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Beijing’s Shadow Force: China’s Wagner-like Private Security Company in Myanmar’s Civil War

Bulletin of "Carol I" National Defense University
This study examines China’s establishment of a joint private security company with Myanmar’s military junta as an evolution in Beijing’s power projection capabilities.
Habib BADAWI
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The Status of PMSC's Personnel Under International Humanitarian Law

Московский журнал международного права, 2015
Nowadays services of PMSCs are widely provided. Personnel of PMSC are involved in hostilities carrying out tasks related to the use of force. The article contains the analysis of the status of PMSC's personnel in accordance with international ...
Vyacheslav N. Kulebyakin, Elena E. Korolkova   +1 more
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Demilitarisation Nigeria and South Africa compared

, 2009
In sub-Saharan African countries that have made democratic transition from military rule and military-backed authoritarian regimes, state elites have embarked upon strategies aimed at demilitarising the new democratic political process ...
Isima, J
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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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Privatising Security [PDF]

Journal of Defense Resources Management, 2016
The article proposes an analysis of the different approaches towards employing the international legal framework in the regulation and oversight of private military and security companies’ operation in armed conflicts and in peace time security ...
Irina Mindova-Docheva
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Prostitutes, Mercenaries and Feminism: the Public and the Private in International Relations

Estudos Internacionais
Feminist approaches have become increasingly present in International Relations studies. Using these theoretical perspectives, the present article analyzes the basis on which rests the prejudice toward prostitutes and employees of Military and Private ...
Wagner Martins dos Santos, Cristiano Mendes   +1 more
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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The Wagner Group

Arab Journal for Security Studies
This study includes the mysterious World Wagner, a private military company, which is said to be related to Russian interests around the world. The awthors also explore its emerging origins and implications, and seek to provide a comprehensive analysis ...
Habib Badawi, Mohamad Daabul
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