The causes for the persistence of high levels violence in Latin America, and particularly Brazil, must be sought by combining material symbolic elements. This paper focuses on latter, analyzing how discourses mobilized conservative parliamentarians shape a worldview that demands use force as mechanism resolving social conflicts. In order to achieve this objective, statements against Disarmament...

Many ceasefire and peace agreements stipulate the disarmament demobilization of pro-state armed groups involved in conflict, yet few these ever completely demobilize. This study seeks to explain process incomplete by advancing a theoretical argument that are least likely disarm demobilize when monopoly on violence is fragmented, there relative balance capabilities interests between government g...

Journal Article Inheriting the bomb: collapse of USSR and nuclear disarmament Ukraine Get access Ukraine. By Mariana Budjeryn. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2022. 328pp. Pb.: £29.00. Isbn978 1 42144 586 1. Available as e-book. Rabia Akhtar Lahore, Pakistan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 5, Septemb...

When verifying the authenticity for nuclear warheads dismantlement toward a treaty partner's obligation, arms verification technologies are critical since only disarmament treaties not sufficient to neutralize existential threat of weapons. In this work, we present method combining numerical observer model and physical encryption techniques. The performance is quantified by Monte Carlo simulati...