Essays about: "Old wars"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Old wars.
-
1. The Reconceptualized War : A critical analysis of the new war theory through a case study of the Yemen War
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utvecklingAbstract : The much-debated new war theory suggest that a new type of organized violence has developed during the last decades of the twentieth century. These new wars occur during an era of globalization and differ from old wars concerning four factors: the goals, the actors, the finance, and the methods. READ MORE
-
2. Enemy Love and Apocalyptic Genocide : Views on Military Violence and Pacifism Among Swedish Pentecostals 1967-1971
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kyrko- och missionsstudierAbstract : Pentecostals were the largest religious group among conscientious objectors in Sweden between 1967 and 1971, a time characterized by passionate debates on the ethics of war in the shadows of Vietnam and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This thesis aims to review and analyze how the Pentecostal periodicals Evangelii Härold and Dagen described and ethically motivated military violence and pacifism in different contexts during this period. READ MORE
-
3. Old Rules for New Wars - A Case Study of how Resolution 1373 affects the practice of the Security Council in relation to Jus ad Bellum
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Adopted by the United Nations Security Council on the 28th of September in 2001, resolution 1373 was one of the collective measures or actions taken to maintain international peace and security perceivably under threat by international terrorist acts committed by Violent Non-State Actors. This interdisciplinary politico-legal thesis seeks to understand how the unique United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 affects the Security Council in practice by using a comparative perspective tracing related Security Council follow-up activity. READ MORE
-
4. Imagining a Revolutionary Iran: National Narratives in the Revolutionary Discourse of the Mojahedin-e Khalq
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för MellanösternstudierAbstract : Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions, first published in 1979, was a hugely influential book encapsulating what has become known as the “Third Generation” of theories of revolution. In it, she argues that “revolutions are not made, they come” (Skocpol, 1979, 17), insisting that structural factors such as pre-revolutionary social structure and state breakdown were primarily responsible for the outbreak of revolutions. READ MORE
-
5. Strategic Narratives in Media Representations of the Refugee Crisis of 2015 : A Comparative Study between RT and BBC World News
University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMKAbstract : As immigration turns into the scapegoat of political and social tensions all over the world and politicians that seem to be talking about migration flows communicate instead their conception of the world and where it should head, this study investigates the refugee crisis of 2015 as represented in the two global television channels RT and BBCW. Widely studied for the depiction the press gives of the refugees, for the first time the refugee crisis is analyzed as an arena where competing understandings of international relations are constructed, in a media ecology where a myriad of actors have a chance to foreground their truth and where wars are fought, and possibly won, through the weapons of values, culture and the attraction they exercise (Nye Jr. READ MORE
