J W Burton
Biographic Data
| ID | 76219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J W Burton |
| GIVEN NAMES | J W |
| FAMILY NAME | Burton |
| SIGNATURE | BURTON J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8558-7116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The European Union’s Approaches to Cyber Diplomacy
The US Intelligence Community, Global Security, and AI
This article examines the ways in which the US intelligence community is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for national security purposes. Drawing on declassified intelligence records, it contends that this community has been fascinated by AI for decades. This is important to acknowledge because this historical context has shaped contemporary projects and thinking within the community. It has given the United States a first-mov…
Algorithmic extremism? The securitization of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on radicalism, polarization and political violence
Bridging the gap between cyberwar and cyberpeace
The conceptual debate around the term cyber warfare has dominated the cybersecurity discipline over the last two decades. Much less attention has been given during this period to an equally important question: what constitutes cyber peace? This article draws on the literatures in peace and conflict studies and on desecuritization in critical security studies, to suggest how we might begin to rearticulate the cybersecurity narrative and shift the …
Low levels of viral suppression among refugees and host nationals accessing antiretroviral therapy in a Kenyan refugee camp
Virologic outcomes among refugees and host nationals were similar but unacceptably low. Slight improvements were observed after a remedial intervention. Virologic monitoring was important for identifying an underperforming ART program in a remote facility that serves refugees alongside host nationals. This work highlights the importance of careful laboratory monitoring of vulnerable populations accessing ART in remote settings
Nato Global Perceptions – Views from the Asia-Pacific Region
In a world characterized by shifts in global power, NATO’s partnerships – in Europe as well as elsewhere – are critical for the organization. Yet the question of how the Alliance’s global partners perceive NATO in the context of cooperative security, collective defence, and crisis management – including NATO’s goals, operational capacity, functional capability, and influence – remains impressionistic and under-addressed. This paper launches discu…
Views on Nato from Mongolia and the Republic of Korea
Mongolia and the Republic of Korea are in the same “partnership basket” for NATO in the Asia-Pacific. The two countries have burgeoning relations with NATO, which represent a relatively new dimension of international engagement for the region. Through the lens of Strategic Narrative Theory, we attempt to grasp how the strategic narratives of the two countries resonate with NATO-originated messages sent to partners in the Asia-Pacific. Both countr…
Nato-Japan Relations
The article uses Strategic Narrative Theory to explain how NATO has successfully communicated narratives of “natural partnership” and cooperative security to Japan. Japan strongly perceives NATO to be an embodiment and guarantor of global norms and international law. NATO and Japanese security commentators make a clear and consistent linkage between Russian and Chinese threats to international law respectively, as part of an extended deterrence s…
Nato’s “Global Partners” in Asia
This article analyzes how NATO officials perceive the Alliance’s global partnerships with Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia, South Korea, and Japan. In doing so, it seeks to establish the degree of conformity within the alliance about how useful and important the partnerships are, and connectedly, how NATO’s strategic narrative about its global security role is changing. The article argues that while NATO is committed to maintaining links with eac…
Narrative Alignment and Misalignment
In the wake of the Afghan missions, this article assesses the appetite in Australia and New Zealand for an ongoing relationship with NATO. Australia and New Zealand share many commonalities in their cultural, political, and economic profiles. Yet their identities in the realm of defense and security differ subtly, which has important implications for the reception of NATO’s strategic narratives in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on strategi…
Nato’s cyber defence
NATO’s adaptation in the post-cold war era has included a growing role in responding to cyber attacks. This article explores the definitional and theoretical problems in analysing the emerging cyber security field and seeks to provide an outline of the main strategic challenges that cyber attacks pose for NATO. The article evaluates the institutional structures and processes put in place by NATO to confront cyber threats and moves on to explore t…
Bounded agency in humanitarian settings
Small states and cyber security
While there is a burgeoning literature on cyber security, little scholarly work has been completed on how cyber security issues are affecting small states. This article attempts to contribute to the debate by exploring whether small states are facing unique or different challenges in enhancing their cyber security. Drawing on the extensive small states literature, the article begins by outlining three conceptual models of small state security, ba…
Disappearing Savages? Thoughts on the Construction of an Anthropological Conundrum
From its birth as an amateur hobby, through its inception into professional academia and to the present time, anthropologists have asserted that the primary subject matter of its attention is fast disappearing. The concept of the "disappearing savage," it is suggested here, has provided both a rationale for the existence of social and cultural anthropology as well as a ruse or mirror for our own sense of modernity
The Creation and Destruction of Nilotic Africa
This brief essay addresses the historical development of an important sub-field in modern anthropology-the ethnology of Nilotic Africa. It is likewise concerned with the political circumstances now confronting Nilotic peoples. In this regard I am particularly concerned with the manner in which contemporary nation-states effect the political and legal rights of indigenous peoples, and how these emergent policies question the value and relevance of…
Representing Africa
There are suggestions in the recent literature that since professional anthropology grew enormously during the colonial period, anthropologists of the time implicitly advanced the interests of colonial production and hegemony. A careful examination of relevant sources results in a contrary interpretation. In the course of demonstrating the mythical existence of “colonial anthropology,” this paper also raises questions about the present anthropolo…
Nationalism in the Twentieth Century and Tides Among Nations
Journal Article Nationalism in the Twentieth Century and Tides Among Nations Get access Nationalism in the Twentieth Century. By Anthony D. Smith. London: Martin Robertson. 1979. 257pp. £12.00. Pb: £3.95.Tides Among Nations. By Karl W. Deutsch. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan. 1979. 342pp. £13.45. J. W. Burton J. W. Burton 1University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar In…
The Wave is My Mother's Husband
Systems, States, Diplomacy and Rules
Universal Values and World Politics
The history of thought in any discipline reflects a progression in study from the more obvious and simple variables to less well defined and more complex ones. In political studies, geopolitical and institutional influences were among the first to be subjected to careful analysis and assessment. From time to time additional variables attracted attention as social environments began to feature them, and as thought in other areas called attention t…
International Relations
International Relations
Australian Policies and Attitudes toward China
International Relations. A General Theory
Peace research" and "international relations
Small states and cyber security
While there is a burgeoning literature on cyber security, little scholarly work has been completed on how cyber security issues are affecting small states. This article attempts to contribute to the debate by exploring whether small states are facing unique or different challenges in enhancing their cyber security. Drawing on the extensive small states literature, the article begins by outlining three conceptual models of small state security, ba…
Representing Africa
There are suggestions in the recent literature that since professional anthropology grew enormously during the colonial period, anthropologists of the time implicitly advanced the interests of colonial production and hegemony. A careful examination of relevant sources results in a contrary interpretation. In the course of demonstrating the mythical existence of “colonial anthropology,” this paper also raises questions about the present anthropolo…
Narrative Alignment and Misalignment
In the wake of the Afghan missions, this article assesses the appetite in Australia and New Zealand for an ongoing relationship with NATO. Australia and New Zealand share many commonalities in their cultural, political, and economic profiles. Yet their identities in the realm of defense and security differ subtly, which has important implications for the reception of NATO’s strategic narratives in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on strategi…
Nato’s cyber defence
NATO’s adaptation in the post-cold war era has included a growing role in responding to cyber attacks. This article explores the definitional and theoretical problems in analysing the emerging cyber security field and seeks to provide an outline of the main strategic challenges that cyber attacks pose for NATO. The article evaluates the institutional structures and processes put in place by NATO to confront cyber threats and moves on to explore t…
International Relations. A General Theory
Algorithmic extremism? The securitization of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on radicalism, polarization and political violence
The Wave is My Mother's Husband
The US Intelligence Community, Global Security, and AI
This article examines the ways in which the US intelligence community is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for national security purposes. Drawing on declassified intelligence records, it contends that this community has been fascinated by AI for decades. This is important to acknowledge because this historical context has shaped contemporary projects and thinking within the community. It has given the United States a first-mov…
Nato-Japan Relations
The article uses Strategic Narrative Theory to explain how NATO has successfully communicated narratives of “natural partnership” and cooperative security to Japan. Japan strongly perceives NATO to be an embodiment and guarantor of global norms and international law. NATO and Japanese security commentators make a clear and consistent linkage between Russian and Chinese threats to international law respectively, as part of an extended deterrence s…
Bounded agency in humanitarian settings
Disappearing Savages? Thoughts on the Construction of an Anthropological Conundrum
From its birth as an amateur hobby, through its inception into professional academia and to the present time, anthropologists have asserted that the primary subject matter of its attention is fast disappearing. The concept of the "disappearing savage," it is suggested here, has provided both a rationale for the existence of social and cultural anthropology as well as a ruse or mirror for our own sense of modernity
Australian Policies and Attitudes toward China
Peace research" and "international relations
Nato’s “Global Partners” in Asia
This article analyzes how NATO officials perceive the Alliance’s global partnerships with Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia, South Korea, and Japan. In doing so, it seeks to establish the degree of conformity within the alliance about how useful and important the partnerships are, and connectedly, how NATO’s strategic narrative about its global security role is changing. The article argues that while NATO is committed to maintaining links with eac…
Universal Values and World Politics
The history of thought in any discipline reflects a progression in study from the more obvious and simple variables to less well defined and more complex ones. In political studies, geopolitical and institutional influences were among the first to be subjected to careful analysis and assessment. From time to time additional variables attracted attention as social environments began to feature them, and as thought in other areas called attention t…
Peace research" and "international relations
International Relations
Australian Policies and Attitudes toward China
International Relations. A General Theory
International Relations
Systems, States, Diplomacy and Rules
Universal Values and World Politics
The history of thought in any discipline reflects a progression in study from the more obvious and simple variables to less well defined and more complex ones. In political studies, geopolitical and institutional influences were among the first to be subjected to careful analysis and assessment. From time to time additional variables attracted attention as social environments began to feature them, and as thought in other areas called attention t…
The Wave is My Mother's Husband
Nationalism in the Twentieth Century and Tides Among Nations
Journal Article Nationalism in the Twentieth Century and Tides Among Nations Get access Nationalism in the Twentieth Century. By Anthony D. Smith. London: Martin Robertson. 1979. 257pp. £12.00. Pb: £3.95.Tides Among Nations. By Karl W. Deutsch. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan. 1979. 342pp. £13.45. J. W. Burton J. W. Burton 1University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar In…
Representing Africa
There are suggestions in the recent literature that since professional anthropology grew enormously during the colonial period, anthropologists of the time implicitly advanced the interests of colonial production and hegemony. A careful examination of relevant sources results in a contrary interpretation. In the course of demonstrating the mythical existence of “colonial anthropology,” this paper also raises questions about the present anthropolo…
The Creation and Destruction of Nilotic Africa
This brief essay addresses the historical development of an important sub-field in modern anthropology-the ethnology of Nilotic Africa. It is likewise concerned with the political circumstances now confronting Nilotic peoples. In this regard I am particularly concerned with the manner in which contemporary nation-states effect the political and legal rights of indigenous peoples, and how these emergent policies question the value and relevance of…
Disappearing Savages? Thoughts on the Construction of an Anthropological Conundrum
From its birth as an amateur hobby, through its inception into professional academia and to the present time, anthropologists have asserted that the primary subject matter of its attention is fast disappearing. The concept of the "disappearing savage," it is suggested here, has provided both a rationale for the existence of social and cultural anthropology as well as a ruse or mirror for our own sense of modernity
Small states and cyber security
While there is a burgeoning literature on cyber security, little scholarly work has been completed on how cyber security issues are affecting small states. This article attempts to contribute to the debate by exploring whether small states are facing unique or different challenges in enhancing their cyber security. Drawing on the extensive small states literature, the article begins by outlining three conceptual models of small state security, ba…
Bounded agency in humanitarian settings
Nato’s cyber defence
NATO’s adaptation in the post-cold war era has included a growing role in responding to cyber attacks. This article explores the definitional and theoretical problems in analysing the emerging cyber security field and seeks to provide an outline of the main strategic challenges that cyber attacks pose for NATO. The article evaluates the institutional structures and processes put in place by NATO to confront cyber threats and moves on to explore t…
Low levels of viral suppression among refugees and host nationals accessing antiretroviral therapy in a Kenyan refugee camp
Virologic outcomes among refugees and host nationals were similar but unacceptably low. Slight improvements were observed after a remedial intervention. Virologic monitoring was important for identifying an underperforming ART program in a remote facility that serves refugees alongside host nationals. This work highlights the importance of careful laboratory monitoring of vulnerable populations accessing ART in remote settings
Nato Global Perceptions – Views from the Asia-Pacific Region
In a world characterized by shifts in global power, NATO’s partnerships – in Europe as well as elsewhere – are critical for the organization. Yet the question of how the Alliance’s global partners perceive NATO in the context of cooperative security, collective defence, and crisis management – including NATO’s goals, operational capacity, functional capability, and influence – remains impressionistic and under-addressed. This paper launches discu…
Views on Nato from Mongolia and the Republic of Korea
Mongolia and the Republic of Korea are in the same “partnership basket” for NATO in the Asia-Pacific. The two countries have burgeoning relations with NATO, which represent a relatively new dimension of international engagement for the region. Through the lens of Strategic Narrative Theory, we attempt to grasp how the strategic narratives of the two countries resonate with NATO-originated messages sent to partners in the Asia-Pacific. Both countr…
Nato-Japan Relations
The article uses Strategic Narrative Theory to explain how NATO has successfully communicated narratives of “natural partnership” and cooperative security to Japan. Japan strongly perceives NATO to be an embodiment and guarantor of global norms and international law. NATO and Japanese security commentators make a clear and consistent linkage between Russian and Chinese threats to international law respectively, as part of an extended deterrence s…
Nato’s “Global Partners” in Asia
This article analyzes how NATO officials perceive the Alliance’s global partnerships with Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia, South Korea, and Japan. In doing so, it seeks to establish the degree of conformity within the alliance about how useful and important the partnerships are, and connectedly, how NATO’s strategic narrative about its global security role is changing. The article argues that while NATO is committed to maintaining links with eac…
Narrative Alignment and Misalignment
In the wake of the Afghan missions, this article assesses the appetite in Australia and New Zealand for an ongoing relationship with NATO. Australia and New Zealand share many commonalities in their cultural, political, and economic profiles. Yet their identities in the realm of defense and security differ subtly, which has important implications for the reception of NATO’s strategic narratives in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on strategi…
Bridging the gap between cyberwar and cyberpeace
The conceptual debate around the term cyber warfare has dominated the cybersecurity discipline over the last two decades. Much less attention has been given during this period to an equally important question: what constitutes cyber peace? This article draws on the literatures in peace and conflict studies and on desecuritization in critical security studies, to suggest how we might begin to rearticulate the cybersecurity narrative and shift the …
The US Intelligence Community, Global Security, and AI
This article examines the ways in which the US intelligence community is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for national security purposes. Drawing on declassified intelligence records, it contends that this community has been fascinated by AI for decades. This is important to acknowledge because this historical context has shaped contemporary projects and thinking within the community. It has given the United States a first-mov…
Algorithmic extremism? The securitization of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on radicalism, polarization and political violence
The European Union’s Approaches to Cyber Diplomacy
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