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The Threat of Weaponized Drone Use by Violent Non-State Actors

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
When most people think of military drones, they usually think of pieces of technology with wingspans greater than the overall length of fighter jets, taking surveillance images from over 40,000 feet and giving the pilot, thousands of miles away, the ability to take out targets with pinpoint accuracy utilizing a wide variety of weapons systems at the ...
Thomas Braun, Alexander Fleiss
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Neo-Weberian Reading of Violent Non-State Actors: The Case of Hezbollah

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace, 2023
Multiple-actor reality and the impact of different units, except the states in stratified structural relations, have become more apparent in recent international relations. Specifically, the rising role of Violent Non-State Actors (VNSA) in regions like the Middle East and North Africa, and their challenges to the sole and central position of states ...
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Governance by Violent Non-state Actors as a Challenge to Sustainable Peace in Brazil

2021
This chapter examines the role of violent non-state actors (VNSA) and their capacity to offer governance in competition with the Brazilian state, specifically in poor urban communities, where state security forces fail to provide the basic needs of their citizens in terms of physical protection, human dignity and social security – primarily in areas ...
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Missile warfare and violent non-state actors: the case of Hezbollah

Defence Studies, 2017
AbstractOver the last three decades, Hezbollah adapted its military strategy and the operational function conferred to its missiles. Starting in 1992, rocket warfare became one of the primary tactics of the group to compel Israeli Forces in Lebanon.
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Non-State Violent Actors and Social Movement Organizations

2017
Introduction SECTION I: NON-STATE ACTORS: INFLUENCE AND ADAPTATION IN CONFLICT ENVIRONMENTS Hostile Countermobilization And Political Violence: loyalist contention and Radicalization in northern ireland, 1968 1969 - Gianluca De Fazio Killing The Movement: How Islam Became A Rival Of Ethnic Movement In Turkey, 1991 2002 - Cem Emrence and Aysegul Aydin ...
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The Use of Coercive Diplomacy against Violent Non-State Actors

2020
The rise of violent non-state actors (VNSAs) has become a feature of international security in the past few decades. Despite enormous efforts from the academic, policy and intelligence community, VNSAs have proven remarkably difficult actors to engage with or defeat.
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Modeling Violent Non-State Actors: A Summary of Concepts and Methods

2004
Abstract : Violent non-state actors (VNSA), such as terrorist organizations, play an increasingly important role in the international security environment. Effectively deterring, coercing, disrupting or destroying terrorist organizations requires a subtle understanding of the factors that influence their growth and formation.
Bartolomei, Jason, Casebeer, William, Thomas, Troy   +2 more
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The Interplay Between Territorial Control and Violent Non-State Actors (VNSAs)

2022
The conundrum of the violent non-state actors (VNSAs) became the center of gravity in global politico-military settings especially after the disappearance of “patron-proxy” relationships. The threat to the authority of the central administration in internationally recognized boundaries by both deploying an assortment of tactics and more sophisticated ...
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Deterring Violent Non-State Actors in the New Millennium

The attacks of September 11 and the ensuing global war on terrorism have highlighted what many observers had predicted during the 1990s: that collective violence and challenges to the international system by violent non-state actors (VNSA) would become a defining feature of the post-Cold War security environment.
Casebeer, William, Thomas, Troy
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Violent Non-State Actors in the Age of Globalization

Bu çalışma, küreselleşmenin devlet dışı silahlı aktörlerin (DDSA) yükselişine ve onların mevcut çatışmalardaki rolüne etkisini analiz etmektedir. Küreselleşme, bu aktörlerin yükselişine zemin hazırlayarak uluslararası güvenlik ortamını yeniden şekillendirmekte ve savaşların doğasını değiştirmektedir.
Görgün Akgül, Çiğdem, Akgül, Musa
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