External publications
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Controlling the transit of controlled military items in Europe
Publication date: 03/01/2022
Transit and transhipment are everyday elements of the international supply chain. But when it comes to their regulation in law, there are significant discrepancies between the scope of regulation and the means by which governments attempt to achieve the same ... read more
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Front 14-18. The Experience of Battle in WWI and the Fascist Culture of Violence in Post-War Germany
Publication date: 20/03/2018
In his contribution Maarten Van Alstein examines the impact of the experience of battle in WWI on the development of a fascist culture of violence in post-war Germany. He explains how, in the context of a conquered and internally torn ... read more
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The Memory of Peace
Publication date: 13/07/2017
Though views on and motives for warfare have changed over the centuries, Philosophy of War and Peace proves that many past ideas still merit consideration today. This collection of essays addresses the historical, cultural and political background of various views ... read more
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Scrutinizing arms exports in Europe: The reciprocal relationship between transparency and parliamentary control
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Information on exports of conventional military equipment was traditionally kept out of the public and political realm. In recent decades this gradually changed, and within the EU, Member States are legally bound to publish an annual report on arms exports ... read more
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Firearms acquisition and the terrorism-criminality nexus’, in T. Renard (red.), Counterterrorism in Belgium: Key challenges and policy options
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In his contribution Duquet explores the deadly connection between terrorism and illicit firearms acquisition, starting from the fact that the Paris and Brussels attackers bought their assault rifles in Belgium via pre-existing criminal ties. After describing the illicit firearms market ... read more
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Facing a Difficult Past? The Yser Tower in Dixmude, Belgium
Publication date: 16/11/2016
In this article Maarten van Alstein discusses the pacifist message of the museum at the Yser in Dixmude. By presenting the First World War as senseless violence and horror, the museum hopes to induce in visitors an awareness of the ... read more
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Excavating a hidden past:’ The forensic turn in Spain’s collective memory
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The book Excavating Memory gives an overview of historical and sociocultural approaches to memory as a contested social practice in the present rather than as a passive recollection of the past. Lore Colaert wrote a chapter on forensic exhumations as ... read more
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Won’t you, please, please help me?’ The role of parents and juveniles in the problematisation of their own pedagogic situation (1983-2004)
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It’s for your own good begins with the finding that the Belgian youth justice system is often described as one of the most welfare oriented in Europe. In recent decades, several Western European countries have abandoned welfarism and have taken ... read more