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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Military Intervention"”.
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African military intervention in African conflicts: an analysis of military intervention in Rwanda, the DRC and Lesotho
The dissertation examines three military interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa which took place in the mid and late 1990s in Rwanda, the DRC and Lesotho. These interventions took place despite high expectations of international and regional peace on the part of most analysts after the collapse of …
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Choices to Save the Suffering: What Prompts Humanitarian Military Intervention
Forceful military humanitarian intervention in complex humanitarian emergencies has become a more frequent activity of states in the post-Cold War era. New notions that intervening militarily to alleviate human suffering is legitimate have challenged traditional views of state sovereignty and …
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Threat Perception, Non-State Actors, and U.S. Military Intervention after 9/11
… did prior to 9/11, especially in terms of U.S. military intervention. Moreover, some argue that this represents a shift in international politics whereby non-state actors have more power than they did before 9/11. However, others maintain that terrorism in the post-9/11 era is indicative of …
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Knights in shining armor? : when humanitarian military intervention works and when it does not
Military intervention for stated humanitarian purposes has been undertaken on several occasions since the end of the Cold War. It is bound to be attempted again, yet academics and policy makers have left fundamental questions unanswered. Have past humanitarian military interventions saved lives? …
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The gendarme of Africa : how can France's 2002 military intervention in Cote d' Ivoire be explained?
… In response, France rapidly mobilised its military forces, once again intervening in one of its former colonies. This intervention is all the more surprising given the recent and important reforms in France's Africa policy; reforms which led to the increased disengagement of the French …
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'Operation Enduring Nightmare'? : a strategic critique of the military intervention in Afghanistan from October 2001-October 2008
… themselves, have attempted to identify why the intervention, which began as Operation Enduring Freedom, has instead become an ‘Enduring Nightmare’. This dissertation attempts to provide empirical reasoning to this question by means of a literature review of the established strategic critiques of …
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Explaining Middle Power Military Intervention: Australia’s Use of Force in Maritime Southeast Asia and the South Pacific
Why do middle powers use military force to intervene in external conflicts despite the costs and risk? While there is no shortage of literature on the causes of military intervention, most theories were derived from – and seek to explain – great power behavior. Given differences between great power …
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What to Make of Strategic Narratives in International Relations? – An Integrated Framework for Strategic Narrative Analysis and the Study of France’s Protracted Military Intervention in the Sahel
… of strategic communication in protracted foreign military interventions, with empirical results on France’s military intervention in the Sahel from 2012 to 2022. I argue, that to overcome the problem of fuzzy theorizing and selective analytical practices connected to the concept of strategic …
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The neglected war: intervention and extra-state war duration, 1816-2007
… and intrastate wars, I hypothesize that military intervention in support of the non-state actor, an equitable distribution of third-party military interventions, and economic intervention in the form of support will increase war duration. I also hypothesize that military intervention on …
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Still imperial? The White House, the Vietnam syndrome and the politics of military intervention in the United States. A study of presidential deployment decisions: 1982-1995: A study of presidential deployment decisions: 1982-1995
… Presidents been less likely to sanction a US military response to international conflicts in the post-Vietnam era? Has their ability to deploy US forces been weakened in any way by the Vietnam experience? This study seeks answers to these questions by examining how American Presidents …
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The gauntlet cast: Poland challenges the Soviet Union
… control and has been responded to with a Soviet military intervention. The events in Poland which erupted in August,1980, provide the most recent example. This study, which cannot be all-inclusive because of information difficulties and the currency of the situation, addresses: 1) what is …
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An Empirical Analysis of the Association Between Types of Interventions and Civil War Onset
… being an unintended consequence of international military intervention. I conduct an empirical analysis of the association between military intervention and civil war onset by collecting data for twenty countries within the Middle East/North African regions from 1980 to 2000. Using the …
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From normalization of relations to war: United States-Libya relations 2001-2011
… September 11th, 2001 to the 2011 international military intervention in the Libyan conflict. Both world events critically shaped the course of U.S.-Libya relations in conflicting courses and therefore raise important questions on the economic, strategic and political incentives for both the U.S. …
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Invisible Humans, Visible Terrorists: U.S. Neo-Orientalism Post 9/11 and Representations of the Muslim World
… Orientalism. U.S. neo-Orientalism rationalizes military intervention and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as promoting the mission of American democracy. This study discusses the theoretical frame and features of U.S. neo-Orientalism and tackles its representations in institutionalized …
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White South Africa and defence, 1960-1968 : militarization, threat perceptions and counter strategies
… African society in the 1960s. It argues that the military threat perceptions of the period were crucial in altering white views of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and reinforcing support for the National Party government. The military achieved enhanced public status within civil society as …
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Civil supremacy of the military in Namibia : an evolutionary perspective
… practices limit the possibility of excessive military intervention in political affairs and provide a system that endows civilian officials with the authority and the machinery to exercise supremacy in military affairs.
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Making the Case for War: The War Rhetoric of Presidents George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush
… methods to convince the public to support military action. An examination of three distinct examples (Panama 1989, Kosovo 1999 and Afghanistan 2001) and the presidents that ordered them (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush) shows a clear pattern of “war propaganda” in their …
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O sul global e o desenvolvimento do conceito da responsabilidade de proteger: CIBAS e o caso líbio
… create the acronym CIBAS –, in the case of the military intervention in Libya, in 2011. It is necessary to understand how the CIBAS have been influencing the debate on the Responsibility to Protect, mainly in their manifestations made in the context of the NATO intervention in Libya, in 2011, …
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"Fighting the Wrong War": Radical Pacifists and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, 1962-1964
… by questioning the legitimacy of an American military presence in South Vietnam, identifying the issues of supporting a troubled national government that allegedly failed to meet its commitments to social justice, and challenging the foundational Cold War policies that defined American …
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