Essays about: "Syria civil war"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 32 essays containing the words Syria civil war.
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21. The Shiny Light in Smoky Sky: The experiment of Rojava with democracy
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : With a population of around 40 million people, Kurds are considered the largest nation without an independent state. Indeed, since the geographical division of Kurdistan in 1923, Kurds have been the victims of various forms of discrimination and oppression by the nation states of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. READ MORE
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22. Pro-Government Interventions and Civil Wars : Examining Legitimacy-focused Pro-Government Interventions in Asymmetric Civil Wars
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : External unilateral intervention in civil wars has been always a subject of interest in international relations, especially during the Cold War and after the Bosnian civil war. Unilateral interventions have come to the surface again with recent examples in Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, and Libya. READ MORE
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23. The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria - The future of international law or an abuse of power?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The Responsibility to Protect, or “R2P”, is a principle that has generated heated debate since its introduction in a report by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) in 2001. Having received an enthusiastic response from member states at the World Summit Outcome in 2005, the United Nations seemed to move into a new era of protecting humanitarian values; that of acting to protect the citizens of states when the states themselves proved unwilling or unable to do so. READ MORE
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24. Syria: Iran's and Saudi Arabia's new playground? : A case study of Iran’s and Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the Syrian Civil War
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This examination addresses the problem of proxy warfare in civil wars by examining Iran’s and Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the Syrian Civil War. Based on previous theoretical frameworks a new theoretical framework of proxy warfare has been developed which is used to analyze whether Iran’s and Saudi Arabia’s involvement in Syria is a case of proxy warfare or not, and if their involvement in the conflict is a resultat of their so called ‘New Cold War’ as it is portrayed. READ MORE
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25. “We Forgive, But We Do Not Forget”: An Ethnographic Account of Assyrian Christians’ Trails of Trauma and the Making of ‘the Muslim’
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : This thesis highlights the multiple layers of how an Assyrian Christian minority group in Sweden constructs the image of ‘the Muslim’. The thesis contributes to a larger debate about diaspora, reconciliation, and local manifestations of Islamophobia by following the view of ‘the Muslim’ in a Syriac Orthodox Church in Gothenburg. READ MORE
