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Entangled security logics: from the decision-makers’ discourses to the decision-takers’ interpretations of civil defence 纠缠的安全逻辑:从决策者的话语到决策者对民防的解读

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2022-01-09 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.2021889

Jana Wrange

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Bridging Copenhagen and Paris: how Hungarian police accept anti-immigrant discourse 连接哥本哈根与巴黎:匈牙利警察如何接受反移民言论

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2021-12-26 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.2019021

Daniel Gyollai

引用次数: 2

Contested views? Tracing European positions on lethal autonomous weapon systems 有争议的观点吗?追踪欧洲在致命自主武器系统上的立场

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.2007476

Diego Badell, Lewin Schmitt

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引用次数: 3

Fighting terrorism at the local level: the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity 在地方一级打击恐怖主义：欧洲联盟、防止激进化和辅助性谈判

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.2009458

Francesca Melhuish, Charlotte Heath-Kelly

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引用次数: 5

Rivals in arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the twenty-first century 武器上的对手:21世纪英法防务关系的崛起

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2021-11-09 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.1999230

Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters

引用次数: 1

Unpacking Normative Power Europe: EU promotion of security norm cluster in ASEAN 打开规范性欧洲：欧盟推动东盟安全规范集群

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2021-11-08 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.1997994

Xuechen Chen

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引用次数: 0

Feeble rules: one dual-use sanctions regime, multiple ways of implementation and application? 薄弱的规则：一个两用制裁制度，多种执行和适用方式？

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2021-10-26 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.1993189

Katharina L. Meissner, Kevin Urbanski

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引用次数: 2

Unpacking the Trump administration’s grand strategy in Europe: power maximisation, relative gains and sovereignty 解读特朗普政府在欧洲的大战略:权力最大化、相对收益和主权

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2021-10-18 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.1987224

Linde Desmaele

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引用次数: 2

From a willing partner to close political and economic partner: analysing EU political elites’ images of Georgia from 1991 to 2020 从自愿合作伙伴到密切的政治和经济合作伙伴:分析1991年至2020年欧盟政治精英对格鲁吉亚的印象

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2021-10-14 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.1987892

N. Gamkrelidze

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引用次数: 0

Varieties of organised hypocrisy: security privatisation in UN, EU, and NATO crisis management operations 各种有组织的虚伪：联合国、欧盟和北约危机管理行动中的安全私有化

IF 1.6 2区社会学

European Security Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.1972975

E. Cusumano, Oldřich Bureš

引用次数: 3