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State Crime, Irregulars and Counter-Insurgency

State Crime, 2015
This article examines state crime in the area of the use of irregulars in counter-insurgency. Irregulars are defined as local units who receive rudimentary training and act alongside more regular forces. They are also defined as more regular formal local
Jon Moran
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Relationships, resources, and political empowerment: community violence intervention strategies that contest the logics of policing and incarceration. [PDF]

Front Public Health, 2023
Dawson MK, Ivey A, Buggs S.
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Picking up the pieces: social capital and entrepreneurship for livelihood recovery among displaced populations in Northeast Nigeria [PDF]

, 2019
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.In the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the rate of forced displacement, often precipitated by persecution, civil wars, terrorism, transborder ...
James, Saliba, Kibreab, Gaim, Kolade, Oluwaseun, Smith, Robert   +3 more
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The agrarian question and violence in Colombia: conflict and development [PDF]

, 2011
This article examines connections between Colombia’s internal armed conflict and agrarian questions. It pays attention to the country’s specific historical trajectory of agrarian change, the violent expression of social tensions that this elicited, and ...
Akram-Lodhi, Akram-Lodhi, Akram-Lodhi, Angrist, Araghi, Ballentine, Benítez Vargas, Bernstein, Bernstein, Bernstein, Borras, Brittain, Byres, Clemis, Codhes, Codhes, Cramer, Cramer, Cubides, De Janvry, Deininger, Dix, Fajardo, FAO, Felstehausen, Galli, Gutiérrez Sanín, Gutiérrez Sanín, Gutiérrez Sanín, Hegre, Henderson, Hirschman, International Crisis Group, International Crisis Group, Jaramillo, Kaldor, Kalyvas, Kay, Livingstone, Marx, Maxwell, McMichael, McMichael, McMichael, Mondragón, Restrepo, Reyes Posada, Richani, Richani, Ross, Stokes, Stokes, Sánchez, Sánchez, Wood, Zamosc   +55 more
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Inter-state terrorism in the 21st Century: Mapping the Evolution of the Global Rendition System [PDF]

, 2012
This paper seeks to explain the development and operation of a now global system of rendition and secret detention in the ‘War on Terror’. The paper offers two corrections to current understandings of rendition.
Blakeley, Ruth, Raphael, Sam
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Command in Twenty-First Century Counterinsurgency

Revista Científica General José María Córdova
This article examines the challenges of command in counterinsurgency through the British experience in Basra, Iraq (2006–2007). It argues that command is shaped less by individual leaders than by structural and temporal constraints inherent in the ...
Warren Anthony Chin
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Contemporary forms of warfare – insurgency and counterinsurgency operations. Case study: Syrian Arab Republic.

Strategos, 2022
Insurgency and counterinsurgency, as modern forms of warfare, are presented in the paper as two phenomena that are actually present in all phases of human civilization.
Marija Bortek, Andrija Kozina
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Battle for the People: Ideological Conflict between Soviet Partisans, the German Military, and Ukrainian Nationalists in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine

, 2016
Soviet historiography discusses the People’s War during the Second World War, the idea that all of the Soviet people rallied to the cause and fought off the Nazi invaders, but this is far from the truth. Within the western borderlands of the Soviet Union
Heim, David L.
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Governments, Civilians, and the Evolution of Insurgency: Modeling the Early Dynamics of Insurgencies [PDF]

This paper models the early dynamics of insurgency using an agent-based computer simulation of civilians, insurgents, and soldiers. In the simulation, insurgents choose to attack government forces, which then strike back.
D. Scott Bennett
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Review of Forgotten Under A Tropical Sun: War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898-1913 by Joseph P. McCallus [PDF]

, 2019
Review of Forgotten Under A Tropical Sun: War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898-1913 by Joseph P ...
Schumacher, Frank
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