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Short‐Term Sustainability: Neoliberal Philanthropy, Dependency, and Divine Economics in Islamic Zanzibar

Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT As the concept of sustainability became mainstream in development discourses from its environmentalist origins, it increasingly came to resemble the unchecked capitalist logics that it was originally meant to critique: Rather than reorganizing the economy, sustainability could be achieved through the economy as philanthropy became modeled on ...
Caitlyn Bolton
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Links Between Terrorism, Organized Crime and Crime: The Case of the Sahel Region

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2014
Many observers hold that terrorist groups and transnational criminal networks share many of the same characteristics, methods and tactics. There are many examples cited to demonstrate these observations are not coincidental, but indicative of a trend: a ...
Erik Alda, Joseph L Sala
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Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 789-807, September 2025.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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La Mauritanie à l’épreuve de l’islamisme et des menaces terroristes

EchoGéo, 2008
Since a few weeks, Mauritania is in front of several terrorist attacks claimed by Al-Qaïda in Maghreb. Radical Islamism is not new in this country but terrorism and violence of these acts are totally unheard.
Armelle Choplin
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The Growing Influence of Al-Qaeda on the African Continent Der wachsende Einfluss von Al-Qaida auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent

Africa Spectrum, 2011
Al-Qaeda’s influence in Africa is growing. From 2009 to 2011, activity by Al-Qaeda was noted in 19 African nations and regions. Four regional Al-Qaeda organizations operate on the continent, which in turn often have several sub-organizations: the ...
Hans Krech
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The Saudi Savior—Justifying Operation Decisive Storm

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 1, Winter 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that despite the success of Saudi Arabia's use of discourse to legitimize Operation Decisive Storm, their initial bombing and blockade of Yemen, to the United States, ultimately these discourses were problematic. Via analyzing speeches from Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adel Al‐Jubeir, and articles from Saudi news ...
Tom Walsh
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Extinguishing the Torch of Terror: The Threat of Terrorism and the 2010 Olympics

Journal of Strategic Security, 2009
With the change in seasons comes the expected change of insurgency operations in Afghanistan as Taliban and al-Qaida fighters mount their spring and summer offensives against both NATO forces and Afghanis sympathetic to foreign troops.
Serge E. Vidalis
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Minimalist economic management, deferred revenue regime and aid dependency: Explaining contradictory post‐war statebuilding aims

Global Policy, Volume 15, Issue 5, Page 869-885, November 2024.
Abstract The paper analyses a contradiction in the liberal approach to post‐war statebuilding. The form of the state is seen to aim for the establishment of a centralised maximalist administration when the state's de jure economic policy makes its revenue dependant on market‐generated private sector taxes that are either inadequate or its institutions ...
Kambaiz Rafi
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“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars

American Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 3, Page 509-520, September 2024.
Abstract This article focuses on female bodies co‐laboring across the racial lines and academic‐activist divides to explore both the potentials and constraints of feminist solidarity in the hyper‐masculine and ultra‐nationalist normative order of the global war on terror.
Serra Hakyemez, Ozlem Yasak
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Geographic Trajectories of Al-Qaida and Taliban Terrorist Groups in Pakistan

Journal of Strategic Security, 2010
Though Western analysts tend to mention al-Qaida and Taliban in Pakistan in the same context, the dynamics of their relationship are far more complex than a cursory examination would reveal.
Syed Manzar Abbas Zaidi
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