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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Security forces"”.
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Security forces in conflict: Composition, specialisation, and effectiveness in counterinsurgency and peacekeeping operations
How does the composition of security forces in counterinsurgency and peacekeeping operations influence their behaviour and performance? In this thesis I answer this question across three separate articles. Modern state militaries are expected to perform numerous duties, including offensive combat …
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The Risks of Outsourcing Security: Foreign Security Forces in United States National Security Policy
… the U.S. could or should delegate sensitive security responsibilities to "dubious" foreign soldiers. Such doubt highlights an international analog to the principal-agent problem normally associated with domestic civil-military relations. I examine why this international principal-agent …
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A Critical Analysis of Key Factors Influencing Knowledge Sharing Processes: A Case Study of Bahrain Public Security Forces
… public sector organisations, particularly police forces, and organisations in the Gulf region through an empirical investigation into the factors that influence knowledge sharing processes (Knowledge Donating and Knowledge Collecting) in the Bahrain Public Security Forces (BPSF). In order to …
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The Prospects of Institutional Transfer: A Within-Case Study of NATO Advisor Influence Across the Afghan Security Ministries and National Security Forces, 2009-2012
… explores the two-part question, how do foreign security actors (ministerial advisors and security force trainers, advisors, and commanders) attempt to influence their host-nation partners and what are their perceptions of these approaches on changes in local capacity, values, and security …
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United States military-to-military contact with the People's Liberation Army of China
… to the participation of these nation's security forces in American military-to-military engagement programs. Through aggressive military engagement programs, the United States has gained significant access to top military and civilian leaders in foreign nations. On some occasions, this …
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Peru, 1962-1966
… an insurgency in 1962. By 1966, the Peruvian security forces had quickly and efficiently eliminated the insurgent threat. Most literature on the Peruvian Cold War experience of the mid-1960s argues the New Left failed due to internal mistakes. I combine recently uncovered documents and …
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The Development and Application of the "Petraeus Doctrine" During the 2007 Iraq Troop "Surge"
… and strengthening the Iraqi Government and Security Forces enabling the Americans to being an orderly withdrawal. The Petraeus Doctrine did play a vital role in the defeat of the insurgency, but it was not the primary cause for the Surge’s success and merely took advantage of an emerging …
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To Continued Success: Reforming Internal Tunisian Security Policy
… measures, and reform of the Tunisian Internal Security Forces are paramount for the state's survival. This work presents measures for Security Sector Reform within Tunisia, then proceeds to create a map a developmental intervention aimed at securing stability through several drivers. …
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Herrera, prisión de castigo: Historia y memorias de presos de la COPEL, GRAPO y ETA, 1979-1990
… Mancha was started in 1979, as the first máximum security jail in Spain. Its building was one of the main points of the penitenciary reform, which it must improve the penitentiary system inherited from Franquism. For that purpose, they need a tough prison. So that, Herrera de la Mancha was used to …
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Impact of Terrorism on Migration Patterns in Turkey
… per 10,000 people and the "rate of people and security forces killed" per 10,000 people as independent variables. It also examined the major economic effects of migration; unemployment rate and the GDP were used as control variables. In addition, the rate of killed terrorists, population …
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Terrorism in Nigeria: a study of Boko Haram religious violence in North East Nigeria
… counter and anti-terrorism efforts of Nigeria's security forces and their efficacies. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Both primary and secondary data was used for the study. Primary data was collected using the quantitative method (validated questionnaire) and qualitative …
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Utilization Of A Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Network For Intrusion Detection And Border Surveillance
… that any border entries can be noted by border security forces and destinations marked for apprehension. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are promising for border security surveillance because they enable enforcement teams to monitor events in the physical environment. In this work, probabilistic …
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Criminal strategies of competing protagonists in the 'development' of Crossroads 1990-9: The Transition from Apartheid "oilspot" to democratic civil society
… authorities and supported by government security forces attacking the residents of KTC, burning their homes and laying the area to waste on the pretext of clearing out the "comrades". Since then there has been ongoing low-intensity conflict, criminal activity and intimidation often …
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Planning combat outposts to maximize population security
… in 2010. This research models population security to determine combat outpost locations in a battalion area of operation. Population security is measured by level of violence, level of insurgent activity, and effectiveness of host nation security forces. The area of operation is …
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National Defense University: an integrated higher defense educational institute for democratization of civil-military relations in Nepal
… stability, stable governance, peace, and security. The stalled democratic consolidation process largely results from gaps in civil-military relations (CMR). In the absence of a higher defense education platform-like the National Defense University (NDU) in the United States-unequal levels …
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Lila & Other Stories
… the Chimoio bombings, conducted by the Rhodesian Security Forces against the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) headquarters in Mozambique, attempts to send a dog to the moon. After seven years of failing to conceive a couple gives birth to a baby plagued by an infinite hunger. A …
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WORKING AGAINST CORRUPTION: HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE SECURITY POSTURE AT PORTS-OF-ENTRY AND SECURE AMERICA’S SOUTHERN BORDER
… to synthetic opioids presents a national security concern to the United States and transnational criminal organizations operating in Mexico have little to fear for reprisal. In 2019, Mexican security forces could not outmatch cartel soldiers in direct confrontation, losing a bloody street …
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Sovereignty under siege: drug trafficking and state capacity in the Caribbean and Central America
… to the Bahamas. Policy decisions to improve security forces' (SECFOR) state capacity and cooperate with U.S. counternarcotic operations result in the Bahamas' higher SC. Nicaragua and Guatemala's transitions to democracy have resulted in different SECFOR capacities. Nicaragua chose to improve …
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Pro-government and Pro-opposition Newspaper Coverage of the Zhanaozen Conflict in Kazakhstan
… 16, 2011, between protesters and government security services in the oil town of Zhanaozen in western Kazakhstan during the celebrations of the 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the country’s independence. The study looks into the coverage of the Zhanaozen conflict by four newspapers published …
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