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‘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
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A spatial analysis of border “security” and jaguars in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands

Frontiers in Conservation Science
In March 1996, a jaguar (Panthera onca) named Border King was seen in Arizona’s Peloncillo Mountains, followed by a sighting of a second male, Macho B, in September. The cats had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and quickly came to symbolize a conservation
Heidi Hausermann, Eliot Hutchinson, Zoey Walder-Hoge   +2 more
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A desmilitarização e a unificação das instituições militares estaduais e a polícia civil no Brasil: reflexos na segurança pública estadual / Demilitarization And The Unification Of State Military Institutions And The Civil Police In Brazil: Reflections On State Public Security

, 2020
ResumoA pesquisa em tela propõe uma visão jurídica constitucional e holística organizacional da prestação da segurança pública pelas Instituições Militares Estaduais e pela Polícia Civil, bem como os efeitos estimativos da Unificação na esfera estadual.
Oliveira, Márcio Luís de, Oliveira, Edson Rodrigues de   +1 more
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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, Abdirahman Edle, Jethro Norman   +2 more
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
wiley   +1 more source

Deep Dark Futures: Foresighting Human Impacts on Mesopelagic Ecosystem Services

Fish and Fisheries, EarlyView.
This study uses foresighting to explore four plausible future scenarios of human activity affecting mesopelagic ecosystem services; provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural. Using participatory scenario development, qualitative network modelling and indicator design, we assess systemic risks and early warning signals linked to harvest, climate
Ben Scoulding, Alistair J. Hobday, Rowan Trebilco, Heidi Pethybridge, Ingrid van Putten, Katherine Baker, Karen Evans, David Green, Eriko Hoshino, Haris Kunnath, Clothilde Langlais, Tim P. Lynch, Javier Porobic, Tyler Rohr, Elizabeth H. Shadwick, Caroline A. Sutton, Jodie Van de Kamp, Briannyn Woods, Bowen Zhang   +18 more
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State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
wiley   +1 more source

Military security in the Arctic: New threats to Russia

Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика
In recent years, the military and political landscape in the Arctic has changed significantly. This region has been rapidly losing the status of a ‘zone for peace and cooperation’, turning into an arena of increasingly intense interstate rivalry.
V. N. Konyshev, A. A. Sergunin
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Geopolitics on a Shoestring? Unpacking the EU'S Geopolitical External Assistance to Central Asia

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how the European Union's (EU) increasingly emphasised geopolitical ambitions are reflected in the practice of its external assistance policy. An analysis of EU documents around various policy initiatives and funding instruments reveals that in the Commission's understanding, geopolitical external assistance increases EU ...
Balázs Szent‐Iványi, Dóra Piroska
wiley   +1 more source

The Securopolis: (Re)assembling Surveillance, Resilience, and Affect

On_Culture, 2018
This paper explores how modern urban life is being re-assembled into a ‘securopolis.’ The securopolis is a form of urban life in which humans enact a ‘watchfulness’ (i.e. surveillance) combined with a ‘readiness for the worse’ (i.e.
Peter Rogers
doaj