Nigeria: A Prime Example of the Resource Curse? Revisiting the Oil-Violence Link in the Niger Delta [PDF]
This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and international contextual factors. The case study, which focuses on explaining the increase in violence since the second half of the 1990s ...
Annegret Maehler
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“Ethical Tourism” or Self-Preservation? An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Political Violence on Tourism in Egypt in the 1990s [PDF]
This paper uses a new database of political violence in Egypt to study the effects of political violence on the monthly arrival of tourists from the EU and the US in Egypt in the 1990s. We use time series analysis to study the impact of different aspects
Anja Shortland, David Fielding
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Oil in Venezuela: Triggering Violence or Ensuring Stability? A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance [PDF]
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characterized by a low level of violence, an outlier among the oil countries as a whole.
Annegret Mähler
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Democracy and violence in Colombia during the Barco administration (1986-1990) [PDF]
With its longstanding democratic institutions and high levels of contemporary violence, Colombia represents an anomaly within Latin America. Using a contemporary historical approach, this article examines the administration of President Virgilio Barco ...
Benedict Hayes
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Terrorist Incitement on the Internet [PDF]
, 2017 I organized this symposium to advance understanding of how terrorist communications drive and influence social, political, religious, civil, literary, and artistic conduct.
Tsesis, Alexander
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Con y sin uniforme: La música de militares activos y retirados en Colombia
Latin American Research ReviewLos estudios sobre la relación entre música y fuerzas militares suelen estar mediados por enfoques tradicionales que analizan la música marcial o sus usos para los fines de la institución. Sin embargo, existe una producción musical de integrantes activos
Rafael Quishpe +3 more
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Economic development, political violence and socio-political instability in Colombia : an econometric analysis using panel data [PDF]
, 2014 Socio-political instability is considered as an obstacle for economic and social development of countries. Therefore, Political violence as a feature of socio-political instability is a significant development constraint that generates economic problems,
Cotte Poveda, Alexander +1 more
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RAC: Revista de Administração ContemporâneaObjective: to investigate what the practices of normalizing political violence perpetrated by Volkswagen do Brasil against its workers during the Brazilian military dictatorship were, how they were configured, and how they were operationalized ...
Marcelo Almeida de Carvalho Silva +1 more
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Space, place and identity: political violence in Mpumalanga township, Kwazulu-Natal, 1987-1993 [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis investigates political violence between the United Democratic Front and Inkatha in Mpumalanga township, Natal. In the early 1980s and early 1990s Mpumalanga was one of Natal’s townships most gravely affected by political violence.
Bonnin, Deborah Rosemary
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