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Russia and the Birth of Right‐Wing Terrorism: Mass Politics, Antisemitism, and the Assassination of Mikhail Gertsenshtein

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
wiley   +1 more source

The Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria: What could have been the precursors?

Journal for Deradicalization, 2016
The problem of insurgency has for several decades occupied a good part of the attention of IR scholars. This paper explores the various perspectives on the formation and radicalization of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Olusegun Anthony Ofongo
doaj  

Boko Haram and Ansar al-Sunna:

Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies
This paper examines the manifestation and problems relating to the Islamist insurgencies of Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria, and Ansar al-Sunna in northern Mozambique.
Theo Neethling
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How climate change and insecurity pushed 5 million people to hunger in Chad, Africa. [PDF]

Public Health Chall, 2022
Musa SS, Ela TB, Manirambona E, Shomuyiwa DO, Haruna UA, Lucero-Prisno DE, Muhammad A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Precarious agency: The role of uptake

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
wiley   +1 more source

Trans-border Mobility and Security in the Sahel: Exploring the Dynamics of Forced Migration and Population Displacements in Burkina Faso and Mali. [PDF]

Society, 2023
Okafor JC, Ononogbu OA, Ojimba AC, Ani CC.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Creating a counter insurgency plan: Elements required based upon a comparative analysis of research findings

, 2012
The development of a counter-insurgency doctrine is an evolutionary process: no two insurgencies are the same. However, certain fundamental principals remain consistent and these can be applied to meet the required circumstances.
Bailey, William
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Does Perceived Geopolitical Risk Constrain Corporate Borrowing? Evidence From Korean Firms

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how geopolitical risk affects corporate borrowing using firm‐level data from Korea. We construct a novel perception‐based geopolitical risk index related to North Korea and estimate a dynamic panel model using a long‐difference instrumental‐variables approach.
Dooyeon Cho
wiley   +1 more source

The Educational Radicalism of Bob Moses

Radical Teacher
Those who come in contact with the Algebra Project, founded 40 years ago by Bob Moses, tend to underestimate the extraordinary radicalism of Dr. Moses’s strategy for using math literacy as an organizing tool.
Jay Gillen
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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