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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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Trends of Radicalization among the Ranks of the Afghan National Police [PDF]
, 2015 This study examines and compares trends of radicalization among the ranks of Afghan National Police (ANP) force across eleven provinces in Afghanistan. This is the first part of an ongoing series of papers dedicated to examining the evolving trends in ...
Khalid, Abdul Hadi, Zaman, Robert
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity
Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
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Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract This commentary appreciates Hamish Kallin's (2024) account of the prospects for reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches via engaging Henri Lefebvre's work, but signals equivocation about Lefebvre triggered by his depictions of colonialism, Islam and the tropics. I argue that these are inconsistent with ongoing decolonial moves
James D. Sidaway
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Returnees in the Maghreb. A European perspective. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 120 December 2019 [PDF]
, 2019 More than 10,000 individuals travelled from Europe and North Africa to fight in Syria and Iraq. Now, Europe and North Africa are dealing with the challenge of returning foreign fighters, mostly separately.
Renard, Thomas
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Cycles of construing in radicalization and deradicalization: a study of Salafist Muslims. [PDF]
, 2018 © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.This article explores radicalization and deradicalization by considering the experiences of six young Tunisian people who had become Salafist Muslims.
Aitemad Muhanna-Matar +15 more
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Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Volume 114, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT Bone tissue regeneration for large defects presents a significant challenge, demanding scaffolds that combine robust mechanical support alongside a bioactive environment. Hydrogels represent a promising solution for bone regeneration due to their biocompatibility, tunable properties, and crosslinked three‐dimensional (3D) networks mimicking ...
Mona Gibreel +8 more
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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 109-126, December 2025.ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
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Siege and Conquest. Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Sealed Dump in the Luque Castle (Córdoba, Spain)
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 502-513, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT The archaeological excavations undertaken in the Castle of Luque (Córdoba, Spain) in 2007 and 2008 resulted in the identification of a rubbish dump dated to the immediate aftermath of the Castilian conquest (ad 1243), which included material from the previous period of Almohad domination (mid‐12th to mid‐13th centuries).
Moisés Alonso‐Valladares +1 more
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The evolution of ISIS in Indonesia [PDF]
This report looks at the origins and development of the ISIS support network in Indonesia. Introduction Support for the Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS) in Indonesia raises the risk of violence there even though the capacity of violent ...
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