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IRREGULAR WARFARE IN AFRICAN CONFLICTS
Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies, 2011 Irregular wars have erupted in African states since colonial independencefrom Western European countries in the 1960s. The end of the Cold War in 1989and the changing nature of international politics did not bring about politicalstability in African states either.
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
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Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
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Landscapes of Biochemical Warfare: Spatial Self-Organization Woven from Allelopathic Interactions. [PDF]
Life (Basel), 2023 Carvalho S, Mota H, Martins M.
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this ...
Rafal Soborski +2 more
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From peacetime to war: a path analysis of the factors that predict performance among police and military commanders in collaborative crisis response. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Mattingsdal J +3 more
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Philosophical Dialogue and Military Decision Making [PDF]
, 2015 : The military establishment plays an important role in society, not only because it is pivotal in securing the state from external and internal threats but also because the conduct of soldiers affect the fortunes of the state both fiscally and morally ...
Ikpe, Ibanga
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
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Imagining the Nation in the 21st Century
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how our imagining of the nation has evolved from the 1600s to this day. Reviewing the well‐known analysis of Benedict Anderson, this paper carries the argument further, investigating how our imagining of our national communities has changed alongside sociopolitical, economic and technological transformations.
Anna Triandafyllidou
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The Technology of Terror: Accounting for the Strategic Use of Terrorism [PDF]
To comprehend why a group would intentionally target civilians, we need to understand why other groups do not. In this chapter, we argue that disgruntled groups face three main choices when addressing their dissatisfaction: suffering a disadvantageous ...
Christopher K. Butler, Scott Gates
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