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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Non-state Actor"”.
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Part of the Solution: Exploring Armed Non-State Actor Commitment to and Compliance with an Anti-Personnel Landmine Ban
… regimes exclude the participation of armed non-state actors, creating a situation where they cannot independently commit to those regimes, experience no sense of legitimate obligation where they do formally apply, face no credible group-level enforcement mechanism, and are not rewarded for …
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An Exploration of State and Non-State Actor Engagement in Informal Settlement Governance in the Mahwa Aser Neighborhood and Sana'a City, Yemen
Informal settlements are a relatively new phenomenon in Yemen, first documented in the 1980s (El-Shorbagi, 2008; 2007). They have since grown at a very rapid rate. Sana'a City, the nation's capital, alone has an estimated 35 informal settlements that together contain 20.5 percent of that urban …
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The neglected war: intervention and extra-state war duration, 1816-2007
Extra-state war, a conflict between a state and non-state actor outside of the state’s borders, is an understudied phenomenon. In order to begin a discussion on this topic, this paper seeks to understand the factors that affect extra-state war duration. Using literature on interstate and intrastate …
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Strategic Theory, Methodology, Air Power, and Coercion in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War
… 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 methodologies …
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The Paris Attach - a case for the right to self-defence?
… shown that. The terrorist organisation Islamic State (hereinafter: IS) claimed responsibility for the attack. France (and the USA) reacted by launching massive air strikes against the IS stronghold in Raqqa/Syria. Furthermore, France declared that it was exercising its right to self-defence, …
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Understanding international efforts to address the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions, 2003-08.
… campaign from 2003, ensuing activity involving states, international organisations and civil society, and the CCM¿s eventual negotiation involving more than 100 states. Part III marries this empirical account to theoretical analysis of four thesis propositions. It is concluded that non-state …
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Shifting U.S. Cyber Strategy from Defense to Offense
The United States is heavily reliant on information technology and cyberspace to function at the societal, economic, and military levels. As a consequence, the U.S. faces substantial threats from hostile foreign state and non-state actors conducting computer network exploitations of military and …
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Civilian victimisation in the Tajik civil war: how the popular front won the war and ruined the nation
… dissertation investigates the question of why non-state armed forces target civilians, given the normative taboos against killing noncombatants and the potential for counterproductive strategic outcomes. It also analyses the effects of civilian victimisation on short-term conflict dynamics and …
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Assessing guerrilla doctrine: battlefield lessons on network structure and multi-front insurgency
… of increasing urbanization, dissolution of state power, and decline in politically motivated insurgency, may contribute to an observed shift in non-state actor war production from rural to increasingly urban and civilian-centric economies of violence. Lessons on strategically important …
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Connection and Resistance: Civilian experiences of violence in conflict zones and their impact on civilians’ political preferences for violent and nonviolent resistance
Under what conditions is state use of force successful at containing militancy, and when might it simultaneously, or instead, radicalize members of the civilian population? I present a new theory evaluating social isolation and social connection as mechanisms affecting civilians’ political …
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Violent Actors and Embedded Power: Exploring the Evolving Roles of Dons in Jamaica
The Jamaican don is a non-state actor who wields considerable power and control inside that nation's garrison communities. A don is a male figure, usually from the community in which he plays a leadership role. Garrisons in Jamaica have often emerged as neighborhoods that are don-ruled shadow …
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Combatting grand corruption alongside state-building: the role of the South Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission and the Episcopal Church of South Sudan in defence of the common good
… grand corruption, involving different actors, and institutions in the interim and post-independent South Sudan. The grand corruption phenomenon is critical as South Sudan also undergoes state building, especially after separating from Sudan in 2011. I examine two institutions that, in …
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Mobilisation of support for the Palestinian cause : A comparative study of political change at the communal, regional and global levels
… an international political system dominated by states involved in a 'power struggle' in pursuit of their 'national interest', and an emergent approach that includes in the analysis a wider range of political actors and defines the nature of politics very differently.The latter approach sees the …
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Two or more wrongs make a right? – The evolution of the customary right of self-defence in the post 9/11 era, and the effect of ‘unlawful' state behaviour on the formation of custom on the right of self-defence against non-state actors
… of the right of self-defence against a non-state actor in customary international law. More and more states used force against non-state actors while claiming their right of self-defence in the post-9/11 era. Situations such as the US fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, Russian …
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Who Participates? International Organizations and Non-State Actors in Global Governance
… Organizations (IGOs) interact with non-state actors (NSAs) in some capacity, the extent to which NSAs are granted participatory roles in the governance of IGOs varies substantially. Why do some intergovernmental organizations - intergovernmental clubs of sovereign states - extend …
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Not in your backyard : transitive compellence, base states, and violent non-state groups
Violent non-state actors have consistently served as a destabilizing force within the international system. These groups create a base within a state's sovereign territory, the "base state," and utilize this platform to mount conventional attacks, insurgencies, and terrorist campaigns against other …
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Hezbollah and the Irish Republican Army: A Comparative Cultural Analysis
… in a political process aimed at resolving its stated concerns. Among these proposals, it has been suggested that the roadmap used to achieve the disarmament and political integration of the IRA could be applied to the Hezbollah case. This thesis argues that, while there are similarities between …
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Non-State Actors, Terrorism and the United Nations: A Critical Analysis through Three Case Studies Examining the United Nations' Effectiveness in Addressing the Threat Imposed by Violent Non-State Actors
… of security threats carried out by violent non-state actors. The United Nations, through the strategies of collective security and sovereign equality, aspires to have its member states prevent war through the peaceful settlement of disputes. This thesis argues that, by examining the legal …