Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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Promoting peace journalism during conflict situations: challenges and prospects
The traditional approach of the media to conflict has been shaped by power, politics, and profit. However, in recent decades, the debate over “peace journalism” as a conflict resolution strategy has gained traction, with several scholars arguing in ...
Nafees, Seeni Mohamed +2 more
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Dilemmas of Civilian Participation in Military Deterrence and Defence: Legal and Ethical Dimensions
ABSTRACT How can civilians participate in deterrence and defence in ways that do not jeopardize their immunity from deliberate attack? The principle of civilian immunity from deliberate attack in war is a core element of contemporary international humanitarian law (IHL). Uniformed combatants and others who take up arms pose a threat may be liable to be
Neta C. Crawford
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Palestine, Public Sentiment and the Limits of Omani Foreign Policy Discourse
ABSTRACT This article examines how expressions of solidarity with Palestine in Oman reveal transformations in state–society relations during the Gaza war of 2023–2025, a period of leadership transition and regional rupture. Drawing on elite statements, opinion columns and semi‐structured interviews, it combines framing analysis with thematic analysis ...
Sumaiya Al‐Wahaibi
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Moderate is the New Black: Shifts and Intersections in Saudi Arabia's Domestic and Foreign Policy
ABSTRACT The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is undergoing a period of intense changes. Its current stage of transformation has been led by Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) since 2015, seeking to turn the Kingdom into a story of successful governance and one of the leading powers in the Middle East. In hardly understood yet very consequential ways, KSA's
Javier Bordón +1 more
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ABSTRACT Crises tend to redirect political attention toward urgent relief efforts, often sidelining long‐term policy priorities. This article examines the role of agenda‐keepers—policy entrepreneurs who work to preserve attention to existing issues when crises threaten to displace them.
Luis Rivera‐Velez, Lucile Maertens
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Jurnalisme Damai dalam Pemberitaan Pembakaran Gereja di Aceh Singkil pada Harian Waspada
The burning church in Aceh Singkil on October 13, 2015 has caught the attention of local, national and even international media. The conflict motivated by the building permit issue required the media to expose the issue as it was.
Raihan Nusyur
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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From political economy of the media to press freedom: obstacles to the implementation of peace journalism in Turkey [PDF]
In this article, we consider journalism as a nonviolent and creative approach to conflict transformation. Considering peace journalism from the viewpoint of news values analysis we try to understand the political and economical aspect of news media and ...
Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli +1 more
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