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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
wiley   +1 more source

Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

Structural adjustment: damages, reparations and pathways to non-recurrence. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Hickel J, Keshavjee S, Burkett M, Richardson ET.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reimagining the (Supra)nation, Remaking the State: The Yugoslav Idea and Ante Marković's Party

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the reimagining and representation of the Yugoslav idea by the Alliance of Reformist Forces (SRSJ), a party established by federal Prime Minister Ante Marković in 1990. The SRSJ sought to reshape the structure of the federal state and revive the narratives of shared history and culture foundational to the Yugoslav ...
Alfredo Sasso
wiley   +1 more source

What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]

Ann N Y Acad Sci
Atran S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Andreas T. Schmidt
wiley   +1 more source

‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
wiley   +1 more source

'We're not all the same'-how heterogeneity among smallholder tree-crop farmers in Ghana generates different degrees of food insecurity. [PDF]

NJAS Impact Agric Life Sci
Ataa-Asantewaa M, Ros-Tonen MAF, de Steenhuijsen Piters B, Gupta J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Property as power: A theory of representation

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Rutger Claassen
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
wiley   +1 more source