{"title":"From rebel leaders to post-war intermediaries: evidence from Southern Syria","authors":"Abdullah Al-Jabassini","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2312626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2312626","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the distinct pathways and roles played by former rebel leaders in conditions of conflict transformation. Focusing on southern Syria, it offers a comparative analysis of th...","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From alliance to ‘soft conquest’: the anatomy of the Turkish-Azerbaijani military alliance before and after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war","authors":"Levon Hovsepyan, Artyom A. Tonoyan","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2312957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2312957","url":null,"abstract":"Military cooperation has been one of the milestones in Turkish-Azerbaijani relations since the early 1990s. A qualitatively new phase began in 2010 after the signing of the strategic agreement whic...","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autonomous cooperation: types of alliances between communities and combatants in civil wars","authors":"Daniel Gómez-Uribe","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2307064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2307064","url":null,"abstract":"Civilian cooperation with armed actors has been widely studied by conflict scholars. However, one aspect remains conceptually overlooked: instances where civilian communities cooperate while retain...","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Westphalia from below: humanitarian intervention and the myth of 1648","authors":"Paul B Rich","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2311941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2311941","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Small Wars & Insurgencies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Only a tree stands still to be cut down’: discoursing legitimation in narratives of the Nigeria-Biafra war and the IPOB movement (1967 to present)","authors":"Adeiza Isiaka","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2304902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2304902","url":null,"abstract":"At sixty years, the Biafran movement has evolved, with actors and narratives shaped by new demographics, discourse modalities, and ideologies. While its most compelling leaders – Ojukwu and Kanu — ...","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Was Gerry Adams a transformational leader?","authors":"Michael Flavin","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2311913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2311913","url":null,"abstract":"Gerry Adams was the foremost Irish Republican leader in The Troubles (1968–1998). This paper analyses the extent to which he was a transformational leader, shifting Republicanism from armed struggl...","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"219 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139679857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mass atrocities and the police: A new history of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina","authors":"Lawrence E. Cline","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2307599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2307599","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Small Wars & Insurgencies (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2024)","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140584231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jihadist sniper culture: propagandising the ‘caliphate’ through the crosshair","authors":"Pieter Nanninga","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2302799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2302799","url":null,"abstract":"Snipers have gained increasing prominence in modern warfare and insurgencies, both in actual combat and in military propaganda. Research on snipers, however, has remained largely limited to their s...","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139501571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The conceptual and doctrinal evolution on irregular warfare in Türkiye: 1919-1952","authors":"Arman Sert, Cenker Korhan Demir","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2301712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2301712","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the evolution of concepts and doctrine on irregular warfare in Türkiye from 1919 to 1952, focusing on two primary research inquiries. It explores the conceptual approach tow...","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"237 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139468984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The bandits’ world: recruitment strategies, command structure and motivations for mass casualty attacks in northwest Nigeria","authors":"Oluwole Ojewale","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2024.2301713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2024.2301713","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses the dynamics of banditry in northwest Nigeria through qualitative and quantitative research methodology. To populate their cells, bandits apply economic incentives and coercion....","PeriodicalId":501268,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars & Insurgencies","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139469221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}