The academic community has yet to settle on the manner and mechanisms by which economics-based counterinsurgency initiatives affect violence levels. This piece considers the effect of local-business revitalization initiatives on insurgent violence by analyzing Iraqi First, an initiative implemented by the U.S. military in Iraq through which billions of dollars were committed to local commodity ...

The present paper investigates poetry written in China on the theme of COVID-19 pandemic following outbreak January 2020, considered both as a social phenomenon and literary texts. analysis is primarily interested considering impact poetry’s interaction with reality. In order to do so, essay follows two trajectories. Firstly, it explores public role performed by poets nationwide popular mobiliz...