No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism
ABSTRACT A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel partial defence of political iconoclasm as a protest strategy for environmental activists. I focus on Just Stop Oil's attack on van Gogh's Sunflowers.
Alice Madeleine Hilder Jarvis
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Australia and the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative: difficult times for disarmament diplomacy [PDF]
Australia recognises the critical role that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons plays in preventing uncontrolled proliferation and promoting disarmament, and upholding the treaty has long been a core foreign policy goal.
Tanya Ogilvie-White
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Mutually Assured Survival: A Constructivist Analysis of Transnational Cultural Interactions and Their Influence on Nuclear Disarmament Initiatives [PDF]
Nuclear arms have revolutionized the ways by which human beings are able to harm one another. Omnipresent in the status quo is a nuclear tension, and whether subtly or more overtly, this tension underlies a great many international relationships.
Zehner, Ryan
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Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power
ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
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Em nome da autonomia e do desenvolvimento
The objective is to examine the positions adopted by Brazil on nuclear non-proliferation, disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the beginning of this century.
Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus
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ВІДМОВА УКРАЇНИ ВІД ЯДЕРНОГО СТАТУСУ ТА СТВЕРДЖЕННЯ ПОЗИТИВНОГО МІЖНАРОДНОГО ІМІДЖУ ДЕРЖАВИ [PDF]
The article highlights the process of nuclear disarmament of Ukraine, analyzes county’s refusal to develop nuclear capacity, reviews current discussions about Ukraine’s possible return to a status of a nuclear state.
О. В. Махно
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From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States
Abstract A new approach to rebuilding collapsed states is being trialed in the Arab world, most conspicuously by the Trump administration but with broad international support. This replaces the previous model—favoring democratic building blocks like inclusion, compromise, reconciliation, accountability, and citizenship—which is now seen as too costly ...
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
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Nuclear disarmament: with what end in view? : The international discourse about nuclear arms control and the vision of a nuclear weapon free world [PDF]
The classic security framework from the time of the East–West conflict no longer exists. NATO no longer faces any conventional threat. The relationship between Russia and the West, though not constituting a security community, is certainly no longer ...
Müller, Harald
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Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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