Hezbollah, which in Arabic stands for the “Party of God,” has over the last few decades grown into one of the most influential Lebanese political organizations and militias. Hezbollah was conceived in the midst of the violent civil War of Lebanon, and in its early stage it often resorted to terrorist acts. However, over the years it has gradually transformed into a legitimate political current....

Since March 2018 Turkey and allied Syrian actors have controlled the Afrin region of northern Syria. The subsequent five years been marked by acts criminality infighting incidents between dozens Turkish-backed militias in region, an insurgency campaign, terrorism, dramatic demographic changes to detriment region’s indigenous Kurdish population. This paper examines outlines Turkish-installed loc...

The present article is based on the premise that process of neoliberalization Brazilian society not only top-down, but conjugates in hybrids form with governmental regimes were born peripheries: Pentecostalism and militias. In its authoritarian phase from rise extreme right implementation Bolsonaro government, these devices occupy center state. By focusing Pentecostalism, text proposes a geneal...