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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"Insurgency."”.
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The Geography of Insurgency: An Urban Network Insurgency Model of the Viet Nam War
… tests a theoretical framework which considers an insurgency as a conflict over nodes within the urban network and hypothesizes that we can expect to observe different stages of conflict (types of political activity and violence) in different parts of the urban hierarchy at different times. The …
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Boko Haram : an African insurgency
… in the early 2000s and has since begun an insurgency, primarily operating in the northeastern region of Nigeria and increasingly further south and across the country's borders. Researchers have conducted numerous studies analyzing the causes of the insurgency. However few have compared it …
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Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency
<p>The conventional wisdom of counterinsurgency runs that insurgent groups with bases in neighboring states (transnational sanctuaries) are relatively more difficult to defeat than comparable groups without such bases. Insurgents with transnational sanctuaries benefit from relative protection from …
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Peru, 1962-1966
Insurgency and counterinsurgency in the developing world were crucial aspects of the global Cold War. Economic, political, religious, and social factors created tensions at the international, national, and local levels that drove conflict. Scholars can gain an increased understanding of these …
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The forgotten insurgency is there hope for Colombia?
Colombia's four decades-old insurgency has been largely forgotten by the United States. With U.S. attention diverted towards Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Middle East, Colombia has undertaken a new strategy to deal with problems of the insurgents, paramilitaries, and narco-terrorists which have …
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Celebratory Insurgency. The Art of Peripheral City-Making
Urban peripheries across Latin America have witnessed an explosion of cultural initiatives led by the youth born and raised in the neighborhoods built by their parents. This phenomenon is both insurgent, in its creation of uncharted opportunities for peripheral residents to thrive, and celebratory …
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Political economy of drugs and insurgency: the case of Punjab
… 1980s, Punjab experienced a decade-long violent insurgency caused by grievances arising from the unequal distribution of benefits from the Green Revolution. The state's economy has been in decline for the past decade, which, along with a rise in drug use and trade, represents grounds for a crisis …
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Protracted people's war in the Philippines a persistent communist insurgency
… attempt to explain why the Philippine communist insurgency remains a serious threat to the government and has not significantly declined in light of a long history of democratic rule in the Philippines. Analysis of the Philippine communist insurgency will contribute to our overall understanding …
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The urbanization of insurgency : shifts in the geography of conflict
… to determine the impact of urbanization on insurgency outcomes using a post-war dataset of insurgencies. It has predicted that urbanized insurgencies favor the insurgent by facilitating concealment and cover, nullifying the relatively power differential enjoyed by states, and providing them …
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Who Lives There: Role of Embedded Troops in Counter-Insurgency Operations
… insurgents and emphasized the tactics of counterinsurgency (COIN). The strategic and tactical goals of COIN operations are for governments to bring about stability and effective governance to the local populace of nations. These goals have not materialized the way US commanders have hoped. Thus, …
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Genealogies of the Postcolonial State: Insurgency, Emergency, and Democracy in Sri Lanka
This dissertation comprises an investigation into the conditions and contemporary implications of an historical event, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection of 1971. At the broadest level, it revisits the insurrection and its aftermaths to reframe the contemporary question of emergency …
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Assessing guerrilla doctrine: battlefield lessons on network structure and multi-front insurgency
… consistent, yet incomplete analysis in counter-insurgency (COIN) analytics and civil war scholarship. Following a review of five of the most infamously disseminated guerrilla doctrine and training manuals, this thesis derives a model of advised guerrilla war production. The derived model …
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Institutional Resilience of Community-based Conservation to the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
… of each CAMC during and following the Maoist insurgency. I used confirmatory factor analysis to develop scales for measuring the two theoretical constructs of legitimacy and institutional resilience, the latter of which refers to the overall system of community-based conservation in the area. …
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Insurgency, Secession and Encroachment: Contemporary National Security in the Republic of the Philippines
Strategically located near the latitudinal midpoint of the Asian Pacific Rim, the Republic of the Philippines has a unique historical relationship with the United States. Although Filiopino-American ties were weakened by the U.S. military base closures in 1992, the threat posed by an increasingly …
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The politics of drugs and conflict: the challenges of insurgency and state-building in Afghanistan
… inhibit state-building and facilitate insurgency in Afghanistan. The study argues that the conflict in Afghanistan didn’t start because of drugs; it was the war that created a suitable environment for drug production which now plays a significant role in perpetuating and prolonging the …
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The ADF insurgency network in the eastern democratic Republic of the Congo: spillover effects into Tanzania?
… for the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) terrorist/insurgency organization to settle and establish its base. This thesis assesses whether this organization poses a security threat to the United Republic of Tanzania, specifically with regard to the export of terrorism. To better understand the ADF …
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The counterinsurgency policies of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party of India and the Naxalite insurgency
Over the last six decades, the Naxalite insurgency has spread to over 40 percent of India and survived multiple administrations. The Naxalites adopted a flexible approach, using the government's neglect of Dalits and tribal peoples to its advantage. By 2006, the Indian National Congress (INC) …
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Ballistic Missile and Insurgency Threats to Israel: Effects on Security Posture and Implications For Nuclear Weapons
… for nearly twenty-five years, a combination of insurgency related terrorism and the augmenting of Arab arsenals with ballistic missiles armed with nuclear, biological, and chemical warheads could tip the scales of the Middle East security equation in favor of Israel's adversaries. The aggregate …
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