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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Conventional weapons"”.
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Examining the effectiveness of international landmine regimes. The interplay between design and implementation.
… Protocol II (APII) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) ¿ have been developed to prohibit or restrict the use of landmines. However, reflecting a gap in current academic research, there is a lack of knowledge of their effectiveness …
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The Taliban the Second Time Around: The Evolution of Taliban Strategy and Tactics and Future Scenarios For Afghanistan
… to win popular support. In the 1990s, they used conventional weapons and met the enemy directly on the battlefield. There has been a shift towards the use of improvised explosive devices, psychological operations, and hit-and-run tactics because the Taliban has recognized that it cannot defeat …
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The Nuclearization of Iran: Motivations, Intentions and America's Responses
… Iranian state's programs for acquiring nuclear weapons. Using Graham Allison's Rational Actor Model of national decision-making, this thesis investigates three questions: 1) Iran's motivations for obtaining nuclear weapons; 2) Iran's strategies for actual use of nuclear weapons; and, 3) …
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Making Crimes? Technology, Law, and DIY Firearms
… about centralized factory production. Conventional weapons trafficking presumably entails transfers from legal supplies to illicit markets and users. However, there is speculation that "post-industrial" technologic conditions will contribute to a rise in illegally-fabricated …
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Is nuclear deterrence rational?
… opponent, and conclude that, given that nuclear weapons are quite likely to fall into the hands of an irrational leader, nuclear war is quite likely to occur. In Chapter Four I focus on cases in which countries have the capability to wipe out nearly all of their enemy's weapons in a single …
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Controlling the circulation of small arms in international law
… rights law (IHRL) have shown an influence on the conventional arms control. A series of negotiations to control the trade of small arms, in particular the diplomatic conference on the arms trade treaty in July 2012, provide some evidence of this increasing influence. The negative impact of the …
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Norms and non-governmental advocacy on conventional arms control : dynamics and governance.
Clear changes occurred in the field of conventional arms control in the last two decades. States adopted a multitude of norms on especially small arms control in various multilateral control instruments. In addition, non-governmental advocacy actors often established themselves as active …