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My daughter is having difficulty finding 5 more journals/articles on her research paper that deal with mezzanine rulers in the middle east and south asia. It has been a (cough) few years since grad school for me, so I'm a bit out of the loop. We've used jstor, google scholar and Hope's library data base. Are there any other sites you guys use to find journals/articles?

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UofMGoBlue16

December 1st, 2014 at 11:48 AM ^

I find Proquest extremely helpful for my purposes. It's not free however it's included in my cost of tuition. I'm pretty sure Jstor is the same so if you have access to Jstor I'm hopeful you'd have access to Proquest as well.

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PeterKlima

December 1st, 2014 at 11:54 AM ^

Try.... Project Muse at John Hopkkins, Directory of Open Access Journals, the Internet Public Library and if you are a Michigan resident there is a Michigan eLibrary available. Also, maybe try the alumni association or her school to see if there is any access to online databases.



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Ivan Karamazov

December 1st, 2014 at 12:18 PM ^

But are mezzanine rulers designed to measure dimensions in spaces that are above a certain floor but not quite at the elevation of the next proper floor?  And why are they only used in the middle east and south asia? That seems curious as I encounter mezzanines aplenty here in the west...

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treetown

December 1st, 2014 at 12:41 PM ^

Hi, suggest going from the root of the term and then work forward....

The term Mezzanine Ruler refer to a layer of de facto rulers who often govern or control large chunks of territory or population and interpose themselves between the people/places and the official (formal) rulers. These can be the well known terror groups who actually control large swaths of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia to the influence and power of some drug cartels - they are the de facto power in the region.

The term was popularized by the 2010 article in Foreign Affairs by Michael Crawford and Judith "Jami" Miscik, The Rise of the Mezzanine Rulers, Nov/Dec issue. That article originated the term but didn't offer much of any solutions - it offered good examples but was not much in the way of citations - but since each of the examples are well known (e.g. Mexican drug cartels) info should be available on them.

Deeper are discussion and criticisms of the concept like the master thesis available on line by Matthew Hoisington in 2012 "International Law and Ungoverned Space" making the point that these Mezzanine Rulers squat in those ungoverned spaces either by design or accident and warp law around them. 

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CEk…

This thesis was the basis for a shorter article in the Journal Global Governeance 20:491-498, 2014 by Hoisington who now works for the UN. http://journals.rienner.com/doi/pdf/10.5555/1075-2846-20.4.491

Another approach is seen in Robert Mandel's book Global Security Upheaval: Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability, Stanford University Press, 2013 which is chockful of detailed discussion on this topic.

hope this helps - but there are plenty of resources!

 

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cseeman

December 1st, 2014 at 12:52 PM ^

Please tell your daughter to contact the University Library where she is a student (Hope College - right?).  This way - she will be able to get the resources that are licensed for her as a student.  Going directly to JSTOR and ProQuest - especially from off-campus - will not get the full text.  You have to follow the links on campus or through the library.

Everyone in Michigan also has access to the Michigan Electronic Library (http://mel.org/) and they will have articles as well. 

Does this help?

 

 

 

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