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Globalization and the Emergence of Violent Non-state Actors: The Case of Human Trafficking
New Global Studies, 2015 AbstractThis study examines the impact of globalization on the emergence of human trafficking as a transnational security threat. The author discusses the relationship between globalization and violent non-state actors (VNSAs), seeing human trafficking as one of VNSAs threatening the state in the age of globalization.
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Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 2021 This paper aims to expand the concept of hybrid governance and analyses the case of Rio Janeiro, where criminal control coexists with the state. This study addresses the following research question: is Rio de Janeiro an important case for expanding the ...
Marília Carolina B. Souza Pimenta +2 more
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Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 Over the past couple of decades, “new” state actors, such as Brazil, China, Russia, India, Turkey, and countries of the Arab Gulf, have been playing an increasingly prominent role in assistance provision to conflict-affected states.
Agnieszka Paczyńska
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Introducing ViNSAR: Dyadic Data on Violent Non-State Actor Rivalry
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023 A growing line of research examines causes and consequences of militant group competition. However, empirical work on these topics has limitations. Most quantitative research uses relatively rough proxies for competition, such as counts of groups in a country.
Justin Conrad +2 more
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Deterring Violent Non-state Actors [PDF]
, 2020 AbstractThe chapter examines the relevance and applicability of deterrence to violent non-state actors (VNSAs). VNSAs have become important players in the international system. Traditional deterrence theory and practice has limited utility against VNSAs due to their different characteristics to those of states that makes them less susceptive to ...
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Violence and Violence Research in Africa South of the Sahara
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2011 This review presents the major lines of investigation regarding violence in Africa since the Cold War. After a historical introduction to the development of violent phenomena and their political contexts, diverse issues such as civil war, democratization,
Alex Veit +2 more
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Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2021 States give direct, indirect, formal, and informal aid to violent non-state actors. Historical foreign aid examples suggest that foreign aid to violent non-state actors are free from the development degree and ideology of the state and the region in ...
Sinan DEMİRDÜZEN +1 more
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The evolution of European perception of the term 'hybrid warfare' [PDF]
Војно дело, 2018 The emergence and use of the term 'hybrid warfare' is related to the efforts of the US military analysts to explain the changes in the physiognomy of war, as well as the practical problems of the US Armed Forces on the ground as a result of these changes.
Vračar Milinko S., Ćurčić Milica T.
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Intervención internacional a través de los medios de comunicación en sociedades posguerra: Perspectivas a partir de las epistemologías del sur [PDF]
, 2016 Over the past two decades, international intervention in post-war settings has strictly followed liberal assumptions and practices. Efforts to build and shape the media in the aftermath of armed conflict are no exception.
Almeida Cravo, Teresa +2 more
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Trauma as counter-revolutionary colonisation: narratives from (post)revolutionary Egypt [PDF]
, 2017 We argue that multiple levels of trauma were present in Egypt before, during and after the 2011 revolution. Individual, social and political trauma constitute a triangle of traumatisation which was strategically employed by the Egyptian counter ...
Alexander J C +22 more
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