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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Fighters and Their Economic Impact: a Case Study of Syria and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)

open access: yesPerspectives on Terrorism, 2010
Over the past several years, terrorist and insurgent groups have established sophisticated networks in Syria to facilitate the movement of foreign fighters into Iraq.
Matthew Levitt
doaj  

Foreign Terrorist Fighters Indonesia: Belief in A Just World and Terrorism

open access: yesTechnium Social Sciences Journal, 2020
The phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters’ movement to Syria to join ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has received enormous attention in the world. Tens of thousands of individuals are moving from various parts of the world, including Indonesia, to join the Caliphate that ISIS is fighting for.
Didik Novi Rahmanto   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Fighters: Recent Trends

open access: yes, 2011
The paper engages the question of conceptualizing non-state foreign fighters (particularly the distinction between fighting in a foreign arena and getting training to return home and carry out terrorist attacks) and then present an overview of recent ...
Mendelsohn, Barak
core   +2 more sources

The Repatriation & Reintegration Dilemma: How states manage the return of foreign terrorist fighters & their families

open access: yesJournal for Deradicalization, 2022
This study analyzes the interplay of factors which drive states’ approaches to the repatriation and reintegration of Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs) and their family members.
Haroro J. Ingram   +3 more
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Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda's postgenocide gacaca courts

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Transitional justice trials have become a central mechanism for addressing mass violence and human rights violations, yet little is known about the determinants of case outcomes within these courts—particularly in domestic contexts. This study examines Rwanda's gacaca courts, a localized transitional justice system that tried people suspected ...
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts

open access: yesProduction and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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