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Multidirectional War and Paramilitarism

2018
This chapter, by following the course of military actions in Lithuania in 1919, explores the emergence of various military and paramilitary groups that engaged in different types of violence. The focus here is on the entanglement of three types of actors: those that performed state-sanctioned violence; those that acted as semi-independent paramilitary ...
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Counterinsurgent Paramilitarism: A Philippine Case Study

Journal of Peace Research, 1992
Paramilitarism represents a common mode of regime response to insurgency. Two competing perspectives, the benevolent and the critical, offer differing predictions about paramilitary behaviors and public response. The study maps out the theoretical issues and conducts an empirical analysis of counterinsurgent paramilitarism in the Philippines in 1987 ...
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Organized Crime, the State, and Paramilitarism

2020
How are paramilitarism and crime related to each other? Empirical studies of paramilitarism make abundantly clear that (organized) crime plays an important role in paramilitarism: the trade in illicit commodities and services and the fact that criminal gangs operate in secrecy are two phenomena that are closely related to paramilitary activity.
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Paramilitarism in progress

2021
Jasmin Hristov, Karen Spring
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Paramilitarism and Colombia's Low-Intensity Democracy

Journal of Latin American Studies, 2006
In the late 1980s and early 1990s political liberalisation, including the reduction of the military's institutional prerogatives, occurred in Colombia despite the increasing strength of an internal insurgency. Why would Colombia's national political elite weaken the institutional role of the armed forces in the context of an escalating internal war ...
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paramilitarism, n.

2023
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PONDERING PARAMILITARISM:

The British Journal of Criminology, 1993
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BEYOND PARAMILITARISM

The British Journal of Criminology, 1987
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EL TERROR PARAMILITAR:

2022
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The Longue Durée of Paramilitarism

As turbulent events – including war, civil war, armed intervention, humanitarian crises and civil unrest – unfold around the globe, the actions of various types of paramilitary organization have attracted considerable attention in academic circles, as well as among the public.
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