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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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Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency
Perspectives on Terrorism, 2010 This article focuses on current counterterrorism and counterinsurgency doctrines. It argues that the more traditional frameworks for analyzing counterterrorism campaigns, which structure debates around a military (or war) model or a criminal ...
Jason Rineheart
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 171-182, May 2026.Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
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War, Peace and Stabilisation: Critically Reconceptualising Stability in Southern Afghanistan
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2013 This article critically treats stabilisation theory and programming through a perspective of peace and conflict, and argues for stabilisation’s reconceptualisation. Through tracking the concept’s emergence, it outlines that stabilisation is theoretically
William Robert Carter
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's destruction illuminates the current conjuncture as an intensification of earlier authoritarian neoliberal tendencies.
Aleksandra Piletić
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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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Storming the Palace: The Houthi Insurgency in Yemen [PDF]
Close Encounters in War Journal, 2018 In January 2015, a group of rebels known as the “Houthi” toppled the government of Yemen after eleven years of armed struggle. How did the Houthi manage to do so?
Gian Marco Longoni
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 2, Page 571-586, April 2026.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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Rethinking military diplomacy in achieving strategic ends [PDF]
Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2014 This article argues that to be able to effectively transfer political guidance into tasks and effective missions on terrain, midlevel and junior officers along with noncommissioned officers, among others, during post-conflict operations must demonstrate
Metodi Hadji-Janev, Nenad TANESKI
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Robber Barons Rising: The Potential for Resource Conflict in Ghazni, Afghanistan
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2014 Security and governance in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan are threatened by resource conflict dynamics: groups focus on exploiting lootable resources in the short term while weak institutions and conflict persist.
Matthew P Dearing, Cynthia Braden
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