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Shanghai Co‐Operation Organisation: A Concert of Eurasia?
ABSTRACT The Shanghai Co‐operation Organisation (SCO) has emerged as a viable intergovernmental organisation with a vibrant security portfolio. With its recent expansion it now boasts ten members, including rising great powers Russia, China, and India, as well as nuclear‐armed Pakistan, and regional power Iran.
James MacHaffie
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Fighting the Mujahideen: Lessons from the Soviet Counter-Insurgency Experience if Afghanistan [PDF]
The Canadian Forces currently in Afghanistan as part of a NATO coalition are playing a major role in a counter-insurgency campaign directed against a resurgent Taliban threat.
Balasevicius, Tony, Smith, Greg
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State of the Field: The History of Masculinities
Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
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ABSTRACT This article explores the development of Italian popular and educational cartography following the national unification of 1861. While Italy had a long‐standing cartographic tradition dating back to the Renaissance, this tradition had rapidly declined in the late modern age due to political fragmentation. The late 19th century saw a revival of
Matteo Proto
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ABSTRACT Between 1889 and 1914, the international peace movement and the labor movement shared goals of preventing war and promoting justice, but their collaboration was constrained by differing class compositions and priorities. While the peace movement, led largely by middle‐class reformers, emphasized arbitration and disarmament, the labor movement,
Fredrik Egefur
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The Croatian-Slavonic Grenz (Border) Hussars’ Role in the Campaigns 1793–94 against the Revolutionary France or the history of the cavalry for the Wurmser Freikorps [PDF]
A tanulmány az osztrák–stájer, vagy másként Wurmser-szabadcsapat lovasságának létrejöttét és eddig gyakorlatilag feltáratlan történetét tekinti át levéltári kutatások alapján.
Réfi, Attila
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Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
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From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States
Abstract A new approach to rebuilding collapsed states is being trialed in the Arab world, most conspicuously by the Trump administration but with broad international support. This replaces the previous model—favoring democratic building blocks like inclusion, compromise, reconciliation, accountability, and citizenship—which is now seen as too costly ...
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
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On the natural border: A bio‐geo‐political reading
Abstract This article engages in a critical analysis of the concept of the natural border. It highlights its inherently biopolitical nature by exploring how it intersects with biology, history and geography. In the last decades, critical border studies have deeply questioned the naturality of borders.
Matteo Proto, Francesco Buscemi
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