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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Syrian Civil War"”.
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The Syrian Civil War
The devastating civil war in Syria (2011-present) has been a source for much anxiety and confusion for policymakers in recent years. What initially appeared to be a rather straightforward conflict between an autocrat and citizens seeking greater freedom, has transformed into a sectarian war that …
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The evolution of the role of stringers, local reporters and citizen journalists in reporting wars and conflicts: the case of the Syrian civil war
The Syrian civil war was not only one of the longest running and bloodiest conflicts of the 21st Century but also one of the most difficult to cover for Western journalists and foreign correspondents. Official access to the country was hard to obtain and entry under any circumstances was risky and …
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The Kurds of Syria: Towards Self-Governance
… of its emergence as a significant actor in the Syrian civil war. This paper therefore attempts to contribute to the growing literature on the Administration, and the Syrian Kurds who are primarily responsible for its existence. Through historical and qualitative analyses, this paper describes …
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Drawings from Syria's Lost Generation: Psychological Impacts of the Refugee Crisis
<p>Since the onset of the Syrian civil war in 2011, more than 11 million people have been forcibly displaced and exposed to violence. Even if the civil war were to end tomorrow, the refugee crisis will be expected to last for decades more. With nearly half of the refugees being children, the impact …
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Reducing Vulnerability through Reintegration: The Case of the Syrian Refugees in Jordan.
<p>Abstract: The Syrian Civil War has claimed at least two hundred thousand lives, with over four million people having now fled Syria. Of those, about six hundred thousand have registered with the UNHCR in Jordan, with an estimated eighty thousand others living in Jordan’s Zaatari Camp. In view of …
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Lagom: Intersects of nationalism and populism in Swedish parliamentary elections
… Muslim states due to the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war stoke the anti-Islamic rhetoric of this nationalist group, but did not cause their rapid ascent and neither did the entry of Sweden into the European Economic Community. The Sverigedemokraterna are a single-point culmination of a …
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Framing practices of wire services in modern wartime : international frames during the final six months of the Battle of Aleppo
… that essentially tilted the tide of the Syrian Civil War to the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The goal of this work is to discern the types of frames utilized by these three wire services, and how source selection may have influenced the creation of these frames. The articles, limited to the …
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Civil War Incentives, Identities, And Group Allegiances In Syria's Contested Provinces: A Case Study On Civil War
… answer the following questions: Why did the 2011 Syrian Revolution transition into a civil war? What contributed to the popularity of rebel efforts in the countryside? This case study on the Syrian Civil War begins by characterizing key events in the current civil war setting in order to …
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The Media, Education, and the State: Arts-Based Research and a Marxist Analysis of the Syrian Refugee Crisis
<p>By 2019, the Syrian civil war has lasted for nearly eight years and it has created the largest humanitarian crisis since WWII (Achlume, 2015). Using the siege of Aleppo in 2016 as a case study, the author applied a Marxist-humanist theoretical framework and incorporated arts-based research …
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Three Essays on Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction with Applications to Political Violence and International Security
… of three essays that develop new word order aware text analysis methods to extract information from text and apply these techniques to questions in security studies. Most existing text analysis tools in political science classify or cluster documents, discarding the order of words. In …
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Examining the impact of the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine on state sovereignty in contemporary international law
… in 2011 and the international response to the Syrian Civil War (from 2011 onwards). It argues that the conditional variant of sovereignty central to the conception of R2P has, through a decoupling of governmental sovereignty from popular sovereignty, the potential to transform the international …
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Nationalism in the 21st Century and its impact on revisionist great powers
… of the Crimea; their involvement in the Syrian civil war; and the modernisation of their armed forces and attendant military build-up in the Arctic. The thesis concludes that nationalism largely drives and frames Beijing and Moscow’s foreign policy choices and that both the Chinese and …
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The Proxy Paradox: Explaining (Lack of) Control Over State-Sponsored Proxy Armed Groups
… the United States and armed groups in the Syrian civil war from 2013 to 2020, combining descriptive statistics of original datasets of these groups’ compliance records and process-tracing of interviews with direct actors and thousands of pages of news and statements from the US and group …
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Derybiniai procesai tarptautiniuose santykiuose. Turkijos ir Europos Sąjungos "Pabėgėlių susitarimas". Atvejo analizė /
… on, on March 18th, 2016. Research problem: The Syrian civil war caused max influx of illegal migration into Turkey and European Union. In light of the refugee crisis both, EU and Turkey, found themselves coping with different problems concerning the main issue. The agreement that was signed on …
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'Atrocity Suppression': an alternative to 'Humanitarian Intervention'
… constrained by a newfound antipathy towards the idea of armed rescue itself. If previously, forcible intercession had been considered a laudable notion constrained by inertia, self-interest, and concerns about legality, in the twenty-first century it has increasingly come to be seen as …
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Refugee Economies: labour market integration, the gender gap in employment, and the impact of refugees in Jordan
… between 2012 and 2015 as a result of the Syrian conflict. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) data, the number of refugees was 10.5 million in 2012, while it stood at 32.5 million as of December 2022. The growth of the refugee population is an increasing …
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Religion and political survival: The regional strategies of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar
… sponsored by each respective regime in the civil wars in Syria and Yemen as a means of discovering the existence of authoritarian survival strategies that use religion in the regional sphere. The research found that the case study states sponsored militias that matched the regime’s domestic …