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H\"older foliations, revisited
We investigate transverse H\"older regularity of some canonical leaf
conjugacies in partially hyperbolic dynamical systems and transverse H\"older
regularity of some invariant foliations. Our results validate claims made
elsewhere in the literature.Comment: 52 pages, to appear in Journal of Modern Dynamic
From Mission Cringe to Mission Creep?: implications of new peace support operations doctrine
In 1996 UK Army doctrine writers revised the consept of wider peacekeeping and produced a draft of Army Field Manual, Peace Support Operations. The doctrinal revision, which has also been influential in NATO, attempts to deal with the inadequacies of peacekeeping in situations of volatile consent by establishing a military spectrum approach. the dangers of vertical mission creep, i.e., peacekeepers being drawn into an escalation and coercion in a planned and controlled way. This approach is a rational choice from a military perspective because it offers greater protection to military deployments. However, it represents move towards a combat-oriented concept that raises legal, political and cultural issues, and could result in insularity from civilian and conflict resolution approaches
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Liquid Transformation in the Political Economies of BiH and Kosovo.
yesThe transformation dynamics of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Kosovo rubs salt into the war wounds of economically vulnerable sectors of society in a context of fragile political and security situations, complex or ambiguous constitutional status and an imprecise and contested balance of power between international direction and local ownership. The protectors have been imposing a model of economic transformation, ultimately derived from the neoliberal economic ideology of aggressive capitalism and the 1989 Washington consensus on developmentalism. The inhabitants of war-torn societies have often clung to clientism, shadow economic activities and resistance to centrally-audited exchange. This paper contends that what is sometimes portrayed as a clash between neoliberal modernity and a pre-modern `Balkan way¿ is questionable in its dyadic assumptions and its underestimation of linkages between the spheres of neoliberalism and nationalist¿mafia¿clientism
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The political economy of peacebuilding: a critical theory perspective.
yesThe ideology of the liberal peace has propelled the political economies of war-torn societies into a scheme of global convergence towards ¿market liberalisation¿. This orthodoxy was an uncontestable assumption underlying external economic assistance. However, the project faltered under its inherent contradictions and because it ignored the socio-economic problems confronting war-torn societies, even aggravating them by increasing the vulnerability of populations to poverty and shadow economic activity. Although revisionists have embarked on a mission to boost the UN¿s peacebuilding capacity and also rescue the Millennium Development Goals, the basic assumptions of the liberal peace are not challenged and potential alternatives are overlooked
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