Im the balkan london. A quick look at the headlines here on al jazeera, us democrats and republicans are making last ditch appeals on the final day of campaigning before tuesdays crucial midterm elections. The road could up and jo bidens presidency with poles suggesting a republican come back. The democrats face losing control of both the house of representatives and the senate. The balance of power is expected to come down to a handful of key states including georgia, pennsylvania, and arizona. The un secretary general has warned the world is losing the fight against Climate Change. Addressing the cop 27 summit in egypt and 2 negatives. Describe Climate Change as the defining issue of our age, and that the crises of todays, such as ukraine and the cost of living concerns cant be used as excuses to put Climate Action on the back burner. The clock is ticking. We are in the site of our lives and we are losing Greenhouse Gas emissions. Keep growing global temperatures. Keep rising and our
Post-insurgencies and Criminal Subcultures: The influence of Colombian organized crime in Ecuador s Armed Conflict
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Post-insurgencies and Criminal Subcultures: The influence of Colombian organized crime in Ecuador s Armed Conflict
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Book excerpt: ‘Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare’ Jacqueline L. Hazelton Bullets Not Ballots by Jacqueline L. Hazelton (Cornell Press)
In “Bullets Not Ballots,” Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning “hearts and minds” is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and makes military victory possible. Hazelton argues that major counterinsurgent successes since World War II have resulted not through democratic reforms but rather through the use of military force against civilians and the co-optation of rival elites.
Hazelton offers new analyses of five historical cases frequently held up as examples of the effectiveness of good governance in ending rebellions the Malayan Emergency, the Greek Civil War, the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines, the Dhofar rebellion in Oman, and the Salvado