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...With the fight against terrorism having been elevated to the highest priority and "... become very clear and widely shared as a common discourse. My specific concern in this article is ... is necessary to address some issues of definition and methodology regarding the concept of identity,...
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... four reasons: (1) it illustrates that terrorism and/or publicity-seeking crime and the media cover... based on their motivation: (1) the common criminal motivated by personal gain; (2) the perso... shifting to individuals seeking self-definition (54) or self-assertion. (55) William R. Catton, pr...
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...That means we have to find some common ground in our approach to designations, and on sta... has failed to agree on a common definition of terrorism. In its absence, there are very legi...
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... converted thiscaveat into a new definition of Exemption 2's scope.Crooker approved the use... design," its legislativehistory, "and even common sense," because Congress couldnot have meant to...." Particularly in recent years, terrorism prevention and national security measures have ...
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...This strategy of terrorism increasingly is diversified, taking into account i... we have not even managed to agree upon a common definition of terrorism. Despite the gravity of th...
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Thomas Frank asserts that the Republican Party built a winning coalition in recent elections by convincing white working-class voters to cast their ballots on the basis of cultural wedge issues. Larry Bartels, conversely, argues that economic issues remain paramount to white working-class voters. The authors contend that the white working class is a more diverse bloc than both Frank's and Bartels's analyses suggest. Using data from the 2004 National Election Pool, their results show that there are significant political differences between white working-class voters in union households and those in nonunion households.
... as "working class." Using that definition, Bartels reported findings contrary to Frank's, be... specifically, Frank suggests that the "commonly used metric" for working class is to examine those... that included taxes, education, Iraq, terrorism, economy/jobs, moral values, and health care. Some...
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Passages in the Qur'an28 from Muhammad's time in Medina extol the need to follow Muhammad in spreading Islam through battle.29 English translations of several verses from the Qur'an concerning jihad are contained in Appendix A. Since the basis of Islam is the Qur'an and the Sunnah (i.e., the Prophet Muhammad's actions implementing the Qur'an),30 a study of jihad requires a brief historical view of Muhammad's actions with respect to warfare.31 Approximately two years after Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina,32 he revealed the first Qur'anic verse concerning war.\n At first glance, the UN's purpose of "self-determination of peoples"224 seems to support the notion of freedom fighters and groups rising to power within their nations.
... system, traditional jus ad bellum, commonly known as the law of resorting to war,18 is a Weste... against Muslims by infidels are by definition unjust."39. Under the rubric of jihad as foreign p...
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...(27) . It should be noted that the definition does not refer to either an attempt to commit an a... primarily intended to apply to acts of terrorism. (38) It may be recalled that this convention was ... historically piracy is not limited to the common law definition of robbery on land and has included...
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...* Increasing extremism, terrorism, armed conflict, mass migration and social disrupt... to have little to do with some narrow definitions of sustainable development. However, the aspects o... their expertise to address an area of common concern, such as HIV/AIDS, water crises and climat...
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... nine codefendants for an international terrorism conspiracy including the 1993 bombing of the World... to exempt offerings, revisions to the definition of a credited investor and disqualification of off... is so valuable to get feed back from the common process and you points are well taken. STIVERS: Gr...
