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Scottish exceptionalism? Normative codes of Scottish nationalism in the British and EU crises [PDF]
, 2017 Scotland has thus far proved immune to the appeal of right-wing populism present in many European neoliberal democracies. This paper argues that changing tension balances in the crises facing the UK as a union state cannot be reduced to an understanding ...
Law, Alex
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The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle
Constellations, EarlyView.
Reid A. Kleinberg
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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The Afghan Local Police – Closing the Security Gap?
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2015 The Afghan Local Police (ALP) was designed as an international counterinsurgency programme that works by raising small, village-level defence forces from within rural Afghan communities.
Sam Vincent +2 more
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Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency [PDF]
, 2011 Current US counterinsurgency doctrine is gendered diversely in the different geographic locations where it is formulated, put in practice, and experienced.
Bernard +79 more
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Prevalence of traded bird species in key biodiversity areas
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The use and trade of biodiversity involve tens of thousands of species that are exploited at a range of scales, intensities, and degrees of sustainability. As a result, some are highly threatened. Key biodiversity areas (KBAs) are sites of significance for the persistence of biodiversity identified nationally based on standardized criteria ...
Oscar Morton +4 more
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Security Governance: A Change in the Security Policy of the USA after 9/11
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2012 The key argument of the presented text is the idea that the reform of the US security policy that started after 9/11; the US participation on counter-insurgency, stabilization and nation-building operations in Iraq and Afghanistan; and the big pressure ...
Šárka Waisová
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DIE BUFFEL STRUIKEL: ’N STORIE VAN 32 BATALJON EN SY MENSE/L.J. BOTHMA
Scientia Militaria, 2011 “Die Buffel Struikel: ’n Storie van 32 Bataljon en Sy Mense” (The Buffalo Stumbles: A Story of 32 Battalion and Its People) was written originally in Afrikaans.
Abel Esterhuyse
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Old wine in a new bottle: Governance, fragility and armed conflict trio in Swat Valley, Pakistan
Cogent Social Sciences, 2020 Fragility in governance and armed conflict are directly linked and are the causes and consequence of each other. This study aimed to understand pre and during conflict scenarios of fragile governance in Swat.
Safi Ullah Khan, Abda Khalid, Noor Elahi
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Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Along arterial roads in northeast India, bordering Myanmar, various armed groups and state actors collect ‘taxes’ at checkpoints. These checkpoints are sites of interaction where the power dynamics between armed groups, state officials and civilians are constantly negotiated, embedded in a larger network of social and political relationships ...
Shalaka Thakur
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