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Emergency responses are premised on the hope that, even when events cannot be wholly predicted and prevented, timely action in the present can be exercised to strip an emergent event of its disruptive potential. Yet, while the speed of emergency responses plays a critical role in underpinning UK resilience, it has been a relatively neglected subject in studies of resilience advanced through the paradigm of preparedness. This article aims to contribute to and extend work in the field of emergency governance by arguing that concerns surrounding the speed of response contribute to a distinct form of security enacted in contemporary emergency response strategies, which I term ‘event suppression’. Drawing on policy analysis, preparedness exercise observations and practitioner interviews, this article investigates how speed operates as a core problematic informing the design of UK emergency responses, organized through the Integrated Emergency Management framework. Integrated Emergency Management promises to accelerate emergency response operations by utilizing advances in communications technologies to drive the bottom-up emergent self-organization of emergency responses. Event suppression ensures security not by preventing an event from happening, but by quickly closing down the ‘disruptive’ time of the emergency event and restoring the linear historical time of standard political processes.
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164235
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This article considers possibility and expediency of using hybrid power plants for new-generation armored weapons and hardware (AWH). The main mobility indicators for AWH items with various hybrid power plants are analyzed. The problems of their development by domestic enterprises are outlined.
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ID:
192990
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In August 2020, a motor yacht formerly owned by French customs authorities set sail in the Mediterranean Sea in search of migrant boats in distress. Funded by the street artist Banksy, the search and rescue engagement of the Louise Michel was meant to prevent both the continuous loss of migrant lives at sea and mass interceptions to North Africa. Assessing her maiden voyage and strategic conception, as well as her operational and political impact, the article argues that the intervention of the Louise Michel and her activist crew can be regarded as an attempt to disrupt EUrope’s ‘weaponization’ of time in the governance of maritime migration. Over recent years, EU member states have sought to systematically decelerate rescues while accelerating interceptions of escaping migrant boats. With her speed, unprecedented in the ‘civil fleet’ and on a par with EUropean and Libyan naval assets, the activists have sought to disrupt the EUro–Libyan interception regime which has led to the forced return of over 120,000 people to Libya since 2016.
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142320
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