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A Formal Separation Between Strategic and Nonstrategic Behavior

open access: yes, 2020
It is common in multiagent systems to make a distinction between "strategic" behavior and other forms of intentional but "nonstrategic" behavior: typically, that strategic agents model other agents while nonstrategic agents do not.
Leyton-Brown, Kevin, Wright, James R.
core  

Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
[Excerpt] There has been a recent increase in the level of drug trafficking-related violence within and between the drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. This violence has generated concern among U.S.
Eddy, Mark   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolving Threat of Narcotics Smuggling: A Non-Traditional Security Challenge in Southeast Asian Border States

open access: yesJournal of ASEAN Studies
Traditional military threats have given way to non-traditional security (NTS) issues, including human security, as the essence of international security has changed.
Rendi Prayuda   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Trafficking in people for prostitution and forced labor is one of the most prolific areas of international criminal activity and is of significant concern to the United States and the international community. The overwhelming majority of those trafficked
Seelke, Clare Ribando, Siskin, Alison
core   +1 more source

Signals, Red Lines, and Collision: The Israel‐Iran Spiral and US Intervention

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract The Iran War erupted in February 2026 without UN authorization, and Washington's rationales—Iranian nuclear ambitions, missile capacity, and proxy threats—map more closely onto Israeli than US security interests. Why have we seen two major conflicts between these belligerents in less than one year?
Buğra Sari
wiley   +1 more source

Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
[Excerpt] This report focuses on international and domestic human trafficking and U.S. policy responses, with particular emphasis on the TVPA and its subsequent reauthorizations.
Siskin, Alison, Wyler, Liana Sun
core   +4 more sources

Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source

Weaponizing Kinship: A Demographic Analysis of Bereavement in the Colombian Conflict

open access: yesPopulation and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The ongoing Colombian armed conflict has produced widespread homicides and enforced disappearances, as armed actors used violence to terrorize communities and consolidate power. Family bereavement—one of the most pervasive and enduring consequences of this violence—remains critically understudied from a quantitative perspective.
Enrique Acosta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[Excerpt] Trafficking in persons (TIP) for the purpose of exploitation is a lucrative criminal activity that is of major concern to the United States and the international community. According to the most recent U.S.
Ribando Seelke, Clare
core   +8 more sources

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