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Cracks in the Foundation: NATO's New Troubles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is beginning to fracture. Its members, sharing the triumphalism that underpinned U.S. foreign policy after the Cold War, took on burdens that have proved more difficult than expected.
Stanley Kober
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Does AI Affect the Democratic Conduct of War? Analyzing US and Israeli Military AI Deployment

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the use of decision‐support military Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can affect the democratic conduct of warfare. AI can challenge the democratic conduct of warfare by introducing systemic risks such as reduced oversight, opacity, and automation bias.
Alessandra Russo
wiley   +1 more source

Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Taking as its starting point Ron May's scholarship on Papua New Guinea as a “disorderly democracy,” this article examines how politics is practised in the PNG Parliament. Using a case study of the events of late 2020, when a vote of no confidence against the Marape government was mooted but eventually failed to materialise, it adopts a practice theory ...
Kerryn Baker
wiley   +1 more source

The North Atlantic alliance and collective defense at 70: confession and response revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The North Atlantic Treaty was largely a response to global sentiment that other international organizations, namely the United Nations, were not accomplishing their intended purpose of the maintenance and promotion of peace and order in the world.
Schmitt, Michael
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Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
wiley   +1 more source

“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Climate Security: Reframing the Climate‐War Nexus Through Bataille's General Economy

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract The spectre of resource scarcity as a cause of war is dominant in discussions about potential links between climate change and armed conflict. Via engagement with Georges Bataille's theory of a general economy of the biosphere, this article conceptualises the relationship between climate change and war by focusing on resource excess as a ...
Gitte du Plessis
wiley   +1 more source

Further Evidence on Defence Spending and Economic Growth in NATO Countries [PDF]

open access: yes
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the causal relationships between defence spending and economic growth using the Toda–Yamamoto approach to Granger causality test in the case of selected NATO countries for the period of 1949-2006.
Alper Ozun, Erman Erbaykal
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