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- Influence
Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
- L. Khalili
- Geography
- 21 November 2012
Detention and confinement-of both combatants and large groups of civilians-have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and… Expand
Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency
- L. Khalili
- Political Science
- 1 October 2011
Current US counterinsurgency doctrine is gendered diversely in the different geographic locations where it is formulated, put in practice, and experienced. Where Iraqi and Afghan populations are… Expand
The New (and Old) Classics of Counterinsurgency
- L. Khalili
- Political Science
- 2010
... Counterinsurgency doctrine is interpreted, expanded and sometimes challenged in the proliferation of publications and blogs dedicated to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. One widely read blog is… Expand
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'Standing with my brother' : Hizbullah, Palestinians, and the limits of solidarity
- L. Khalili
- Political Science
- 1 April 2007
On 30 January 2004, after months of negotiations between Hizbullah and the state of Israel via German mediators, a major exchange of bodies and prisoners was completed. In return for a kidnapped… Expand
Heroic and Tragic Pasts: Mnemonic Narratives in the Palestinian Refugee Camps 1
- L. Khalili
- Sociology
- 1 July 2007
To contest exile and political exclusion, Palestinian refugees have invoked their past as both a constitutive component of their identity and as a basis of their political claim-making; but they have… Expand
Monstering: inside America's policy of secret interrogations and torture in the terror war and One of the guys: women as aggressors and torturers
- L. Khalili
- Sociology
- 7 April 2008
Introduction: Turbulent Circulation: Building a Critical Engagement with Logistics
- Charmaine Chua, M. Danyluk, D. Cowen, L. Khalili
- Political Science
- 1 August 2018
Since the mid-20th century, logistics has evolved into a wide-ranging science of circulation involved in planning and managing flows of innumerable kinds. In this introductory essay, we take stock of… Expand
GRASS-ROOTS COMMEMORATIONS: REMEMBERING THE LAND IN THE CAMPS OF LEBANON
- L. Khalili
- Political Science
- 1 October 2004
The Oslo negotiations—and the specter of a Palestinian renunciation of the right of return—greatly increased the insecurities of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The new uncertainties in turn… Expand