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Does AI Affect the Democratic Conduct of War? Analyzing US and Israeli Military AI Deployment

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the use of decision‐support military Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can affect the democratic conduct of warfare. AI can challenge the democratic conduct of warfare by introducing systemic risks such as reduced oversight, opacity, and automation bias.
Alessandra Russo
wiley   +1 more source

Destroyed houses as repositories of memories: Navigating diasporic spaces in Shahla Ujayli’s novels [PDF]

open access: yesFeminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
Over the past half century, numerous Arab diasporic writers have depicted the detrimental impacts of civil wars on Arab nations as some individuals are (in)voluntarily displaced internally and externally, where they experience feelings of anxiety ...
Sarah Chabane Chaouch   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unravelling Syria's Entho-Sectarian Politics

open access: yes, 2013
Goaded by the regional repercussions of the Syrian crisis sectarian tensions are emerging as the key threat to Middle Eastern and Syrian stability.
Townshend, Estelle Jane
core  

BUILDING AN AUTHORITARIAN STATE: THE INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL SECURITY AND FISCAL ENVIRONMENT ON SYRIAN AUTHORITARIANISM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this research I have attempted to answer the question of how the external security and fiscal environment has affected Syrian authoritarianism. Contrary to much previous research that emphasizes domestic factors in leading to a lack of democracy, my ...
Huuhtanen, Heidi Katriina.   +1 more
core  

Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns on social media are currently both more accessible and more impactful than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) or European Union's (EU), offering their opponents superiority and efficiency on those platforms.
Michelangelo Conoscenti
wiley   +1 more source

The Syrian Regime’s Strategic Political Communication: Practices and Ideology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2019
This article addresses the Syrian regime’s strategic communication as a practice of politics that runs hand in hand with its repressive political, social, and military tactics to control the political sphere, win the ongoing civil war in the country ...
Dina Matar
doaj  

The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
wiley   +1 more source

Brokers, Collaborators and Knowledge Translators: Expanding the Role of Research Assistants in Geographic Research

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
wiley   +1 more source

Kurdish problem against a background of the war in Syria

open access: yesМеждународная аналитика, 2017
Presently Kurdish motivation for the creation of a national state is showed more strongly than supreme power’s efforts on the centralization of Iraq and Syria.
Yu. Kudryashova
doaj   +1 more source

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