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Neutralizing Deviance at State‐owned Enterprises: The Case of South African Airways

Abacus, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 162-193, March 2025.
This article investigates how boards of directors and auditors retrospectively reflect on and justify their role in the breakdown of governance systems. We focus on state capture in South Africa where major corruption scandals have crippled the public sector.
Dennis De Widt, Warren Maroun, Jill Atkins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collaborative decision‐making for UAV swarm confrontation based on reinforcement learning

IET Control Theory &Applications, Volume 19, Issue 1, January/December 2025.
With the advancement of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, research on adversarial interactions within UAV swarms has gained significant attention domestically and internationally. However, the existing decision‐making algorithms are primarily tailored to homogeneous UAV swarm adversarial scenarios, facing challenges such as complex reward ...
Yongkang Jiao, Wenxing Fu, Xinying Cao, Qiangqing Su, Yusheng Wang, Zixiang Shen, Lanlin Yu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Measures of Severity and Frequency of Reconviction [PDF]

, 2005
This report examines the scope for focusing on the seriousness and frequency of recidivism and presents methodology for determining how to measure offence seriousness, and how to measure frequency of offending.
Cutajar Bezzina, Audrienne, Francis, Brian, Humphreys, Leslie, Soothill, Keith   +3 more
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Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 75-95, January 2025.
Abstract The objective of this article is to set out lines of international complicity in Israel's war on Gaza towards establishing not merely a refreshed agenda for research but also strategic sites of accountability and intervention. The article surveys Israeli military activities in Gaza since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks, drawing focus on three
Mohamed El‐Shewy, Mark Griffiths, Craig Jones   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A quest for defining terrorism in international law: The emerging consensus [PDF]

, 2014
The United Nations (UN) has no internationally-agreed definition of terrorism.The definitional impasse has prevented the adoption of a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism.Even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 the UN failed to adopt the ...
Mahmood, Mohammed Salman, Masum, Ahmad
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Humanitarianism as a tool of statecraft: contested authority, sovereign violence, and humanity in the Syrian civil war

Disasters, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract This research explores the dynamics of interaction between the sovereign state and international humanitarian organisations in alleviating human suffering in the Syrian civil war. Considering civil wars as a rupture in sovereignty, its focus is on the practices of the sovereign state within its social context and the resulting implications for
Ümit Seven
wiley   +1 more source

Exit regulation in the People's Republic of China: Law, policy and practice

International Migration, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract In the past 20 years, there have been increasing media reports of individuals being banned from exiting the People's Republic of China (PRC). This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current PRC mechanisms for regulating the exit of PRC and foreign citizens.
Lili Song
wiley   +1 more source

Infrastructuring repatriation: The Philippine sending state and the return of migrant workers caught in disruptions

International Migration, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract Recent crises signal a timely consideration of how sending state regimes can be understood in their complexity beyond the dominant themes of labour brokerage and export in existing literature. This article calls for an expanded analysis of sending states by attending to their understudied role in disruption‐induced returns, particularly in ...
Karen Anne S. Liao
wiley   +1 more source

Facets of security and safety problems and paradigms for smart aerial mobility and intelligent logistics

IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Volume 18, Issue S1, Page 2827-2855, December 2024.
Sporadic deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles for priority‐based logistics demands inclusive safety‐driven and security smartness to address the myriads of associated risks. The incremental integration of explainable AI, blockchain, and zero trust cybersecurity paradigms is essential to achieving this, albeit with several requirements and ...
Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe, Dong‐Seong Kim   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restriction of Powers : Human Rights Protection in the context of Security Council [PDF]

, 2013
Is about the sanctions and procedures of the United Nations Security Council and the problems their application in practise may cause. Two cases are presented to exemplify the problems from an individual’s standpoint as well as that of the states bound ...
Ylinen, Kati
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