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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"threat perceptions"”.
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White South Africa and defence, 1960-1968 : militarization, threat perceptions and counter strategies
… in the 1960s. It argues that the military threat perceptions of the period were crucial in altering white views of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and reinforcing support for the National Party government. The military achieved enhanced public status within civil society as the …
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The Giant Next Door: The evolution of Australian Government threat perceptions of Indonesia within the policy development process, 1957-1965
Between 1957 and 1965 the Australian Government’s threat perceptions of Indonesia changed from viewing it as a weak but relatively friendly country, to eventually see it by 1965 as posing a ‘direct threat’ to Australia’s security. This thesis analyses how this transition in threat perception …
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The Giant Next Door: The evolution of Australian Government threat perceptions of Indonesia within the policy development process, 1957-1965
Between 1957 and 1965 the Australian Government’s threat perceptions of Indonesia changed from viewing it as a weak but relatively friendly country, to eventually see it by 1965 as posing a ‘direct threat’ to Australia’s security. This thesis analyses how this transition in threat perception …
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Crafting and delivering effective energy and water conservation messages: The role of forceful language and source features in psychological reactance
… United States, it is challenging partly due to perceptions and psychological barriers about consumption that may be addressed with theory-guided campaign design (see Petersen et al., 2015). The current dissertation turned to communication theory to help create strategic energy and water …
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U.S. and Russian strategic perspectives of Iran different views of nuclear proliferation
… a view. The conclusions of this thesis are that threat perceptions have shaped U.S. and Russian views of nuclear proliferation. Both countries have supported Iran's nuclear program, but their timing coincided with major shifts in Iran's diplomatic orientation. When the Cold War ended, they were …
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Fear and frustration : rising state perceptions of threats and opportunities
… have a greater effect on a rising state's threat perceptions or its assessment of the dominant state's resolve? Existing theory, rooted in Jervis's spiral and deterrence models, contends that the answer depends on whether the state has status quo or revisionist intentions. Rising states are …
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A Mixed-Method Examination of Social Media Influencers’ Source Characteristics in Sponsored Health Campaign Messaging: An Application of Psychological Reactance Theory
… language in sponsored posts as freedom threatening. Alternatively, participants mentioned sponsorship congruence, sustained authenticity, seamlessness, and personability/relatability mitigated freedom threat perceptions of sponsored content. Participant preferences for the message source …
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Hashemite survival strategy: the anatomy of peace, security and alliance making in Jordan
… examines the relationship between the "change in threat perceptions in regards to regime survival" and the "change in foreign policy" in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. More specifically, it gives special attention to the factors that determined the regime's alignment choice within the peace …
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Understanding resistance towards increasing gender diversity in masculine domains: the role of intergroup threat
… the theoretical framework of the Intergroup Threat Theory (Stephan, Ybarra & Morrison, 2009), a conceptual model was developed in order to systematically investigate the role of realistic threat, symbolic threat, and gender identification in driving men’s resistance towards woman and …
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Uncertainty and Threat Perception: Nationalism as an Informational Index of International Behavior
… state-level nationalism exerts on dynamics of threat perception? The primary goal of this research is to investigate in what ways and to what extent state-level nationalism is used as an indicator of states’ intentions by governments in order to reduce uncertainty about the possible motivations …
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The Dynamics and Institutionalisation of the Japan – US Naval Relationship (1976-2001)
… combined with external influences such as threat perceptions, national leadership influence and domestic politics drove and/or constrained the relationship at various times. The proposition advanced by this thesis is that when the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and US Navy operate …
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Natural Disasters, Incidents Of Mass Violence, And Preparedness On A College Campus: A Study Of University Faculty And Staff
… study was to examine previous disaster impact, threat perception, self-efficacy, and sex as predictors of university employees’ preparedness for natural disasters and incidents of mass violence. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with faculty and staff members (N = 410) at a medium-sized …
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THE POLITICS OF SOUTHERN ASIAN BALLISTIC MISSILES: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR A MUTUAL RESTRAINT REGIME
… study finds the very nature of the overlapping threat perceptions and the continuance of the unresolved issues and disputes as the main hurdles in the successful restraint models. Recommendations are therefore made for more comprehensive CSBMs leading to a Southern Asian regional version of cold …
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The Informed Human Firewall: The Impact of Knowledge Dimensions on Employees' Secure Behavior
… these key psychological processes that form threats perceptions.</p> <p>Drawing on the knowledge management literature, the impact of knowledge mechanisms on users’ threat perceptions was conceptualized and examined across three knowledge dimensions: breadth, depth, and finesse. The research …
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Content and end-state-based alteration in the practice of political violence since the end of cold war: the difference between the terrorism of the cold war and the terrorism of al Qaeda: the rise of the "transcendental terrorist"
… of the Iron Curtain and on the ways in which threat perceptions were managed and influenced national policies concerning security. Fundamentally, the effect can be summarised as follows: Internally: National governments secured the law and order and domestic stability of their state system …
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Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East under the AKP (2002-2013): A Neoclassical Realist Account
… drivers (international power relations, external threat perceptions and international economic interdependencies), and most importantly international power relations, play the primary role in shaping and causing shifts in TFP but always in conjunction with unit-level variables. Lastly, it is …
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From scaring to stigma: an examination of stigma's and related constructs' association with EPPM-framed messages and the ethical dilemmas of health communication
… the public’s perception of a health behavior’s threat and efficacy (the two prominent components of the EPPM), that secondary audiences (those who do not participate in the specific health behavior) may create or maintain stigma and other negative attitudes toward primary audiences (those who do …
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Assessing Intentions: The Importance of Iran's Strategic Culture
… sources of Iranian identity, norms, values, and perceptions. It is only through this lens that Iranian intentions can be better understood, and thus the feasibility of a diplomatic solution can be better determined. This thesis finds that strategic culture can help shape a diplomatic response, …