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The ongoing evolution of EVTOLs: urban transport potential and the security dimension

Urban, Planning and Transport Research
This review article explores the evolution, potential applications and security applications of electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) technology, highlighting its commercial, emergency, security and military uses in urban environments.
Omer Ali Saifudeen, John Harrison, Hui Ling Teo, Eitan Charnoff   +3 more
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Exploring Agreements of Convenience Made among Violent Non-State Actors

Perspectives on Terrorism, 2012
This article aims to enhance our understanding of how different groups of violent non-state actors (VNSAs) interact. It narrows the conceptual gap that has existed in the literature on VNSAs and the complex and multiple types of relationships that exist ...
Annette Idler
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Subjects of Public International Law and Non-State Actors – Time for Reflection

Izzivi Prihodnosti
Research Question (RQ): Public international law is intended to, among other things, introduce an element of stability in international relations.
Kamil Strzępek
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War Everywhere: Rights, National Security Law, and the Law of Armed Conflict in the Age of Terror [PDF]

, 2004
Both international and domestic law take as a basic premise the notion that it is possible, important, and usually fairly straightforward to distinguish between war and peace, emergencies and normality, the foreign and the domestic, the external and the ...
Brooks, Rosa Ehrenreich
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The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and Social Roots of Extremism. By Eamon Murphy. New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014.

Journal of Strategic Security, 2015
Mark J. Roberts
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Reflections on the first Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement

Earth System Governance
This commentary reflects on the first Global Stocktake (GST) under the Paris Agreement on climate change to offer insights for advancing climate actions and informing future GST cycles.
Jianfeng Jeffrey Qi, Peter Dauvergne, Sirini Jeudy-Hugo, Jamal Srouji, Jen Iris Allan, Benjamin Georges-Picot, Tom Evans, Arthur Wyns, Anne Barre, Danica Marie Supnet, Enrique Maurtua Konstantinidis, Anne Hammill, Nathan Cogswell, Pratishtha Singh   +13 more
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Non-state actors and human rights: The case of arms manufacturers

Amsterdam Law Forum, 2011
<p>Irresponsible arms transfers, the illicit manufacturer and the use jeopardize human rights. Thus, it is important that future Arms Trade Treaty, to be concluded next year, addresses serious challenges related to arms transfers, such as the ...
Gustavo Mauricio Bastien Olvera
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Civil war as a social process: actors and dynamics from pre- to post-war. [PDF]

Eur J Int Relat, 2022
Shesterinina A.
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Private Security in Guatemala:The Pathway to Its Proliferation [PDF]

It has become commonplace to explain the proliferation of private security services as causally determined by crime rates and institutional weakness. By contrast, this paper ar-gues that another explanatory factor needs to be emphasized, especially for ...
Otto Argueta
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Nuclear Lessons for Cyber Security? [PDF]

, 2012
Identifying “revolutions in military affairs” is arbitrary, but some inflection points in technological change are larger than others: for example, the gunpowder revolution in early modern Europe, the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, the ...
Nye, Joseph S.
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