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GOVERNMENT ACTOR [3 records]

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Record 1 2025-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Security
CONT

A state actor is an entity, either an individual or a group, that acts under the direction or influence of a government.

CONT

Unlike independent hackers or cybercriminal groups, state actors operate with the explicit or tacit support of a nation-state. This often provides them with substantial resources, including funding, technical expertise, and access to advanced technology.

CONT

State actors operate in various capacities, including military operations, intelligence gathering, and political influence campaigns. Their activities can range from conventional warfare to more subtle forms of interference, such as cyberattacks or propaganda dissemination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
OBS

Un acteur étatique est une entité, qu'il s'agisse d'un individu ou d'un groupe, qui agit sous la direction ou l'influence d'un gouvernement.

OBS

Un acteur étatique peut être à l'origine de cyberattaques sophistiquées contre des systèmes informatiques gouvernementaux.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
  • Social Problems
DEF

... the implicit norm that regulates the access of bodies to certain spaces.

CONT

Recent work on the creative workforce in the UK [United Kingdom] has suggested systematic exclusions for women, ethnic minorities, and those from working-class social origins. Moreover, these exclusions shape a powerful sense of what a creative worker, whether artist, actor, writer, director, or musician, is. This "somatic norm" in creative occupations is manifested in the figure of the able-bodied, white, middle-class-origin man, a norm also dominant across other elite occupations in Britain.... The dominance of the white male, middle-class body was intertwined with the ideal type of government civil servant, a "somatic norm" serving to exclude those who did not fit this norm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
  • Problèmes sociaux
CONT

Les femmes ont investi des espaces orientés vers l'écriture. Et pourtant, la femme écrivaine ne reste que cela : la femme écrivaine, déviant de la norme somatique de «l'écrivain» en tant que telle.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • War and Peace (International Law)
CONT

Donors, for example, may be among the internationals that view a war-affected government or non-state actor as incapable of receiving and implementing funded activities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)

Spanish

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