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Introduction. N. 1 - "Close Encounters in Irregular and Asymmetric Warfare" [PDF]

open access: yesClose Encounters in War Journal, 2018
The Close Encounters in War journal is a new independent and peer-reviewed journal aimed at studying war as a human experience, through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches.
Simona Tobia, Gianluca Cinelli
doaj  

Hybrid warfare and hybrid threats today and tomorrow: towards an analytical framework

open access: yesJournal on Baltic Security, 2019
This article first traces the origin of hybrid warfare and the label game surrounding the concept, asking whether it is merely old wine in a new bottle, and if so, whether it is still a useful concept. It is found that while being old wine in new bottles,
Weissmann Mikael
doaj   +1 more source

The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Warfare Studies and Russia’s Example in Crimea

open access: yesGazi Akademik Bakış, 2015
Although Hybrid Warfare is an old concept, theoretical studies in the western countries mainly began in the post-Col War era, focusing on asymmetrical threats against conventional superiority of western countries such as USA or Israel.
Mehmet Seyfettin EROL, Şafak OĞUZ
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

Leadership in the Colombian Military Forces: A comprehensive experience in the fight against terrorism

open access: yesEstudios en Seguridad y Defensa, 2017
Colombia has fought an irregular war, including guerrilla warfare and a counterinsurgency generated by different armed groups operating within the margins of the law (Sánchez-Cabarcas, 2009).
Luis Ernesto Cortés Díaz Granados   +2 more
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Framings of Intervention in Spain: From the Civil War to the Franco Dictatorship

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the role of foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War, the word intervención rarely appeared in contemporary media and official discourse. This article examines the expressions that Republican and rebel authorities used to represent the presence of outside forces in Spain.
Marta Costa Costa
wiley   +1 more source

RUSSIAN HYBRID WARFARE [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals: Series on Military Sciences, 2021
The annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine brought the notion of hybrid warfare in the public attention faster than ever. The aggressor is involved in hybrid wars with mostly irregular troops, as paramilitary groups, destabilization ...
Captain Dragoş-Mihai PĂUNESCU, PhD Candidate
doaj  

THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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

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