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Civil Defence Policy in Cold War Britain, 1945-68

, 2006
PhDThis thesis investigates how successive postwar British Governments formulated a civil defence policy aimed at ameliorating the effects of an enemy attack in the cold war.
Grant, Matthew
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Risk, Recklessness, and Objectivism

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One classic objection to Objectivism about ought is that it recommends unconscionably risky actions in so‐called Three‐Option‐Cases, the most famous of which is Jackson's case featuring a doctor called Jill. Some philosophers deny this orthodoxy and claim that Objectivism can yet account for our intuitions in such cases.
Daniele Bruno
wiley   +1 more source

The international climate change regime and general principles of law

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract The Climate Change Advisory Opinion (AO) by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demonstrates the growing prominence of general principles of law in international law. The Climate Change AO was handed down at the end of the International Law Commission's project on general principles of law with the adoption of its Draft Conclusions.
Renatus Otto Franz Derler, Mads Andenas
wiley   +1 more source

Fossil fuel feuds and the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract The Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) breaks new ground by clearly identifying fossil fuel production, licensing and subsidisation among the activities to which international climate change obligations apply, going as far as suggesting that such activities may ...
Harro van Asselt, Tejas Rao
wiley   +1 more source

A new generation of theatre nuclear forces in Europe

, 1981
For more than 30 years, theater nuclear weapons were a keystone of NATO's plan to defend Western Europe from the Soviet Union. As Soviet conventional and nuclear strength grew in Europe, however, American policymakers began to believe that more was ...
Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic)
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The Diffusion of International Environmental Agreements: The Role of Learning, Competition and Emulation

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International environmental agreements are key instruments for addressing transboundary environmental problems, but treaty ratification remains uneven and clustered across countries despite the proliferation of multilateral treaties. While existing research has concentrated largely on domestic political‐economic determinants, less is known ...
Elif Korkmaz Tümer, Mehmet Güçlü
wiley   +1 more source

An assessment of North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities

, 2013
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2013."June 2013." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-25).In February of 2013, North Korea conducted its third ...
Sivels, Ciara (Ciara Brooke)
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
wiley   +1 more source

Does Perceived Geopolitical Risk Constrain Corporate Borrowing? Evidence From Korean Firms

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how geopolitical risk affects corporate borrowing using firm‐level data from Korea. We construct a novel perception‐based geopolitical risk index related to North Korea and estimate a dynamic panel model using a long‐difference instrumental‐variables approach.
Dooyeon Cho
wiley   +1 more source