{"title":"[Book Review] Walter A. Kemp, Security through Cooperation – To the Same End","authors":"A. Bloed","doi":"10.58866/rmxm6039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58866/rmxm6039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71184357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Book Review] Michael Cotey Morgan, The Final Act – The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War","authors":"A. Bloed","doi":"10.58866/xzei3875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58866/xzei3875","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71184406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Open-Source Intelligence, Armed Conflict, and the Rights to Privacy and Data Protection","authors":"Edward Millett","doi":"10.58866/hqke7327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58866/hqke7327","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the use of open-source intelligence (OSINT) during armed conflict and in humanitarian-emergency settings by States and non-State actors. It highlights real-world harms that can arise from the misuse of OSINT in such contexts, in particular through the lens of the rights to privacy and data protection, thereby demonstrating gaps in current terminology, regulatory frameworks, and ethical practices governing the use of this technology. Regarding OSINT’s use by States, the paper highlights the limits of existing legal frameworks regulating digital privacy and data protection in conflict settings, drawing on domestic regulatory frameworks and parallels from human rights law to identify key conceptual problems and regulatory limitations. Where non-State actors use OSINT, this paper highlights – via two case-study users, Bellingcat and the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine – the ‘doctrinal gap’ that arises from the patchwork of ethical standards and the relative absence of legal restraints. This gap poses a risk of harm to individuals and communities affected by OSINT activities that needs to be rectified, initially through the development of an evidence-based ‘theory of harm’.","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71184319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Road to Justice: Lessons for Ukraine From the USSR Invasion of Afghanistan","authors":"Nader Nadery, Victoria Kerr","doi":"10.58866/psbw5998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58866/psbw5998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71184430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Security and Human RightsPub Date : 2022-10-11eCollection Date: 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1093/psyrad/kkac010
Xiang-Zhen Kong, Chenghui Zhang, Yinuo Liu, Yi Pu
{"title":"Scanning reproducible brain-wide associations: sample size is all you need?","authors":"Xiang-Zhen Kong, Chenghui Zhang, Yinuo Liu, Yi Pu","doi":"10.1093/psyrad/kkac010","DOIUrl":"10.1093/psyrad/kkac010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":"22 1","pages":"67-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10917169/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86940914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traded Without Restraint? Transfers of Small Arms and Light Weapons","authors":"R. Alley","doi":"10.1163/18750230-bja10015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-bja10015","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Prescriptive analyses of small arms and light weapons (salw) transfer regimes have been advanced, but comparative assessment of the selling and importing of this weaponry is undeveloped. That includes examples of major arms sellers transferring this weaponry into locations embroiled in armed conflict. After surveying existing salw restraints and their shortcomings, the extent to which due diligence risk considerations shape relevant arms selling conduct is considered. Existing explanatory frameworks discussed are found incomplete. Accordingly a model is outlined addressing impediments to the due diligence risk assessments required to meet international humanitarian and human rights legal obligations. For salw sellers, they include executive dominance of sale purchase decisions; strategic imperatives; economic and commercial incentives; and capacity to conduct independent auditing of arms sales conduct. Within conflict afflicted recipient locations, they include defective public accountability; corruption; impunity; and inability to effect peaceful dispute settlement. Utilising these determinants, dyads embracing major salw sellers transferring this weaponry into locations of persisting armed conflict are considered.","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47169031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreign Fighters, Returnees and a Resurgent Taliban","authors":"Noah Tucker","doi":"10.1163/18750230-bja10010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-bja10010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay surveys the recent history of Central Asian mobilization to foreign conflicts and insurgencies and offers a discussion potential for a new wave of migration that the fall of the Afghan government and a victorious Taliban insurgency could present for the region. It argues that new developments have increased the importance of understanding the causes of conflict migration from Central Asia to both ensure successful re-integration of returnees and prevent a new wave of conflict migration. This contribution presents evidence that a one-dimensional focus on ideological or theological motivations for past waves of conflict migration is a poor explanatory mechanism for the broader conflict. A complex, localized, and multi-factor approach provides a much better explanatory model for mobilization to both local violence and foreign conflict.","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45775803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Central Asia Under Brussels’ and Moscow’s Eyes","authors":"A. Gerrits, H. Klijn","doi":"10.1163/18750230-bja10014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-bja10014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000While the Central Asian states try to balance their foreign policy options and to develop ‘multi-vector’ strategies, the region is tilting eastwards, especially towards China. What does this imply for two other external powers in the region: Russia and the European Union? This article reflects on the future prospects for the EU to play a role of significance in Central Asia and for Russia to manage its position as the region’s former overlord. The uninterrupted continuity of authoritarianism in Central Asia suggests that the EU has exerted only a very limited influence in the region, while the interests of Russia and the local regimes seem to run in parallel. Yet we see both external powers adapting their strategies in part to the changed (geo)political situation in the region. In this article we interpret these changes and draw tentative conclusions about what they may mean for the future of the Central Asian countries, especially where the perceived contradiction between security and human rights is concerned.","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42675006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rival Eco-Anxieties: Legacy of Soviet Water Management in the Syr Darya Basin","authors":"Flora Roberts","doi":"10.1163/18750230-bja10011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-bja10011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article focuses on the security and human rights implications of the water infrastructure legacy bequeathed to the Syr Darya river basin in the border area of the Ferghana Valley, by the Soviet period. Taking an environmental history approach, I consider the complex legacy of the system of ageing dams, irrigation canals, and reservoirs which for the most part were set in place between the 1950s and 1980s. Correcting the prevailing narrative that post-Soviet water tensions are often caused by the Soviet habit of disregarding borders and republican-level interests in designing water infrastructure, I show how Soviet water policy in the region fanned and exacerbated inter-republican tensions even while the national territorial divisions were ongoing. Current tensions are therefore not a response to a sudden and unexpected hardening of borders, but the fruit of much longer processes.","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41442447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China’s Impact on Democracy and Human Rights in Central Asia","authors":"Sébastien Peyrouse","doi":"10.1163/18750230-bja10012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-bja10012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article analyzes the impact of China’s policy on politics and human rights in Central Asia. First, it discusses how Beijing’s narrative has supported authoritarianism in the region. Second, it analyzes some of the tools of authoritarianism China has exported to support the political legitimacy of Central Asian authorities and their efforts to monitor their citizens. In conclusion, this article argues that although China has had a tangible impact on human rights in Central Asia, other elements also need to be taken into consideration to understand authoritarian tendencies in the region, including the influence of other foreign actors such as Russia as well as the goals of the Central Asian leaders themselves, who are not passive recipients of Chinese policy but rather have embarked on their own on road of authoritarianism since independence.","PeriodicalId":39991,"journal":{"name":"Security and Human Rights","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41356307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}