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Weaponomics : the global market for assault rifles [PDF]
This paper introduces the first effort to quantitatively document the small arms market by collating field reports and journalist accounts to produce a cross-country time-series price index of Kalashnikov assault rifles.
Killicoat, Phillip
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Small-arms and Light-weapons Risk Education in Iraq [PDF]
, 2011 MAG (Mines Advisory Group) has one of Iraq’s most established mine-risk education programs. In 2007, MAG identified a regional need to warn people, particularly children, about the risk of handling guns and other weapons. Drawing on more than 16 years of
Jenatsch, Kirsty, Wotten, Meredith
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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THE REPRISAL ATTACKS BY AL-SHABAAB AGAINST KENYA [PDF]
Journal of Defense Resources Management, 2013 The incursion of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) into Somalia was met by a series of threats from the Al-Shabaab that it would increase the attacks against Kenya if the troops were not withdrawn.
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Framings of Intervention in Spain: From the Civil War to the Franco Dictatorship
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the role of foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War, the word intervención rarely appeared in contemporary media and official discourse. This article examines the expressions that Republican and rebel authorities used to represent the presence of outside forces in Spain.
Marta Costa Costa
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A War of Words: Framing the Austrian Civil War through the Language of the Combatants
History, EarlyView.Abstract The Austrian civil war was a four‐day conflict in 1934 between the largest left‐wing paramilitary, the Schutzbund, and government forces aligned with the largest right‐wing paramilitary group, the Heimwehr. The Schutzbund was quickly and brutally suppressed through the use of overwhelming force, armoured vehicles and even artillery deployment ...
Jenna Byers
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power
History, EarlyView.Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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International Small Arms and Light Weapons Transfers: U.S. Policy [PDF]
, 2006 This report provides general background on U.S. policy regarding the international trade in small arms and light weapons (SA/LW). It outlines major questions associated with the international trade in these items, and reviews United States efforts to ...
Grimmett, Richard F.
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