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Presence and Role of Mercenaries on The Battlefield, Including the Participation of Moldovan Mercenaries in the War in Ukraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
SOROCEANU, Igor. Presence and Role of Mercenaries on The Battlefield, Including the Participation of Moldovan Mercenaries in the War in Ukraine. European Journal of Regional Studies. December 2022, vol. 8, issue 2, pp. 144-157.
Soroceanu, Igor
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The Activity of Mercenaries in the State of Mali – a Negative Factor on Regional and International Security

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2022
The activity of mercenaries is an illegal act that most states of the world have known with regret. In recent times, military clashes on the continent of Africa have not been an exception in the sense of not knowing what they represent and how ...
Igor Soroceanu
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Normans and Other Franks in 11th Century Byzantium: the Careers of the Adventurers before the Rule of Alexius I Comnenus

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2014
The paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East. At first, most of them visited Constantinople as pilgrims during return journey
Szymon Wierzbiński
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Paolo Solaroli di Briona. Un sarto novarese tra India e Risorgimento

open access: yesNuova Antologia Militare, 2021
The eighteenth century saw a fragmentation of Mughal power, the last, recognized Indian heads of the old order. A rapid political revolution followed, wars of succession, murder and usurpation, dismemberment of the empire, and rise of petty chiefs to ...
Tommaso Vialardi di Sandigliano
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From Fiji to Fallujah: The war on Iraq and the privatisation of Pacific security

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2006
Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, private security companies from the United Kingdom and United States have been seeking personnel for their operations in the Middle East, and many hundreds of Fijians have signed up.
Nic Maclellan
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
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Supervision Without Vision: Risk Governance and PMSCs

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2012
In the past two decades, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have become important actors in the international sphere, in armed conflict as well as in law enforcement.
Lucas Roorda
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More‐than‐gender? Moving beyond gendered expectations of divergent learners in early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we explore how neurodivergent ways of being in early education are often gendered. The intersectionalities of gender and neurodivergence often lead to fixed expectations that perpetuate binary interpretations, pathologisations, missed diagnoses and a lack of curated support.
Ruth Churchill Dower, Hannah Hogarth
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Mercenaries: strong norm, weak law

open access: yes, 2007
In this article I examine how a weak international law can be created despite the presence of a strong norm, and I use weak law to probe the relationship between social and legal norms.
Percy, Sarah V.
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