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Engaging armed non-state actors in mechanisms for protection

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2011
Experience of engagement with armed non-state actors on the landmine ban may point the way to innovative approaches to preventing forced displacement and other abuses of human rights....
Pauline Lacroix   +2 more
doaj  

The Criminology of Regulation

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The field of regulation and governance has strong roots in criminological research. Foundational ideas about regulatory enforcement styles, root causes of compliance, and nongovernmental approaches to regulation and its enforcement have originated in criminological research.
Sally S. Simpson, Benjamin van Rooij
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement on the Missions and Activities of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations, 2011–2023

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What motivates US‐based environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) to incorporate social justice (SJ) into their missions and activities? How does this integration occur? ENGOs could integrate SJ issues that speak directly to their environmental mission or address non‐environmental topics, such as police reform.
Elizabeth Echavarría   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing violent nonstate actorness in global politics: a framework for analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article begins with the assumption that the most important shift that is taking place in contemporary global politics is the shift in polity power from the predominance of the state to the rising importance of nonstate actors.
Ersel Aydinli, Aydinli, E.
core   +1 more source

Ecological Struggle as Ethos of Decolonisation: Emergence of a Decolonial Ecology in Bakur (Northern) and Rojava (Western) Kurdistan

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines why the Kurdish Freedom Movement has adopted ecological struggle as a foundational pillar in its politics of decolonisation and the reclamation of autonomy. Framed within the context of colonial and ecocidal developmentalism, the research analyses how policies initiated during the Ottoman Empire and perpetuated by Turkish
Necmettin Türk
wiley   +1 more source

Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them.
Oz Hassan
wiley   +1 more source

New Organizational Leadership: Nonstate Actors in Global Economic Governance

open access: yes, 2015
States and international organizations have found irresistible cause in a globalizing world to coopt nonstate actors (NGOs, private standard setters and so forth) to manage the manifold problems arising under their stretched mandates and resources.
Mattli, Walter, Seddon, Jack
core   +1 more source

New Approaches to Nonstate Armed Actors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The chapters incorporate presentations from a panel at the Middle East Institute’s 64th Annual Conference, held on November 4, 2010, in Washington, DC.

core   +1 more source

The Stability‐Instability Paradox and the Evolving Balance of Terror in the Middle East

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Winter 2026.
Abstract In launching its war on Iran, Washington has committed a grave mistake by allowing a weakened Islamic Republic to reconstitute a regional balance of terror. This article shows how the Cold War‐era stability‐instability paradox has been restored in a new form, creating an equilibrium that discourages open warfare while reducing the advantages ...
Thomas Juneau
wiley   +1 more source

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