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Dangerous Deference: What the British Public Think about Civil‐Military Relations
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Accepted norms of democratic civil‐military relations aver, regarding the use of force, that military officers may not substitute civilians’ judgement with their own and that civilians should not follow their guidance blindly. These theories often rest on the presumption that three critical actors—government, armed forces, and the public ...
David Blagden +2 more
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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Japan and Its Complex Position in the Nuclear Age: Moving from Vagueness to Concreteness
Journal for Peace and Nuclear DisarmamentAlthough Japan has experienced the tragedy of the use of nuclear weapons during warfare in 1945, it stands as a prominent nation that has adopted a substantial reliance on nuclear weapons in its security strategy.
Wakana Mukai
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, 2012 Review of John Keegan, A History of Warfare. New York: Alfred A.
Vogel, Robert
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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National Journal of Community Medicine, 2012 The environmental radiation release from Fukushima nuclear power following tsunami in Japan has once again highlighted the omnipotent risk of radiation injury in the today’s world. India is at a real risk from radiation fallout both due to nuclear power
Kapil Yadav +4 more
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Contemporary Perspectives On The Nuclear Dimension Of The Russia-Ukraine War
BTTN JournalThe ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and persistent nuclear threats have significantly heightened the risks of a potential nuclear conflict. These threats are widely seen as attempts by Moscow to deter Western governments from providing substantial support to
Mashal Zahid
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Biological Terrorism, Emerging Diseases, and National Security [PDF]
, 1998 Examines the extent to which bioterrorist attacks have proven or may prove difficult to distinguish from outbreaks of emerging diseases. Makes recommendations for how the U.S.
Christopher F. Chyba
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Studying Tech Diplomacy—Introduction to the Special Issue on Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on tech diplomacy, exploring its emergence and evolution as a distinct approach to global affairs in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Originating with Denmark's 2017 “TechPlomacy” initiative, tech diplomacy has gained global momentum, with over two dozen countries adopting
Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst
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Challenges of a Multi-Polar Nuclear World
Obrana a Strategie, 2012 Nuclear warfare, being calamitous, is nevertheless, unlike popular perception, far from being apocalyptic. In the article, we consider possible scenarios of nuclear war in a multi-polar nuclear world, arguing that a democratic society has good chances of
Yehoshua Socol +2 more
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