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Framework for Analyzing the Future Threat of WMD Terrorism

Journal of Strategic Security, 2012
This article examines theories of practical and strategic constraints that collectively explain why so few terrorist groups in history have crossed (or attempted to cross) the WMD threshold.
James J.F. Forest
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

American, Australian, and Japanese Perspectives on a Changing Security Environment [PDF]

, 2016
Naval Postgraduate's Project on Advanced Systems Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (PASCC) via Assistance Grant No.
Takahashi, Sugio, Mahnken, Thomas G., Babbage, Ross   +2 more
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Comparative Framing From Below: How Young People in Three Cities Interpret Cyber Dating Abuse by Drawing Boundaries Between Love, Harm, and Justice

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their ...
Susanne Y. P. Choi, Tangi P. C. Yip, Hsiu‐Hua Shen, Xiying Wang, Lynne Y. Nakano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Security threats : weapons of mass destruction?

, 1999
The end of the Cold War led many to believe that a reduction in weapons of mass destruction would follow. Instead it led to nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation. This reality posed a grave threat to security.
Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic)
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Are We Prepared? Four WMD Crises That Could Transform U.S. Security

, 2009
This report, written by the staff of the National Defense University Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the fall of 2008 and the early winter of 2009, was conceived initially as a transition paper for the new administration following ...
Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction,
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Islam, Jihad, and the Fiqh of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
While most of the world’s major historical traumas related to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) did not involve Muslims, it is becoming part of the present fear politics related to Islam and jihad.
Fajri Matahati Muhammadin
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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression

Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
wiley   +1 more source

Suicides disguised as homicides through weapon concealment: A two‐way copycat phenomenon between fiction and real world

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Suicides disguised as homicides present a persistent challenge in forensic case analysis, particularly when the weapon is deliberately removed after discharge. This study investigates the evolution of weapon concealment techniques—specifically the “load‐and‐rope” and “helium balloon‐tied gun” methods—across documented casework, forensic ...
Ernesto Damiani, Alessia Comacchio, Andrea Porzionato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Unintended Consequences of German Deterrence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Germany's evolving deterrence posture boils down to continued participation in NATO nuclear sharing and an ambitious conventional rearmament program. Due to its non‐nuclear status and a result of decades of underinvestment, Germany prioritizes modern conventional weapons.
Ulrich Kühn
wiley   +1 more source