. This article analyses the Islamic State’s (IS) contextual use of different forms of violence and argues that the attacks … article explains how the group has exhibited a three-stage "cycle of violence" in which violence has served specific functions …. In the first stage, from roughly 2003 to 2010, violence was used as part of a mobilisation strategy. In the second stage …

Marx's "view on world history" and theoretical thinking about globalization / Zhou Minkai -- Have a concrete and … historic understanding of globalization and what China has done / Hu Daping -- A preliminary exploration of global co … and the common interest of mankind / Wang Xinyan -- Globalization and state sovereignty / Yu Keping -- Challenges of …

. Where violence is located might inform us as to why it erupts and how it is linked to various political, economic or social …. -- civil war ; political violence ; geospatial analysis ; subnational analysis ; causality …