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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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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
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Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq [PDF]
, 2008 Foreign policy experts and policy analysts are misreading the lessons of Iraq. The emerging conventional wisdom holds that success could have been achieved in Iraq with more troops, more cooperation among U.S.
Benjamin H. Friedman +2 more
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Hans Christoffel: “Kapten Kecil Penakluk Rimba” dalam Historiografi Kolonial Hindia Belanda
Jurnal Sejarah Citra LekhaHans Christoffel, a Swiss-born officer in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL), served from 1886 to 1910 and left a deeply ambivalent legacy shaped by both acclaim and notoriety.
Willy Durinx, Uli Kozok
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Weaponizing Kinship: A Demographic Analysis of Bereavement in the Colombian Conflict
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract The ongoing Colombian armed conflict has produced widespread homicides and enforced disappearances, as armed actors used violence to terrorize communities and consolidate power. Family bereavement—one of the most pervasive and enduring consequences of this violence—remains critically understudied from a quantitative perspective.
Enrique Acosta +3 more
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OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE (2015–2023): ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IN NORTHEAST NIGERIA
International Studies JournalBackground: For over a decade, North-East Nigeria has been at the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency, one of Africa's most protracted conflicts.
GADIMOH E. NICHOLAS, BUSAYO EMMANUEL
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African Human Mobility Review, 2023 Most scholarship on terrorism in Cabo Delgado (Mozambique) has focused on the nature and causes of the insurgency, who the insurgents are, where the insurgents come from, their underlying needs, and how the current military operations may be successful ...
Joseph Makanda
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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
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Disrupt, Deny, Dismantle: A Special Operations Forces (SOF) Model for Combatting New Terrorism [PDF]
, 2016 Terrorism in the new millennium has morphed drastically since the 1970s. The terrorist organizations of today are a hybrid between the insurgent group models of the 1960s and modern terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda.
Gunzelman, Will
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