Cloud connectivity and increased support for applications have resulted in significant amount of data that needs to be handled by embedded devices. The growth of embedded cloud as a successful service model largely depends on effectively securing such data. Data security in the …
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War, like all human endeavors, is at some point of consideration a cultural event; understanding it fully requires an appreciation of war's events, its cultural context, and the interaction between them. In all wars there is a simultaneous and reciprocal process by which culture…
On September 18, 2011, the Republic of Cyprus announced it had begun the process of extracting offshore hydrocarbons. The announcement sparked a crisis. Great Britain, Greece, Russia and Israel voiced their support for the right of the Republic of Cyprus to recover their offshor…
Current networking architectures and communication protocols used for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been designed to be energy efficient, low latency, and long network lifetime. One major issue that must be addressed is the security in data communication. Due to the limit…
Libya is a country in transition. By the official start date of the transition process on October 23, 2011, Libya was essentially devoid of the institutional capacities required to operate a functioning state in the traditional Weberian sense. The weak central state Qadhafi left…
Radio Frequency Identification, RFID, is a type of automatic identification system which has gained popularity in recent years for being fast and reliable in keeping track of individual objects. Due to limited available resources in RFID tags, providing privacy and security for …
As civil conflicts continue to be the most prevalent form of war, women and children are disproportionately affected by intrastate violence. In response to such findings, the United Nations, at the behest of a transitional activist network, passed United Nations Security Council…
This study proposes that Iraq's democracy and stability turmoil since 2003 can be well elucidated by concentrating on the link between internal and external challenges that military intervention has introduced in the country. The source of that link is the emerging external secu…
Requirements engineering is a subfield of software engineering that is concerned with analyzing software requirements specifications. An important process of requirement engineering is tracing requirements to investigate relationships between requirements and other software arti…
Since 1979, Saudi-Iranian relations have been tense due to their position as superior powers in the Middle East. Both countries have different values and perspectives in regards to diplomatic relations with the West. As a consequence of the new developments in Iran's foreign pol…
This study investigates the relationship between education aid and security (goals, understandings, and discourses) in conflict-affected and post-conflict states, using Michel Foucault's archaeological and genealogical analytical methods. I used a comparative historical (archaeo…
This dissertation explains when countries with nuclear weapons ambitions comply with or defy foreign demands that they abandon their bomb aims and accept restrictions on their nuclear progress. It argues that the likelihood of compliance with nonproliferation demands depends on …
In countries of conflict, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) often resort to humanitarian relief. A small number of peace and conflict resolution organizations (P/CROs) engage more directly, through grassroots mediation, elite negotiation and advocacy. This thesis observes th…
Hydropolitics is becoming an increasingly important topic due to freshwater scarcity and by the number of challenges states face in achieving water security through shared freshwater resources. Using the tumultuous relationship of Singapore and Malaysia as a case study, the theo…
This research investigates Iran’s geopolitical importance in the context of the Cold War in the years 1957-1968 that made it a key target for Soviet intelligence and a crucial intelligence battleground with all states that held an interest in Iran. For Iran and the non-Soviet Bl…
Information technology represents the most important tool for any business to grow and increase pro_ts in this century. Online banking represents one type of business change due to revolutionary changes in technology. There are limited studies for adoption of online banking in S…
An analysis of literature on security issues and its effect on destination image suggests that that to date little research has been done on the specific issue of the security image of the Middle East destinations, particularly as perceived by travel intermediaries. In this cont…
The Iraq ‘Chilcot’ Inquiry is the last in a string of public inquiries tasked with understanding how the British state went to war with Iraq. In so doing, the inquiries have become defined by the problem of striking a balance between publicity and secrecy. While exposing foreign…