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Dangerous Crossings: Voices From The African Migration To Italy/Europe, Robert M. Press
Dangerous Crossings: Voices From The African Migration To Italy/Europe, Robert M. Press
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Africans continue to migrate across the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea, where tens of thousands have drowned. In Libya, many suffer enslavement and other harsh treatment as they flee persecution or poverty, or both. Yet there have been few studies of their journey. This study, based primarily on some sixty interviews by the author in 2014–2016 with African migrants in Italy and France, provides a portrait of resilience, courage, and strategic decisions that differs sharply from media images of helplessness. It suggests reconsidering migrant networks and typologies in view of the breakdown and attempted repair of networks on these journeys, …
Individual And Organizational Human Rights Activism In Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Kenya, Robert M. Press
Individual And Organizational Human Rights Activism In Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Kenya, Robert M. Press
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This article examines the ways individual and organizational activists peacefully resisted government repression in recent decades in three sub-Saharan Africa countries. It is based on both archival research and more than 170 interviews by the author with key activists and others in the countries at various times from 2002-2012. This qualitative study makes several contributions to the literature. First, by including individual activism as well as organizational activism, it reveals wider and more varied participation in human rights activism than is normally detected. Second, where the usual focus in resistance studies is on mass movements, this study presents a more …
The Punishment Of Gaza, Edward Sayre
Sierra Leone's Peaceful Resistance To Authoritarian Rule, Robert Press
Sierra Leone's Peaceful Resistance To Authoritarian Rule, Robert Press
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This study examines the nonviolent resistance starting in 1977 that students, lawyers, journalists, women's organizations, and others, mounted against repressive rule in Sierra Leone, a country known to many mostly for its violent civil war (1991–2002) and “blood diamonds” that helped fuel it. The study argues that social movement theories, though developed in the West, can help explain such resistance–but only with some revisions. The resistance in Sierra Leone took place without the kind of exogenous “opportunities” and resources normally associated with movements in the democratic West. The study offers alternative explanations that expand the usual concept of social movements …
Candles In The Wind: Resisting Repression In Liberia (1979-2003), Robert Press
Candles In The Wind: Resisting Repression In Liberia (1979-2003), Robert Press
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Scholars have been extending social-movement analysis beyond its base in the industrialized West to Latin America and Asia, but rarely to Africa. Social movements resisting repression in nondemocratic settings have usually had the help of external "opportunities" or favorable circumstances. This study, however, examines a peaceful social movement in Liberia, a movement that resisted repression under two regimes, advocating for human rights and democratic freedom without such "opportunities." How did this happen? The study finds four explanations: the formation of a microsocial movement with no formal leadership and only loosely connected strands of resistance, which were harder to control; a …
Allying For Peace: Treaty Obligations And Conflict Between Allies, Andrew G. Long, Timothy Nordstrom, Kyeonghi Baek
Allying For Peace: Treaty Obligations And Conflict Between Allies, Andrew G. Long, Timothy Nordstrom, Kyeonghi Baek
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We argue that certain provisions of alliance treaties can signal credible commitments to a peaceful relationship among members and establish institutional mechanisms that promote the settlement of disagreements through peaceful negotiation. Nonaggression, peaceful dispute settlement, military institutionalization, and permanent organization provisions should increase the duration of peace between alliance members; we test our hypotheses with a duration model. The analysis generally supports our expectations except that alliances that create permanent organizations, even those specifically established to arbitrate disagreements, are associated with shorter durations of peace. We conclude with some implications of our argument for the study of military alliances and …
Weather And The Salem Witch Trials, Franklin G. Mixon
Weather And The Salem Witch Trials, Franklin G. Mixon
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The Future Information Infrastructure In Economics, William L. Goffe, Robert P. Parks
The Future Information Infrastructure In Economics, William L. Goffe, Robert P. Parks
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Community And The Economy: The Theory Of Public Cooperation, Mark A. Klinedinst
Community And The Economy: The Theory Of Public Cooperation, Mark A. Klinedinst
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Computer Network Resources For Economists, William L. Goffe
Computer Network Resources For Economists, William L. Goffe
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Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy, And Political Science, Edward M. Wheat
Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy, And Political Science, Edward M. Wheat
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Worker Managed Firms, Democratic Principles, And The Evolution Of Financial Relations, Charles P. Rock, Mark A. Klinedinst
Worker Managed Firms, Democratic Principles, And The Evolution Of Financial Relations, Charles P. Rock, Mark A. Klinedinst
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Public Organizational Existence: A Critique Of Individualism In Democratic Administration, Charles R. Davis
Public Organizational Existence: A Critique Of Individualism In Democratic Administration, Charles R. Davis
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No abstract provided.