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Mexicans in Exile: Patterns of Exile and the Surveillance of Mexican Returnees During the 1970s and 1980s

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT En esta investigación se propone explicar cómo fue el exilio de los mexicanos en los sexenios de Luis Echeverría Álvarez (1970–1976) y José López Portillo (1976–1982), cómo fueron los intentos de retornos y qué tensiones generaron. Se plantea que el exilio fue una experiencia de desactivación política favorable para el gobierno que dispuso de ...
Soledad Lastra
wiley   +1 more source

Illusions of Victory

open access: yesAmerican 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
doaj   +1 more source

THE US STRATEGY OF ARMED DRONE USAGE IN FIGHTING THE TALIBAN ELEMENTS IN PAKISTAN (2004-2016)

open access: yesJurnal Pertahanan: Media Informasi tentang Kajian dan Strategi Pertahanan yang Mengedepankan Identity, Nasionalism & Integrity, 2019
Prior to the Trump’s presidency the US have performed as many as 400 armed drone strikes in Pakistan, killing approximately 3.000 terrorist targets including key leaders that hold important value to the organizations.
Nisrina Nadhifa   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A South Asian Perspective

open access: yesPacific Focus, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 83-100, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Western State Terrorism [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 194-204, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Big Lebowski: The Dude’s Lessons in Law and Leadership for Military and National Security Attorneys [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Big Lebowski is a cultural phenomenon that has prompted academic research into the nature of cult cinema, provided fodder for a host of law review quotes, and motivated a tradition of fan festivals and midnight screenings.
Little, Ryan A.
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Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 406-424, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Blood as a strategic resource: Lessons from Iwo Jima for civilian and military transfusion in large‐scale combat operations

open access: yes
Transfusion, EarlyView.
Evan Baines   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 224-236, March 2026.
ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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