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A state in denial: Britain’s WMD dependency on the United States
Plesch, Dan - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 3 (2008) 1, pp. 40-48
Britain is not an independent nuclear power. Its nuclear warheads and delivery systems depend upon American supplied management and technology and have done so since the dawn of the nuclear age. For years these matters were classified and today both governments only supply partial information....
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Terrorism, key assets, and critical infrastructures : to protect or to rebuild? ; that is the question
Crettez, Bertrand; Deloche, Régis - In: Public choice 144 (2010) 1/2, pp. 105-118
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Decomposing Violence : Crime Cycles in the Twentieth Century in the United States
Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo A. - 2008
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out permanent from cyclical murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in...
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Revisiting Negative Externalities of U.S. Military Bases : The Case of Okinawa
Hikotani, Takako; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Tago, Atsushi - 2021
In a recently published article, Allen et al. (2020) argue that U.S. military deployments nurture favorable attitudes toward the U.S. among foreign citizens. Their claim is based on social contact and economic compensation theories, applied to a large-scale cross-national survey project funded...
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Military intervention via drone strikes
Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2019
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of...
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Managing the all-volunteer force in a time of war
Simon, Curtis J.; Warner, John T. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2 (2007) 1, pp. 20-29
After a rocky start to the volunteer military in the late 1970s, since 1980 the United States military services have met or exceeded their recruiting and retention goals in most years and have done so at reasonable cost. The ongoing conflict in Iraq is the U.S. military's first protracted...
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Russia and USA Scenario Planning – Trump and Putin Meeting – Business Boom or Lonely to Prove that They are Right?
ul Haq, Bina - 2020
Summary • Putin and Trump, leaders arguably with hostile powers. Their meeting holds significant importance in history, requiring scenario planning to structure long-term business relationships and a defense playground for both countries.• It will provide assurances; to the operating...
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Using the Beveridge & Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper continues my research program on violence and terrorism started 15 years ago. It presents in the first part through empirical exercises, the suitability of The Beveridge and Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks. It presents...
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DECOMPOSING VIOLENCE: CRIME CYCLES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN THE UNITED STATES
GOMEZ-SORZANO, Gustavo Alejandro - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 7 (2007) 1
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions,...
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An Overview of U.S. Port Security Programs
Haveman, Jon; Shatz, Howard J.; Vilchis, Ernesto - 2004
Since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, security has became paramount in both domestic politics and the daily lives … a comprehensive port-security system and striking a balance between safety and commercial efficiency. This paper … presents an overview of the U.S. federal government's port security efforts to date, including new laws and regulations …
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