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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Violent Non-State Actors"”.
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The Unholy Matrimony: Russia and Violent Non-State Actors
<p>Russia’s contemporary relationship with violent non-state actors has been at the forefront of news due to the conflict in Ukraine. Despite the international shock at this phenomenon, this is an age-old practice for Russia. Since the 17<sup>th</sup> century, the Russian state has developed a …
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Getting Smart in the 21st Century: Exploring the Application of Smart Power in Deterring Insurgencies and Violent Non-State Actors
In the 21st Century, violent non-state actors continue to pose an asymmetric threat to state actors. Given the increasing proliferation of lethal technologies, growing global social connectivity, and continued occurrences of failed or failing states, the quantity of violent non-state actors posing …
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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
… number 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 …
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Dangerous delegation: explaining the rationales and outcomes of state sponsorship of terrorism through the principal-agent framework
<p>State sponsorship of terrorism, where a government deliberately provides resources and material support to a terrorist organization, is common in the international system. By conceptualizing state sponsorship as a relationship between a principal and agent, I develop a consistent theoretical …
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Identity, Resilience and Social Justice: Peace-making in a Neoliberal Global Order
… – or the selection of a broad range of armed and non-armed social actors to participate in peace processes – has emerged as the fundamental principle of peace process design. As external international peace mediation theoretically no longer seeks to dictate liberal peace outcomes, but merely aims …
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How Insurgent Groups Emerge: The political process in democratic Nigeria
How did two non-state actors from significantly different regions develop into insurgent organizations in Nigeria after its return to democratic rule on 29 May 1999? Although the northeast and Niger Delta regions are poles apart in historical, material, and socio-cultural structures, they bore the …
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The political economy of rural-urban conflict : lessons from West Africa & India
… conflict dynamics between an urban-based state and its rural-based challengers. In some cases of such violent internal conflict, the combat frontier is messy and erratic, as insurgents target cities as their economic prey. In other cases, the combat frontier is tidy and stable, seemingly …
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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 …