, driving the need for advanced guidance technologies of ...
Feng Wang   +5 more
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When Communication Enables Catastrophe: Nuclear Risk and the Short Lifetimes of Technological Civilizations

open access: yesRisk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The Fermi paradox may partly reflect technological self‐destruction acting as a Great Filter during post‐industrial development. Because the empirical record consists of a single civilization observed over an eighty‐year nuclear age, the exercise reported here is best understood as a structured, historically anchored scenario analysis rather ...
Vincenzo Alfano
wiley   +1 more source

Management and prevention of emotional burnout among members of the armed and special forces

open access: yesHealthcare in Low-resource Settings
With the rise in cases of professional burnout, research on best practices and opportunities for implementing emotional burnout prevention and treatment among special services and military personnel became more relevant.
Liliia Semenenko   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defence Physical Employment Standards Report. No. 4

open access: yes, 2005
Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel, the ADF Chiefs of Service Committee (COSC) has endorsed a number of injury prevention strategies aimed at examining, analysing and evaluating injury-related risks and hazards within the ADF.
Sinclair, Wade   +5 more
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India’s Missile Defence Programme: Threat Perceptions and Technological Evolution

open access: yes, 2009
Despite its indigenous advancement in missile defence, India is not capable of meeting the immediate threat from nuclear attacks. This delay has resulted in the need for acquisitions of missile defence from the leading international players in the ...
Sharma, Ashok
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Germany and NATO missile defence: between adaptation and persistence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
At the 2010 Lisbon summit, the NATO allies decided to develop a joint missile defence system as a core element of collective defence. Since then, the security environment has changed fundamentally.
Dickow, Marcel   +3 more
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Development and resource needs of national defence in the 2030s

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The Government appointed a parliamentary working group on defence on 27 November 2025. The purpose of the work has been to provide Parliament actively and comprehensively with information on the need to develop and resource Finland’s homeland defence ...

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'Rogue states', missile defence & Cold War nuclear rivals

open access: yes, 2006
The Bush administration's planned deployment of a nation-wide and layered missile defence system has ignited heated debate. Arms control advocates have argued missile defence will unravel nuclear arms agreements whilst other analysts proclaim that the so-
Dorn, Bryan D
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