essential part of the military s work. Yet the importance of peace operations to the individual soldier from the South African Defence Force SANDF . The findings show mixed responses in terms of the effect especially where this is related to operational success. The article argues that peacekeeping deployment should This article attempts to fill this gap by examining how soldiers perceive the effects of their peace status upon reintegration in the home unit. Adopting an inductive approach the authors analyse 50 interviews Peacekeeping deployment abroad and the self-perceptions of the effect on career advancement, status Peacekeeping deployment abroad and the self-perceptions of the effect on career advancement, status and

doing so the article briefly introduces the different Muslim communities within China as well as the impact challenge to the Chinese state. As such the focus of securitization shifted from ethnic identity to religious critically examines how securitization campaigns by the Chinese Communist Party CCP turn the country s Muslim seeking to legitimize the CCP s repressive security practices. Applying securitization theory the article attempts to legitimize its counterinsurgency policies under the principle of combating the Three Evils GONUL, H. et ROGENHOFER, J. The Disappearance of the “Model Muslim Minority” in Xi Jinping’s China: Intended The Disappearance of the “Model Muslim Minority” in Xi Jinping’s China: Intended Policy or Side Effect

Abstract Focusing on the evolution of China s interactions with Egypt and the parties to the Israeli Palestinian through a resistance to the Western monopoly over the latter s evolution and over the production and interpretation challenging the Western-dominated status quo ante not through the deconstruction of the international ideas and identities the article posits that the observed developments are constitutive of a reordering approach that negates neither realist nor liberal premises but rather enriches them with the role of ideas AOUN, Elena et KELLNER, Thierry. The crises in the Middle East: A window of opportunity for rising China The crises in the Middle East : A window of opportunity for rising China

Abstract The notion of the criminalization of the state is paradoxical. On the one hand the idea that absolute linked to the bureaucratic rule of the state itself. In this commentary on the contributions to this special light on the potentially criminal behaviour of state-officials. On the other the assumption that legal rules are general and anonymous that they apply identically to everybody and that allows defining these elites address this and other paradoxes of the state with regard to the relation between politics and criminality OLSSON, Christian. The criminalization of politics, the politics of criminalization and their paradoxes The criminalization of politics, the politics of criminalization and their paradoxes

developments in the recent history of Mali the conflict between the two jihadist movements threatens to unlock begun to be contested and a rising challenger trying to exploit the situation. More specifically the rise Mali. The violent escalation that has taken place between Katiba Macina and Islamic State in the Greater by Katiba Macina in the area under its control. As the result of a process that cuts across various developments Islamic State appears directly connected to the material and symbolic crisis of the system of governance Seydou. The end of the Sahelian exception: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State clash in central Mali. The International The End of the Sahelian Exception: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Clash in Central Mali

DJALILI, Mohammad-Reza et KELLNER, Thierry. The rise of Iran in the Middle East: between fiction and reality The Rise of Iran in the Middle East : Between Fiction and Reality

regards to the authors whose work they publish and the audiences whose readership they seek to attract questions about the conditions of the present and the naturalization of standards on how to write a scientific while one could expect the globalization of the social sciences to lead to the transnational circulation interrogating the historical-contextual origins of conventions that so strongly shape the world of academic instead witnessing the imposition of a strangely singular and harmonized mode of doing the social sciences BEERLI, Monique, et al. The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style

pendulum the study considers the challenges of being a member of the EEU and the repercussions for the country Trade Area DCFTA with the European Union EU in favor of joining the Customs Union CU Eurasian Economic Union Abstract The article aims to explain Armenia s foreign policy shift from its pre-signature of the Association draws on public opinion to investigate whether it was in sync with the presidential announcement. While country s relations with the EU. “Swinging on a Pendulum” Armenia in the Eurasian Economic Union and With the European Union. Problems of Post-communism Swinging on a Pendulum: Armenia in the Eurasian Economic Union and With the European Union

Burundi and the Great Lakes region in Africa to show the limitations of available causal models which are displacement in the context of cyclical violence and repeated refugee flows We take the context of Burundi triggered security fears on behalf of the regime. Finally as the case of Burundi shows redisplacement crisis and rather sees them as co-constitutive. In Burundi mass displacement cleared the opposition from domestic argue for a longue-durée approach to displacement and for complicating the dominant causality framework by Theorising repeated displacement: The role of anticipation and precedent. The case of Burundi. Political Geography Theorising repeated displacement: The role of anticipation and precedent. The case of Burundi

instruments but rather devices that participate in the normalization of the use of force. technostrategic discourse British air power in Afghanistan military memoirs Abstract How is the protracted and non-decisive specifically this analysis underlines how airpower technologies contribute to the framing of Others as depoliticized Afghan conflict understood by the British military personnel in charge of air support Based on a study of achieved by the technologies ammunition weapons aircraft used. This article highlights how technologies WASINSKI, Christophe. When the war machine produces its enemies: making sense of the Afghan situation through When the war machine produces its enemies: making sense of the Afghan situation through British airpower