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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"State-sponsored terrorism"”.
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Fighting for control : state-sponsored terrorism as foreign policy in Cuba and Libya, 1959-2010
… I ask four inter-related questions about state-sponsored terrorism. First, under what conditions do states choose to support foreign terrorist groups? Second, when do sponsor states stop supporting terrorism? Third, how can states which are the targets of terrorism best persuade sponsor …
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Terrorism in the news: A constructionist approach
This thesis examines portrayals of terrorism in the New York Times during the 1990s. Using ethnographic content analysis, I analyze several dimensions of coverage including the emphasis given in articles to violence, the characterizations used to describe terrorists and their actions, the sources …
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Sudan: Enduring Issues, Challenges and Policy
… opposition to the government. Islam is the state religion, strictly enforced, and the goal of the militant Islamic government is to drive all the non-Muslim African Southerners away from oil deposits and spread the Islamism of the North to the South. The government-sponsored militant group …
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Graffiti, memory and contested space : mnemonic initiatives following trauma and/or repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina
… writing challenge the memory projects of the state as well as state projects that are perceived by citizens to be 'inadequate,' 'inappropriate,' and/or as promoting the erasure of memory. Many of these initiatives are a reaction to the proreconciliation and pro-oblivion strategies of previous …
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Hezbollah: Chattel of Deception
Hezbollah truly is a manipulative deceitful beast that must be shown in its true form. While it will maintain that it is a legitimate political entity, one can ascertain from this study that its actions dictate otherwise. Whether it is through its manipulation of HAMAS and the PA, the Lebanese …
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State-sponsored violence in the Soviet Union : skeletal trauma and burial organization in a post-World War II Lithuanian sample
… case. It compares that with 3 other cases of state-sponsored violence in Rainiai, Vinnytsia, and Katyn.