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International commodity prices, growth and the outbreak of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

To learn more about the effect of economic conditions on civil war, we examine whether Sub-Saharan civil wars are more likely to start following downturns in the international price of countries’ main export commodities.
Antonio Ciccone, Markus Brückner
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Markets at War: the Procurement of Ukrainian Drones

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1990s and early 2000s saw a set of public service reforms in the UK and elsewhere under the label of ‘the new public management’. A key element of this was the introduction of so‐called quasi‐markets into social services such as education and health care, where users were given the power to use government funds to purchase the service ...
Arsen Zhumadilov, Julian Le Grand
wiley   +1 more source

Civil War Song - Accession 56 - M26 (38)

, 2015
The Civil War Song consists of a photocopy of handwritten lyrics of the American Civil War song entitled, “The Bonny Blue Flag”. This document was produced in the 1860s.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1084/thumbnail ...
American Civil War, Confederate States of America   +1 more
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EUPopLink Country report - Georgia. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Tabatadze S, Khuroshvili B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of exposure to lifetime and war-related traumas, PTSD and complex PTSD in a sample from the Ukrainian general population. [PDF]

Eur J Psychotraumatol
Facer-Irwin E, Short R, Murphy D, Onuch O, Hale HE, Kulyk V, Biscoe N, Sasse G, MacManus D.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Escalation dynamics and the severity of wars. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Clauset A, Walter BF, Cederman LE, Gleditsch KS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

The politicization of academic collaborations threatens to harm international science. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Cadotte MW.
europepmc   +1 more source