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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"State Security"”.
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The origins of state security screening in Canada
Describing Canada's security intelligence practice, historians have identified 1945as a watershed. In September of that year Igor Gouzenko defected from the embassy of the Soviet Union in Ottawa, carrying with him evidence that the Soviets operated an espionage ring in this country. According to …
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Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture and state security in Canada, 1927-1957
… the relationship between national culture and state security in mid-twentieth century Canada. Using records opened through Access to Information it challenges received interpretations regarding the origins of official multiculturalism and federal cultural institutions. Drawing a distinction …
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Threats to Religious Legitimacy and State Security: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Quest for Stable Continuity
… Saudi Arabia needs both religious legitimacy and state security in order to ensure the stability and continuity of the Kingdom. These needs produce a recurrent tension within the Saudi foreign policy framework because they pull in opposing directions. These tensions become particularly acute when …
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An examination of human capital dimensions that has an influence on knowledge management practices to innovate : a case study of the State Security Agency (SSA)
… sharing, and innovation within South Africa’s State Security Agency (SSA), a strategically significant yet under-researched intelligence institution. It explores the prospects for effective KM implementation in response to the High-Level Review Panel (2018) recommendations, which identified …
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Explaining ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus : Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia
… the dissertation argues that conventional state security concerns best explain the start of escalation. Union republic opponents, Azerbaijanis and Georgians, perceived regional mobilization to be manifestations of broader "interstate" conflicts pitting Azerbaijan and Georgia against, …
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Challenges of geospatial technology on national security in the 21st century: The case of the Namibia Defence Force
… and dramatically converged and necessitated the security for human and state existence. Therefore, application of geospatial technology in the Namibian Defence Force is one of the greatest means of fighting threats to state security in this contemporary world. The study assessed the Challenges of …
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Building Coercive Capacity: Three Essays
… of three chapters on different challenges state-builders face when creating an effective state apparatus. When principals (such as authoritarian leaders or elected representatives) set up security organs, they must make officials in the security services overcome collective action problems …
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Metaphor, the press, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
… understanding of the press portrayal of the security legislation (CSIS Act). The thesis studies press articles gathered from microfilms, government press clippings, and a computer search (Dialog, File 262) for the Vancouver Sun, Winnipeg Free Press, Toronto Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, …
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Ontological Security: State Identity and Self-Image in the Digital Age
The driving argument of this thesis is that states, particularly the United States, are vulnerable in cyberspace for reasons that go beyond the material vulnerabilities that present studies on state insecurity in cyberspace focus on. This vulnerability in cyberspace is an ontological insecurity. …
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17 November and the Strategy of Deception: Was Golitsyn Right?
… book entitled, New Lies for Old, Committee for State Security (KGB) defector Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted a forthcoming fake democratization of communist bloc countries for the ultimate goal of deceiving and defeating the West. According to Golitsyn, Czechoslovakia played a significant role in …
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Teach them to fish. Analyzing practices of security assistance in international peacekeeping training centers.
Security assistance has and continues to be the focus of considerable investment by international organizations in non-EU countries. Most debates on security assistance rely on the assumption that a peaceful endpoint can be reached if appropriate policies are implemented or if the right conditions …
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Civilian victimisation in the Tajik civil war: how the popular front won the war and ruined the nation
… investigates the question of why non-state armed forces target civilians, given the normative taboos against killing noncombatants and the potential for counterproductive strategic outcomes. It also analyses the effects of civilian victimisation on short-term conflict dynamics and …
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Psychopathy and Attachment: The Effect of Security Priming on Psychopathy in a College Student Sample
… The current longitudinal study sought to reduce state psychopathy levels through secure attachment priming. It was first hypothesized that the mean of state levels of psychopathy would correlate with trait measures of psychopathy. Secondly, it was hypothesized that participants primed with secure …
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Porous Empire: Foreign Visitors And The Post-Stalin Soviet State
… traces how Soviet economic, propaganda, and state security institutions, all shaped during the isolationist Stalin period, struggled to accommodate their practices to millions of visitors with material expectations and assumed legal rights radically unlike those of Soviet citizens. While much …
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Public sector facility management at military unit level: an exploratory study
… towards FM, which ultimately contributes to state security and the cost thereof. Future research should find the optimal structure, staffing and competencies for FM in military units.
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Can Climate Change be Successfully Incorporated into Security Policy? : Framing Climate Security and Defence in Finnish Comprehensive Security Policy through the 21st Century
The comprehensive security model of Finland’s security policy identifies anything that can pose a threat to the functioning of society and the well-being of citizens as a security threat. Climate change is included as a threat to security under this policy, but its presentation and framing as a …
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The Partisan's Violence, Law and Apartheid: The Assassination of Matthew Goniwe and the Cradock Four
… activists, known as the Cradock Four, by a state security death squad. It is an instance of political violence that allows us to ask ontological questions about the relationship between law, rights and violence; colonial violence and the Cold War, as well as questions about the …
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Striving for security: State responses to violence under the FMLN government in El Salvador 2009-2014
This research focuses on the provision of intrastate security and on the question how states in the global South do or do not provide security for their citizens and do or do not protect them from physical violence. This thesis argues that while institutional conditions are an important aspect of …
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