Abstract Can the global poor wage a just redistributive war against rich? The moral norms governing use of force are usually considered to be very strict. Nonetheless, some philosophers have recently argued that violating duties justice can cause for war. This paper discusses wars. It shows strength these arguments is contingent on underlying account distributive justice. focuses “doing harm ar...

We investigate the role of networks of alliances in preventing (multilateral) interstate wars. We first show that, in the absence of international trade, no network of alliances is peaceful and stable. We then show that international trade induces peaceful and stable networks: Trade increases the density of alliances so that countries are less vulnerable to attack and also reduces countries' in...

BACKGROUND Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) are fatal neurodegenerative diseases of several mammalian species, including humans. In Italy, the active surveillance through rapid tests on brain stem from small ruminants started in 2002 on randomly selected samples of healthy slaughtered animals. Sampling number was proportionally related to the regional small ruminant population. O...

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