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Freedom, Firearms, and Civil Resistance [PDF]
The Journal of Ethics, 2021 AbstractThe claim that guns can safeguard freedom is common in US political discourse. In light of a broadly republican understanding of freedom, I evaluate this claim and its implications. The idea is usually that firearms would enable citizens to engage in revolutionary violence against a tyrannical government.
Dustin Crummett
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The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics
eLife, 2022 Our current economic and political structures have an increasingly devastating impact on the Earth’s climate and ecosystems: we are facing a biospheric emergency, with catastrophic consequences for both humans and the natural world on which we depend ...
Fernando Racimo +10 more
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Relaciones Internacionales, 2022 This article’s objective is to place the modern history of Iran in relation to nonviolent struggles within the optic of the role of women within them, and to link these episodes with the feminist struggle in Iran.
Sheida Besozzi
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The democratizing qualities of the Palestinian village Bil’in’s civil resistance campaign
Journal of Political Power, 2023 This paper deals with the quality of civil resistance and, in particular, the democratizing qualities of various civil resistance practices. There is a great amount of research on civil resistance and its capacities to foster social change, and in ...
Michael Schulz
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Local elites, civil resistance, and the responsiveness of rebel governance in Côte d’Ivoire
Journal of Peace Research, 2021 Why is rebel governance more responsive in some areas than in others? In recent years, scholars have started to examine the determinants of rebel governance. Less attention has been given to explaining variation in the responsiveness of rebel governance,
Sebastian van Baalen
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Terrorism and Political Violence, 2022 During the Syrian civil war, different types of Salafi-Jihadi rebel groups controlled territory and established governance over civilians. Their governing strategies have been markedly diverse.
Matthew Bamber, Isak Svensson
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Kosova Anthropologica, 2023 As the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early years of the 1990’s turned violent and pitted constituent republics against one-another, an overwhelming majority of ordinary people in Kosova embraced a societal-wide movement of civil resistance to the ...
Arbër Jashari
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Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University, 2022 The collection was written originally in English and published in 2021. It analyzes the problems of the Velvet Revolution in Armenia in terms of the decline of authoritarianism and civil resistance in the transformation of a multipolar world. The authors
Viktorya Melkonyan
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Antisoviet proclamation, letter and writings
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2021 The article reviews the non-violent resistance of Lithuanian youth during the Soviet era in the Šiauliai region in the 1960sand 1980s, its expression and forms.
Viktorija Jenciūtė
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