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Society, 2017
““Civilization” and the Self-Critical Tradition” argues that the word “civilization” in Europe comprises intrinsically the idea of progress contrary to the negative portrayal that prominent theorists have associated to this term. I argue that skepticism will remain about this idea, especially for the formerly colonized people who associate the term ...
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““Civilization” and the Self-Critical Tradition” argues that the word “civilization” in Europe comprises intrinsically the idea of progress contrary to the negative portrayal that prominent theorists have associated to this term. I argue that skepticism will remain about this idea, especially for the formerly colonized people who associate the term ...
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The Civilizing Mission Persists
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2021AbstractU.S. government leaders have long considered Latin America their proverbial backyard and have recurrently intervened in the region. In earlier periods of U.S. imperialism, U.S. government leaders justified such intervention with reference to allegedly scientific racial hierarchies, which placed White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) at the top ...
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Red under Blue: Chinese Humanitarian Action in UN Peacekeeping Missions
, 2020This article documents humanitarian action undertaken by Chinese troops in six UN peacekeeping missions and shows that Chinese peacekeepers engaged in very similar types of humanitarian action regardless of their unit type or mission area.
Junghee Kwon
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Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2019
Peacekeeping mitigates killing, but nonlethal violence also influences both positive peace and stability. We evaluate peacekeepers’ effect on one such type of abuse, sexual violence.
Shanna A. Kirschner, Adam T. Miller
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Peacekeeping mitigates killing, but nonlethal violence also influences both positive peace and stability. We evaluate peacekeepers’ effect on one such type of abuse, sexual violence.
Shanna A. Kirschner, Adam T. Miller
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Diversionary Peace: International Peacekeeping and Domestic Civil-Military Relations
, 2020What is the impact of international peacekeeping missions for civil-military relations at home? This article unpacks the conditions that produce positive effects of peacekeeping participation on the domestic politics of an authoritarian regime.
H. Albrecht
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1971
Nothing in the whole imperial effort had as great an impact on the world as the introduction of Western education. All of Africa and half of Asia are now ruled by elite groups who use Western languages for business and administration. However firm individual imperialists may have been in their belief that subject peoples could not and should not be ...
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Nothing in the whole imperial effort had as great an impact on the world as the introduction of Western education. All of Africa and half of Asia are now ruled by elite groups who use Western languages for business and administration. However firm individual imperialists may have been in their belief that subject peoples could not and should not be ...
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Democracy as Civilizing Mission
2020Abstract As the First World War ended, new borderland conflicts erupted in Volhynia. At the Paris Peace Conference, Polish statesmen tapped into broader global ideas of civilization in order to show that the Polish nation had the right to rule Volhynia’s “backward” populations, particularly its Ukrainian-speaking majority.
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International Law, 2019
The literature encompassed within the area of civil-military relations (CMR) is extremely broad. The focus in this bibliography is primarily on CMR as a subfield of comparative politics in that it deals with the power relations between the military and ...
T. Bruneau
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The literature encompassed within the area of civil-military relations (CMR) is extremely broad. The focus in this bibliography is primarily on CMR as a subfield of comparative politics in that it deals with the power relations between the military and ...
T. Bruneau
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Civilization and the Limits of Mission
2008AbstractSynopsis: The chapter examines Christianity's formative Western assimilation as a prelude to its overseas post‐Western development. The chapter turns to Roland Allen and the stirrings in China to disentangle Western civilization from Christian civilization, and to show how cultural assimilation falls short of radical conversion.
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Alignment of U. S. ACE Civil Works Missions to Restore Habitat and Increase Environmental Resiliency
, 2016Marin M. Kress +5 more
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