2018, UMaine News Press Releases

This is a catalog of press releases put out by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications between March 2, 2018 and December 31, 2018

Russian Concept of War, Management and Use of Military Power : Conceptual Change

This publication consists primarily of articles presented in the annual Russia Seminar 2022 organised by the Department of warfare of the Finnish National Defence University (FNDU) and titled as “Russian Concept of War, Management and Use of Military Power – Conceptual Change”. The aim of the Seminar was to raise a discussion on Russian military policy and military power. The focus of the seminar was on the Russian concept of ”war” – that is – the use of lethal military force in order to achieve certain political objectives. It should be noted that the publication is not an exhaustive presentation of all the aspects related to the concept of war. This leaves room for themes and questions to be researched also in the future. The use of force is one of the two main functions of the Russian military power, the other one being deterrence, which was discussed at the Russia seminar 2021. The objective of deterrence is to influence the conciousness of the adversary - to change adversary’s behaviour and make it relinquish possible ideas of aggression or threat to use military power against Russia. In the 2021 seminar the main emphasis was on the military aspects and prerequisites of preventing a war. As we know now, at the time of writing these lines, in May-June 2022 – these aspects and methods of deterrence conducted by Russia and its military during the past year were not only aimed at preventing war, but also, they were actual preparations for a war. Furthermore, despite the fact that these means and capabilities were partly escalatory and threatening by nature, they did not enable Russia to achieve its political, military-political or military objectives. Regarding Ukraine, or more broadly the security structure of Europe, they were set by Russia, perhaps, intentionally on a level which was clearly unacceptable. In this manner Russia could justify to Russian people – after the launch of the operation – that there is no other solution than to conduct “a special military operation” in Ukraine. In this introductory chapter I will briefly introduce the articles or presentations of this report which were contributed in the seminar. All the presentations and discussion can be found on the FNDU YouTube-channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?-v=ywyasBuw7vg&t=3263s.CONTENTS Klaus Ilmonen SPEECH BY MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE MANNERHEIM FOUNDATION ON THE EVE OF THE SEMINAR Pentti Forsström 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PUBLICATION Pentti Forsström 2. INTERPRETATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN CONCEPT OF WAR Dima Adamsky 3. COMMAND AND CONTROL CULTURE À LA RUSSE Leonid Nersisyan 4. NEW RUSSIAN STRATEGIC WEAPONS AND MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEMS – CHANGE OF THE BALANCE? Jukka Viitaniemi 5. STRATEGIC ACTIONS OF THE ARMED FORCES – CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS Jyrki Terva 6. SCHRÖDINGERS CAT IN EASTERN UKRAINE – HOW RUSSIA’S WAR IN UKRAINE CREATES AND DESCRIBES NEW RUSSIA-WEST CONFLICT Juha Wihersaari 7. EVGENY MESSNER’S THEORY OF SUBVERSION WAR VS. HYBRID WARFARE Oscar Jonsson (and Bryce Johnston - absent from the seminar) 8. RUSSIA’S REVOLUTION IN INTELLIGENCE AFFAIRS Rod Thornton and Marina Miron 9. INTERFACE BETWEEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CYBER. CREATING REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS? THE RUSSIAN MILITARY’S UTILISATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO ENHANCE ITS CYBER OPERATIONS: THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY Jonna Alava 10. REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN SOLDIERS IN RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES 2008–2021 Aristide M. LaVey 11. ADMIRAL USHAKOV: A STUDY OF RUSSIAN POWER PROJECTION Santeri Kytöneva 12. JUSTIFYING THE USE OF FORCE: RUSSIA’S SPIRITUAL AND NATIONAL SECURITY Justin Bronk 13. DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIAN COMBAT AIR SPENDING AND LIKELY OPERATIONAL IMPLICATIONS Lester W. Grau (and Charles K. Bartles) 14. RUSSIAN MANEUVER DEFENCE AND THEIR CONCEPT OF THE FRAGMENTED BATTLEFIELD Michael Kofman 15. ON PRESENT WAR IN UKRAINE - KEYNOTE

University of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2009.03

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.https://digital.sandiego.edu/print-media/1074/thumbnail.jp

Aesthetics of Gentrification Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City

Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification, super-gentrification, and planetary gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities in response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven discourses of the creative city, smart city, millennial city, and sustainable city. In this context, how do contemporary creative practices in art, architecture, and related fields help to produce or resist gentrification? What does gentrification look and feel like in specific sites and communities around the globe, and how is that appearance or feeling implicated in promoting stylized renewal to a privileged public? In what ways do the aesthetics of gentrification express contested conditions of migration and mobility? Addressing these questions, this book examines the relationship between aesthetics and gentrification in contemporary cities from multiple, comparative, global, and transnational perspectives

Crime and Fear in Public Places

No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place does. A public place, whatever its nature – a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner – is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim of crime. With this book, we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline. The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world. This is achieved by tackling five crosscutting themes: the nature of the city’s environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individuals’ daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and finally, examples of current practices in promoting safety. All these original articles contribute to our quest for safer, more inclusive, resilient, equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

On War Photography

Ph.D. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2018

Investing in The Health and Well-Being of Young Adults

This report was prepared to assist federal, state, and local policy makers and program leaders, as well as employers, nonprofit organizations, and other community partners, in developing and enhancing policies and programs to improve young adults' health, safety, and well-being. The report also suggests priorities for research to inform policy and programs for young adults.Young adulthood - ages approximately 18 to 26 - is a critical period of development with long-lasting implications for a person's economic security, health and well-being. Young adults are key contributors to the nation's workforce and military services and, since many are parents, to the healthy development of the next generation. Although 'millennials' have received attention in the popular media in recent years, young adults are too rarely treated as a distinct population in policy, programs, and research. Instead, they are often grouped with adolescents or, more often, with all adults. Currently, the nation is experiencing economic restructuring, widening inequality, a rapidly rising ratio of older adults, and an increasingly diverse population. The possible transformative effects of these features make focus on young adults especially important. A systematic approach to understanding and responding to the unique circumstances and needs of today's young adults can help to pave the way to a more productive and equitable tomorrow for young adults in particular and our society at large