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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"military violence"”.
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Operational Military Violence: A Cartography of Bureaucratic Minds and Practices
Western use of military violence is becoming increasingly centralised, partly through the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or more commonly referred to as “drones” in the literature). Drone technology allows control and command of military operations to be put under one roof, and as military …
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War by Other Means: Environmental Violence in the 21st Century
… different mechanisms enacting environmental military violence through discursive analysis of literary and cultural texts, and considers the ideas, values, and beliefs that support environmental military violence. In each chapter I trace a different dynamic of environmental violence structured …
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The use of armed drones by the United States against Al-Qaeda and its ‘associates’: a study of law and policy arising from a ‘State of exception’
… problematic role of Pakistan, in particular, the military violence of the Pakistani military in the tribal areas. The case study of Pakistan highlights that the drone strikes are directed against a population that is marginalised within the targeted state. The study argues that the special status …
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The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms
… scholars presume that normative restrictions on military violence in world politics are an outgrowth of Western liberal modernity. Indeed, humanitarian norms such as the Geneva Conventions are comparatively recent in world politics, and many political scientists claim that they are a …
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El desierto y el duelo: una poética de resistencia a la violencia y al olvido en Lluvia en el desierto de Marjorie Agosín
… resistance to forgetting injustice and political violence, both before the military coup of 1973, such as in the verses of Pablo Neruda, Andrés Sabella and Gabriela Mistral, and after, in Patricio Guzmán’s documentary film Nostalgia de la luz (2010) as well as Ariel Dorfman’s book Memorias del …
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Dynamics of National Morality: Negotiating Values and the State
… the public discourse regarding three cases of military violence that instigated public debates, using content analysis of 1,500 newspaper stories. First, I examine generalization dynamics transforming a local occurrence into a national crisis, building on societalization theory. I argue that …
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A strategic analysis of Al Shabaab.
… and what it hopes to achieve through violence. The first order of business is to clearly define what we mean by “terrorism” and what we understand an “insurgent” to be. While the definition of terrorism is a hotly debated subject, this thesis employs the definition articulated by …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… of Myanmar’s then capital, Yangon, as the military launched a coup that marked the beginning of Myanmar’s decades-long international isolation. In not dissimilar fashion, the Khmer Rouge marched into Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, on 17 April 1975, overthrowing the fledgling Lon Nol …