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Scholarly Works, Political Science [39]
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Understanding the Dark Web and Its Implications for Policy [8]
Conference held May 18, 2018, at Virginia Tech’s Executive Briefing Center in Arlington, VA.
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Risk and uncertainty can be analyzed in cyberspace
(Oxford University Press, 2021-02-23)Perceptions of risk and uncertainty are pervasive in all international interactions. How states perceive risk and uncertainty and how they respond to these conditions impacts their policies and diplomatic behaviors. Despite ... -
Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire
(University of Florida Press, 2021-01-11)In Writing the New World, Mauro Caraccioli examines the natural history writings of early Spanish missionaries, using these texts to argue that colonial Latin America was fundamental in the development of modern political ... -
Victories and failures of gender expertise in global governance: The case of post-conflict state-building
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2020-10-15)The Women and Gender in International Development Discussion Series is organized by the Center for International Research, Education, and Development (CIRED) and is an InclusiveVT initiative of Outreach and International ... -
The potential harms of the Tor anonymity network cluster disproportionately in free countries
(National Academy of Sciences, 2020-11-30)The Tor anonymity network allows users to protect their privacy and circumvent censorship restrictions but also shields those distributing child abuse content, selling or buying illicit drugs, or sharing malware online. ... -
The Death of Neoliberal Realism?
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On market concentration and cybersecurity risk
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-02-24)Market concentration affects each component of the cybersecurity risk equation (i.e. threat, vulnerability and impact). As the Internet ecosystem becomes more concentrated across a number of vectors from users and incoming ... -
Sovereignty and European Integration: Deconstruction or Reconstruction of State Authority?
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2015-07-24)The purpose of this essay is twofold: first, to examine the nature of the European Union's system of governance; and second, to investigate the implications of the EU's institutional and decision-making arrangements for ... -
Democratization as a Peace Strategy
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013-07-05)The European Union's Security Strategy views the creation of strong and stable states as a prerequisite for international peace and stability. At the same time, the establishment of democratic regimes is seen as fundamental ... -
Can the river speak? Epistemological confrontation in the rise and fall of the land grab in Gambella, Ethiopia
(SAGE Publications, 2016-04)In this paper, I focus on the role of knowledge production in the rise and fall of the Indian multinational agribusiness firm Karuturi’s efforts to become a leading global supplier of food through the initiation of large-scale ... -
Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents
(Cornell University Press, 2019-11-15)Why would countries without nuclear weapons even think about fighting nuclear-armed opponents? A simple answer is that no one believes nuclear weapons will be used. But that answer fails to consider why nonnuclear state ... -
Democratic incumbent resilience in the post-1980 Senate
(Sage, 2018-10-12)In the period since the Reagan revolution that disrupted decades of Democratic control of the United States Senate, Democratic senators have proved remarkably resilient when running for reelection. Over the past 600 Senate ... -
The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
(Duke University Press, 2019-08)In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. ... -
Unmasking ‘Religious’ Conflicts and Religious Radicalisation in the Middle East
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Political (In)Security in the Middle East
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Science, Technology and Security in the Middle East
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Demography, Migration and Security in the Middle East
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Introduction: Regional Security in the Middle East: Sectors, Variables and Issues
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Conceptualizing Cyber Deterrence by Entanglement
(2018-03-01)Dr. Brantly was invited to give one of three keynote lectures for the opening of the Cyber Governance and Policy Center at the University of Oklahoma. -
Back to Reality: Cross domain deterrence and cyberspace
(2018-09-01)This paper examines cross domain deterrence strategies involving cyber incidents. By focusing on efforts to halt Russian and Chinese cyber operations against the United States this paper examines the importance of developing, ... -
Battling the Bear: Ukraine's Approach to National Cybersecurity
(2018-09-29)Ukraine has faced substantial challenges across multiple fronts its successful 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Among the greatest challenges Ukraine has faced is the establishment of a national cybersecurity infrastructure ...