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Brutalisation as a survival strategy : how the "Islamic State" is prolonging its doomsday battle
Rosiny, Stephan - 2016
The recent bomb attacks at the Istanbul airport (28 June 2016), in a tourist cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2 July), and in Bagdad (3 July) were part of a "Ramadan campaign" announced by the spokesman of the self‐declared “Islamic State” caliphate in late May 2016. This series of attacks was...
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Organizational forms of terrorism : hierarchy, network, or a type sui generis?
Mayntz, Renate (contributor) - 2004
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Nonprofit organizations and the combatting of terrorism financing : a proportionate response
Does de Willebois, Emile van der - 2010
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Domestic security in the Maghreb : deficits and counter-measures
Mattes, Hanspeter - 2012
Terrorism and crime, particularly organised crime with its close links to terrorism, currently constitute the greatest … culminated in the ousting of regimes. Terrorism and organised crime are, to varying extents, prevalent in all Maghreb states and …, as yet their use has sufficed to contain the threats posed by terrorism and crime. -- terrorism ; crime ; North Africa …
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Construyendo inseguridades : aproximaciones a la violencia en Centroamérica desde el análisis del discurso
Huhn, Sebastian; Oettler, Anika; Peetz, Peter - 2006
In all Central American countries we witness a struggle to define, interpret and classify types of violence, delinquency, crime and (in)security. Although this struggle has highly relevant political and social implications, it has not been analyzed systematically. This article evaluates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008905220
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Exploding crime? : topic management in Central American newspapers
Huhn, Sebastian; Oettler, Anika; Peetz, Peter - 2006
It has become common to state that criminal violence has superseded political violence in Central America. This paper presents the first results of a research project which analyses the social construction of violent realities in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The authors describe the...
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Discourses on violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua : national patterns of attention and cross-border discursive nodes
Oettler, Anika (contributor) - 2007
It has become common to state that youth gangs and organized crime have seized Central America. For theories on contemporary Central American violence, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua present important test cases, demonstrating the need to differentiate the diagnosis. First, national...
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Inclusive institutions and the onset of internal conflict in resource-rich countries
Wegenast, Tim C. - 2010
Studien über die institutionellen Determinanten innerstaatlicher Gewalt legen nahe, dass die Präsenz multipler politischer Parteien das Konfliktpotential innerhalb der Länder reduziert. Es wird behauptet, dass Parteien oppositionelle Gruppierungen in eine institutionalisierte politische Arena...
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Fuel for conflict or balm for peace? : Assessing the effects of hydrocarbons on peace efforts in Algeria
Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010
's concluding assumptions therefore is that it is very likely that the use of resource revenues for conflict prevention and peace … system. -- Algeria ; violent conflict ; terrorism ; peace-building ; resource management ; socio-economic development …
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