Essays about: "iraq insurgency"
Found 4 essays containing the words iraq insurgency.
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1. The Path to Civil Sectarian War
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This study explains how the escalation of the Iraq War led to a parallel civil sectarian war between Sunni and Shia insurgents during the years 2003-2006. I used the method of process-tracing and the theory Greed and Grievances. READ MORE
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2. Friend and/or Foe?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The U.S. adaptation to the provoked insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq has led to a new groundbreaking doctrine focusing on this “new” insurgency warfare. Counterinsurgency, or COIN, has become a beacon for Western states battling rogue and disparate insurgents. READ MORE
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3. Understanding Asymmetric Warfare - The plight of the strong: Actors, Dynamics and Strategy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Asymmetric warfare has gradually become a common occurrence in an increasingly interconnected world, as the interactions between militarily unequal adversaries grow ever more frequent. Because the strong do not always emerge victorious, which we presume they would, the following question is warranted: how can asymmetric warfare be understood? In other words: how are we to understand the processes which enable weak actors to win against vastly superior adversaries. READ MORE
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4. Humanitarian intervention, a refugee reducing or increasing action?- a case study on Iraq
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : My thesis is a case study on the intervention in Iraq 2003, which was intensely debated prior the intervention and the debate is not yet concluded. My purpose is to analyse whether the intervention may be seen as a humanitarian intervention according to the criterions stipulated by the ICISS's report on the ''Responsibility to Protect'' and other authors' views about what justify a humanitarian intervention. READ MORE