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Strong militias, weak states and armed violence: towards a theory of ‘state-parallel’ paramilitaries [PDF]
, 2016 This article challenges the well-established presentation within conflict studies of paramilitary organizations as state-manipulated death squads or self-defence groups, and argues that some present-day militias extend their functions well beyond the ...
Aliyev, Huseyn
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Fabriquer l’identité à la pointe de la kalache
Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2020 On June 25, 2016, an armed fight broke out between the villages of Mougna and Kossouma (Djenné, Mali), killing about twenty people and wounding about forty.
Ibrahima Poudiougou, Giovanni Zanoletti
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Deja vu: Medieval Motifs in Modern Arab Political Life
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2019 The article analyzes specific elements of the Arab societies’ political life which distinguish it from political relations in the Western nation-states.
V. V. Naumkin, V. A. Kuznetsov
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El peso de la violencia en los orígenes de la guerra civil de 1936-1939
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie V, Historia Contemporánea, 2008 La gran cantidad de violencia que se desata en España en el período que va desde la victoria electoral del Frente Popular hasta el golpe militar contribuyó sin duda a hundir el país en la guerra civil. Pero de qué manera?
Gabriele Ranzato
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Handling the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces In The Post-Islamic State Iraq
The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare, 2021 This article examines the future of the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) after the fall of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq.
Faisal Paktian
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Libya: the “new war” for economic power [PDF]
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2015 This article addresses the current situation in Libya from a perspective that takes as its reference the importance of energy resources as a recurrent element in the political instability and configuration of the Libyan state in its recent history.
Miguel García Guindo +1 more
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Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie V, Historia Contemporánea, 2002 En el presente trabajo se estudia el proceso de unificación de las milicias en la retaguardia ourensana, ofreciendo algunas claves explicativas del mismo desde la óptica regional.
Julio Prada Rofríguez
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American terror:from Oklahoma City to 9/11 and after [PDF]
, 2010 Throughout American history, both terrorism and extremism have been constructed, evoked or ignored strategically by the state, media and public at different points, in order to disown and demonize political movements whenever their ideologies and ...
Winter, Aaron
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War as exit from exclusion?: the formation of Mayi-Mayi militias in Eastern Congo [PDF]
, 2001 In eastern Congo scores of young and marginalized people have been increasingly attracted to the mobilising efforts of new local actors. The inquiry into this phenomenon traces the emergence of the first militias to the end of the eighties.
F. Van Acker, K. Vlassenroot
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Achilles’ Heel of Hashd al-Shabi: Ambitions and Weaknesses of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq
Bulletin of "Carol I" National Defense UniversityThis article examines the Iraqi pro-Iran Shia militia group Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH), focusing on its growing assertiveness vis-à-vis its partner militias from the Hashd al-Shabi umbrella group.
Filip BANÁŠ
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