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Not quite the 'Great Britain of the Far East': Japan's security, the US-Japan alliance and the 'war on terror' in East Asia [PDF]
Japan, in responding to US expectations for support in the 'war on terror', has displayed a degree of strategic convergence on global security objectives, thus prompting policy-makers and observers to dub it the 'Great Britain of the Far East'.
Christopher W Hughes +13 more
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“Dirty Wars”, human rights and the problem of countering state terrorism in Latin America
Background. The concept of “dirty war” began to be actively used in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century to define civil conflict. This term was later spread in other countries in the characteristics of the military operations of the ...
V.G. Romanovskiy
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Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists [PDF]
The terms terror, terrorism, and terrorist do not identify causally coherent and distinct social phenomena but strategies that recur across a wide variety of actors and political situations. Social scientists who reify the terms confuse themselves and render a disservice to public discussion. The U.S.
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Jihadism: What is a Terror Apparatus? Interview with Jacob Rogozinski [PDF]
In the present interview, Jacob Rogozinski elucidates the main concepts and theses he developed in his latest book dedicated to the issue of modern jihadism.
Rogozinski, Jacob, Wilmes, Andreas
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Dom nad rzeką Moskwą jako architektoniczny i literacki znak pamięci
The huge constructivist apartment house built in the 1930s in downtown Moscow, on the bank of the Moskva river, owes its present‑day name to Yury Trifonov’s novel The House on the Embankment (1976).
Aurelia Kotkiewicz
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Interconnections: A Systems History of Science, Technology, Leisure, and Fear
It is well known that technological change causes social change, and vice versa. Using system and historical perspectives, this article examines that truth at a finer level of specificity, namely, that social perceptions of interconnectedness influence ...
Fred Phillips
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When the reaper becomes a salesman: The influence of terror management on product preferences [PDF]
The present research investigates how consumer choice is affected by Terror Management Theory’s proposition of Mortality Salience increasing one’s cultural worldview defense and self-esteem striving.
O'Dwyer, C. +3 more
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Background Trauma-related shame and guilt have been identified as important factors for mental health following interpersonal trauma. For survivors of terror and disasters, however, the role of shame and guilt remains largely unknown.
Kristin Alve Glad +4 more
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A poesia de terror em Paul Éluard, Julia Hartwig e Anne Sexton
Ao indagar a complexa relação estética que se tece entre a poética do gótico e a poética do surrealismo, assegurada pelas experiências da crise do mito, do informe, e em consequência, do terror e do horror, neste artigo, proponho a leitura de alguns ...
Olga Donata Guerizoli Kempinska
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Reflexões sobre a advocacia após o genocídio: há quarenta anos da “noite das gravatas”
O trabalho se desenvolve a partir de um fato pontual, mas de grande poder simbólico, sucedido durante a última ditadura militar argentina (1976-1983), sobre o papel do direito e dos advogados, com base em distinções tais como estado de direito e estado ...
Jorge Eduardo Douglas Price
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