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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Insurgents"”.
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Insurgents, Rebel Governance and State-building in sub-Saharan Africa
The scholarship on rebel governance has largely focused on understanding how rebels govern during conflict. However, little is known about how rebel governance influences long-term state reconstruction after conflict. The main objective of this research is to address this gap. The research also …
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The Future Force and Insurgents: A Need For Balance in Force Transformation
… combat capabilities over time when dealing with insurgents. The first weakness will be an over-reliance on light and medium forces which in most cases lack sufficient armor protection, combat endurance, and tactical mobility. Second, changing the overall force structure from division to smaller …
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Political Independents of the Hoover Era: The Progressive Insurgents of The Senate
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Criminals and insurgents the role of ethnicity in state responses to internal resource competitors
… government has the ability to "criminalize" the insurgents, thereby enabling the government to justify safeguarding its resources while taking minimal steps to resolve the grievances of the communities. An examination of the approaches taken by Indonesia and Nigeria in addressing their …
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The political economy of conflict between indigenous communities and dominant societies: adivasis, Maoist insurgents and the state in the central Indian tribal belt
… short-term processes of mobilization. The Maoist insurgents provide a unified organizational structure for two separate sections of society. On the one hand, are untouchable or dalit landless laborers who suffer economic exploitation at the hands of higher caste landowners. On the hand are tribal …
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Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency
… than comparable groups without such bases. Insurgents with transnational sanctuaries benefit from relative protection from attack by counterinsurgents, they may recruit, train, and arm safely in their sanctuaries, transmit propaganda into their target state, and use these sanctuaries as …
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Savage rulers: state-sponsored mass killing during civil war
… not sufficiently address civilian support for insurgents, which can influence the government’s strategies for subduing the insurgency. Mass killing scholars take civilian support as given, not examining what makes civilians buttress the rebels. My dissertation fills this gap by theorizing and …
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Topics of Learning in the Context of Electoral Competition and Conflict
… even when they may be cognizant of the ploy of insurgents. The question then remains: Are voters always gullible making it possible for strategic violence to work its miracles for the rebels? Using a macroeconomic learning model under the assumption of adaptive expectations, I display the …
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The urbanization of insurgency : shifts in the geography of conflict
… As people have taken to the cities, so too have insurgents increasingly made battlefields out of urban areas. This study has sought to determine the impact of urbanization on insurgency outcomes using a post-war dataset of insurgencies. It has predicted that urbanized insurgencies favor the …
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RISK AND COMMITMENT: CRITICAL DIMENSIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO COUNTER INSURGENCIES
… assistance for reducing violence and countering insurgents to be weaker than in Iraq, not connected to improvements in Afghan perceptions of the quality of their governance, and inconsequential in the long term. While these previous results seem disappointing, existing frameworks offer only a …
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Assessing the Timing of One-Sided Violence in Civil Conflict
… Data Program data, this thesis finds that insurgents increase the likelihood of committing one-sided violence after the initial months of conflict. However, as conflict drags on, the probability of insurgents harming noncombatants declines. Conversely, the longer conflict continues, the …
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Optimization-based selection of influential agents in a rural Afghan social network
… repeated interactions with other local leaders, insurgents, and counter-insurgents, 2) the network generation model, to arrive at a reasonable representation of a Pashtun district-level, opinion leader social network, and 3) the nonlethal targeting model, a nonlinear programming (NLP) …
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The forgotten insurgency is there hope for Colombia?
… a new strategy to deal with problems of the insurgents, paramilitaries, and narco-terrorists which have plagued the country since 1948. The current administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has shifted strategy from one of negotiation and concessions to an active campaign to restore …
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Patrol plan of motor gunboat (PGM. Allied Class) for infiltration from sea
… Gunboats to counter small scale infiltration by insurgents from the sea. The objective in developing the patrol plans was to determine the optimum deployment of the generally limited number of patrol craft available to developing nations. The patrol plan to be used is determined by a probability …
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Prisoner Release as Conflict Management
… with terrorists" stance; external safe haven for insurgents; and family access to leaders. Denying cross-border access to insurgents, and limiting family access to leaders is important. But without a diplomatic posture/negotiation structure which allows direct talks with belligerents, democratic …
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The fall of the House of Cannon: Uncle Joe and his enemies, 1903-1910
… of the House brought about by the Republican Insurgents in March of 1910 finally broke the Speaker's sway."
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Gender and Nation in Basque Narrative During the Spanish Civil War (1936--1939)
… whose works I analyze include the following: Insurgents Rafael Garcia Serrano, Maria Rosa Urraca Pastor, Manuel Iribarren, Jacinto Miquelarena, Jose Maria Salaverria and Jorge Claramunt; Republicans Ernestina de Champourcin, Isidro R. Mendieta, Jose Ramon Alonso and Luis Ferreiro; and Basque …
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Protracted people's war in the Philippines a persistent communist insurgency
… the Philippine government and the communist insurgents has claimed the lives of an estimated 40,000+. This thesis will examine aspects of the Philippine government, the Communist Party of the Philippines, and its armed wing, the New Peopleâ s Army in an attempt to explain why the Philippine …
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Bernardo De Galvez and the Anglo-American Struggle for the Trans-Appalachian West, 1777-1779
… chose a clandestine policy for aiding the insurgents and attempted to use the Anglo-American struggle for their own selfish interest. The governors of Spanish Louisiana were the implementors of this extraordinary policy. No official in the New World carried out Spain's objectives as …
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