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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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Assessing Misaligned Counterinsurgency Practice in Niger and Nigeria
The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 2020 While representing a major military threat in Niger and Nigeria, the two branches of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP-Liptako Gourma and ISWAP-Lake Chad) have increasingly sought to win popular support (distinguishing themselves from other ...
Laura Berlingozzi, Ed Stoddard
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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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Predator empire: the geopolitics of U.S. drone warfare [PDF]
, 2013 This paper critically assesses the CIA’s drone program and proposes that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving an increasingly paramilitarized U.S. national security strategy. The paper suggests that large-scale ground wars are being eclipsed by
Shaw, Ian G. R.
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Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
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Counterinsurgency for wind energy: the Bíi Hioxo wind park in Juchitán, Mexico
, 2018 Sustainable development and climate change mitigation policies, Dunlap and Fairhead argue, have instigated and renewed old conflicts over land and natural resources, deploying military techniques of counterinsurgency to achieve land control.
A. Dunlap
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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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Winning Hearts and Minds: Tactics of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Early Roman Empire [PDF]
, 2020 The most common strategy for Romanizing a province was through developing connections with elites in the indigenous society coupled with (in many cases) the inclusion of regional gods into the Roman pantheon.
Cline, Wesley C.
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Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A South Asian Perspective
Pacific Focus, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conflicts in the contemporary international system have increasingly shifted from state‐centric power struggles to deeply rooted human needs crises. This study applies John Burton's Human Needs Theory to explain the persistence of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, focusing on the deprivation of identity, recognition, and ...
Hafeez Ullah Khan
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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.
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