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Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article contends that to explain the grand strategies of states in the Middle East, we must employ the concept of middle powers. Analyzing the case of Syria between 2011 and 2021, it finds that these actors preferred a strategy of limited balancing against direct threats to their national security.
Chen Kertcher, Gadi Hitman
wiley   +1 more source

Nuclear weapon: the relative weapon.

open access: yes, 2001
This study will initially look at both sides of the reknown nuclear proliferation debate between Kenneth Waltz and Scott Sagan. Master of Science (Strategic Studies)
openaire   +1 more source

The Barrier Properties of Biological Membranes Dictate How Cells Experience Oxidative Stress

open access: yesMolecular Microbiology, EarlyView.
Molecular oxygen diffuses across membranes with such speed that, despite respiration, the intracellular oxygen concentration does not differ significantly from that outside the cell. In contrast, membranes are important barriers for hydrogen peroxide and especially superoxide, so that intracellular scavenging enzymes can substantially shield cells from
James A. Imlay
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes in times of crisis: An analysis of individual determinants towards immigration in the Czech Republic

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper empirically assesses public attitudes towards immigration amid a simultaneity of political and economic crises, offering critical insights into the effects of economic determinants on perceived cultural and economic threats posed by immigration in the Czech Republic.
Olga Gheorghiev, Mattia Collini
wiley   +1 more source

Power and the History of Peace and Conflict Studies: Disremembering Gladdys Muir and the First Peace Studies Program

open access: yesPeace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a silence in the histories of the formation of peace and conflict studies as an academic field, focusing on the elision of a female‐identified academic: Gladdys Esther Muir. Muir occasionally appears in histories as a datapoint in peace education chronologies where she is listed as the director of the first peace studies ...
Reina C. Neufeldt
wiley   +1 more source

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