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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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Unravelling Africa’s misgovernment: How state failures fuel the emergence of violent non-state actors: Selected case studies [PDF]
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 This paper explores the multifaceted challenges post-colonial African states face in addressing underdevelopment and ethnoreligious intolerance, resulting in an unstable socio-economic and political environment.
Victor H Mlambo
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Hamas and the Threat of Exclusive Territorial Control by Violent Non-State Actors [PDF]
Studies in Conflict & TerrorismUntil the war that followed the attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, Hamas held factual dominion over both a specific territory and a defined population, resembling a traditional sovereign. Yet, in its military operations and in relation to its territorial control, Hamas does not abide by international rules or norms.
Wolf, Dana +1 more
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Geopolitics of Violent Non-State Actors: Exploring manifestations of statehood by violent governors [PDF]
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Nizzero, Maria
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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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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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Why Are Violent Non-State Actors Able to Persist in the Context of the Modern State?
The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare, 2018 El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras constitute the most violent region on the globe outside a declared warzone: The Northern Triangle. Cities in these countries have dominated the list of most dangerous cities in the world for years.
Victoria Dittmar Penski
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