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Keeping the fires burning: Militarisation and the politics of gender in South Africa [PDF]
, 1987 African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented October, 1987This paper focuses on the linkages between women and militarisation. Women are understood as a social category with distinctive and specific experiences.
Cock, Jackie
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Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia [PDF]
In this paper we present historical evidence and a theoretical analysis of the origins of political stability and instability in Colombia for the period 1850-1950, and their relationship to political, particularly electoral, institutions.
James A. Robinson, Sebastián Mazzuca
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Why Congo Persists: Sovereignty, Globalization and the Violent Reproduction of a Weak State [PDF]
Wherever one looks, many elements conspire to suggest that the Democratic Republic of Congo should have collapsed some time ago under the multiple assaults of its own inadequacies as a state, the extreme heterogeneity and polarization of its populations,
Pierre Englebert
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Future-proofing the state: managing risks, responding to crises and building resilience [PDF]
Summary: This book focuses on the challenges facing governments and communities in preparing for and responding to major crises — especially the hard to predict yet unavoidable natural disasters ranging from earthquakes and tsunamis to floods and ...
John Wanna +3 more
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The Geography of the provincial administration of the Byzantine Empire (ca 600-1200), Part I: the Warehouses [PDF]
, 2014 Ragia, Efi
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