The commercial stage of the software development discipline includes quality assurance techniques. These techniques generate predictable, comparable, and repeatable results. The establishment and use of such methods indicate that a research field has evolved beyond the stage of …
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The argument that globalization ‘withers away’ the state has become a commonly accepted thesis in the social sciences. Those advocating the ‘globalization thesis’ argue that globalization's impact on the scope and speed of interactions makes it impossible for the state to contin…
This dissertation examines the relation between fear and state power through a study of formal and informal security institutions in Bandung, West Java. Using a combination of historical and ethnographic data, it argues that the central problem for the evolution of the urban sec…
This dissertation investigates the role that personality, ideology, and advisors play in explaining whether and at what rate political leaders change their attitudes and policy predispositions toward an international enemy in response to new information about their opponent, or …
This dissertation examines the recent nuclear security problematique in India under the Hindu Right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. It represents an analytical hybrid of realism and critical social constructivism as its theoretical framework and the concept of post-colo…
This dissertation provides a systemic-level framework for explaining and understanding the dynamics and security impacts of transnational mobilization. Transnational mobilization is the process by which relatively weak non-state actors activate transnational networks, harness sp…
Conventional role based access control (RBAC) was designed with closed-enterprise environment in mind where a security officer(s) manually assigns users to roles. However, today, an increasing number of service-providing enterprises make their services available to users via the…
This dissertation introduces a gendered variable into the field of security studies by addressing the concept of security from an Arab feminist perspective. Women from five geographically diverse communities that reflect the various lifestyles and living standards of the Middle …
Though the United States enters numerous international agreements each year, many have no significant impact on international relations. This dissertation demonstrates that a constructivist approach explains the maintenance of international agreements better than realism or libe…
How can messages be transmitted secretly? How can one guarantee that the message arrives safely in the right hands exactly as it was transmitted? Cryptology, the art and science of 'secret writing', provides ideal methods to solve these problems of data security. Technological a…
This volume contains the revised proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, during April 10-12, 2019. The theme of this year's workshop was "security protocols for humans." Getting protocol details right is criti…
This thesis considers information leakage in cloud virtually isolated networks. Virtual Network (VN) Isolation is a core element of cloud security yet research literature shows that no experimental work, to date, has been conducted to test, discover and evaluate VN isolation dat…
The cloud computing paradigm introduces an efficient utilisation of huge computing resources by multiple users with minimal expense and deployment effort compared to traditional computing facilities. Although cloud computing has incredible benefits, some governments and enterpri…
Performance modelling and evaluation has long been considered of paramount importance to computer networks from design through development, tuning and upgrading. These networks, however, have evolved significantly since their first introduction a few decades ago. The Ubiquitous …
Network Proxies and Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are tools that are used every day to facilitate various business functions. However, they have gained popularity amongst unintended userbases as tools that can be used to hide mask identities while using websites and web-service…
This thesis starts from the premise that Geopolitics is performative, an iterative discourse “of visualising global space…reproduced in the governing principles of geographic thought and through the practices of statecraft” (Agnew 1998:11). During the last decade, two dominant d…
During a parliamentary speech in November, 1981, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said that to her, "Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom; as much as my constituency is". This statement is commonly paraphrased and quoted as 'Northern Ireland is a British as Finchley.' …
Near field Communication is a short-range wireless technology based on RFID standard ISO 18092, ISO 14443 and ISO 15693. This means, it provided compatibility with the millions of contactless smartcards and RFID scanners that already exist worldwide. NFC is now available on the …
This work has a single aim, focusing on developing a political risk model relevant for tourism organisations, which are operating in an increasingly complex and turbulent international environment. It pays particular attention to the language of risk (how risks are articulated a…