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Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments [PDF]

, 1999
Over the past 20 years Congress has encouraged the U.S. military to supply intelligence, equipment, and training to civilian police. That encouragement has spawned a culture of paramilitarism in American law enforcement.
Diane Cecilia Weber
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

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
wiley   +1 more source

Public security in Rio de Janeiro: Reflections on the militarization of life

, 2020
O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar reflexões sobre a militarização da política de Segurança Pública no Brasil e analisar o processo de remilitarização da cidade do Rio de Janeiro no decorrer da intervenção federal, em 2018. Propõe-se problematizar a chamada “crise do Estado” que justificou renovados processos de ocupação das Forças Armadas em favelas
Kilduff, Fernanda, Mariana Nicolau Oliveira, de Souza Barbosa Maia , Viviane   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Explosive Ordnance Clearance in Lithuania in 1944–1946

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos
This article investigates the process of mine clearance in Lithuania between 1944 and 1946, conducted through the Soviet paramilitary organization OSOAVIACHIM.
Paulius Japertas
doaj   +1 more source

Another America is Possible: The Impact of NAFTA on the U.S. Latino Community and Lessons for Future Trade Agreements [PDF]

, 2004
A joint report by Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) and Public Citizen celebrate the promise of increased interaction and cross-border ...
Adalila Zelada, Audrey Ayao, Fiona Wright, Karinne M. Hernandez, R. Islas, Timi Gerson   +5 more
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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., Breines I., Brownmiller S., Butler J., Cockburn C., Cockburn C., Cohen S., Dworkin A., Enloe C., Enloe C., Hadar M., Hass A., Hass A., Jad I., Jones A., Karpinski J., Mackinnon C.A., Mazali R., Sabbagh S., Segal L., Segal L., Thornhill R., Tosh J., Woodward B.   +23 more
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National identity after conquest

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Conquering powers routinely adopt state‐directed nationalization projects that seek to make the boundaries of the nation coterminous with the (newly expanded) boundaries of the state. To this end, they implement policies that elevate the economic status of individuals who embrace the occupier's national identity and discriminate against those ...
Christopher Carter, Daniel W. Gingerich
wiley   +1 more source

JAPAN’S SHIFT FROM PACIFISM: REARMAMENT AMID SECURITY CHALLENGES

Journal of International Studies
Amidst shifting security dynamics in East Asia, Japan faces an evolving strategic landscape, particularly in response to mounting threats from North Korea and China.
Hazwan Dani Abdul Kadir
doaj   +1 more source

Riscos percebidos e vitimização de policiais civis e militares na (in)segurança pública Perceived risks and victimization of military and civil police in the public (in)security domain

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2007
Este estudo se baseou em uma pesquisa maior que investigou características sócio-econômicas, qualidade de vida, condições de trabalho e de saúde de policiais militares e civis do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Para isso, foram triangulados métodos quantitativos (questionário anônimo, em amostra aleatória de conglomerados envolvendo 46 unidades ...
Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo, Edinilsa Ramos de Souza, Patrícia Constantino   +2 more
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