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The UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel: Biolobical Weapons Related Issues [PDF]

, 2005
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Pearson, Graham S.
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Advocacy Coalitions and the Evolution of U.S. Space Policy: Private Companies, Competition, and Space Traffic Coordination

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study employs advocacy coalition framework (ACF) theory to analyze debates over U.S. space policies designed to avoid dangerous collisions between objects in Earth orbit. For decades, the Department of Defense prioritized national security in its development of space traffic coordination (STC) systems like the Space Surveillance Network ...
Jeffrey S. Lantis
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomous weapon systems and international humanitarian law: a reply to the critics [PDF]

, 2013
In November 2012, Human Rights Watch, in collaboration with the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, released Losing Humanity: The Case against Killer Robots.[2] Human Rights Watch is among the most sophisticated of human rights ...
Schmitt, Michael
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Carrying a Big Carrot: Linking Multilateral Disarmament and Development Assistance [PDF]

, 1991
This article proposes, as a new element of the liberal internationalism that should characterize the post-Cold War world, a simultaneous solution to these three problems.
Koplow, David A., Schrag, Philip G.
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Fighting in a warming world: The emergence of climatic considerations in the conduct of hostilities under international humanitarian law

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 198-209, April 2026.
Abstract This article seeks to assess the extent to which climatic considerations may be integrated into international humanitarian law (IHL). With evidence of significant greenhouse gas emissions from military actions in conflicts such as Gaza and Ukraine, the article highlights the climate impacts of armed conflict, showing how military activities ...
Mario Pasquale Amoroso
wiley   +1 more source

Foreword

The Thinker
Africa’s role in nuclear debates and in opposing nuclear weapons is at once consequential and overlooked. Since the 1996 Treaty of Pelindaba, the African continent has been a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ), providing a powerful example of opposition ...
Anna-Mart van Wyk, Luc-André Brunet, Eirini Karamouzi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The President and Nuclear Weapons: Authorities, Limits, and Process [PDF]

, 2019
There is no more consequential decision for a president than ordering a nuclear strike. In the Cold War, the threat of sudden nuclear annihilation necessitated procedures emphasizing speed and efficiency and placing sole decision-making authority in the ...
DeRosa, Mary B., Nicolas, Ashley
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The Primacy of Processes and the Causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian War: A Rejoinder to ‘Patrimonial Imperialism’

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Pierzynski and Joseph explain the Russo‐Ukrainian war through systemic and individual‐level accounts but argue these are incomplete without addressing Russia's internal structure, which they term ‘patrimonial imperialism’. While their taxonomy mirrors the traditional IR ‘levels of analysis’, I suggest it obscures relational and historical ...
Heikki Patomäki
wiley   +1 more source

Article XIII: Review of the Protocol [PDF]

, 1999
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Pearson, Graham S., Sims, N.A.
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Lowest Common Denominator: Explaining Multilateral Bargaining Over Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems Regulation

Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, Page 13-35, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) have the potential to dramatically alter modern warfare and reshape global power differentials. Despite the strong rationale for negotiating global rules, consensus on whether and how to regulate LAWS has yet to be reached.
Johannes Geith
wiley   +1 more source