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Deadly ambiguities: NATO and the politics of counter-terrorism in international organizations after 9/11 致命的模糊性：北约与 "9-11 "事件后国际组织的反恐政治

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/09670106241240426

Julien Pomarède

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Governing ‘ordinary’ uncertainty: Circulating information and everyday insecurity in Karachi 管理 "普通 "的不确定性：卡拉奇的信息流通与日常不安全感

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231212142

S. A. Kaker

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Audience agency in a curious instance of failed securitization: Public resistance to the Singapore government’s eugenics program 观众机构在安全化失败的奇特案例中的作用：公众对新加坡政府优生计划的抵制

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1177/09670106241228066

Pradeep Krishnan

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A self-fulfilling prophecy? Constructions of youth-as-troublemakers in UN DDR processes 自我实现的预言？联合国复员方案进程中青年问题制造者的建构

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231220117

Jacqui Cho

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Registers of security: The concept of tryghed in Danish politics 安全登记册：丹麦政治中的 "tryghed "概念

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231223121

Laust Lund Elbek, Peter Starke

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Towards theorizing from the Arab non-periphery: Hyphenated identities and the boundless security field 从阿拉伯非边缘地区走向理论化：双重身份和无边无际的安全领域

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231218852

A. Elgamal

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Red-zoning: Spatial logics, the prototype and colour-coded cartographies of insecurity 红色分区：不安全的空间逻辑、原型和彩色编码制图

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231212147

Ari Jerrems, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert

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Red-zoning: Spatial logics, the prototype and colour-coded cartographies of insecurity 红色分区：不安全的空间逻辑、原型和彩色编码制图

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231212147

Ari Jerrems, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert

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Insurmountable enemies or easy targets? Military-themed videogame ‘translations’ of weaponized artificial intelligence 是难以克服的敌人还是轻而易举的目标？军事主题电子游戏 "翻译 "武器化人工智能

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231218829

Guangyu Qiao-Franco, Paolo Franco

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Pharmacotic wargames: Military play as ritual sacrifice 药剂战争游戏：作为祭祀仪式的军事游戏

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231212041

Aggie Hirst, Larry N George

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