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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Belligerents"”.
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Shooting up : the impact of illicit economics on military conflict
… It investigates when and how access by belligerents to the production and trafficking of illicit substances affects the strength of belligerents and governments. Although narcotics trafficking is often treated as sui generis, the study situates the drug trade within the larger class of …
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Principles Matter: Humanitarian Assistance to Civilians under IHL
… regimes are applicable to distinct armed actors (belligerents/peacekeepers/external armed forces/private security companies) but in all cases respect for the principle of distinction is central. In general, special protection for relief actions and actors remains connected to respect for the …
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Prisoner Release as Conflict Management
… Discourse (international law/norms; "terrorist" belligerents; "worthy" prisoner) dictates state negotiation posture; societal support for asymmetric exchange, and underlies counterinsurgency praxis. These practices, the "Democratic Counterinsurgency Complex", paradoxically lead to prolonged …
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Nature Art : Ovid's poetics of creation in the metamorphoses
… point is that he combined in his person the two belligerents, the City and the Country…" Provincial youth, outstanding urbanity and final exile is nice co-incidence. Combining the belligerents of country and city is family likeness. In science fiction on the one hand, in eclectic hybridity of …
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The failure of the SADC organ : regional security arrangements in southern Africa, 1992-2003
… a rebellion and full-blown war with state belligerents in the Democratic Republic of Congo and state repression and violence in Zimbabwe. In these circumstances SADC had a woeful record of peacemaking and was distinguished chiefly by its fractious internal quarrels. The major disagreements …
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Simulated Battles, Real Lessons: Analyzing The Impact of The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Problems on Battle in The Pacific War
… still healthy understanding exists as to how the belligerents in question adopted the methods and tactics they used on the battlefields of the Pacific. What currently exists in this field of study places more analytical emphasis on the cultural and strategic level impacts of the interwar years. …
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Taking Terrorists at Their Word: Testing the Co-Religionist Hypothesis in Islamic State Propaganda
… conflict will be of the same religion as the belligerents. Conventional wisdom holds that Daesh, in choosing targets to fight both on the battlefield and in its recruitment propaganda, prioritizes groups that are less similar to it – for example, Jews and Christians. My analysis upends this …
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The protection of the environment during armed conflict: a case study of the Republic of Congo
… forces of the enemy and the right of the belligerents not to destroy or seize the enemy’s property, unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war. Through AP I, the basic principle of IHL was reaffirmed. The concepts of military necessity and …
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Challenges of nation building in the 21st Century Africa : Experiences from South Sudan, 2011-2013
… Sudan. Peace-makers try to forge a deal with the belligerents, disputes remain, including the division of oil revenues, as 75% of all the former Sudan's oil reserves are in South Sudan. This research will identify factors which have led to the ongoing conflicts in South Sudan with the hope of …
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Population-centric warfare: How popular support determines civil war outcomes
… focuses on the regenerative capacity of the two belligerents. The key battleground in any civil war is rebel efforts to degrade the sovereign structures the government uses to generate support from the population. If rebels can achieve this, the government collapses and the rebels can win the war …
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The United Nations and international peace and security: a legal and practical analysis
… or providing an interposition force between the belligerents, characterised by impartiality and a limited military capability. The demise of the Cold War offered the opportunity to the Organisation, especially to the Security Council, to use its powers to implement law and order among nations. In …
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Protection of the environment in times of armed conflict under international law
… treaties retain full effectiveness between the belligerents and third parties. The thesis concludes that the protection of the environment during armed conflict has improved during the last century but that it remains too fragmented to provide adequate and effective protection. Given the rising …
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Soviet-Polish relations, 1919-1921
… of the ideological objectives pursued by the belligerents. Ideology shaped the political agenda and the diametrically opposed war aims of both states, and was implemented through the foreign policy, diplomatic negotiation and military engagements pursued. This proved to be the principal …
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The Wartime Origins of Postwar Democratization: Civil War, Rebel Governance, and Political Regimes
… the ranks of electoral democracies shortly after belligerents laid down their arms. What explains this variation? In the extreme, how is it that a state that is staunchly autocratic at the war's outbreak can emerge from it a nascent democracy? This study proposes that post-civil war regime …
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The Invisible Hand or the Handgun: Ride Hailing, Violence, and Political Settlements in the South African Urban Mobility Market
… and legitimacy, and clarify the sources of power belligerents rely upon to survive and prevail in conflicts. Finally, I use the contrasting fates of two ride hailing services, Uber Bus and Uber Go, to illustrate how groups deploy power to contest the market, and how regulatory decisions go beyond …
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Irish Neutrality What are the Costs and Benefits of Ireland’s Policy of Neutrality?
… the application of impartiality towards all belligerents in a conflict. Ireland has joined PfP which some Irish people see a stepping-stone to NATO membership. With increased participation in PfP mechanisms and improved interoperability between the Defence Forces and NATO members, there is a …