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Controlling weapons circulation in a postcolonial militarised world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
What are the politics of, and prospects for, contemporary weapons control? Human rights and humanitarian activists and scholars celebrate the gains made in the UN Arms Trade Treaty as a step towards greater human security. Critics counter that the treaty
Acheson   +38 more
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Gender, war and militarism: making and questioning the links [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The gender dynamics of militarism have traditionally been seen as straightforward, given the cultural mythologies of warfare and the disciplining of ‘masculinity’ that occurs in the training and use of men's capacity for violence in the armed services ...
Bourke J.   +23 more
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Peace education, militarism and neo-liberalism: conceptual reflections with empirical findings from the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article explores ‘peace days’ in English schools as a form of peace education. From a historical overview of academic discussions on peace education in the US and Great Britain since the First World War, we identify three key factors important for ...
Behr, Hartmut   +2 more
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Pacifism in Fin-de-Siècle Austria: The Politics and Limits of Peace Activism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The late Habsburg Monarchy produced two of the most renowned peace activists of their day: Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Fried. In comparison to these two Nobel Peace laureates, the main association of Austro-pacifism – the Österreichische ...
Adler   +98 more
core   +1 more source

THE GEOPOLITICAL FACTOR OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SWISS MILITARISM IN THE CON-TEXT OF MILITARY ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF THE XIV-XVI CENTURIES

open access: yesВестник Брянского государственного университета, 2023
The article discusses the possibilities and factors of influence of natural space on the formation of a special attitude of the popula-tion to the phenomenon of war.
Lakhtyuk Sergey Alexandrovich   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

'Ibadan - a model of historical facts': militarism and civic culture in a Yoruba city [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The article focuses on an historical relationship between the political institution of chieftaincy and civic pride in Ibadan, a Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria.
Watson, Ruth
core   +1 more source

Liberal militarism as insecurity, desire and ambivalence: gender, race and the everyday geopolitics of war [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The use and maintenance of military force as a means of achieving security makes the identity and continued existence of states as legitimate protectors of populations intelligible.
Basham, Victoria M.
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Militarism and security: dialogue, possibilities and limits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
While attention to security has grown exponentially over the last few decades, militarism – the preparation for and normalization and legitimation of war – has not received the widespread and sustained focus it warrants in mainstream or critical circles.
Stavrianakis, Anna, Stern, Maria
core   +1 more source

“World domination or ruin”. Friedrich von Bernhardi and German militarism before World War I

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
The paper analyzes the role of militarism in the political life of Germany before WWI. By pointing out the roe of militarism in the political life of Germany at the start of the 20th century, the paper puts an emphasis on the writing of Friedrich von ...
Mihael Antolović
doaj   +3 more sources

Pro-Violence Sermons of a Secular State: Turkey’s Diyanet on Islamist Militarism, Jihadism and Glorification of Martyrdom

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The literature on martyrdom has not, so far, systematically analysed a constitutionally secular state’s extensive use of religion in propagating martyrdom narratives by using state-controlled religious institutions.
Ihsan Yilmaz, Omer F. Erturk
doaj   +1 more source

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