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Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Over the past 20 years Congress has encouraged the U.S. military to supply intelligence, equipment, and training to civilian police. That encouragement has spawned a culture of paramilitarism in American law enforcement.
Diane Cecilia Weber
core  

Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Acknowledgements We would like to thank Laura Whitehouse, John Carman, Oliver Grimm, Julie Lund, Bjørnar Olsen, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper.
Collard, Mark   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Warrior ideologies in first-millennium AD Europe: new light on monumental warrior stelae from Scotland

open access: yesAntiquity, 2020
The evidence of funerary archaeology, historical sources and poetry has been used to define a ‘heroic warrior ethos’ across Northern Europe during the first millennium AD.
M. Hall   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Las mujeres en las sociedades campaniformes del interior peninsular [PDF]

open access: yesMunibe Antropologia-Arkeologia
La presente contribución pretende de forma general discutir la frecuencia con la que han aparecido tumbas con enterramientos femeninos sometidos al ritual campaniforme en la región de Madrid.
Corina Liesau Von Lettow-Vorbeck   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Women in Land Struggles: The Implications of Female Activism and Emotional Resistance for Gender Equity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Despite deeply engrained images of female domesticity and conventional gender norms, women are increasingly joining land struggles in Cambodia. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, my findings suggest that land rights activism in Cambodia has ...
Hennings, Anne
core   +1 more source

Do CSR Committees Moderate the Relationship Between Democratic Societies and Firm Innovation? An International Overview

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

LONG-BLADED WEAPON IN KAZAKH HEROIC EPIC [PDF]

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья
This article examines the long-bladed weapons of the Turkic nomads of Eurasia during the Medieval and Early Modern periods with particular attention paid to swords, sabers, and shashkas as reflected in Kazakh heroic epics.
Agatay, O.M.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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