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This article explores civilian agency and civil resistance under Islamist insurgents’ rule in southern Somalia in the period 2006 to 2012. After almost two decades of civil war, local institutions were weakened and the communities could not resist tight ...
M. Skjelderup
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Nonviolence and Civil Resistance
Iain Atack
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Nonviolent civil resistance against military force: The experience of Lithuania in 1991
Evolving threats to national security have resulted in the adoption of comprehensive (total) defence concepts by a number of small and medium states. Civil resistance constitutes a considerable part of such concepts, complementing military defence.
Audronė Petrauskaitė
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Eccentric compression behavior of long poplar columns externally reinforced by BFRP
The column, which is the vertical main structural part of the building, bears the force transmitted from the upper beam and slab and is a crucial part of the structure. In this study, the columns with a rectangular section cut from poplar were reinforced
Ling Zhou +3 more
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Swedish defence research played a significant part in the development of the Swedish Total Defence. This article seeks to modify the bias of previous historical studies of the Swedish National Defence Research Establishment (FOA) that has been focusing ...
F. Bertilsson
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Productive resistance within the public sector: exploring organisational culture [PDF]
The article examines how South Korean civil servants responded to the introduction of pay for performance. Drawing upon 31 in-depth interviews with career civil servants, it identifies what became known as 1/n, a form of ‘discreet resistance’ that ...
A Sturdy +68 more
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When samizdat appeared (in 1972 Lietuvos Katalikų Bažnyčios Kronika came out for the first time), resistance to soviet occupation reached higher level, became more organised, in Lithuania.
Valdemaras Klumbys
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Reassessing Blacklist Era Television: Civil Libertarianism in "You Are There," "The Adventures of Robin Hood," and "The Buccaneers" [PDF]
This article examines three popular scripted television shows of the 1950s, You Are There, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Buccaneers, all of which were clandestinely written by victims of the anti-communist blacklist in the American entertainment ...
Paul, Andrew
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Normative approaches to structural design calculations in a non-linear framework
This article considers the issue of taking non-linearity into account when performing design calculations for buildings and structures exposed to intense seismic impact. The existing rule codex 14.13330.2014 «SNIP II-7-81* “Construction in seismic areas”
Mkrtychev Oleg +2 more
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Civil Resistance from the End of the Cold War to the 21st Century: A Historical Perspective
Civil resistance made a significant contribution to the largely peaceful end of the Cold War and has become an increasingly important factor of post-Cold War international politics.
Carola Cerami
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