Download or read book Revealing Schemes written by Scott Radnitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiracy theories are not just outlandish ideas. They can also be political weapons.Conspiracy theories have come to play an increasingly prominent role in political systems around the world. In Revealing Schemes, Scott Radnitz moves beyond psychological explanations for why people believe conspiracy theories to explore the politics surrounding them and places two questions at thecenter of his account: What leads regimes to promote conspiracy claims? And what are their effects? Using a new database of over 1,500 conspiracy claims collected from 12 post-Soviet states - a region of the world where such theories have long thrived-he shows that purveyors of conspiracy tend toenter the fray in moments of uncertainty and chaos. Conspiracy claims flow most freely where there is serious political competition rather than unbridled autocracy; and in response to destabilizing events that challenge a regime's ability to continue ruling. Leaders who anticipate future challengescan disseminate conspiracy narratives proactively as an insurance policy. But if conspiracy becomes overused, it can also backfire. Radnitz shows that individuals who are exposed to a greater amount of intrigue are more cynical and generally more conspiratorial. Yet, conspiracists are alsosuspicious of the motives of authority figures who tout conspiratorial ideas. The upshot is that conspiracism as a political strategy may become less effective over time. At a time of heightened distrust in democratic institutions and rising populism, understanding how conspiracy theories are usedin a region where democracy came late-or never arrived - can be instructive for concerned citizens everywhere.

Download or read book Revealing Schemes written by Scott Radnitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiracy theories are not just outlandish ideas. They can also be political weapons. Conspiracy theories have come to play an increasingly prominent role in political systems around the world. In Revealing Schemes, Scott Radnitz moves beyond psychological explanations for why people believe conspiracy theories to explore the politics surrounding them, placing two questions at the center of his account: What leads regimes to promote conspiracy claims? And what effects do those claims have on politics and society? Focusing on the former Soviet Uniona region of the world where such theories have long thrivedhe shows that incumbent politicians tend to make conspiracy claims to demonstrate their knowledge and authority at moments of uncertainty and threat. They emerge more often where there is serious political competition rather than unbridled autocracy and in response to events that challenge a regime's ability to rule. Yet conspiracy theories can also be habit-forming and persist as part of an official narrative even where immediate threats have subsideda strategy intended to strengthen regimes, but that may inadvertently undermine them. Revealing Schemes explores the causes, consequences, and contradictions of conspiracism in politics with an original collection of over 1,500 conspiracy claims from across the post-Soviet region, two national surveys, and 12 focus groups. At a time of heightened distrust in democratic institutions and rising illiberal populism around the world, understanding how conspiracy theories operate in a region where democracy came lateor never arrivedcan be instructive for concerned citizens everywhere.

Download or read book Theoretical Computer Science Exploring New Frontiers of Theoretical Informatics written by Jan Leeuwen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference IFIP TCS 2000 held in Sendai, Japan in August 2000. The 32 revised full papers presented together with nine invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 70 submissions. The papers are organized in two tracks on algorithms, complexity, and models of computation and on logics, semantics, specification, and verification. The book is devoted to exploring new frontiers of theoretical informatics and addresses all current topics in theoretical computer science.

Download or read book Information Security and Privacy written by Vijay Varadharajan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2001, held in Sydney, Australia, in July 2001. The 38 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 91 submissions. Among the topics addressed are systems security, network security, trust and access cotrol, authentication, cryptography, cryptanalysis, digital signatures, elliptic curve cryptology, and secret sharing and threshold schemes.

Download or read book Fast Software Encryption written by Thomas Peyrin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Fast Software Encryption, held in Bochum, Germany, in March 2016. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on operating modes; stream-cipher cryptanalysis; components; side-channels and implementations; automated tools for cryptanalysis; designs; block-cipher cryptanalysis; foundations and theory; and authenticated-encryption and hash function cryptanalysis.

Download or read book Weapons of the Wealthy written by Scott Radnitz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the region of post-Soviet Central Asia, Radnitz investigates the causes of elite-led protest in nondemocratic states, where economic and political opportunities create elites who are independent of the regime, yet vulnerable to harassment.

Download or read book Advances in Cryptology EUROCRYPT 2019 written by Yuval Ishai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volume-set LNCS 11476, 11477, and 11478 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2019,held in Darmstadt, Germany, in May 2019. The 76 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 327 submissions. The papers are organized into the following topical sections: ABE and CCA security; succinct arguments and secure messaging; obfuscation; block ciphers; differential privacy; bounds for symmetric cryptography; non-malleability; blockchain and consensus; homomorphic primitives; standards; searchable encryption and ORAM; proofs of work and space; secure computation; quantum, secure computation and NIZK, lattice-based cryptography; foundations; efficient secure computation; signatures; information-theoretic cryptography; and cryptanalysis.

Download or read book Theory of Cryptography written by Eyal Kushilevitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 9562 and LNCS 9563 constitutes the refereedproceedings of the 13th International Conference on Theory ofCryptography, TCC 2016, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, in January 2016. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed andselected from 112 submissions. The papers are organized in topicalsections on obfuscation, differential privacy, LWR and LPN, public key encryption, signatures, and VRF, complexity of cryptographic primitives, multiparty computation, zero knowledge and PCP, oblivious RAM, ABE and IBE, and codes and interactive proofs. The volume also includes an invited talk on cryptographic assumptions.

Download or read book Security and Cryptography for Networks written by Clemente Galdi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, SCN 2020, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2020*. The 33 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on blockchain; multiparty computation; oblivious RAM; primitives and constructions; signatures, encryption, and algebraic constructions; symmetric crypto; theory and lower bounds ; zero-knowledge. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Download or read book Advances in Cryptology EUROCRYPT 2020 written by Anne Canteaut and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volume-set LNCS 12105, 12106, and 12107 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2020, which was due to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, in May 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 81 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 375 submissions. The papers are organized into the following topical sections: invited talk; best paper awards; obfuscation and functional encryption; symmetric cryptanalysis; randomness extraction; symmetric cryptography I; secret sharing; fault-attack security; succinct proofs; generic models; secure computation I; quantum I; foundations; isogeny-based cryptography; lattice-based cryptography; symmetric cryptography II; secure computation II; asymmetric cryptanalysis; verifiable delay functions; signatures; attribute-based encryption; side-channel security; non-interactive zero-knowledge; public-key encryption; zero-knowledge; quantum II.

Download or read book Cryptography and Coding written by Máire O'Neill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding, IMACC 2017, held at Oxford, UK, in December 2017. The 19 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The conference focuses on a diverse set of topics both in cryptography and coding theory.

Download or read book Searchable Encryption written by Kui Ren and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively reviews searchable encryption, which represents a series of research developments that directly enable search functionality over encrypted data. The book majorly covers: 1) the design and implementation of encrypted search algorithms, data structures, and systems that facilitate various forms of search over always-encrypted databases; 2) different threat models, assumptions, and the related security guarantees, when using searchable encryption in the real-world settings; and 3) latest efforts in building full-fledged encrypted database systems that draw insights from searchable encryption constructions. The book fits in the timely context, where the necessity of safeguarding important and sensitive data has been globally recognized. Traditional security measures, such as storing data behind network firewalls and layers of access control mechanisms to keep attackers out, are no longer sufficient to cope with the expanding landscape of surging cyber threats. There is an urgent call to keep sensitive data always encrypted to protect the data at rest, in transit, and in use. Doing so guarantees data confidentiality for owners, even if the data is out of their hands, e.g., hosted at in-the-cloud databases. The daunting challenge is how to perform computation over encrypted data. As we unfold in this book, searchable encryption, as a specific line of research in this broadly defined area, has received tremendous advancements over the past decades. This book is majorly oriented toward senior undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers, who want to work in the field and need extensive coverage of encrypted database research. It also targets security practitioners who want to make well-informed deployment choices of the latest advancements in searchable encryption for their targeted applications. Hopefully, this book will be beneficial in both regards.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Grid Technologies and Utility Computing Concepts for Managing Large Scale Applications written by Udoh, Emmanuel and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a compendium of terms, definitions, and explanations of concepts, issues, and trends in grid technology"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Central Planning written by Paul G. Hare and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-11-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nature and the mode of operation of the centrally planned economy, assessing its strengths and the weaknesses that eventually led to its demise.

Download or read book Energy Efficiency Governance written by Dagmar Sibyl Steuwer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​Energy efficiency contributes to the main objectives of energy policy in the European Union: energy security, cost effectiveness and environmental benefits. However, the efficiency potential remains widely untapped. Will White Certificate Instruments, a new framework instrument to foster end-use energy efficiency, help to close the energy efficiency gap? The analysis compares the political process of choosing and designing White Certificate Instruments in Italy, France and Great Britain. The book shows that the type of policy instrument as well as its image has an influence not only on agenda-setting but also on the policy instrument’s effectiveness due to interactions with existing energy efficiency discourses, regulatory traditions and the prevailing policy style.

Download or read book Fortress Russia written by Ilya Yablokov and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War – allegations of Russian interference in the US presidential election are only the most recent in a long series of conspiracy allegations that mark the history of the twentieth century. But Russian politics is rife with conspiracies about the West too. Everything bad that happens in Russia is traced back by some to an anti-Russian plot that is hatched in the West. Even the collapse of the Soviet Union – this crucial turning point in world politics that left the USA as the only remaining superpower – was, according to some Russian conspiracy theorists, planned and executed by Russia’s enemies in the West. This book is the first-ever study of Russian conspiracy theories in the post-Soviet period. It examines why these conspiracy theories have emerged and gained currency in Russia and what role intellectuals have played in this process. The book shows how, in the new millennium, the image of the ‘dangerous, conspiring West’ provides national unity and has helped legitimize Russia’s rapid turn to authoritarianism under Vladimir Putin.

Download or read book The Gospel Revealed written by Durrelle Gardner and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospel Revealed is an easy to read and understand publication. It makes understanding Bible principles plain and easy to apply to everyday life. This book is intended for Christians of all ages and levels of spiritual development. It is an excellent Bible study companion and will build the confidence of the reader when read on a daily basis along with the Bible. This book is not based on personal opinion but uses God's word to interpret its meaning and teach the reader how to apply God's principles in everyday real life situations and helping the reader to memorize scripture. You will not be disappointed that you acquired this publication but will truly be blessed once you've completed it. Durrelle Gardner is a devoted husband and father. He was ordained in a Baptist church and has spent many days ministering in prisons, drug rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, street witnessing ministries, and conducting Christian counseling for adults. He believes the biggest obstacle in the church today is getting Christians to study the Bible on a daily basis. Mr. Gardner studied ministry at a local Bible college in Philadelphia and intends to continue his education in theology and Christian counseling. He is presently a life skills teacher for a non-profit organization assisting ex-offenders and incarcerated adults in learning from a Christian perspective how to reenter society as productive men and women transformed by the Word of God.