PMCs’ profit motive makes them ineffectual for post-conflict recovery and calls for strict regulation of their presence—which again relies on the clientele of major PMCs.
The Contra insurgency in Nicaragua failed due to inadequate external support, insufficient military capabilities, and a lack of civilian support.
American exceptionalism is not merely a static belief but a driving force in the evolution of U.S. foreign policy.
The divide stems from China and India’s respective national interests: China seeks greater global influence, while India deems BRI a looming threat to its sovereignty.
Violence in both war and colonialism occurs in everyday administration via persistent technologies and the slow violence of caloric, infrastructural, and spatial control.
The display of Bullwinkel’s dress is a symbol of the gap between wartime experiences and their commemorative representations.
Crises narratives and reimported conterinsurgency rhetoric have turned US police into a body upholding law-and-order via warfighting, often against racialised minorities.
Navalny embodied an alternative Russia to the Kremlin government’s control. Yet, despite his activism and liberal image, Navalny’s rhetoric was imperialistic at heart.
Oslo facilitated the territorial dispossession, economic dependency, and political fragmentation of Palestine as it was set up to bolster Israel’s occupational regime.
Arguments against SERs’ justiciability—on grounds of their ‘costly’ nature, vagueness, intangibility, and the incapacity of courts—prove counterproductive and misguided.
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