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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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The Part of the Shiite in Development of the Geography Resources [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2018 Along with the scientific development of the Islamic world in the third Hijri century, especially the Translation Movement, relying on the specific Shiite Rationalism, and being committed to its ideological principles, the Shiite welcome the importing ...
Ali Ghofrani
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Consideration and Analysis of Shiite Topic and Theme in Mahmoud Farshchian’s Paintings [PDF]
نگره, 2020 After many years of absence of Shiite topics in Iranian painting, Mahmoud Farshchian experienced them in his works. Farshchian, as one of the most famous painters of contemporary period, built a new experience in creating painting with Shiite topics ...
mostafa siasar +3 more
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Creative Nonfiction: The Christian Dior woman
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This work of creative nonfiction emerges from ethnographic research on Arab women's testimonies of their cancer experience conducted in 2016–2018. It focuses on the account of one Lebanese woman diagnosed with breast cancer and highlights her feelings, thoughts, and perceptions from the time of the initial medical examination through to final ...
Abir Hamdar
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Iraq : a deeply divided polity and challenges to democracy-building [PDF]
, 2010 In the post-2003 Iraq, democratization and state building have contradictorily overlapped with dramatic consequences. The major constraint to Iraq’s statebuilding project is the misfit between identity and sovereignty of the state in a multi-ethnic and ...
Bapir, Mohammed Ali
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract The increased reliance on remote warfare by US‐led military coalitions presents us with questions of “what war is” and “how to know about war” in the 21st century. In this article we substantiate calls for an embodied epistemology of war by introducing a transdisciplinary research agenda to investigate the temporal and spatial civilian harm ...
Lauren Gould +3 more
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Shanghai Co‐Operation Organisation: A Concert of Eurasia?
Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The Shanghai Co‐operation Organisation (SCO) has emerged as a viable intergovernmental organisation with a vibrant security portfolio. With its recent expansion it now boasts ten members, including rising great powers Russia, China, and India, as well as nuclear‐armed Pakistan, and regional power Iran.
James MacHaffie
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Once Upon a Time...When a Revolution Evolved to a Civil War in Syria [PDF]
, 2019 This paper gives an overview of how the conflict in Syria has evolved from a revolution into a sectarian civil war. Power is maintained by the ruling Assad family through promotion of the Alawite minority within the government and military.
Myers, Crystal M
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Şiî-Sünnî İmamet-Siyaset Tartışmaları Bağlamında Hz. Âişe (el-Hillî-İbn Teymiyye Örneği)
Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, 2020 Müslümanlar arasında ilk halifenin seçimi meselesiyle başlayan siyasî tartışmalar, zamanla itikadî alana kadar ulaşmış ve çeşitli mezhepleri doğurmuştur. Şiî-Sünni ayrışmasının ana sebebi imamet problemidir. Şîa ve Ehl-i Sünnet arasında Hz.
Adem Eryiğit
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Strong militias, weak states and armed violence: towards a theory of ‘state-parallel’ paramilitaries [PDF]
, 2016 This article challenges the well-established presentation within conflict studies of paramilitary organizations as state-manipulated death squads or self-defence groups, and argues that some present-day militias extend their functions well beyond the ...
Aliyev, Huseyn
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