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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Military interventions"”.
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NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya, Afghanistan and their impact on relations with Russia after the Cold War
This thesis seeks to find out how NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya and Afghanistan have negatively affected relations with Russia. In order to achieve the aim and hypothesis of the study, the critical geopolitical approach is chosen as a theoretical framework.;The schematic critical …
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BETWEEN EXISTENTIAL AND ONTOLOGICAL (IN)SECURITY: THE BALTIC STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION’S RESPONSE TO RUSSIA’S MILITARY INTERVENTIONS IN GEORGIA (2008) AND UKRAINE (2014)
… the European Union’s (EU) response to Russia’s military interventions in Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014). It deploys the conceptual framework of liminality in combination with the guiding concepts of existential (in)security and ontological (in)security to explore the hitherto overlooked …
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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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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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Looking For Leverage: Strategic Resources, Contentious Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation
… dissertation focuses on intelligence liaisons, military basing agreements, and coordinated military interventions as strategic resources that Ethiopia, Zaire (now D.R.C.), and Uganda have mobilized in intra-alliance bargaining with the US.</p> <p>The central puzzle of this work coheres around …
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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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Explaining the U.S Failure in Afghanistan
… and Biden eras, delineates the complexities of military interventions, nation-building endeavors, the limitations of incrementalism in addressing the multifaceted challenges of conflict resolution, and the challenges of maintaining stability in conflict regions while avoiding prolonged military …
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Armed forces, states and threats : civil-military institutions and military power in modern democracies
… questions preoccupying political scientists, military officers and policymakers alike are how should and how do political leaders interact with military professionals? This thesis argues that historic patterns of civil-military relations underlay distinct national defense policymaking …
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The Influence of Sustained French Economic and Political Shelter in Post-colonial Mali and Senegal: A Comparative Case Study on Political Stability and Instability
… political instability, often leading to direct military interventions; its latest coups d'état occurred in 2020 and 2021. On the other hand, Senegal enjoys relative political stability. Hence, this study aims to understand why the two states have diverged post-colonial trajectories despite their …
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Limited Liability Multilateralism: The American Military, Armed Intervention, and IOs
… (IOs) such as the UN or NATO for prospective military interventions? My central hypothesis is that U.S. government efforts to obtain IO approval for prospective interventions are frequently the result of significant bureaucratic deliberations and bargaining between hawkish policy leaders who …
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Politicized armies, militarized politics : civil-military relations in Turkey and Greece
… diverged widely in their modem history of civil-military relations. The armed forces have a long record of intervention in both countries, but there is a crucial difference: the military emerged as a roughly unitary, independent political actor in Turkey, whereas in Greece it remained divided …
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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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Internal Security and Military Reorganization: The Rise of Paramilitaries in Developing Societies
… societies has been the rise of parallel military organizations (armed forces such as constabularies and militias outside the regular military and the police) concurrent with the ""third wave"" of democratization. This study develops a theory of why certain instruments of coercion …
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Contracted Wars, Compromised Oversight: Private Military Companies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Decline of U.S. Accountability Standards
… War on Terror, beginning in 2001, started U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, facilitating the expansion of Private Military Contractors (PMCs) through a combination of operational necessity, strategic policy decisions, and systemic oversight failures. Despite their growing role, …
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Tarpusavio priklausomybės tendencijų įtaka karinei agresijai: Rusijos-Gruzijos ir Rusijos-Ukrainos konfliktų lyginamoji analizė /
… interdependence arrangements and their impact on military interventions. The data used in the research is collected from various national as well as international departments and organizations, which were then adjusted to fit the framework of the thesis. After a detailed annual pre-conflict …
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Political Parties and Democratic Development in Ghana: From Transition to Consolidation and Beyond
… coups. This is evident in the interchange of military and civilian regimes in the last fifty-one years. While in the post-independence era, the development of democracy, the party system and democratic institutions in Ghana has taken many twists and turns due to the persistent military …
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The practice of humanitarian intervention after the end of the Cold War: emerging norm or just practice?: humanitarian intervention and international law
… sanctions. What is more, the UN authorised military interventions in cases where massive abuses of human rights have taken place and this is the mostsignificant normative change regarding humanitarian intervention. Thus, from "unilateral" humanitarian intervention we move to "collective" …
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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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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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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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