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TOWARDS FULFILLMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF HUMANITARIAN LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

open access: yesBRICS Law Journal, 2016
The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is an international treaty that should be implemented during both peace and wartime. However, the obligations included in the treaty are dependent upon states' attitudes regarding other issues.
s. Bagheri
doaj   +1 more source

Taking the Law Seriously: The Imperative Need for a Nuclear Weapons Convention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Jonathan Swift famously said, Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Swift was no doubt referring to the propensity of the law to shrink from prosecuting the lords of the realm, while going ...
Weiss, Peter
core   +1 more source

READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts

open access: yesProduction and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

From Tactical Utility to Human Cost: The Normative Shift in the Prohibition of Combatant Suffering

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
This article examines the evolving interpretation of the principle prohibiting superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering in international humanitarian law (IHL) applicable to combatants.
Jaroslav Krasny
doaj   +1 more source

Nuclear weapons dominate North Korea's foreign and domestic policy; diplomatic engagement is the only way to encourage regime change. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Recent months have seen rising rhetoric between Washington DC and Pyongyang over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. But why is the North Korean regime so keen on developing such weapons?
Vuksanovic, Vuk
core  

The Evolution of Male Weapons Is Associated with the Type of Breeding Site in a Clade of Neotropical Frogs

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Male weaponry evolution is often linked to male–male competition, but its relationship with breeding site type remains unclear. Using Leptodactylinae frogs, we found a macroevolutionary correlation between breeding site type and weapon evolution. Also, gains and losses of weapons occurred more frequently in exposed‐breeding sites, an unexpected finding.
Erika M. Santana   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Irreversibility in Nuclear Arms Control: Lessons from the US-Soviet/Russian Arms Control Process

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The United States and Soviet Union/Russian Federation signed several arms control treaties that mandated reductions in their numbers of deployed nuclear weapons.
Amy F. Woolf
doaj   +1 more source

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