Securing the Levantine Empire

2021 ◽  
pp. 208-236
Author(s):  
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal
Keyword(s):  
Urban Violence ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
British Military ◽  
Informal Empire ◽  
Police Forces

The chapter traces the struggle of British military authorities to secure their grip over the cities they occupied. New legal measures and security institutions were developed to combat the challenges emanating from the permeable, connected character of the Levantine city. Martial law and military police forces, however, proved insufficient to suppress anti-imperial movements, while their institutionalisation advanced the militarizing, anglicizing tendencies of military rule that further alienated local partners who were relied on for the functioning of this informal empire. The chapter shows how escalating urban and extra-urban violence resulted in the major retrenchment and retreat of British military forces in 1922 and 1923, bringing to an end the distinct Levantine empire that had bound these cities together over the preceding years

COVID-19 Seroprevalence in Military Police Forces, Southern Brazil

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro C. Pasqualotto ◽  
Paula de Castro Pereira ◽  
Daiane F. Dalla Lana ◽  
Alexandre V. Schwarzbold ◽  
Marco Ribeiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Police Forces

A Historical Review of Popular Music and Social Change in Taiwan

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho Wai-Chung
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Social Content ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article considers the relationship between popular music and the power of the state through an analysis of the history of Taiwan and the settings within which popular music was constructed and transformed by contentious political and social groups in the twentieth century. The historical formation of Taiwanese society falls into three distinct stages: Japanese colonization between 1895 and 1945; the Kuomintang's (KMT) military rule between 1947 and 1987; and the period from the end of martial law in 1987 to the resurgence of Taiwanese consciousness in the early 2000s. The evolution of Taiwan's popular music has always been connected with the state's production of new ideologies in line with changing socio-political and economic conditions, and this music still embodies a functional social content.

scholarly journals No Independence without Sovereignty! The Resistance of Emperor Ḫaylä Śǝllase I to the British Occupation of Ethiopia (1941–1944)

Aethiopica ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 46-74
Author(s):  
Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
Flexible Response ◽  
British Military

This article examines how Emperor Ḫaylä Śǝllase I succeeded in removing the British military occupation of Ethiopia during World War II with only a minimum of bloodshed. It outlines the various strategies and tactics the Emperor of Ethiopia employed to regain control over his empire. The text also asserts that he engaged in a pre-Cold War variant of the policy of flexible response which permitted him to resist British military rule without provoking a violent response from his occupier. The text highlights a handful of the numerous tactics and strategies which were employed by indigenous leaders and their allies not only in Africa but also throughout the developing world to successfully resist European colonial rule during and after World War II.

British naval assistance at the twilight of empire: The case of Abu Dhabi, 1966–1968

2021 ◽  
pp. 084387142110376
Author(s):  
Athol Yates ◽  
Ash Rossiter
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Military Assistance ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Navy Department ◽  
British Military ◽  
Informal Empire ◽  
Naval Force

Britain long sought to establish, develop and utilise local military capabilities across its empire. In its informal empire among the Arab Gulf Sheikhdoms of Eastern Arabia, Britain increasingly encouraged – and often cajoled – its protégés to build up their own security forces as London's moment in the Middle East was coming to an end. The scholarly literature on imperial assistance to local forces is invariably army-centric; little attention is given to how powers such as Britain helped establish local naval forces. This article seeks to address this imbalance by describing how British naval institutions supported the establishment of the local naval force in Abu Dhabi in the years immediately before British withdrawal from the region in 1971. This case study expands the historiography of British military assistance to cover naval forces and describes the repertoire of support provided by the Royal Navy and Navy Department.

United Nations peace operations as international practices: Revisiting the UN mission’s armed raids against gangs in Haiti

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (03) ◽  
pp. 364-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lou Pingeot
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Peace Operation ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Police Forces

AbstractThis article develops an International Practice Theory (IPT) approach to United Nations peace operations through the study of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). MINUSTAH saw the introduction of new practices within the context of a UN peace operation, namely the use of joint military-police forces to conduct offensive action against armed groups that were labelled as ‘gangs’. While more objectivist problem-solving approaches would argue that the UN mission was simply adapting to the situation on the ground, an IPT lens reveals that there was considerable struggle to integrate these new practices within the repertoire of peacekeeping. The article argues for the benefits of applying an IPT lens to peace operations while proposing to develop theoretical and methodological approaches that have been less prominent in IPT. Theoretically, it posits that IPT can better articulate practice and discourse by paying more attention to what actors say about what they do.

scholarly journals Brazilian responses to violence and new forms of mediation: the case of the Grupo Cultural AfroReggae and the experience of the project "Youth and the Police"

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sílvia Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Young People ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Safety Policy ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Pilot Experience ◽  
The Media

This article discusses some aspects of the Brazilian response to urban violence, focusing both official public safety policies and actions of the civil society. The text identifies the lack of a national public safety policy, indicates successful governmental experiences carried out in some states and municipalities, and concentrates on the actions of the police. Analyzing the responses of the civil society, the paper is emphasizing the campaign for disarming the population and the role played by the media. It shows the appearance of groups of young people living in the favelas, organized in turn of cultural experiences that, in multiple aspects, are characterized as "new mediators" in society. These groups thematize violence and try to build new stereotypes dissociating them from the image of criminality. The article describes in particular the cases of the Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, of Rio de Janeiro, and the pilot experience carried out in collaboration with the Minas Gerais Military Police, called "Youth and the Police". The AfroReggae group is a typical example of such a "new mediator", and the initiative of carrying out a work in cooperation with the police opens new perspectives for the traditionally scarce participation of civil organizations engaged in public safety in cooperative projects with the police.

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