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RUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2020 Since the year 2013, Nigeria’s northeastern region epicenter of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency waging war for the establishment of an Islamic State has witnessed mass participation of people in a civil militia group.
Modu Lawan Gana
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Strong militias, weak states and armed violence: towards a theory of ‘state-parallel’ paramilitaries [PDF]
, 2016 This article challenges the well-established presentation within conflict studies of paramilitary organizations as state-manipulated death squads or self-defence groups, and argues that some present-day militias extend their functions well beyond the ...
Aliyev, Huseyn
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
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The Aden pivot? British counter-insurgency after Aden [PDF]
, 2014 This article argues that the Aden Insurgency was a pivotal moment in the history of British counter-insurgency. We argue that it was in Aden where the newfound strength of human rights discourse, embodied in Amnesty International, and of anti-colonial ...
Dingli, Sophia, Kennedy, Caroline
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Does AI Affect the Democratic Conduct of War? Analyzing US and Israeli Military AI Deployment
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the use of decision‐support military Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can affect the democratic conduct of warfare. AI can challenge the democratic conduct of warfare by introducing systemic risks such as reduced oversight, opacity, and automation bias.
Alessandra Russo
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US counterinsurgency doctrine and the biopolitics of human (in)security [PDF]
, 2011 This article argues that US counterinsurgency doctrine forms a programme of both liberal rule and liberal war whose ultimate purpose is the pacification of recalcitrant populations and their eventual (re)integration into the networks of liberal ...
Kienscherf, Markus
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article offers three interconnected interventions.
Say Jye Quah
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2018 In late 2006 and then 2007 the Sunni Arab tribes in the Anbar province, located in western Iraq, came together with the United States armed forces positioned in the same province and conducted a grueling fight against Al-Qaeda in Iraq, also known at the ...
Grant Marthinsen
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Setting the record straight on the Malayan counterinsurgency strategy: interview with Karl Hack [PDF]
, 2011 You are a long time researcher and observer of the Malayan Emergency. What were the core key ingredients that broke the back of the communist insurgents in the Malayan Emergency? The primary cause for putting the campaign on a firmly winning path?
Hack, Karl
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Blood revenge and violent mobilization: evidence from the Chechen Wars [PDF]
, 2015 Despite a considerable amount of ethnographic research into the phenomena of blood revenge and blood feud, little is known about the role of blood revenge in political violence, armed conflict, and irregular war.
Aliyev, Huseyn, Souleimanov, Emil Aslan
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