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Conceptual Approaches to the Problem of War Organizations Legitimacy

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2009
The axis of the publication is the endeavor involving the sociological study of pivotal questions pertaining to armed struggle legitimization patterns via the nature of the struggle as well as by means of the specific agents' rights definition to be ...
E G Panteleev
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Explaining Political Violence Against Civilians in Northern Ireland: A Contention-Oriented Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In contrast to prevalent theories of terrorism, this study develops a contention-oriented approach where levels and forms of political violence against civilians depend upon: (1) the strategies of combatants; (2) the means of contention; (3) the ...
Maney, Gregory M.   +2 more
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Oil and the propensity to armed struggle in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper attempts to explain the determinants of the propensity to armed struggle and the probability of participation by individuals in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using primary (micro) data.
Oyefusi, Aderoju
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Birds of Freedom? Perspectives on Female Emancipation and Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Over the last decade, females have been an integral part of fighting forces in both international conflicts and in armed struggle in at least 38 internal conflicts.
Denov, Myriam, Jordan, Kim
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Apóstoles, publicistas, hombres de acción y sindicalistas en la historia del anarquismo español

open access: yesCahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine, 2013
Rarely discussed in the historiography of Spanish anarchism is the question of influence in the definition of the strategy and the organization of collective action by the militants who, at varying degrees, were occupying positions of responsibility.
Jacques Maurice
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Escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: operation “Home and Garden”

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки
Importance. The escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which acquired particular attention after the outbreak of war between Israel and the Hamas movement at the end of 2023, is examined.
A. A. Ermakov, I. V. Ryzhov
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Soviet armed formations in the fight against the insurgency in the territory of the Volga German region (March – April 1921) [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношения
The article examines one of the episodes of the struggle of Soviet armed formations against the peasant insurgency during the end of the Civil War. We are talking about the suppression of an uprising in the territory of the Volga Germans in March –
Korolev, German K.
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Karen Nationalism and Armed Struggle:

open access: yes, 2013
In this chapter, we will describe the life of Zipporah Sein within the context of the emergence and evolution of the Karen nationalist movement and armed struggle in Burma.1 Particular emphasis will be placed on how Zipporah Sein perceives her role and articulates her political vision as a prominent civilian leader in an armed resistance organisation ...
Thawnghmung, Ardeth Maung, CHO, Violet
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The Impact of the First World War on Bashkir and Tatar Muslims (1914-1918)

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2017
The article analyses socio-political changes in the Muslim world of Bashkirs and Tatars of the Russian Empire, especially those who served in the Russian Army any time between 1904 and 1917.
Salavat Iskhakov
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From low-conflict polity to democratic civil peace: explaining Zambian exceptionalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
An absence of civil war and other significant sub-state violence makes Zambia an exceptional although not unique case in central-southern Africa. The literature devoted to explaining civil war has grown dramatically in recent years, but while it pays ...
Burnell, Peter J.
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