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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"War Studies"”.
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Sparks on kindling : terrorism's role in civil war onset, recurrence, and escalation
… terrorism and three major aspects of civil wars. By examining the rate of attacks and the targets of terrorism, this study explains how terrorism can serve as a macro-level indicator of instability and as a predictor of the different stages of civil wars. The rate of terrorism predicts the …
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'Fall in the Children' : a regional study of the mobilisation of the children of the 42nd Regimental Area during the Great War
… as the 42nd Regimental Area during the Great War. It asserts that while these children lived through a time of enormous national and local upheaval, the majority of this numerically significant but often overlooked section of the population in terms of Great War studies were far from being …
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Posthuman War: Race, Gender, Technology, and the Making of U.S. Military Futures
This dissertation investigates drone warfare, the production of Special Operations Forces, and innovations in the medical treatment of war-related trauma, drawing these together to propose they may be read as indicative of a larger military “Posthuman Project” that is driving technological …
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Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence: The Case of Domestic Terrorism on Behalf of Ethnic Groups
… the connections between terrorism and civil wars and how terrorism and civil war can affect each other. For the theoretical clarity, I decided to deal only with ethnically motivated domestic terrorism since I argue that ethnic component as well as domestic focus significantly affect …
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Interstate rivals’ intervention in third-party civil wars: The comparative case of Saudi Arabia and Iran in Yemen (2004-2018)
… rivals’ intervention in a third-party civil war impact conflict duration and outcome in that country? More specifically, (1) how do interstate rivals engage in third party civil conflicts and (2) how do conflict parties attract, utilize, and sustain the external support they receive from …
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All India Radio: International Broadcasting and the Remaking of the Airwaves after Empire
… an instrument of cultural diplomacy, ideological warfare. The broader argument of the dissertation is that by projecting the foreign policy of independent India, AIR external broadcast sought to uphold national sovereignty, safeguard internal security and project cultural diplomacy, however, its …
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The business of solidarity: Socialist Yugoslavia and development aid in non-aligned Africa (1954-1991)
… Socialist Yugoslavia’s place in the global postwar development aid economy and its unique brand of non-aligned internationalism. In the 1950s, the Yugoslav state deepened its economic relations with a host of emerging postcolonial states as part of its socialist internationalist ideology and …
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Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction
Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction argues that garbage of the post-World War II period can be read as an index of the Cold War cultural landscape and its structure of feeling. This dissertation treats these remainders as archival …
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‘History Engraved on his Shoulder’: A Comparative Study of the Influence of British First World War Poetry on Post 1980 Iraqi War Poetry "embargoed indefinitely"
Abstract This study aims to compare British war poetry of the First World War with Iraqi poetry from the mid-20th century with special reference to Iraqi war poetry of the 1980’s Iraq-Iran War and the period that followed it. It will also investigate the influence of the designated British war …