Essays about: "the Arab Spring"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 63 essays containing the words the Arab Spring.

  1. 21. The Arab Spring Revisited; Post-colonial feasibility in the 21st century

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

    Author : Felicia Bergdahl Elofsson; [2019]
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  3. 22. Framing Kurdish Female Fighters : A qualitative content analysis of media representations of female fighters of Kobane in Arabic, Kurdish and Russian Media

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Journalistik

    Author : Fereshteh Mohammadi; [2019]
    Keywords : Kurdish female fighters; Kobane; IS; Arabic media; Kurdish media; Russian media; media framing; orientalism; feminist theory on militarization and war; war and peace journalism theory;

    Abstract : With the uprising of the Arab Spring in Syria in 2011, a myriad of news articles covering Syrian people' protests were published in the international media. However, it was after the Islamic State’s (IS) attacks on Syria and accordingly, Rojava region ​– the ​Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, de facto Autonomous Region ​– in 2014, that the region became the attention center of the international media. READ MORE

  4. 23. Misappropriation Sanctions : Discovering the Threshold for Freezing Assets of Ousted Kleptocrats with EU Restrictive Measures

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Christoffer Orre; [2019]
    Keywords : sanctions; misappropriation; tunisia; egypt; ukraine; common foreign and security policy; eu law; european union;

    Abstract : The misappropriation sanctions refer to the European Union sanctions adopted against foreign kleptocrats to address the suspected theft of public funds. After the regimes had been successfully overthrown in the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011 as well as the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine in 2014, the misappropriation sanctions were imposed, in all three cases, as the ousted leaders and their close associates were suspected of stealing vast amounts of public funds from their respective countries and hiding the misappropriated funds overseas. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Syrian War: Portraits with Political Meanings : A Content Analysis of Al-Jazeera’s Coverage of the Intra-Syrian Peace Negotiations

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Statsvetenskap

    Author : Alexandra Kubresli; [2019]
    Keywords : Syria; war; al-Jazeera; content analysis; qualitative; political meaning; peace negotiations; government; opposition; agenda setting.;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyse the contents in texts about the intra-Syrian peace negotiations, as well as identify latent political meanings, through examining how the sides of the war are portrayed in al-Jazeera´s coverage. Dr Zainab Abdul-Nabi suggests in her analysis of al-Jazeera´s coverage of another event in the Syrian war, namely the chemical attack in Ghouta, that al-Jazeera has a catalysing role in the Arab Spring when covering the Syrian war in particular. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Unpredictability of Conflict - A reconceptualisation of political instability and its potential for forecasting conflict

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

    Author : Raoul Kunze; [2019]
    Keywords : Political instability; Conflict; Arab Spring; Political risk;

    Abstract : This thesis is dedicated to developing a concept that allows for predicting the magnitude of political instability periods. To that end existing literature is consulted to explore the most appropriate definitions and explanatory models for creating a elaborated approach to political instability. READ MORE