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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Security, International."”.
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Fixing the Failed: An Investigation of Terrorist Organizations and State Building Capabilities
… failure present unique and serious threats to international security. However, there is very little literature concerning the positive effect terrorist organizations can have in failed states. Presented is not only an investigation of the linkages between state failure and terrorism, but also a …
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Ways to Expand the Animal Welfare Component in the Extension System in Senegal: A Case Study of Thies and Bambey
… agriculture system in order to ensure food security (International Monetary Fund, 2011). The purpose of the study is to develop a set of recommendations to improve the educational program planning and teaching skills of educators in the extension system by focusing on extension educators' …
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The inadequate dominance of realism : an analysis of the U.S. war on terror /
… continue to be substantial debate over how the international system can best be characterized. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the international system can best be characterized by the essential features of realism, but the use of realist policy prescriptions are inadequate …
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The Terministic Filter of Security: Realism, Feminism and International Relations Theory
… of terministic filters to examine what the word security means to two different publics within the academic discipline of international relations. It studies the rhetoric feminist international relations theorists and contrasts their view security with that of realist and neo-realist …
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Nuclear Weapons and Proxy Conflict
… states, the desire for relative power within the international system forces states to compete indirectly through proxies or surrogates. Such behavior was prevalent during the Cold War and can be seen currently in the emerging security environment. Given such evidence, the logical implication …
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Robustness: A New US Cyber Deterrence Strategy
<p>The growing trend of computer network attacks provokes the necessity for a comprehensive cyber deterrence strategy to deter aggressors from attacking U.S. critical infrastructure. The current U.S. cyber deterrence strategy based on punishment is ineffective in deterring aggressors as evidenced …
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EU security cooperation and the transatlantic relationship
… has been at the top of the foreign policy and security agenda both of the United States and the European Union. This dissertation intends to examine the state of this relationship in view of the recent developments of the EU's security and defence policy (ESDP). The dissertation will first …
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Instability in the South: The Implications of Mexican State Failure on U.S. National Security
… Mexican state failure on United States national security. The growing instability in Mexico due to the actions of the various drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), government corruption, possible human rights abuses and Mexican insurgent groups is examined in order to understand why the Mexican …
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Why not preempt?: an analysis of the impact of legal and normative constraints on the use of anticipatory military activities
The 2002 National Security Strategy for the United States focused American strategic policy around the use, or potential use, of preemptive/preventive strikes, particularly as a counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism tool. While preemption and prevention are not new strategies, they have never …
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African Union Peacekeeping and Civilian Protection. An Evaluation of the EU Strategy for Africa and the G8/Africa Joint Plan.
… is in the process of developing its peace and security architecture. Over the past decade, the international community has been supporting African peacekeeping, both to build AU capacity and to provide direct operational support. In 2005 the international community agreed a collective …
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The roles of regional organisations in international peace and security in the post-modern era. The case of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe with the Former Soviet Union Republic States.
… analyses the systems, dynamics and conditions of international cooperation/non-cooperation in the international community that is embodied through international/regional institutions and organisations. As Robert Cooper describes, the international community consists of the three worlds in which …
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Tracing the Development of East African Community on Peace and Security
… bill known as the East African Community Security Protocol on peace and security. This bill was crafted upon the basis of existing scholarship which examines security and community either from the top-down/state-centric approaches (neorealism/neoliberalism/constructivism/etc.) or as …
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The History of Chinese Cybersecurity: Current Effects on Chinese Society Economy, and Foreign Relations
<p>Chinese cybersecurity has become an infamous topic in the field of cybersecurity today, causing a great deal of controversy. The controversy stems from whether or not censorship is hindering Chinese economy, society, and relationships with other countries. The <em>White Papers …
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The Politics of Stigmatization: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union
… new form of hierarchy. This is even reflected in international relations literature that studies the socialization of the new members into ‘European’ or ‘Western’ states (Checkel 2005; Gheciu 2005; Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier 2005, etc.). The new members continue to be perceived as …
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Calling Putin’s Bluff (Or Not?) An Assessment of Russian Attachment to the INF Treaty and Its Implications
… Russia’s reputation as a leader in the field of international arms control. This indicates that the Russians perceive the INF Treaty as both a guarantor of Russian security, and a tool through which to promote their interpretation of the moral and practical principles driving the international …
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Collective security in the Pacific with particular reference to SEATO
… terms are more popular today than “collective security,” and few are used with such diverse meanings.</p><p>Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson used the term no fewer than fourteen times in his address at the opening meeting of the Sixth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations …
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Navigating gods and monsters: the production of safe insecure spatialities in the deterrence of risk at sea
… contributes the conceptualisation of ‘safe’ insecurity to existing literatures in critical Security Studies. To achieve this, this dissertation renders many concepts of International Relations that have developed to suit a terrestrial and solid understanding of the world as amphibious. This …
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Power in Institutions: Interstate Negotiations of Incremental Agreements for the East and South China Sea Disputes
… types of agreements that originated in an international law tradition. The thesis also builds on scholarship about the theory of institutions that attributes two different broad roles to institutions. On the one hand, institutions restrain behaviour, overcome collective action problems and …
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The Effects of IS-BAO Implementation and Leadership Performance on Safety Culture in Business Aviation Flight Operations
<p>The International Standard, Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO), with a Safety Management System (SMS) as its core element, has been widely accepted by both the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the business aviation industry as the mechanism to create a healthy safety …