Essays about: "US National Security Strategy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words US National Security Strategy.

  1. 1. Smart Power in Iran’s Foreign Policy Towards Arab National Security in the Middle East 2003-2015 : Case Studies of Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Ali Al Mohammad; [2022]
    Keywords : Smart Power; Foreign Policy; Arab National Security; Islamic Republic of Iran; Iraq; Yemen; Lebanon;

    Abstract : The theme of this research is smart power in Iran’s foreign policy toward Arab national security in the Middle East [Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen]. This important and influential topic was explained and analyzed on the regional and international political scene. READ MORE

  2. 2. Law Beyond Borders: Transnational Legal Pluralism Following Hong Kong’s New Reality

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Pontus Blomqvist; [2022]
    Keywords : Legal Pluralism; Migration; State Influence; Transnationalism; National Security Law; Hong Kong; South Korea; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Hong Kong is a region undergoing rapid social, political, and legal change as mainland China seeks to increase its control over the previously largely autonomous region with laws such as the national security law which asserts its jurisdiction beyond borders, complicating matters for Hong Kongers living abroad. The effects of law asserting its jurisdiction beyond borders is contingent on the relative dependency of states, as can be seen in the South Korean strategy with regards to the national security law where the state has sought to maintain “strategic ambiguity” in order to balance US and Chinese relations. READ MORE

  3. 3. Comparing Norway and Sweden - strategic culture affecting military industry.

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Aleksander Fredriksen; [2022]
    Keywords : Norway; Sweden; Defense industry; Strategic culture; Military industry;

    Abstract : As neighboring countries, Norway and Sweden are often thought to be very similar. However, the countries' military industries have developed in very different directions. Norway has had a long-term military dependence on the US, and a defense-industrial strategy to avoid direct competition with allied industries. READ MORE

  4. 4. International Anarchy & the American Leviathan : A study in the moral and empirical applications of Hobbes’ concept of anarchy to American Foreign policy

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik

    Author : Nathalie Martinsdotter; Elias Johansson; [2019]
    Keywords : Thomas Hobbes; American Foreign Policy; Political Thought; International Relations; Realism; National Security Strategy; International Morality; Anarchy; Donald Trump; Barack Obama;

    Abstract : The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been identified as the reason for a large shift in American foreign policy towards a doctrine closer to that of political realism. This claim has led us to examine if this transformation could be detected and described if we analyzed and compared Trump’s foreign policy doctrine with his predecessor, Barack Obama, through the lens Thomas Hobbes, whose ideas are at the core of the three modern schools of political realism. READ MORE

  5. 5. National Security Concerns And The Kurdistan Region In A New Middle East: From Rebellion To Statehood : The Influences Of Power, Threat Enviornment And Opportunity Structures On The Choice Of Becoming An Independent State

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan/Institutionen för säkerhet, strategi och ledarskap (ISSL)

    Author : Mohammed Gailan; [2017]
    Keywords : National Security; Power; Threat environment; Strategy; Military; Kurdistan; Independence; Statehood; Opportunity; Cooperation; Resources; Middle East; Terrorism; Iraq;

    Abstract : Under which conditions do some nations and de facto state actors with relative power assert their statehood and independence? What factors should we focus on when we assess such cases? How much can we relate a nation’s choice and path to statehood and independence to its national security concerns? The aim of this case study has been to answer the questions asked above and explain why nations during some periods do not choose to declare independence and form their own state and during other periods they aim to do so. The case of the Kurdistan region of Iraq has been selected and studied both due the drastic regional changes in the Middle East since Saddam Hussein’s fall and the rise Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. READ MORE