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"Despite a U.S. focus on securing an international deal to curb Iran's nuclear development for the last several years, the United States lacks a strategy to combat the full range of Iranian activities that threaten the interests of the United States and its allies but fall short of conventional warfare. In this report, CSIS's International Security Program sets forth analysis of Iran's strategy, motivations, military, and paramilitary capabilities and evaluates the effects of Iranian behavior on key U.S. partners. The study leverages the expertise of contributing authors at CSIS, the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Naval Analyses, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Harvard University, and the University of Hawaii to inform its analysis. The study proposes a framework for deterring Iran, including practical recommendations for the U.S. administration and Congress that would enhance the security of the United States and its allies and partners"--Publisher's web site

Verlagsinfo: Kein Autor des 18. Jahrhunderts hat die Ambivalenzen der Moderne so weitgefächert vorgedacht wie Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Dabei zeigt sich nicht nur die enorme, sinnstiftende Anschlussfähigkeit bestimmter Begriffe, die Rousseau als notorischer Querdenker seiner Epoche entwickelte; es kommen darüber hinaus auch Brüche und Widersprüchlichkeiten der Aufklärung zum Vorschein, die sich ebenfalls bis heute fortschreiben. Der Band sammelt Kurzessays von international renommierten Expertinnen und Experten, die ausgewählte Schlüsselkategorien im Anschluss an Rousseau behandeln. In alphabethischer Reihenfolge angeordnet formen sie eine kleine Enzyklopädie der Moderne. Mit Beiträgen u. a. von: Tristan Coignard, Elisabeth Décultot, Avi Lifschitz, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Joseph Vogl, Liliane Weissberg

This article analyses the rationale for and impacts of Conservative Party overseas volunteering projects from 2007 to 2017. Using interview data and participant observation, we uncover aims of project founders and explore impacts of volunteering on Party members and policy. We make three substantial contributions. The first focuses on the survival of Conservative Party modernisation strategies launched under David Cameron. Support for development, particularly Party pledges to spend 0.7% of UK gross national income on aid, are poorly explained by existing research. We argue that a focus on volunteering helps explain the survival of this commitment. Second, we argue that volunteering experience may support sustained Party policy change by enhancing 'issue ownership'. Our final contribution is providing the first analysis of political parties as development-volunteer sending communities. Through new data and distinctive contributions, we demonstrate that understanding Party-supported volunteering promotes improved explanations of Party modernisation persistence and policy change.

PurposeDespite the wide research and discussion on international performance, innovation and digital resilience dimensions of enterprises, the investigation and understanding of their interrelations seem to be limited. The purpose of this study is to identify the influential factors affecting the mentioned dimensions, determine the causal relationships among these identified factors and finally evaluate their importance in an aggregated framework from the viewpoint of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).Design/methodology/approachA hybrid methodology is used to achieve the objectives. First, the main factors of international performance, innovation and digital resilience are extracted by an in-depth review of the literature. These factors are then screened by expert opinions to localize them in accordance with the conditions of an emerging economy. Finally, the relationship and the importance of the factors are determined using an uncertain multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach.FindingsThe findings reveal that there is a correlation between digital resilience and innovation, and both factors have an impact on the international performance of SMEs. The cause-or-effect nature of the factors belonging to each dimension is also determined. Among the effect factors, business model innovation (BMI), agility, product and organizational innovation are known as the most important factors. International knowledge, personal drivers and digital transformation are also determined to be the most important cause factors.Originality/valueThis study extends the literature both in methodological and practical directions. Practically, the study aggregates the factors in the mentioned dimensions and provides insights into their cause-and-effect interrelations. Methodologically, the study proposes an uncertain MCDM approach that has been rarely used in previous studies in this field.

En analysant le code éthique des milices de chasseurs, cet article remet en cause une croyance commune sur la capacité plus grande des forces irrégulières à perpétrer des atrocités par rapport aux armées nationales. Cette analyse souligne cependant la possibilité de ces miliciens de radicaliser leur comportement guerrier en fonction du discours international tenu sur les crimes de guerre dans la région.