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REASONS, METHODS AND RESULTS OF USING THE STRATEGY OF EXHAUSTION IN ASYMMETRIC WARS
Problem setting. Countries participating in wars usually differ in their potential. Interest in the question of the possibility of those countries, which are inferior to other countries in their potentials, to defeat a stronger adversary, increases in ...
Олена Миколаївна Кіндратець
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Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano +3 more
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Dignity's Dilemma: Categorical Objections to Autonomous Weapons and Their Pacifist Entailments
ABSTRACT Dignity objections to autonomous weapon systems are prominent in contemporary military ethics, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexamined. This article reconstructs those foundations, showing what categorical dignity objections require to function as absolute prohibitions.
Timothy Dubber
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Halting the Comeback of “Kiddie Packs”: Defeating an Invisible Enemy
Background and context: “Kiddie packs”–packs of 10 or fewer cigarettes–have been banned in Malaysia in 2010. In August 2017, however, tobacco control civil society organizations (CSOs) were informed that the tobacco industry had approached the Malaysian government on this issue, claiming that a “return” would increase the government’s tobacco tax ...
M. Thoo +4 more
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Must Longtermists Wish Us All Dead? A Quadrilemma
ABSTRACT Longtermists assign great moral importance to making the long‐term future as good as possible, especially by ensuring the survival of humanity. We argue, to the contrary, that on assumptions that are plausible, conservative, or shared by leading longtermists, human extinction will likely augment total utility among human and non‐human animals ...
Nir Eyal, Bastian Steuwer, Shai Meiri
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Redefining the Enemy in Contemporary Australian Anzac Cinema
This chapter examines the portrayal of the enemy in selected Australian film and television programs about World War One made since 1980. It begins by contextualising the representation of enemy with a quick overview of Australian war cinema during the ...
Reynaud, Daniel
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Knowledge Integration in Professional Practices: Towards a New Transacting Approach
ABSTRACT This paper advances understanding of knowledge integration across professional boundaries by examining how professionals coordinate action in two life‐ and time‐critical settings: aircraft maintenance and emergency healthcare. Building on established knowledge integration perspectives, the study investigates situations in which actors must ...
Ann Svensson, Ritva Rosenbäck
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The Gazette Littéraire de l'Europe and Anglo-French Cultural Diplomacy
In the wake of France's defeat in the Seven Years War (1756-1763) Louis XV's ministers experimented with a number of reforms intended to reimagine the nation as something citizens could invest in financially, politically and even emotionally.
Jonathan Conlin
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ABSTRACT New agricultural operating entities (NAOEs) are the organizational core of modern agricultural systems, yet whether and how they draw smallholders into green production remains empirically unsettled. Using survey data from 803 vegetable growers in Shandong Province, China, and combining the coefficient of variation method, propensity score ...
Xiaoying Zhao, Qingzhi Liu, Zeyuan Li
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There are calls for the Saint Lucian government to step down over alleged misuse of UN funds. The latest criticism of the Compton Administration has come from within its own ranks.
Bousquet, Rufus (interviewee) +7 more
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