Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power by Maheen Zaman

“…First was what was owed to the local racket or warlord, and the second was to the ever-fragmenting sub-clan militias and their checkpoints on the intercity highways. …”
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10,000 BC [videorecording] / by Centropolis Entertainment (Firm), Warner Home Video (Firm), Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), Legendary Pictures

“…But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. …”

The Trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline as a Factor of Afghanistan’s Integration into the Greater East Asia: Comparative Analysis of Arguments Pro et Contra by Yuriy Pavlovich Laletin

“…The author analyzes the historical stages of the project and challenges to its realization, as well as the current situation in Afghanistan aggravated by the fighting of the Taliban and warlords, drug trafficking, terrorist threat and ethnic conflicts. …”
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Liberating Afghan Women by Nancy Gallagher

“…After years of funding various anti- Soviet Mujahidin warlords, the United States had agreed to help reconstruct the country once before in 1992, when the Soviet-backed government fell, but had lost interest when the warlords began to fight among themselves. …”
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The Chieftains of the Eastern Roman Empire in Light of the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes by Szymon Wierzbiński

“…The following text is an attempt to answer the question why some of the warlords and generals mentioned in Marcellin’s chronicle were shown positively and others not. …”
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Inside/Outside Somalia by Liisa Laakso

“…For the international community trying to restrain Islamization on the one hand and warlordism on the other, it has been convenient to limit state power in Somalia. …”
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The Blunders in the Western cross-cutting policies in Afghanistan: The Opium economy as a case of study by Francisco Berenguer-López

“…In Afghanistan, opium cultivation was part of an economy of survival in the decades preceding the Afghan resistance war against the Soviets and, during the subsequent civil war, cultivation and trafficking of opium poppy became one of the main methods of financing the so-called warlords. However, the Taliban regime would be the first to convert the cultivation and trafficking of this drug into a state business stimulating cultivation and production and the corresponding taxation. …”
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La Somalie en mauvais État by Alain Gascon

“…Since 1988 Somalia has sunk into an endless civil war. Warlords have been fighting over parts of the national territory in order to expand their criminal traffics. …”
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Mongolia’s Diplomatic Efforts to Join the United Nations and the Changes in the Position of the Great Powers by Ulambayar Denzenlkham

“…The history of the Republic of China, which existed on the mainland between 1912 and 1949, was the history of the struggle for power between the warlords, the history of the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communists. …”
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MILITARY INTERVENTION AFTER THE COLD WAR: THE EVOLUTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE/ANDREA KATHRYN TALENTINO by Godfrey Ramuhala

“…The Unified Task Force (UNITAF) was mandated to create an environment conducive for the distribution of emergency aid against earlier attempts, which were derailed by warlords and the marauding gangs. The achievements on the humanitarian objectives were ephemeral because when the mission ended in 1993, an operation to make possible the political imperatives commenced, but all these efforts ended in violence. …”
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Review: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War: A Memoir by Rotimi Olajide Opeyeoluwa

“…The book is about the evolution of an individual and a nation at war; how a person, that is, the author fought her personal “wars” and translated the enormous strength she developed within the intervening years to confront the warlords bent on annihilating her nation and people. …”
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La “Gran Guerra” en Liberia como ejemplo clásico de conflicto armado persistente y economías de guerra en África. by Johannes Muntschick.

“…How can violent actors and warlords manage to continue warfare lastingly? The article presents, in its theory section, several assumptions regarding the longevity of these armed conflicts from the perspective of fragile statehood, collapse of neo-patrimonial networks, conflict-resources, social grievances and ethnicity. …”
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History in Popular Magazines: Negotiating Masculinities, the Low of the Popular and the High of History by Bodil Axelsson

“…Articles on great men produce cultural imaginaries of warlords and political leaders by drawing on layers of historically contingent ways for men to act in public and private spheres and connecting late modern visual celebrity culture to the cults of fame in earlier centuries.…”
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Peacekeepers or Perpetrators? Analysis of the Side Effects of UN Peacekeeping Missions by Jana Menšíková

“…For this purpose, a comparison of four case studies is applied (UNMIBH and trafficking in human beings, MONUC and sexual abuse, UNAMSIL and diamonds smuggling, and UNPROFOR and cooperation with warlords). The missions analysed in the case studies share some common characteristics (type of mandate, time period, etc.) but differ in the nature of the side effects. …”
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Islam dan Budaya Banten by Fahmi Irfani

“…This area is also known for its magical atmosphere of the place in search of knowledge lc:anuragan, super­natural power, as a form of debus culture reflection. Clerics, warlords kiyai, and jawara, are symbols of this region, and they occupy the position of the central figures in the social stratification of local communities. …”
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The many meanings of iconoclasm: Warrior and Christian temple-shrine destruction in late sixteenth century Japan by Strathern, A

“…The conversion of certain warlords in Kyushu, Japan, (1560–1580 CE) represents one of the most important breakthroughs for Christianity in the early modern world, and it was accompanied by striking acts of destruction of the local sacred sites and objects. …”

Towards an Ethical Electronics? Ecologies of Congolese Conflict Minerals by Sy Taffel

“…This paper asks how coltan, casseterite, wolframite and gold ores mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo relate networked microelectronics to brutal warlords, and what legal and industrial actions have been enacted by activists, NGOs, politicians and businesses aiming to address this situation. …”
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Mémoire du passé récent contre temporalités multiples by Pierre Tripier

“…In the month of May 1940 two warlords clashed. One was formerly a colonel in the First Regiment, where the other arrived when he graduated from Saint Cyr and subsequently became his mentor. …”
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Blood Brothers in Despair: Greek Brigands, Albanian Rebels and the Greek-Ottoman Frontier, 1829‑1831 by Basil C. Gounaris

“…Eventually the making of the frontier forced both warlords and politicians to transform their tactics and reconsider their alliances.…”
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History in Popular Magazines: Negotiating Masculinities, the Low of the Popular and the High of History by Bodil Axelsson

“…Articles on great men produce cultural imaginaries of warlords and political leaders by drawing on layers of historically contingent ways for men to act in public and private spheres and connecting late modern visual celebrity culture to the cults of fame in earlier centuries.…”
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