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new form of insurgency, and is the new form of insurgency part of the so-called Eastern way of warfare? Fourth, does this … mean that counter-insurgency in Afghanistan is part of the West’s ongoing Global War on Terror (also dubbed the Long War …
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A survey of the long history of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan suggests there are common patterns in the causes of violence amongst Afghans of the region. The hypothesis of this article is that there are three broad historical factors that influence outbreaks of violence and their...
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examines such a process geographically for compliance with the norm that good citizens should vote. The diffusion of conformist …
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-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method. Hydrodynamics and diffusion limitations in emulsion were considered in overall model by …
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to deterioration in the situation. The resulting full-blown insurgency, usually complicated by proxy war, takes several … insurgency outbreak therefore helps to highlight the importance of prevention and possibilities in non-militarised alternatives …. The article considers the initial phases of three of India’s major counter-insurgency engagements—Punjab, Kashmir and …
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The article looks at humanitarian interventions by non-state actors (NSAs) during and after the ADF insurgency, an … intra-state conflict, in post-independence Uganda. It examines why the ADF insurgency in the Rwenzori region received little …
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claim’-examines the idea that the violence of oil production-an oil insurgency or an oil rebellion-is associated with the …
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Using micro-level farmer expenditure surveys, this article studies the insurgency in the Punjab region of India …. Moreover, insurgency-related violence likely signaled an increase in future kidnappings of farm labor and may have incentivized …
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Recent work has suggested the foreign-led reconstruction effort carried out in Afghanistan and Iraq can mitigate violence because it helps win the “hearts and minds” of local people. For the case of Afghanistan, we show there is no evidence behind such an assertion. Analyzing unique data on...
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Recent work has shown that the introduction of mobile communications can substantially alter the course of conflict. In Afghanistan and India targeting mobile communications is a central part of the insurgent campaigns. The opposite was true in Iraq. There insurgents instead threatened providers...
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