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In the face of the military aggression and the brutal realities of war, Russian ideas are utterly incomprehensible. The Russian aggression is hardly explained by the concepts of political realism or pragmatism. These concepts are also completely useless when it comes to understanding the Russian mentality. For over three hundred years, the Russians have cultivated a myth of a community or brotherhood of blood and an inseverable bond uniting all East Slavic peoples. A majority of today's Russians do not recognize separate Ukrainian and Belarusian identities, consider Ukrainians and Belarusians subgroups of the Russian nation, and deem the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages dialects of Russian. They also tacitly accept the Kremlin's arguments about the necessity to defend the Russian-speaking population of the Ukrainian lands from a "fascist coup" and to "denazify" Ukraine. The aim of this work is to analyze the reasons for this state of affairs from a linguo-cultural perspective.

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Long before "IS" and "Boko Haram", the messianic "Lord's Resistance Army" (LRA) in Uganda was considered as one of the most brutal rebel groups in Africa, or in the world, and as one which clearly specialized in the abduction, "recruitment" and deployment of children and adolescents as ombatants. This book presents the results of a research project on former child soldiers and rebels in northern Uganda and their "reintegration" into society after their return to civilian life. The authors investigate their biographies and the social figurations or relationships between them and members of the civilian population that emerged following their return, not least in their families of origin, and show which conditions facilitate or hinder their "(re)integration" into civilian life. The discussion also shows what distinguishes them from former members of rebel groups in the neighboring region of West Nile, in respect of their history and how they were recruited, as well as in their present situation and social position.

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I 1951 ble levningene etter døde sovjetiske krigsfanger flyttet fra de mange lokale gravplassene over hele Nord-Norge til et felles krigsgravsted på Tjøtta på Helgelandskysten. Den omfattende flyttingen gikk under navnet "Operasjon asfalt", og var et resultat av mistenksomhet og frykt for russisk spionasje. Forfatteren beskriver årsakene til at sovjetiske krigsfanger mistet livet, det norsk-russiske samarbeidet om flyttingen av gravene, selve gjennomføringen av "Operasjon asfalt" og reaksjonene fra lokalsamfunnet. Marianne Neerland Solheim er instituttleder ved Barentsinstituttet ved UiT. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

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At War with Women reveals how post-9/11 politics of gender and development have transformed US military power. In the mid-2000s, the US military used development as a weapon as it revived counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military assembled all-female teams to reach households and wage war through development projects in the battle for "hearts and minds." Despite women technically being banned from ground combat units, the all-female teams were drawn into combat nonetheless. Based on ethnographic fieldwork observing military trainings, this book challenges liberal feminist narratives that justified the Afghanistan War in the name of women's rights and celebrated women's integration into combat as a victory for gender equality. Jennifer Greenburg critically interrogates a new imperial feminism and its central role in securing US hegemony. Women's incorporation into combat through emotional labor has reinforced gender stereotypes, with counterinsurgency framing female soldiers as global ambassadors for women's rights. This book provides an analysis of US imperialism that keeps the present in tension with the past, clarifying where colonial ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality have resurfaced and how they are changing today.

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War and civilization.