Iran's Regional Influence in Light of Its Security Concerns

The Great Game in West Asia examines the strategic competition between Iran and Turkey for power and influence in the South Caucasus. These neighboring Middle East powers have vied for supremacy throughout the region, while contending with ethnic heterogeneity within their own territories and across their borders. Turkey has long conceived of itself as not just a bridge between Asia and Europe but as a central player in regional and global affairs. Iran’s parallel ambitions for strategic centrality have only been masked by its own inarticulate foreign policy agendas and the repeated missteps of its revolutionary leaders. But both have sought to deepen their regional influence and power, and in the South Caucasus each has achieved a modicum of success. As much of the world’s attention has been diverted to conflicts near and far, a new ‘great game’ has been unravelling between Iran and Turkey in the South Caucasus.

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Strong regional influence of climatic forcing datasets on global crop model ensembles

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ◽

10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108313 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 300 ◽

pp. 108313

Author(s):

Alex C. Ruane ◽

Meridel Phillips ◽

Christoph Müller ◽

Joshua Elliott ◽

Jonas Jägermeyr ◽

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Keyword(s):

Crop Model ◽

Climatic Forcing ◽

Regional Influence ◽

Model Ensembles

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Architecture-Level Security Concerns in a Safety Critical System

ACM SIGAda Ada Letters ◽

10.1145/3379106.3379112 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 50-62

Author(s):

Sam Procter

Keyword(s):

Critical System ◽

Safety Critical ◽

Safety Critical System ◽

Security Concerns

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The politics of the Hajj organisation in Senegal: security, legitimation and clientelism

The Journal of Modern African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022278x20000622 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Cédric Jourde ◽

Marie Brossier ◽

Muriel Gomez-Perez

Keyword(s):

Public Service ◽

The State ◽

Religious Leaders ◽

Symbolic Resources ◽

Travel Agencies ◽

Security Concerns ◽

And Control ◽

Monitor And Control

ABSTRACTThis article analyses how the state in Senegal has managed the hajj since the liberalisation era in the early 2000s. Although the essence of the hajj is religious, it is also deeply political and requires that the state manages complex relations with pilgrims, religious leaders, private travel agencies, politicians and Saudi authorities. This article argues that three inter-related imperatives structure the conduct of the Senegalese state: a security imperative, a legitimation imperative, and a clientelistic imperative. Security concerns lead the state to monitor and control pilgrims travelling to Mecca. Legitimation is seen in the collaborative relations with Sûfi orders and in the framing of the hajj organisation as a ‘public service’. Finally, given the magnitude of financial and symbolic resources attached to the hajj, clientelistic relations are constitutive of state officials’ actions. Overall, despite the post-2000 liberalisation of the hajj, the state has maintained its role as a gatekeeper, regulator and supervisor.

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Italian security concerns and policy

The International Spectator ◽

10.1080/03932728408456541 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 110-114

Author(s):

Yannis Valinakis

Keyword(s):

Security Concerns

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Security Concerns

Bound by Conflict ◽

10.1515/9780823272082-059 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 123-123

Keyword(s):

Security Concerns

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A Systematic Review of Recommender Systems and Their Applications in Cybersecurity

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21155248 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (15) ◽

pp. 5248

Author(s):

Aleksandra Pawlicka ◽

Marek Pawlicki ◽

Rafał Kozik ◽

Ryszard S. Choraś

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Recommender Systems ◽

Recommender System ◽

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Comprehensive Survey ◽

Security Concerns ◽

Valuable Role

This paper discusses the valuable role recommender systems may play in cybersecurity. First, a comprehensive presentation of recommender system types is presented, as well as their advantages and disadvantages, possible applications and security concerns. Then, the paper collects and presents the state of the art concerning the use of recommender systems in cybersecurity; both the existing solutions and future ideas are presented. The contribution of this paper is two-fold: to date, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no work collecting the applications of recommenders for cybersecurity. Moreover, this paper attempts to complete a comprehensive survey of recommender types, after noticing that other works usually mention two–three types at once and neglect the others.

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