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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Hezbollah"”.
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Hezbollah: Chattel of Deception
Hezbollah truly is a manipulative deceitful beast that must be shown in its true form. While it will maintain that it is a legitimate political entity, one can ascertain from this study that its actions dictate otherwise. Whether it is through its manipulation of HAMAS and the PA, the Lebanese …
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Political integration of Hezbollah into Lebanese politics
Hezbollah has proven itself to be a resilient, relevant, military and political force within Lebanon as well as across the Middle Eastern region. This thesis focuses on the approach through which Hezbollah, as a military, political and social organization integrates itself into Lebanese society and …
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Hezbollah and Hugo Chavez: Radical Islam's Western Foothold
… the flourishing of radical Islamic groups like Hezbollah within Venezuela. This paper seeks to examine the juncture between Iran, Hezbollah, and Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. Chavez' socialist project underway in Venezuela shares many fundamental ideological principles with revolutionary Iran, …
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Hezbollah and the Irish Republican Army: A Comparative Cultural Analysis
Hezbollah is a terrorist group that threatens to destabilize the Middle East. The international community has considered many proposals and initiatives to affect the disarmament of Hezbollah and to encourage its participation in a political process aimed at resolving its stated concerns. Among …
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Hezbollah Operations in the Tri-Border Area of South America
This study examines Hezbollah's depth of involvement in the illegal activities of the tri-border area of South America. This case study used multiple sources ranging from press releases, government publications, to Latin American Journals. The methodology used was supported by Joe Feagin's …
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Strategic Theory, Methodology, Air Power, and Coercion in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War
… and strategic methodology in the 2006 Israel/Hezbollah War. In state versus non-state actor conflicts, air power's utility is different from state versus state conflicts. The dynamics of coercion also differ greatly from state versus state conflict. Additionally the strategic theories, and the …
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An assessment of the methods that are used to recruit college students into the Turkish Hezbollah.
… aims to identify tactics used by the Turkish Hezbollah to recruit college students into joining their terrorist organization. This study based on the assumptions that social networks and institutional structures are two main tools that are used effectively by the Turkish Hezbollah to recruit …
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A Conceptual Map for Understanding the Terrorist Recruitment Process: Observation and Analysis of Turkish Hezbollah Terrorist Organizations.
… terrorist organizations, DHKP/C and Turkish Hezbollah. The researcher brings 13 years of field experience and first-person data gathered from inside the terrorist organizations. The research questions of this study were: (i) How can an individual be prevented from joining or carrying out …
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Case study of Lebanon: can the U.S. build upon socio-economic influences in order to foster good citizenship versus insurgency?
… Shia population charged by the insurgent group Hezbollah. This project analyzes the roles of Hezbollah in shaping the local economic picture among the people of southern Lebanon. Implications for political and military strategists are provided in order to possibly change the perception that …
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Teorie dell’autorità e del potere nell’Islam sciita secondo l’opera di ʿAlī Fayyāḍ
… and intellectual figure within Lebanese Hezbollah, and to analyse theoretical founda-tions of power and authority from a specific Shīʿa perspective. This will make it possible to reconstruct the nature of the relation between authority and religion, as well as its narration inside …
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U.S. Foreign Policy in Lebanon: Adapting to Regional Threats Today and Promoting Stability for the Future
… that policy has taken since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in the context of historical relations. After doing so, three questions will be addressed: What have been the policies of Iran and Syria toward Lebanon during this time period, how effective has U.S. policy been since 2006 in …
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The Lebanese schism? : understanding localities of microcredit, poverty, and politics
… differing microcredit model as implemented by a Hezbollah affiliated NGO, Al Qard Al Hassan Association. As one of the oldest and largest microcredit institutions in the Middle East, I argue that the perceived Lebanese schism allows us to explore the role in which organizational diversity has …
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Fixing the Failed: An Investigation of Terrorist Organizations and State Building Capabilities
… this a tiered classification is built. The FARC, Hezbollah, and LTTE are examined to ascertain their ability to complete these tasks. Results show that the FARC is unable to fill any gaps, Hezbollah all three, and the LTTE only one. Results suggest that there are indeed terrorist organizations …
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Strategic goods provision in Hezbollah's resistance
… resulting predictions against empirical data on Hezbollah's provision of goods and services. Two basic types of models link success in violent contestation to the provision of goods to a restricted community and success in electoral contestation to provision of broadly accessible goods and …
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Studying Janus behavior : how support, deterrence, grievances and organizational structure shape violent and peaceful behaviors
… of the experience of political tactic-choices in Hezbollah, HAMAS,IRA and ETA, refining the theory of the original model, culminating with a test of the reconfigured theory.
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Fighting Extremism: Strategies Used to Combat Extremism and Radicalization
… extremist groups such as Al-Queda, Hamas, and Hezbollah. These extremist groups are fueled by the desire to influence political, religious, and/or ideological causes. The political "end-state" or objective of the extremist is to overthrow "heretic" governments which currently exist and replace …
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A Revolutionary Perspective on Social Movements: Fundamentalism in the Islamic World
… I developed three in-depth case studies: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
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Title Changes in International Law in response to Terrorist attacks. A comparative study of Israeli and the US state practice
… on Lebanese territory in order to fight Hezbollah, the response of international society was the opposite, in that Israel’s right of self-defence was recognised. By looking at the subject from various International Relations theoretical perspectives my thesis analyses the possible reasons …
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Užsitęsę konfliktai: Sirijos atvejis /
… of the U.S., Russia, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Hezbollah, and ISIS by providing the reasons that have made them to join the conflict, as well as presenting the main goals and the measures they took in the conflict. By comparing the goals of these actors in the conflict, it became clear that it …
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