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A remarkable early sea-ice reduction event was observed in the northern Bering Sea during 2018. In turn, this unusual hydrographic phenomenon affected several marine trophic levels, resulting in delayed phytoplankton blooms, phytoplankton community ...
Fumihiko Kimura +5 more
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Conserver, pacifier, coloniser : la création de l’armée brésilienne au XIXe siècle
The dominant narrative on civil-military relations in mid-19th century Brazil is based on the idea that civil elites were hostile to the military, which would have resulted in the control of the Army and its weakening in state affairs.
Adriana Barreto de Souza
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From ‘pacification’ to ‘licence-to-kill’: Favela residents’ experience with the UPP from 2011-2018
This article draws on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork to explore residents’ everyday experiences of urban militarisation in a ‘pacified’ favela in Brazil.
Åsne Håndlykken-Luz
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The Pacific Solution – A Catastrophe for the Pacific!? [PDF]
Climate change and related sea-level rise has caused fears that many people in the Pacific Islands might become homeless. However it is difficult to say who is more afraid: politicians of countries that are potential destinations of environmental refugees or affected people, who realize that it is not at all a pleasure to lose the home, and that it ...
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Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police [PDF]
In this article we analyze the determinants of confidence in the Police Pacification Units ( Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora – UPPs). During their existence (2008-2018), “pacification” was represented by the media as an institutional hybrid which moved ...
Ludmila Mendonça Lopes Ribeiro +1 more
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The Pacification of Peru and the Production of a Neoliberal Populist Order
This article analyses the security, governance and economic reforms carried out by Fujimori in the 1990s as strategies of pacification seeking to restore a capitalist social order disturbed by the economic and social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s. First,
Maritza Felices Luna
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Pacification and reconciliation are different notions and processes. Even if it is true that reconciliation requires pacification, the contrary is not the case. A deeper cognitive and emotional evolution may develop a certain un-derstanding, even perhaps
Gilbert Hottois
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Editors introduction to Journal of World-Systems Research Vol. 27, No.
Andrej Grubačić
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Beyond pacification Competition State-Making in Rio’s favelas
During 2016 World Economic Forum, the strategy of pacification in Rios favelas was recognized as the most innovative public security policies in last decade. From this scenario, and using Competition State-Making, this paper analyze, under a qualitative
Esteban Arratia Sandoval
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DO WE LIVE IN AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED PEACE?
The article sums up the main ideas of Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of our Nature, and introduces main currents of its criticism. The currents are categorized; thereafter the strength of Pinker’s opponents’ arguments is evaluated.
Vladimír Bízik, Zdeněk Kříž
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