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One-Mode Projection Analysis and Design of Covert Affiliation Networks [PDF]

open access: yes
Subject classifications: Terrorism; Counterinsurgency; Intelligence; Defense; Covert networks; Affiliation networks.
Borm, P.E.M.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Competence, Willingness, and Empowerment of Counterinsurgency Forces in Northern Mali in 2012–2013

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations, 2016
In 2012, Islamist violent non-state actors in northern Mali succeeded in fighting against the Malian army, and they got the entire north Malian territory under their control.
Zdeněk Ludvík
doaj  

Pure‐istan: Gender and Genocide in Pakistan

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ongoing genocidal violence against the Baloch nation. It highlights how the Pakistani state has weaponized Islamic doctrine to construct a vision of a homogenized, “purer, more Islamic state” that excludes and others those deemed incompatible with its vision of purity. This logic of purification is deeply gendered.
Bramsh Khan
wiley   +1 more source

The Northern Ireland peace process in an age of austerity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The steady drip of dissident Republican attacks forms the backdrop to this special issue of Political Quarterly. Moreover, this comes at a time of economic austerity, when Northern Ireland faces unprecedented cuts to its public sector-dominated economy ...
Kaufmann, Eric P.
core   +1 more source

Democratic engineering: Plan Colombia, Constitutionalisation and hegemonic presidential powers in Latin America (1970-2022)

open access: yesLatin American Law Review
The expansion of presidential powers in many Latin American countries poses a serious threat to democratic cohesion in the region. Chiefly, during the second half of the Twenty century, the administrative legislation has overcome the boundaries of what ...
Ricardo Gómez Pinto
doaj   +1 more source

De “sostén” a “decidido apoyo” : población y contrainsurgencia en las revistas militares. El Salvador (1961-1972)

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2017
This paper aims to analyze and periodize the characterization of the population held in the context of counterinsurgency, doctrine that guided the actions of the armed forces, security forces and paramilitary organizations in El Salvador between 1961 and
Lucrecia Molinari
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 289-314, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonisation as Departure: Interrogating the Reconstructivist Tendencies of Australian Criminology

open access: yesJournal of Global Indigeneity
In this article I critically analyse the recent “decolonial” turn within Australian criminology. Drawing upon critical Indigenous conceptualisations of decolonisation and analysing my personal confrontations with the discipline, I examine how ...
Natalie Ironfield
doaj   +1 more source

Reseña de A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia, by Lesley Gill

open access: yesEuropean Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2017
A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia, by Lesley Gill. Duke University Press, 2016.
Mauricio Archila Neira
doaj   +1 more source

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