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Showing 1 to 20 of 358 for “"victory"”.
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A CADMEAN VICTORY: LIBYA'S INTRACTABLE STRUGGLE FOR GOVERNANCE
This thesis seeks to explain the factors that contribute to the outbreak and persistence of the civil war in Libya. Libya’s tribal and colonial past, the Arab Spring upheaval, and the more recent injection of outside forces are examined to identify the factors most salient to explain the civil …
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Defeat in victory : organizational learning dysfunction in counterinsurgency
Two puzzles dominate the study of organizational learning and counterinsurgency. First, militaries often struggle to develop effective strategies to address the problem of counterinsurgency. Second, their strategic performance seldom improves over successive counterinsurgency campaigns. This study …
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Insurgent armies : explaining military loyalty after rebel victory
… peace, the logic of military loyalty after victory in civil war has not been studied in a systematic or comparative fashion. To explain variation in ex-rebel commander behavior across and within states where armed movements seize power, my argument highlights the centrality of wartime …
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An Elusive Victory - Egyptian Workers Challenge the Regime (2006-2012)
"We started the 2011 revolution and the rest of Egypt followed," say Egyptian workers with strong conviction. Egyptian independent workers' continuous claims of contention and repertoires of protest were one of several main factors leading to the January 25, 2011 uprising. After thirty-two years of …
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Violence After Victory: Explaining Variation in State Repression Following Contentious Politics
<p>If conflict onset leads to increases in human rights abuse, how can these abuses be curbed once conflicts have ended? To answer this question, researchers have traditionally focused on a country’s regime type and leaders’ incentive structures. This is insufficient, I argue, because many regimes …
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From Victory to Defeat: The Chinese Mission in Japan, 1946-1952
… power. The title of this dissertation “From Victory to Defeat” not only characterises the history of the Chinese Mission in Japan, but also alludes to the fate of the Kuomintang and ROC during those seven years.
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Reading Ineffability and Realizing Tragedy in Stuart Moulthrop's <i>Victory Garden</i>
<p><em>Victory Garden</em>, Stuart Moulthrop’s 1991 classic hyperfiction, presents a nonlinear story of U. S. home front involvement in the First Gulf War in a way that facilitates confusion and mimics a "fog of war" sort of (un)awareness. Using Storyspace to build his complex narrative, Moulthrop …
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Cornerstone of Union Victory: Officer Partnerships in Joint Operations in the West
… western armies was a major cornerstone of Union victory. Scholars have written biographies of the more noted admirals and narratives of the flotilla have been detailed. What has not been accomplished is an exploration of the Union officers’ professional partnerships between the Mississippi …
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Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn
<p>Victory Day on May 9<sup>th</sup> is known by Russians as “the holiday with a tear in one’s eye.” But in south Brooklyn, many miles away from their “motherland,” confers the Russian Jewish immigrants a freedom to express allegiance on their own terms, choosing their own set of songs, emblems, …
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Conquering the World: The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context
… his audience to hold onto the countercultural victory of the Johannine pistis (belief/faith) over and against the prevailing polytheism of the Greco-Roman culture.
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The battle of victory field: a study of suburban land use decision-making.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1972. M.C.P.
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United States peacetime strategic planning, 1920-1941: the color plans to the victory program.
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1967
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A Springboard to Victory: Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937-1945
During the Sino-Japanese war of 1937 to 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Shandong Province in North China achieved an unnoticed but historically significant success in financial affairs. From that time onward, the CCP in Shandong not only controlled economic affairs within its territory, …
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Judas Maccabaeus, Handel's victory oratorio of 1747, and its development in London performances until 1744
By the time of Handel's death in 1759, Judas Maccabaeus had become the composer's second most popular oratorio: it received thirty-three London performances during the composer's lifetime, and continued to receive regular performances in London from 1760 until 1774. This thesis begins with a review …
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The Last German Victory: Combat Doctrine and Tactical Performance in Operation Market Garden, September 1944
This thesis reevaluates Operation Market Garden, the failed Allied airborne invasion of German-occupied Holland in September 1944 by comparing the combat doctrines and practices of the British and German forces that engaged in the campaign, particularly with regards to command and control and the …
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Training a New Membership Team to Lead in Assimilating Newcomers into Victory Baptist Church, Dekalb, Illinois
… TEAM TO LEAD IN ASSIMILATING NEWCOMERS INTO VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH, DEKALB, ILLINOIS Eric Mangek Ngum, D.Ed.Min. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016 Faculty Supervisor: Dr. John David Trentham The ministry project identified and trained a membership leadership team to lead Victory …
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Peran pialang pada transaksi perdagangan berjangka komoditi perspektif hukum Islam: Studi di PT. Victory International Future Matos)
… transaksi perdagangan berjangka komoditi di PT. Victory International Futures dan tinjauan hukum Islam tentang peran pialang dalam transaksi perdagangan berjangka komoditi. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif. Sedangkan data yang dikumpulkan berupa data primer dan data …
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From Retreat to Victory: The Rise of the Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War, 1935–1949
… to proffer a military explanation for the CCP’s victory from the vantage point of military history. Towards that end, the thesis will analyse those key events on the battlefield in each important stage of the fighting, establish the contiguity between them, and discuss the consequences of each …
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