Capitalism has disrupted the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars, and pacification in Central America; William Robinson maps the shape of change in the region.
This work aims to provide structure to the current debate and analyzes the applicability of both humanitarian law and human rights law.
Ethnic conflicts have shaped the 20th century in significant ways.
This book examines the polarization of positions surrounding the transnational boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at ending the Israeli occupation.
While focusing on the mother-daughter conflicts these texts portray, this book also contributes to ongoing debates in transnational feminism by scrutinizing the representation of Asia in Asian American literature.
O'Duffy drew an initial 670 recruits, though his bombast and the deep political divisions in Ireland led to Irish volunteers on the Republican side in response (O'Donnell, 1937: 245, 255; Southworth Collection, UCSD).
Further, the book analyses how smuggling economies function in conflict zones, explaining why some rebel groups are involved in the smuggling economy more than others, and why state actors actually play a much more crucial role.
Contributors: O. Vernon Burton; Edmund L. Drago; Hugh Dubrulle; Niels Eichhorn; W. Eric Emerson; Amanda Foreman; David T. Gleeson; Matthew Karp; Simon Lewis; Aaron W. Marrs; Lesley Marx; Joseph McGill; James M. McPherson; Alexander Noonan; ...
This book investigates the importance of gender and resistance to silences and denials concerning human rights abuses and historical injustices in narratives on transnational memories of three violent conflicts in Indonesia.
They come into being in a dialogical space, a contact or conflict between narratives. ... By foregrounding the power dynamics of the narrative struggles over memories of violence, it becomes possible to show how agency at different ...
The Taliban advocated an extremely conservative brand of Islam which forced women to stay at home and required all men to grow long beards. It carried out a number of public executions and floggings of those who opposed its rule.