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Chinciński Tomasz
This article examines the attitudes and emotional responses of ethnic German civilians in the Polish territories annexed to the Third Reich during the Second World War. Drawing on two underutilized source types – reports of the Polish Underground State and internal assessments of the Nazi Security Service (SD) – it reconstructs shifts in morale, political loyalty, and intergroup relations between 1942 and 1944. The study situates these developments within the broader context of Nazi occupation policies, including population transfers and the Volksliste classification system aimed at the “Germanization” of annexed lands.By reading these intelligence materials comparatively, the article treats them as functional equivalents of public opinion research in a regime where surveys and free media did not exist. Although shaped by institutional bias and censorship, the reports reveal patterns of enthusiasm, disillusionment, conformity, and fear among both Reich Germans and resettled Volksdeutsche. Their convergence across regions allows for a nuanced reconstruction of social perceptions under totalitarian rule. The analysis demonstrates that intelligence documents, when critically interpreted, provide insight into not only administrative priorities but also the moral and psychological dimensions of life in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Cheng Ying · Yang Ting
This analysis bridges Žižek’s event theory with Levinas’ ethics to explore Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel, Invisible , in which the encounter with the Other’s face disrupts the event’s symbolic hold and compels ethical action. This paper examines these ruptures from multiple perspectives and posits that war and violence are not merely disruptive forces that dismantle societal order; rather, through mechanisms of power, they become phenomena that are normalized, socialized, and institutionalized. Building upon this foundation, Auster advocates for a Levinasian approach to resistance: When the Other emerges in a violent event in a manner that is both strange and sublime, the goodness should be internalized by the subject, enabling them to embrace responsibility. The ‘non-indifference’ relationship between the Other and the subject embodies the author’s vision for ethical interactions, highlighting that ethical subjects must confront the obligation of choice and actively work to alleviate the adverse effects of violent occurrences. Invisible not only elucidates the author’s perspectives on violence and war but also emphasizes the potential of events to reshape humanity.
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Khateeb Dana · Bacher-Katz Inbal · Shnitzer-Meirovic Shlomit
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This study explores the experiences of Israeli Druze mothers of children with disabilities living in the Golan Heights conflict zone during wartime. The Druze, a unique religious minority in Israel, are represented in this study by mothers who face compounded challenges at the intersection of their ethnic minority status, their role as caregivers to children with disabilities, and their residence in a conflict area. Using a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 Druze mothers. Thematic analysis revealed two main themes: mothers experienced intensified parental challenges during wartime, including strengthened bonds with their children, heightened concerns for the future, and persistent feelings of shame about their children’s disabilities. Simultaneously, they demonstrated remarkable resilience, drawing strength from personal capabilities, faith in God, and family support. The findings are discussed through the lens of Conservation of Resources Theory. Practical implications include developing tailored support programs that recognize the unique cultural context of Druze families, enhancing community-based resources, and implementing policies that address the specific needs of families with disabilities in conflict zones. This study contributes to the limited research on families of children with disabilities in wartime contexts, providing valuable insights for policymakers and practitioners.
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Mohti Wahbeeah · Rehan Ayesha · Aslam Faheem
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This study investigates the quantile-specific connectedness between global airline indices, tourism indices, oil prices and oil volatility. Quantile Vector Autoregressive (QVAR) framework is employed across three quantiles (5th, 50th and 95th) to capture the dynamic connectedness under bearish, normal and bullish market conditions with particular emphasis on COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war period. To understand the sector-wise behavior and to identify the shock transmission patterns across sectors, group-level net spillovers are also estimated. Results indicate that airlines consistently act as dominant shock transmitters, tourism primarily absorbs shocks and oil and oil volatility function as reactive receivers, particularly under downside stress. The findings provide valuable insights for policymakers, investors and industry stakeholders in managing systemic risk and enhancing sectoral resilience under extreme market conditions.
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Khannaev Sherzod
This study investigates the relationship between monetary policy and bank performance in Uzbekistan during the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia–Ukraine war. Using system-GMM with monthly panel data from 32 banks (2020–2023), we evaluate three monetary policy indicators: the central bank policy rate, money market rate (MMR) and narrow money (M0) growth – capturing price-based signaling, funding costs and quantitative liquidity, respectively. Results show that higher policy rates are positively associated with bank profitability (return on assets [ROA] and return on equity [ROE]), while the MMR exhibits a negative relationship, suggesting the policy rate operates through signaling and macro-stabilization channels rather than funding cost dynamics. Supplementary NIM analysis confirms this interpretation: policy rates compress margins, indicating the positive profitability association reflects broader stabilization effects. M0 growth shows a weaker positive association, turning negative during sanctions for equity returns. Interaction analyses reveal the monetary policy–profitability relationship was two to three times stronger during the pandemic. Evidence on state ownership is mixed: state-owned banks show stronger associations with asset returns but not equity returns. These findings demonstrate the importance of distinguishing price-based from quantity-based policy instruments in emerging markets navigating compounded external shocks.
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2026 EN
Foreman Harriet
Critical Military Studies has failed to adequately engage with issues of race and (post)colonialism. While feminist attention to gender within CMS scholarship has been essential to reworking and broadening our understandings of what war, violence, and militarism are and how they function, CMS has not to the same degree centred attention to race and colonialism. This does not mean that we should abandon our attention to militarism, but rather that we must actively work to centre race in our attempts to analyse and understand it historically and contemporarily. Militaries and violence are not simply reflective of pre-existing racialized dynamics but are constitutive of race and racialized hierarchies. Key to this approach to race and militarism, must be a wholehearted embrace of postcolonial theories and methodologies to deepen our analysis and lay bare the ongoing role of (neo)colonial power in mutually imbricated forces of racism and militarism. An inadequate understanding of race in our accountings of militarism allows claims that militaries can be decolonized, or indeed can be forces of racial integration, to stand while hiding the Eurocentric bifurcation of the world which continues to permeate understandings of war and violence. If we do not centralize race and colonialism in our attention to militaries, CMS will fail in its political and social critique of military power by unwittingly reproducing the racialized logics through which military violence is legitimized and reproduced. This failure will ultimately mean that CMS as a discipline will never successfully oppose militarism.
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Enloe Cynthia · Conway Daniel
This conversation between Cynthia Enloe and Daniel Conway began in November 2022 for The World Today magazine and was continued and expanded in July 2024. Cynthia Enloe’s fifteen books include Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2nd ed, 2014); Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000) and Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link (2nd ed, 2016). Her latest book, Twelve Feminist Lessons of War was published in 2023. Enloe has won numerous awards and is one of the honourees named on the Gender Justice Legacy Wall at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Daniel Conway is the author of Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa (2012) and has recently published articles exploring grassroots women’s and LGBTQ+ organizing and Pride events in South Africa, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai and Mumbai in the journals International Feminist Journal of Politics, Sexualities, International Affairs and Sociology .
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Markey Liam
Through the linguistic and semiotic obfuscation of war’s violent reality, traditional, mainstream forms of British media have historically propagated sanitized and glorified narratives concerning warfare since the cessation of the First World War. Importantly, depictions of ‘deviant knowledge’, which serve to undermine and challenge militarism, and those ‘deviant’ individuals who espouse it, have either been suppressed or wilfully misrepresented within these narratives as a means of preserving the militaristic status quo. Digital spaces as sites of resistance have often been neglected during Critical Military Studies ’ (CMS) first ten years of publication, yet are vital in the dissemination of knowledge that challenges the perpetuation and strengthening of militaristic ideologies. Particular attention is paid here to the findings of the author’s doctoral research, which assessed the role of British ‘military victimhood’ as a potential tool of militarism utilized during periods of military commemoration since 1918. This research demonstrated how those regarded in the mainstream as commemorative deviants have utilized digital spaces to challenge militaristic narratives of war propagated through traditional forms of media. This Encounters piece serves to highlight the untapped potential that research into such digital spaces can offer those who wish to fulfil one of CMS’ core aims, the challenging of military power, as the journal moves forward into a second decade of publication.
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Radunzel Joel
The Great War of 1914-1918 marked important developments in the evolution of military cartography. While recent research has examined these developments in the context of the European belligerent armies, including those of the British, Italians, and Germans, little research has explored the mapmaking efforts of the American forces that participated in the closing months of the conflict. This paper examines how the Army- and Corps-level headquarters of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in France used tactical maps to visualize spatial information and control the operations of subordinate forces on the battlefield to better understand how these novel mapmaking processes developed. The research draws upon archival records—including the AEF's maps and official documents—to understand how the AEF acted as a cartographic system that collected, transmitted, mapped, and distributed spatial information. The research indicates that the AEF mapmakers learned from the cartographic techniques of the other allied armies to develop a form and language of cartography that was distinct to the American army in France. These results reinforce the conclusions of other scholars that have argued that the Great War marks an important point in the evolution of military cartography.
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Guerra Nicola
This study examines the emergence and evolution of Red-Brownism, an ideological phenomenon blending elements of the far right and far left in opposition to Western capitalism, globalization, and American hegemony. Originating in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse and shaped by intellectual exchanges across Russia, Italy, and France, Red-Brownism has developed as a metapolitical movement with strong ties to Eurasianist thought, advocating for a multipolar world order. The research explores Red-Brownism as a hub for ideological dissent, analyzing its internal divergences and its role in shaping geopolitical narratives, particularly in light of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the re-election of Donald Trump. Special attention is given to the competing visions within Eurasianism, highlighting the tensions between Red-Brown Eurasianists and those engaging with Trumpist conservatism. Through an analysis of key thinkers and metapolitical discourse, the article investigates Red-Brownism’s trajectory, internal tensions, and its potential impact on global politics.