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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor +3 more
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Anthropologists behaving badly? Impact and the politics of evaluation in an era of accountability [PDF]
, 2014 This paper discusses the move within UK social science funding to use non-academic ‘impact’ as a measure of quality and success for social research. It suggests that behind this move are a set of unspoken assumptions about what constitutes ‘good’ and ...
Mitchell, Jon P
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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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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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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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, 2016 States use terror to achieve political ends, by employing violence to ensure compliance and to coerce populations away from dissent. Moreover, despite popular understandings of terrorism as a ‘strategy of the weak’ used against liberal democracies, an ...
Blakeley, Ruth, Raphael, Sam
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Asymmetry of values, indigenous forces, and incumbent success in counterinsurgency: evidence from Chechnya [PDF]
, 2014 This article fills the gap in existing scholarship on asymmetric conflict, indigenous forces, and how socio-cultural codes shape the dynamics and outcomes of conflict transformation. Specifically, it identifies three key socio-cultural values commonplace
Aliyev, Huseyn, Souleimanov, Emil A.
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Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Colombia's response to Venezuelan displacement—driven by economic collapse, political instability, and humanitarian need—through the Temporary Protection Status programme has been praised internationally for its inclusive approach and positive effects on both migrants and host countries.
Nieves Fernández‐Rodríguez
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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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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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