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Siad Barre regime

US military/Ogaden War

weapons and

Western Somalia Liberation Front

See also Africa’s pastoralist corridor

South Sudan

Soviet Union

Afghanistan and

Horn of Africa socialist alliance and

See also Cold War

Special Forces, US military

Stages of Economic Growth, The: A Non-Communist Manifesto (Rostow)

Stanley, Henry Morton

“State Making and War Making As Organized Crime” (Tilly)

State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America (Buchanan)

Steele, James

Sterba, James

Sudan

small-firearms proliferation

See also Africa’s pastoralist corridor

Suhrawardy, Hussain

Sullivan, Gordon

Summer Olympics (Mexico/1968)

Summerfield, Derek

Swinton, Sir Ernest

Tajikistan

See also Central Asian new states

Taliban

about

Afghanistan and

allies

cash offered to fighters

emergence

Pakistan’s use of

Tannenbaum, Frank

Tanzania

Teller, Edward

Thatcher, Margaret

Thorner, Alice

Tilly, Charles

Tipping points

climate change

species populations and

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Tokar, Brian

Toro, Juan Fernando

Torres-Flores, Adriana

Treaty of Westphalia (1648)

Tropic of Capricorn (Miller)

Tropic of Chaos

description

See also specific countries/locations

Tuleev, Nariman

Turkana

cattle importance

drought effects

East African cattle raids

Ekaru Loruman’s murder

firearms sources

location/territory

Lodwar

moran

Pokot enmity history

violence/small firearms

See also Africa’s pastoralist corridor; East African cattle raids

Turkmenistan

See also Central Asian new states

Uganda

1980s drought/famine

British colonialism

British railway in

child soldiers

corruption beginnings

decolonization/independence

as failed state

firearms to Turkana/Kenya

former kingdom of

gun looting/use

Karamoja

Lord’s Resistance Army

See also Africa’s pastoralist corridor

Uganda under Amin

American expatriates and

Cold War competition and

economy and

kleptocracy/violence

South Asians in Uganda

Tanzania threats/invasion

US economic sanctions against

United Nations

climate-related emergencies

Development Program’s Global Environmental Facility grants

human-development index of well-being

Office on Drugs and Crime

United States

authoritarianism and

Clean Air Act

climate legislation and

coal-fueled power plants and

economic decline (1970s–1980s)

Environmental Protection Agency/climate change mitigation

“fuel switching,”

lack of climate change mitigation

military-industrial complex

Native Americans and

natural gas/drilling for

New Deal

Tea Party

See also Cold War; Military and security/ climate change; specific individuals

United States/immigration

American media and

anti-immigrant policies effects on

Arizona’s anti-immigration law/policies

arrest quotas/raids

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

deportations

detention network/abuse

Mexico’s climate change/economics and

nationalism

racism/xenophobia and

state actions

“state of emergency/exception” and

whole border policing

See also US-Mexico border

US Agency for International Development

US-Mexico border

US infrastructure/resources at

US militarization

Uzbekistan

See also Central Asian new states

Vakulabharanam, Vamsi

Venezuela and oil

Victoria, Queen

Vidal, John

Vietnam War

carpet bombing

civilian targets

Laos mountain tribes and

Special Forces

Strategic Hamlet Program

US defeat and

violence overview

Violence

causality

See also Catastrophic convergence; specific locations

Volcker, Paul

Waithaka, Casper

Waldman, Matt

Waleed, Hafiz Khalid

Waleh, Abdul Haq

Walker, Brenda

War

civilian casualties trends

cultivating violent proxies

US military capacity and

victim solidarity and

See also Counterinsurgency; Small wars; specific wars

Washington Post

Water resources

aid and

isolation effects

military implications

rainfall levels-conflict link

Shambary’s lack of violence

See also East African cattle raids; specific locations

Weber, Max

Weisbrot, Mark

Wiener, Tim

Wilders, Geert

Witsenburg, Karen

Wittfogel, Karl

Wood, Lowell

Woolsey, James

World Bank

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