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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Regional conflicts"”.
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Strategies for Managing Regional Conflicts: Ethiopia’s Foreign Policy in 1991-2018
Regional rivalries have been a major source of insecurity in the Horn of Africa, and have contributed to inter-state wars, civil wars and state partitions. This thesis examines Ethiopia’s rivalry management strategies under the EPRDF government. It does so by focusing on the initiation, escalation …
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The Management and Mismanagement of Ethno -Regional Conflicts: The Case of South Asia
… scheme is designed for application to any ethno-regional conflict, I apply it to three cases in South Asia that represent different conflict levels of management. Indian Mizoram represents successful management, with the case of the break-up of Pakistan portraying the polar opposite, failed …
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The influence of regional conflicts and military reform on the 2010 and 2014 Military Doctrines of the Russian Federation: an analysis of the development and current force posture of the Russian conventional ground forces
… both directly and indirectly, by the recent regional conflicts in Georgia and Crimea, as well as by the ongoing ‘New Look’ military reforms. The perceived threat by Russia of the continued eastward expansion by NATO into their periphery and region of influence not only provided the impetus …
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The effects of the ASEAN non-interference principle in managing conflict : the Malaysian experience (1981-2003)
… non-interference principle towards managing conflicts, with special reference to Malaysia during Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s premiership from 1981-2003. The core of the study focuses on the genesis of this principle, Malaysia’s understanding of the principle and the effects that this doctrine …
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The Caspian Sea Competition
… issues, including ongoing territorial and ethnic conflicts, as well as competition for resource control, have produced a renewed struggle for influence. The region's three historical rivals--Turkey, Iran and Russia--are centrally involved. Several industrialized nations have invested billions of …
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Signaling, Extended Deterrence, and Regional Conflict Escalation: A Game Theory Model
… I seek to determine the conditions of regional conflict escalation. In particular, I pose two questions in this dissertation: first, why do small states decide to fight against relatively more powerful states in spite of very low likelihood of winning?; and second, once regional …
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Strategic Autonomy and India's Foreign Policy Towards the GCC, Israel and Iran: Exploring the Kautilyan Foreign Policy Principles
… rooted in Kautilyan foreign policy principles. Regional intra- and inter-rivalries between the GCC, Israel, and Iran, along with domestic concerns such as energy security, political pressures, business interests, and external geopolitical factors from the U.S., Pakistan, and China, certainly …
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Legal Dimension of the Role of African Union and United Nations in Conflict Resolution in Africa
… factors. The study shows how impartial does the regional arrangements can be adhered by the UN or regional organizations much as conflict resolution is concerned as per the UN Charter of 1945, to demarcate clearly the legal position input of priority to resolve the African conflict problems in …
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Building A Military Security Cooperation Regime in Northeast Asia: Feasibility and Design
… actors in Northeast Asia have not yet developed regional security arrangements like Europe has demonstrated in the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the European Security and Defense Policy. Second, based on personal experiences and …
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Constructive engagement in the interest of regional peace a critical reexamination of U.S. mediation in Southern Africa, 1981-1989
… as a contributing factor in the mitigation of regional conflicts in Southern Africa. It reexamines whether the guiding principles of the mediation strategy effectively led to the Cuban withdrawal from Angola and the independence of Namibia. In addition, it looks at how constructive engagement …
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The importance of civil military relations in complex conflicts : success and failure in the border states, Civil War Kentucky and Missouri, 1860-62
… numerous crucial insights into modern armed conflicts. A current or future federation or new ‘nation’ may face fundamental political differences, even irreconcilable difficulties, which can only be settled by force. In future states will inevitably face both separatist issues and polarised …
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A regional approach to American foreign policy : the South Asian experience.
… historically, and culturally well-defined regional unit. Unfortunately, the two major states in the area, India and Pakistan, have shared acrimonious relations for thirty-five years. In three and one-half decades, these countries have fought three major wars and expended valuable resources …
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Structural and Conjunctural Factors of Gorbachev’s Concessionary Policies vis-à-vis East Central Europe and the Baltic Republics
… from our research findings: 1. When global and regional powers appear in a crisis that puts at stake their existence, in a very pragmatic manner, they accept all necessary concessions for the sake of saving the imperial center - thus ensuring their self-survival. In that sense, the “divide and …
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A crise dos refugiados nos media portugueses no século XXI
Ao longo deste século, assistimos na Europa à chegada de muitos refugiados, tal como no passado, procuram na fuga encontrar o seu porto seguro e num mundo globalizado conviverem com diferentes culturas e num mesmo espaço social. Vários acontecimentos trágicos no decurso do século XXI têm dividido …