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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciThis essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Atran S.
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Chemical Warfare Through the Ages: A Systematic Review From Antiquity to the Present. [PDF]
J ToxicolChemical warfare means the use of chemical agents that have direct toxic effects on animals, plants and humans, as weapons. The first documented use of a chemical agent for warfare purposes occurred in ancient times around 10,000 BCE in South Africa when weapons were dipped in chemicals and then used to attack and defend from enemies.
Honeyman DA +3 more
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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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Political Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The scarce political and social psychological research on the Kurdish–Turkish context primarily addresses intergroup relations and general perceptions of the conflict. Conversely, Kurds' experiences of and beliefs about collective victimization in this context have not been examined much to date.
Helin Ünal, Johanna Ray Vollhardt
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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Women in Iraq: beyond the rhetoric [PDF]
, 2006 At a press conference two weeks before the US-led invasion of Iraq, flanked by four “Women for a Free Iraq,”1 Paula Dobriansky, then undersecretary of state for global affairs, declared: “We are at a critical point in dealing with Saddam Hussein. However
Al-Ali, Nadje Sadig +1 more
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 7, Page 1354-1368, December 2025.ABSTRACT This research replicated, refined and extended the Reconciliation Orientation Model (ROM). While the original ROM treated ingroup identity as unidimensional, we adopted a multidimensional model, distinguishing self‐investment and self‐definition, and examined their links to intergroup forgiveness.
Iwan Dinnick +3 more
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