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Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2015
Through its monopoly on violence, the State tends to pacify social relations. Such pacification proceeded slowly in Western Europe between the 5th and 11th centuries, being hindered by the rudimentary nature of law enforcement, the belief in a man's ...
Peter Frost
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Peace Challenges and the Moral Weapons of Pacification in Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesHomme, 2016
The policy known as « pacification » in Rio de Janeiro started as an intervention proposed by Brazil’s State Secretary of Public Security in 2008, with the official objective of ‘retaking territories’ under the control of criminal factions.
Carly Machado
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Race, class and persistent coloniality: US policing as liberal pacification

Capital and Class, 2018
This article argues that US policing ends up maintaining and reinforcing substantive intersecting racial and class divisions, precisely because of its avowed formal neutrality. The article is divided into two main sections.
Markus Kienscherf
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Pacific Security in the Pacific Century

Current History, 1994
After 150 years of war and military tension, the Asia Pacific is today at peace. The current lull in more than a century of conflict has led some to assume that the Pacific Century will be pacific. This belief has been occasioned not only by the end of the Cold War, but also by the assumption that the economic interdependence of the Asia Pacific ...
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Security/capital: a general theory of pacification

Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 2018
oppositional politics is a fundamental feature of human subjectivity. After a brief interlude in which Clement tells social scientists – wrestling with climate change, resource wars, the flagrant corruption and criminality that exists at the commanding ...
Adam White
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Breakfast in the Pacific

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2002
The Sixth Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium was held on 27--30 November 2001, at the National Center of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
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Theory in the Pacific, and the Pacific in theory

2020
Historically, European encounters with Pacific landscapes and people have had a lasting impact on metropolitan ideas. In archaeology and other human sciences island geographies have provided clarity for the refinement and testing of theory, with their boundedness and diversity being touted as explanatory aids, facilitating the study of population ...
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AIDS in the Pacific

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 1988
This article summarises current AIDS and HIV infection epidemiology, population risk behaviour factors, local public health and governmental responses to AIDS and cooperative strategic plans for a Pacific “War on AIDS” among the United States Public Health Service and the Pacific jurisdiction public health agencies.
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