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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Global, selective, or both? The case for differentiated cooperation in AI governance. [PDF]

Policy Sci
von Ingersleben-Seip N, Mügge D.
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Purging Minds Through Silencing Voices: Academic Freedom Under Islamic Republic of Iran's Security Apparatus Aftermath of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This piece examines the systematic erosion of academic freedom and the institutionalized censorship and repression of academics in Iran following the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, where universities have been reshaped into extensions of the security state through ideological vetting, pervasive surveillance, and the purging of dissenting ...
Arash Beidollahkhani
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
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Aligning innovation and security in AI-enabled biotechnology: a framework for designing and funding mutually reinforcing approaches. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
Aveggio C, Carter SR, Mukundan H, Cameron EBE, Guerra S.   +4 more
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Biosecurity in the age of synthetic nucleic acids: modernizing the law to manage emerging threats. [PDF]

J Law Biosci
Berman A.
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History of the Development and Use of Biological Weapons

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2001
The United States began its BW program based on intelligence information and a very thorough evaluation of that information by a panel of scientists, engineers, medical personnel from a variety of areas including the military, other government agencies, industry, and the academic community.
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The Development of Nuclear Weapons

2012
The weapons to be discussed in this chapter differ in several important respects from those of the previous two chapters. First of all, and most obviously, nuclear weapons are far more destructive than small arms or catapults – any comparison with the latter in particular seems ridiculous.
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Weapons of the week, weakness of the weapons: Shifts and stasis in development theory

The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2007
Over the past half century the theory, practice and politics informing development studies have followed contrasting trajectories, a tangled epistemological pattern displayed inadvertently by some of the contributions to three of the four books reviewed here.
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