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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Security dilemma"”.
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The cornered bear : the August 2008 war in Georgia as the culmination of Russia’s western security dilemma
… since the fall of the Soviet Union created a security dilemma for Russia. Because the West refused to properly acknowledge and address Russia’s dilemma, the West inadvertently created the conditions which led to the culmination of Russia’s security dilemma in the form of an invasion of …
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Constructing Historical Realism : International Relations as Comparative History
… States are seen as constantly facing a double security dilemma: it is being threatened, or potentially threatened, by two sets of rivals for revenue. At the level of abstraction of Historical Realism, states have two possible responses, short of collapse, to this double security dilemma. They …
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The evolution of China’s nuclear weapons program and doctrine and its implications for international security
… viewed as a critical guarantor of Beijing’s security and a tool that supports its growing regional and global interests. China’s evolving nuclear program and doctrine have multidimensional implications. This study critically examines the drivers of China’s ongoing nuclear weapons policy and …
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Afghanistan and transnational war: Interlocking security dilemmas and strategic challenges
… traction. Traditional understandings of the security dilemma are conceptually refined, operationally expanded and thematically analysed. Conceptually, a distinction is drawn between genuine security dilemmas, involving benign actors, and strategic challenges, involving actors with malign …
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Compact neutron sources for zero knowledge warhead verification via epithermal neutron transmission analysis
… measures by allowing party states to escape the security dilemma. However, warhead verification requires confident assurance of warhead authenticity while protecting design information about the interrogated object. Zeroknowledge physical cryptography provides a solution to the verification …
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ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE: SPECULATION ON RUSSIAN NUCLEAR STRATEGY
… miscalculations, or set the conditions for a security dilemma between the United States and the Russian Federation.
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Civil-Military Relations and militarization in El Salvador
… the linkage of these two phenomena as domestic security policy formation and implementation. The analysis demonstrates that informal Civil-Military Relations have resulted in a largely undemocratic response to El Salvador’s sizeable security challenges. Two cases, in particular, are studied more …
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Arms Race, Military Expenditure and Economic Growth in India
… effort and its developmental problems: the 'security dilemma' in terms of its relationship with its neighbour, Pakistan; the core factors that motivate the demand for defence; the economic impact of militarization and the effect of defence on development. First, the arms race between India …
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House of the Rising Sun: a Glimpse Into the Future of Japanese Nuclear Deterrence
… American influences coupled with the unique security dilemma which Japan will likely face in the coming decades. I approached the situation by first establishing that the greatest threats to Japan can be found in the countries of North Korea and China as stipulated in Japan’s FY 2005 National …
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The creation of the modern Republic of Korea Navy
… been remarkable in that it is a microcosm of the security dilemma that the ROK faces; how to deal with the threat from the DPRK while developing a defence capability that is commensurate with a middle power with global interests.<br/>This thesis examines said modernisation both through an analysis …
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Fighting for frames or prospects for peace? : building a prospect theory model of ethnic civil war termination
… have employed expected utility theory and the security dilemma to construct models of how ethnic combatants choose between settling their differences at the bargaining table or on the battlefield. Rooted in the rational choice paradigm, these models draw upon utility calculations and security …
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Asymmetric Strategies and Asymmetric Threats: A Structural-realist Critique of Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 2004-2014
… far-reaching measures to protect homeland security, there remains intense debate over whether or not the U.S. is actually more secure than it was prior to 9/11. While structural realism is still relevant to the current international system, the effects of drone strikes in Pakistan may set …
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Konfrontasi : rethinking explanations for the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, 1963-1966
… "threat" argument claims that Malaysia posed a security threat to Indonesia, and that the Confrontation was the outcome of a security dilemma between both states. The "threat" of Malaysia has some substantive elements necessary to justify Indonesian aggression, but it is shown to be largely an …
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Policy design tool for managing indoor residential water demand in water-scarce regions
… and more are certain to follow. The water security dilemma is much more challenging in developing countries. Water utilities have had to follow regulatory plans to manage demand on water resources. Not surprisingly, demand on residential water is deemed to be the most critical sector over …