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, 2018 Has Japan’s post-Second World War transformation into one of the most militarily capable nations been the result of 60 years of truly representative government?
Madison, Cory S.
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira +2 more
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Cidades, Comunidades e Território, 2021 Around 1500 Chagos Islanders were expelled from the Chagos Archipelago and moved to Mauritius and Seychelles between 1965 and 1973. Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos, became a US military base.
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Referendum, response, and consequences for Sudan : the game between juba and khartoum [PDF]
This paper presents a game theory model of the strategic interaction between Khartoum and Juba leading up to the referendum on Sudan's partition in 2011.
Elbadawi, Ibrahim +2 more
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Rule of law crisis , militarization of citizen security, and effects on human rights in Venezuela
, 2020 Venezuela has one of the highest homicide rates in the world as well as the highest rate of killings by state officials in Latin America. This article seeks to interpret the evolution of violence over the last 20 years through studying the militarization
N. Gan
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The 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
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Russia in the Global Information Society
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2016 The article evaluates the economic, military, social and humanitarian opportunities of Russia in the emerging global information society based on the World Wide Web. The author notes that in spite of the significant economic potential of the internet and
Elena S. Zinovieva
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Main talking points: New Mexico and Africa [PDF]
Paper discussing US militarization of South America, and US transnational corporations' investments in Southern Africa, and their combined effect on New ...
Seidman, Ann, Seidman, Robert B.
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
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International Journal of the Commons, 2016 The purpose of this paper is to further the understanding of how unequal access to commons is (re)produced and contested. I do so by looking into the thwarted struggle of small-scale fishers in post-war Northern Sri Lanka to contest encroachment of an ...
Joeri Scholtens
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