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Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
wiley   +1 more source

Greens in Germany: from ‘’Peace Party’’ into ‘‘War Party’’

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta
This article examines the ideological and political evolution of Germany’s Alliance 90/The Greens from an explicitly pacifist “peace party” into a political actor that legitimizes— and, in government, actively supports—the use of military instruments for
T. L. Rovinskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Shanghai Preconception Cohort (SPCC) for the association of periconceptional parental key nutritional factors with health outcomes of children with congenital heart disease: a cohort profile

BMJ Open, 2019
Purpose The Shanghai Preconception Cohort (SPCC) was initially established to investigate the associations of parental periconceptional nutritional factors with congenital heart disease (CHD) but has further analysed child growth and development and ...
Yuhuan Liu, Lei Zhang, Qing Liu, Hong Zhu, Ying Wang, Hong Huang, Min Jiang, Yi Zhang, Xiaojing Ma, Dingmei Wang, Yuang Jiang, Ying Ye, Mi Ji, Yalan Dou, Xiaotian Chen, Mengru Li, Wei Sheng, Guoying Huang, Weifen Luo, Yin Ye, Yumei Liu, Gu Qing(s), Gu Qing(o), Linmei Zhu, De’ai Hou, Peiyu Sun, Hongbing Wang, Li Meng, Zifen Dai, Li fen, Shufang Chen, Zhenhua Tang, Jiahao Wu, Shuhua Wang, Dan li, Yu Ke, Weiping Cao, Baoren Zhang, Nailing Wang, Qiumin Xia, Guoying Lao, HongMei Jin, Wenjuan Xie, Pin Yi, Weiming Gong, JianXin Xu, Yingying Qian, Mingjie Luo, Jingwei Xia, Dongmei Chen, Zhenyu Tang, Xuejing Zhu, Huiling Yang, Xiaotian Li, Zhiyong Wu, Chuanmin Ying, Shan Shi, Yanquan Zhang, Mingyi Yang, Xiaohua Zhang, Lin Guan, Jinyu Xu, Honglin Wang, Fang Shen, Wenying Li, Xiaojing Teng, Jinling Zhao, Cuili Zhu, Hongwei Chen, Xiaoming Yuan, Meihua Zhang, Yaqiong Jin, Qing Yang, Min Feng, Yan Wu, Sa Guo, Hongling Du, Zhanyue Yi, Renhua Shi, Qinfen Su, Yingying Lv, Yun Sun, Qiongpei Gu, Xixia Pang, Qingwu Zhang, Songxiao Bai, Baoqiao Qi   +86 more
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

An Examination of Cultural Transformation in Türkiye After 1980 in the Context of “Neoliberal Governmentality”

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The January 24 Decisions of 1980 and the subsequent Özal era marked a profound rupture, carrying Türkiye from an import substitution economy to an outward‐oriented, “free‐market” order. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of neoliberal governmentality, this study conducts a qualitative, interpretivist discourse analysis of Turgut Özal's ...
Muhammed Salim Danış
wiley   +1 more source

United Nations Security Council: Reform (Im)Possible?

Bratislava Law Review
It is beyond dispute that the current configuration of the UN Security Council represents a snapshot, or even a daguerreotype, of an international political and legal vision that has moved away from the one first consolidated at the end of the Cold War,
Agostina Latino
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Responsible Liberalism

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
wiley   +1 more source

The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
wiley   +1 more source

Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
wiley   +1 more source