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The Jurisprudence of Non-Proliferation: Taking International Law Seriously [PDF]

, 1992
This essay is about the power of the international law of nonproliferation- its mounting power in the world today and its properly augmented power in an enlightened future.
Koplow, David A
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The irony of just war? [PDF]

, 2018
By claiming that “just war is just war,” critics suggest that just war theory both distracts from and sanitizes the horror of modern warfare by dressing it up in the language of moral principles. However, the phrase can also be taken as a reminder of why
O'Driscoll, Cian
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A Family Affair: The Uses and Abuses of Vicarious Identity in Political Rhetoric During the 2024 General Election

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
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Material, Trace, Trauma: Notes on some Recent Acquisitions at the Canadian War Museum and the Legacy of the First World War [PDF]

, 2017
Recent acquisitions at the Canadian War Museum are considered in relation to the radical innovations of soldier-artists who endured the somatic conditions of the First World War trenches, privileging materiality and psychic reality over visual perception.
Conley, Christine
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Kantian Nonideal Theory and Nuclear Proliferation [PDF]

, 2010
Recent revelations of Iran’s hitherto undisclosed uranium enrichment programs have once again incited western fears that Tehran seeks nuclear weapons’ capability. Their fears seem motivated by more than the concern for compliance
Doyle, Ii, Thomas E.
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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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Take Off to Superiority: The Evolution & Impact of U.S. Aircraft in War [PDF]

, 2019
Military aviation has become a staple in the way wars are fought, and ultimately, won. This research paper takes a look at the ways that aviation has evolved and impacted wars across the U.S. history timeline.
Weidner, Lane
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

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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Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs) or Flexible Response Choosing the Right Strategy

Policy Perspectives, 2016
The entry of Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs) and Nasr missile into Pakistan military armoury and the development of military strategy thereafter have been considered a major breakthrough to counter India's Cold Start Doctrine or Proactive Military ...
Asim Ahmed
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