Results 101 to 110 of about 38,927 (279)
Global Risks 2012, Seventh Edition [PDF]
, 2012 The World Economic Forum's Global Risks 2012 report is based on a survey of 469 experts from industry, government, academia and civil society that examines 50 global risks across five categories.
core
Gender, war and militarism: making and questioning the links [PDF]
, 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
core +1 more source
Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Along arterial roads in northeast India, bordering Myanmar, various armed groups and state actors collect ‘taxes’ at checkpoints. These checkpoints are sites of interaction where the power dynamics between armed groups, state officials and civilians are constantly negotiated, embedded in a larger network of social and political relationships ...
Shalaka Thakur
wiley +1 more source
Mexican progressivism. Balance and perspectives of the 4T [PDF]
Латиноамериканский исторический альманахThe government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) configured the Mexican version of progressivism. The great support for his administration and the resounding electoral victory of Claudia Sheinbaum to continue the self-proclaimed Fourth Transformation
Zendejas Maximo Julio Diego
doaj +1 more source
Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
wiley +1 more source
Varia História, 2012 Este artigo analisa a ubiquidade de um baixo nível de uso da força militar entre os estados latino-americanos no contexto da arquitetura de segurança regional. A questão é por que esse baixo nível de uso da força militar é tolerado na região.
David R. Mares
doaj
Borders Manifest: Racializing the Nicaraguan Refugee in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2019 I look to border responses of North American countries as refugees and migrants move across them to argue that border responses racialize the foreign other in receiving countries.
Twidwell, Theodore B.
core +1 more source
‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
wiley +1 more source
Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten +2 more
wiley +1 more source
, 2014 textBrooks County, home of the busiest immigration checkpoint in the U.S., is in the middle of the biggest human rights crises facing the United States.
Schwartz, Robin Kristina
core