IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE ARMS TRADE TREATY (ATT)

Implications and Consequences of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

The international sales volume of conventional arms has been considerably increasing, making it necessary to create an international normative framework of regulations: the adoption of the ATT by the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly (2013) represents a historical achievement to establish global standards for the arms trade, with the purpose o

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Unavowed Abstention Can Overturn Poll Predictions

I revisit the 2017 French Presidential election which opposed the far right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen against the center candidate Emmanuel Macron.While voting intentions for Le Pen stuck below 50% and polls kept predicting her failure, I warned on the emergence of a Cards novel phenomenon I defined as unavowed abstention, which could

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Study on the Damage Behavior of Engineered Cementitious Composites: Experiment, Theory, and Numerical Implementation

The ever-increasing material performance requirements in modern engineering structures have thrust engineered cementitious composites (ECCs) into the limelight of civil engineering research.The exceptional tensile, bending, and crack-control abilities of ECCs have sparked significant interest.However, the current research on the mechanical behavior

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