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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"war in Iraq"”.
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Iraq: The Way Forward—a Political Strategy to Win & End the War in Iraq
… challenges to stability, unity, and democracy in Iraq are typically characterized as factional (sectarian and ethnic) or as struggle against the presence of foreign troops. However, this assumption remains largely erroneous. The problems and challenges in Iraq are actually and overwhelmingly …
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Reconstructing the War in Iraq: Post-9/11 American War Fiction in Dialogue with Official-Media Discourse
This project examines American-authored Iraq War fiction within the context of public discourse. Given that modern, industrialized warfare is as much created by and through official-media discourse as represented by it, fictional accounts of Iraq exist not outside or separate from this discourse …
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Collective Memory of the War In Iraq: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor and Public Opinion Polls, 2003-2008
<p>This dissertation utilizes the War in Iraq as a case study for an analysis of letters to the editor and public opinion polls, seeking to tie these representations of opinion to the concept of collective memory. With a three-pronged grounded theory approach, two working hypotheses and two …
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A Cybernetic analysis of the United States of America's relationship with Iraq
… to the relationship between the US and Iraqi governments. This study also attempts to describe recent changes in Iraq incurred during the ongoing war in Iraq as either first- or second-order change. Taken from 2001 to 2005, 76 print media articles describing the war in Iraq from three …
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Organizational images : towards a model of organizations
… the analysis of organizational behavior by focusing on the notion that organizations develop unique information-processing frameworks, which it labels "organizational images" or "images of operations," that strongly determine their behavior. The model is then used to draw inferences about the …
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An Examination of Philadelphia Murder: A Quest to Understand the 2004-2006 Surge in Violent Crime
This paper examines the 2004-2006 surge in violent crime, specifically murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Interviews were conducted with local prominent criminal justice professionals. Interviewees were asked what they believe is wrong with the local criminal justice system, and how the system …
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The modern day gold rush ; private military corporations
Since wars have existed, there have been soldiers for hire. As the state evolved, originating during the peace of Westphalia, and matured, the definition and the business of mercenarism have gone through many mutations. Today, and particularly since the 1970s, mercenaries have banded together, …
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War and Return
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>WAR AND RETURN</p> <p>By</p> <p>Alexander Vartan Gubbins</p> <p><em>War and Return</em> is a collection of poetry that pivots on the conflict between loss of human life, sometimes even whole cities, and reinvention of cultural identity. In these poems, I search for and shape my …
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The Dutch Media Monopoly: A critical-historical analysis of journalism in the Netherlands
Taking the American tradition of political economy of the news media as a starting point, this dissertation examines Dutch journalism throughout the twentieth century, with a focus on the present. The argument is that the conclusion drawn by American scholars like Ben Bagdikian, Robert McChesney, …
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European integration and foreign policy in Central and Eastern Europe: the cases of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania
This thesis examines the impact of Europeanization on the foreign policy of the new member states of the European Union, using as case studies Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. It asks what the extent of Europeanization of foreign policy is and whether and to what extent there has been divergence in …
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Intelligence-policy relations and the problem of politicization
A growing literature in international relations theory explores how domestic institutions filter and mediate international signals. The study of intelligence-policy relations fits naturally into this mold, because intelligence agencies are specifically designed to collect and interpret information …
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Insiders and Outsiders: Global Social Movements, Party Politics, and Democracy in Europe and North America
This dissertation explores several dynamics in insider and outsider activism in the anti-war movement: insider-outsider cooperation and conflict in protest coalitions; transnational protest events' success in uniting insiders and outsiders; and coupling of insider and outsider tactics such as …
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Iraq's housing crisis : upgrading settlements for IDPS (internally displaced persons)
The most recent war in Iraq has resulted in a large wave of internal and external displacement with increased sectarian violence and ethnic tension. Subsequent conflict has exacerbated conditions within the nation and further increased displacement. Throughout the country, over one million Iraqis …
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Providing a Framework to Understanding Why the US Invaded Iraq in 2003
Cloaked in the ambition of the "war on terror" and buoyed by the unwavering post-9/11 support, the United States engaged in a bombing campaign in Iraq followed by an invasion in March 2003. In preparation for the 2003 invasion, the United States built a complicated case for war based on several …
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Overcoming Global Ignorance: Developing Geographic Literacy in a World Regional Geography Course
… found that despite constant coverage of the war in Iraq since 2003, 63% of Americans surveyed could not find Iraq on a map. Similar shortcomings abound in the poll, pointing to what must be considered a "geographic illiteracy" among Americans. This national geographic illiteracy has global …
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The ‘new diplomacy’ of the People’s Republic of China : 2000-2005
… study is to analyse the diplomatic style of China, manifested in its ‘new diplomacy’, and to differentiate it from Western-centric diplomacy. It addresses the question: What are the foundations, nature and scope of the 'new' in the Chinese diplomatic style and how does this (the ‘new’) manifest …
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Insecurity as Imagination: Securitization and Reproduction of Knowledge about Insecurity, The United States and Iraq (January 2002 – March 2003)
… sociology of production of knowledge about insecurity that focuses on the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 as its empirical study. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and the insights of Critical Discourse Analysis, it analyzes the media coverage of Iraq in order to identify …