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A spatial analysis of border “security” and jaguars in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Frontiers in Conservation ScienceIn 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 +2 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
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, 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 +1 more
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Visual Arts, Insecurity and an Elusive Peace in Casamance, Senegal
International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract The separatist rebellion in Casamance, southern Senegal, has driven what is arguably the longest‐running intra‐state conflict in West Africa. Spanning over four decades, it has affected successive generations through insecurity (including armed violence and landmine use); economic disruption; trauma; human displacement (both internal and into ...
Martin Evans
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Urban informality and confinement: toward a relational framework [PDF]
, 2017 In the 21st century, a growing number of people live ‘informal’ lives within fissures between legality and informality. Concomitantly, power relations are increasingly expressed through devices of confinement.
Agier M +26 more
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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
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South Kivu: identity, territory, and power in the eastern Congo [PDF]
, 2013 This Usalama report by Koen Vlassenroot outlines the historical dynamics behind the armed movements in South Kivu, focusing on the period before and leading up to the First Congo War.
Vlassenroot, Koen
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Selling green militarization: the discursive (re)production of militarized conservation in the Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo [PDF]
, 2016 In recent years, the militarization of nature conservation has intensified, especially in protected areas located in conflict zones or plagued by ‘poaching crises’.
Marijnen, Esther, Verweijen, Judith
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Can Europe Sustain a New Rules‐Based Geopolitical Order?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The European Union (EU) faces a unique opportunity to lead a new rules‐based international order in an era of American retreat and heightened global uncertainty. Yet its path to leadership is rife with obstacles. In this article, we draw on international relations literatures on international political economy and comparative politics ...
Kathleen R. McNamara, Federico Steinberg
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Military security in the Arctic: New threats to Russia
Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политикаIn 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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