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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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The basic health care system in a crisis situation after the use of weapons of mass destruction
Security and Defence Quarterly, 2019 Weapons of mass destruction pose a threat that all health care institutions should be prepared for. Every health care centre can be an essential part of the joint system of response when a critical situation occurs.
Mateusz Kuczabski
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Mohammad Salaymeh +2 more
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Boreas, EarlyView.Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides important new information on the Aurignacian. The site is rather small (26.5 m2) and spatial analysis identified a central hearth with two associated ...
Tilman Böckenförde +5 more
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Czech Journal of International Relations, 2006 Among the most important factors influencing the pre-war (not only Transatlantic) debate on Iraq were the close economic ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and those countries opposing military action against it. The most notable aspect of these links
Zdeněk Kříž
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Riot Control Agents and Chemical Weapons Arms Control in the United States
Journal of Strategic Security, 2012 This article examines the issue of riot control agents as it relates to the subject of chemical weapons arms control at the international level and, more specifically, implications for the United States. The article examines how the issue of riot control
Sean P. Giovanello
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Which Decolonization? Theorizing Decolonization beyond Decoloniality and its Critics
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The debate on decolonial thought has reached an unhelpful stalemate. A core problem in assessing decolonial thought is that the term ‘decolonization’ has been stretched so widely that it now allows for many competing uses. For some critics of decolonial thought such as Nigerian philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, this overuse points to conceptual ...
David Myer Temin
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The Potential of Emergency Medical Response to CBRNE Threats in the Context of Military-Civilian Cooperation [PDF]
Safety & Fire TechnologyAim: The objective of this study is to present the contemporary response options of civilian medical rescue and healthcare systems to the effects of weapons of mass destruction weapons and civilian toxic agents with mass impact potential.
Arkadiusz Trzos, Karol Łyziński
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Immanent critique is often presented as a distinctive approach to political and social philosophy. But Rachel Fraser argues that immanent critique cannot satisfy three plausible criteria that characterise it as a distinctive approach: it cannot be normatively significant, social, and make no appeal to external standards.
Michael O'Connor
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The bioscience revolution & the biological weapons threat: levers & interventions
Globalization and Health, 2009 In December 2008, the US Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, released a report, World At Risk. The Report points to the fact that, not only is the use of a weapon of mass destruction in a terrorist ...
Martin Greg, D'Agostino Mark
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