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Prospects for South-east Asia to end-2016.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB211950
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The president focused on his administration's anti-illegal narcotics purge, a campaign that is raising human rights concerns domestically and globally.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB212642
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Russian economic policy-making.
The targeting of these civilian vigilantes highlights the centrality of community-based, often ethnically aligned, government-backed militias in the Sahel’s various conflicts…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB261041
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Political upheaval in late November in the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) -- one of two rebel-controlled territories in eastern Ukraine -- has not affected the overall dynamics…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB227438
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President Bashar al-Assad does not control most of the local and foreign militias that operate in his name in Syria. Some of those follow the policies of Iran’s Islamic Revolution…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB231885
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The Syrian army and its allies have driven IS out of most of the region from Homs to the edge of the Euphrates valley, recapturing several gas fields. This has yielded a marginal…
The main assault from the south is led by the national army, with US air support. However, Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Units (PMUs) are also participating to the east and…
The final official vote tally in Venezuela shows 68% for incumbent President Nicolas Maduro in Sunday’s election, well above the previous high for the ruling United Socialist…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB233927
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Security officials blame the spike in violence on the influence of drug trafficking organisations (DTOs), which have long transited the country but which increasingly are vying to…