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In their own words : voices of Jihad : compilation and commentary
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ISBN: 9780833044020 0833044028 9786612033094 1282033093 083304690X 9780833046901 9781282033092 6612033096 Year: 2008 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND,

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The actual statements and writings of jihadi terrorists paint a revealing self-portrait of their motives, plans, and mind-set, and offer more profound insights into the jihadi threat.


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God's businessmen : entrepreneurial Evangelicals in depression and war
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ISBN: 022650980X Year: 2017 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What's less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II. Evangelical businessmen at the time were quite active in opposing the New Deal-on both theological and economic grounds-and in doing so claimed a place alongside other conservatives in the public sphere. Like previous generations of devout laymen, they self-consciously merged their religious and business lives, financing and organizing evangelical causes with the kind of visionary pragmatism that they practiced in the boardroom. In God's Businessmen, Sarah Ruth Hammond explores not only these men's personal trajectories but also those of the service clubs and other institutions that, like them, believed that businessmen were God's instrument for the Christianization of the world. Hammond presents a capacious portrait of the relationship between the evangelical business community and the New Deal-and in doing so makes important contributions to American religious history, business history, and the history of the American state.


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De bestrijding van het islamistisch terrorisme door de Europese Unie en haar lidstaten : Tweede Cyrille Fijnaut Lecture Series
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ISBN: 9789400009899 Year: 2018 Volume: 20 Publisher: Antwerpen ; Cambridge : Intersentia,

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Ter ere van de zeventigste verjaardag van professor emeritus Cyrille Fijnaut, op 31 augustus 2016, organiseerde de Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid van de KU Leuven tijdens het academiejaar 2015-2016 de Cyrille Fijnaut Lecture Series. Gezien het grote succes van deze eerste editie, waarvan de lezingen als deel XIV in de reeks Acta Falconis werden gepubliceerd, kreeg de Cyrille Fijnaut Lecture Series een vervolg in het academiejaar 2016-2017. De bestrijding van het islamistisch terrorisme door de Europese Unie en haar Lidstaten vormde het overkoepelende thema van deze tweede editie. De keuze voor dit thema was enerzijds ingegeven door de terroristische aanslagen waarmee België op 22 maart 2016 werd geconfronteerd, maar sloot anderzijds ook mooi aan bij de wetenschappelijke activiteiten van Cyrille Fijnaut. De politiële en justitiële samenwerking in de Europese Unie met het oog op de bestrijding van (onder meer) terrorisme vormt immers één van de vele rode draden doorheen zijn imposante academische carrière. De eerste twee bijdragen van deze bundel zijn gewijd aan het door de Europese Unie ontwikkelde antiterrorismebeleid. Cyrille Fijnaut analyseert het binnenlandse veiligheidsbeleid van de Europese Unie op dit domein en wijst hierbij op een aantal belangrijke uitdagingen. Naadloos daarop aansluitend tonen Jan Wouters en Alex Andrione-Moylan de samenhang aan tussen de interne en externe aspecten van het Europese antiterrorismebeleid. Vanuit hun jarenlange praktijkervaring gaan Wil van Gemert en Michèle Coninsx vervolgens in de derde en vierde bijdrage in op de cruciale rol van respectievelijk Europol en Eurojust bij de terrorismebestrijding op het niveau van de Europese Unie en bij de daartoe vereiste samenwerking met de politiële en justitiële autoriteiten van de Lidstaten. In de voorlaatste bijdrage bespreekt Pieter Van Ostaeyen het fenomeen van de ‘Belgian Foreign Fighters’ in Syrië en Irak, waarbij hij tevens ingaat op de reactie van de Belgische overheid op de terroristische aanslagen in Parijs (2015) en Brussel (2016). Tot slot biedt de Britse ambassadeur in België, Alison Rose, de lezer een inzicht in het antiterrorismebeleid van het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Daarbij komt ook de impact van de Brexit op de politionele en justitiële samenwerking tussen het Verenigd Koninkrijk en de Europese Unie aan bod


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Weaponizing water : water stress and Islamic extremist violence in Africa and the Middle East
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ISBN: 9781955055949 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers,

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Drought, lack of access, poor quality ... water supplies are in jeopardy across Africa and the Middle East. These same areas are rife with conflicts involving Islamic extremist groups. Marcus King explores linkages between water stress and violent conflict by looking closely at how ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and al-Shabaab in Somalia have weaponized water in the pursuit of political ends.

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Water-supply --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Fundamentalism, Islamic --- Islamism --- Islam --- Religious fundamentalism --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- Political aspects --- Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Boko Haram, ISIS, Al-Shabaab, environmental security, terrorism. --- IS (Organization) --- Shabaab (Organization). --- Al-Shabaab (Organization) --- Al-Shabaab (Somalia) --- Ash-Shabaab (Somalia) --- Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen --- Hizbul Shabaab (Somalia) --- HSM (Somalia) --- Movement of Striving Youth (Somalia) --- Mujahidin al-Shabaab Movement (Somalia) --- Mujahidin Youth Movement (Somalia) --- MYM (Somalia) --- Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations (Somalia) --- Shabaab (Somalia) --- Shabab (Organization) --- Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab (Somalia) --- ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) --- ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) --- Daech --- Daeş --- Daesh --- Daʻiş --- Dāʻish --- Daisy --- Dâʼisy al-ʻIrāq wa-asy-Syâm --- Daulah Islamiyah Iraq dan Syam --- Dawlah al-Islāmīyah --- Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fi al-'Irāq wa-al-Shām --- ES --- Estado Islâmico --- Estado Islâmico do Iraque --- Estado Islâmico do Iraque e da Síria --- Estado Islâmico do Iraque e Síria --- IGIL --- IŞİD --- Islamic State --- Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham --- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria --- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant --- Islamskoe gosudarstvo Iraka i Levanta --- ИГИЛ --- Исламское государство Ирака и Леванта --- داعش --- دولة الإسلامية --- دولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام‎ --- דאעש --- État islamique


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The Chile project : the story of the Chicago boys and the downfall of neoliberalism
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ISBN: 0691249369 Year: 2023 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"After a modest increase in Metro fares in Santiago, Chile, last October, twenty Metro stations were simultaneously set on fire. The fare increase was the tipping point of years of social malaise. Days later there were more than a million protesters on the streets. The people of Chile were rejecting low pensions, highway tolls, school segregation, low-quality education, and poor public-health services-the result of decades of neoliberalism. Chile was the prototype for neoliberal policies, first set up under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet with the first-hand guidance of economists from the University of Chicago. Under neoliberalism Chile was long seen as an exemplary developing economy, and a testament to the power of privatization and free trade. But all was not well. Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how Chile went from being the posterchild of market-oriented reforms and capitalist modernization to a nation rocked by violence and political upheaval. He narrates the origins of neoliberalism and the role of the "Chicago boys" in designing and implementing these reforms. He explains the tension between poverty reduction and income inequality, which led to seething discontent under the surface of strong economic numbers. The book tells the story of the signature policies first enacted in Chile that came to define the neoliberal way more broadly: the replacement of a traditional pension system with a privately managed system of individual savings accounts, openness and globalization, the fiscal rule, the taming of inflation, and austere health, education, and environmental policies. As Chile now sets out to draft a new constitution, and other countries come to terms with the same set of policies, all under the looming specter of reactionary populism, the book is an authoritative and important assessment of the success of neoliberalism at a pivotal moment in its history"--

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Chicago school of economics. --- Neoliberalism --- Chile --- Economic conditions --- Absentee Owner. --- Activism. --- Addendum. --- Adviser. --- Aftermath of World War II. --- Arnold Harberger. --- Auction. --- Augusto Pinochet. --- Bankruptcy. --- Bourgeois Dignity. --- Business school. --- Capitalism. --- Carlos Altamirano. --- Carlos Salinas de Gortari. --- Central bank. --- Chicago Boys. --- Committee on Social Thought. --- Credibility. --- Curator. --- Currency. --- Debt. --- Democratic Revolution. --- Dictatorship. --- Dissident. --- Dollar Price. --- Economic efficiency. --- Economic forces. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Economy of Chile. --- Employment. --- Exchange rate. --- Fixed exchange-rate system. --- Foray. --- Francis Spellman. --- Fraud. --- Free Society. --- Friedrich Hayek. --- Gabriel Boric. --- Gary S. Becker. --- George Stigler. --- Henry Kissinger. --- Human capital. --- Import. --- Income distribution. --- Income. --- Industrial policy. --- Industrialisation. --- Inflation. --- Infrastructure. --- John F. Kennedy. --- Jorge Alessandri. --- Konrad Adenauer. --- Latin America. --- Liberalization. --- Louis Rougier. --- Ludwig Erhard. --- Mao Zedong. --- Market economy. --- Market fundamentalism. --- Michael Polanyi. --- Military dictatorship. --- Milton Friedman. --- Miracle of Chile. --- Neoliberalism. --- New Narrative. --- Nobel Prize. --- Obstacle. --- Orlando Letelier. --- Partial equilibrium. --- Patricio Aylwin. --- Pension. --- Policy. --- Private sector. --- Private university. --- Productivity. --- Protectionism. --- Public finance. --- Public sphere. --- Publication. --- Retirement savings account. --- Ricardo Lagos. --- Salvador Allende. --- Secondary sector of the economy. --- Sophistication. --- Talca. --- Tariff. --- The Best and the Brightest. --- The Birth of Biopolitics. --- Theodore Schultz. --- Theodore W. Schultz. --- Trade barrier. --- Trading company. --- Walter Lippmann. --- Water right. --- Wealth. --- Welfare state in the United Kingdom. --- Welfare. --- World Economic Outlook.

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