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Militias and Armed Conflicts in West Africa [PDF]
Journal of Central and Eastern European African StudiesMilitias have been a significant feature of many armed conflicts in Africa. Their roles have influenced the outcome of these conflicts in both time and space.
Alex Cann
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Hot Lands: The Rise of Civilian Militias [PDF]
, 2019 Why do civilians form militias? Militias emerge not when there is a lack of state security but instead when competing violence specialists behave as predatory actors. I argue that varying time horizons create the conditions for militias.
Arellano, Adrian
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Armed governance: the case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias [PDF]
, 2021 This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality of actors competes over control and rule.
De Lauri, Antonio, Suhrke, Astri
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Civilianizing Civil Conflict: Civilian Defense Militias and the Logic of Violence in Intra-State Conflict [PDF]
, 2016 This paper examines how civilian defense militias shape violence during civil war. Civilian defense forces are a sedentary and defensive form of pro-government militia that incumbents often use to harness the participation of civilians during a ...
Clayton, Govinda +2 more
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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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Can Libya survive as a single State?
L’Année du Maghreb, 2019 Ever since the Qadhafi regime collapsed in late October 2011, the survival of the Libyan state has been opened to increasing question. The causes are manifold; the collapse of the Libyan army in the wake of the NATO-led attacks, the hostility of Britain ...
George Joffé
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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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Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2014 In Links, Nuruddin Farah (2003) portrays a Somali back to his country after more than two decades of exile. The scenario he meets is aSomalia already free from the dictatorship that expulsed him, but still immersed in a bloody civil war between rival ...
Divanize Carbonieri
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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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