Essays about: "the Levant"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words the Levant.

  1. 1. The Strategic Use of Hard and Soft Power

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Razan Al-Shammari; [2022]
    Keywords : Iranian state influence; Iran; pro-government militias PGMs ; Popular Mobilization Forces PMF ; Iraq; repression; repressive violence; soft power; hard power.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis will research the Iranian state influence on repression in Iraq. In particular, it is a case study that will explore the Iranian state influence, in the form of ideological and financial influence, on pro-government militias in Iraq between 2014 and 2020. READ MORE

  3. 2. White-ground lekythoi in context : An analysis of the geographical distribution, contexts, and value of white-ground lekythoi in the 5th century BCE

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Carl William Eliasson; [2022]
    Keywords : White-ground lekythoi; lekythoi; context; value; distribution; geography; pottery; white-ground technique; archaeology; funerary space; domestic space; religious space;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyse and interpret the distribution of white-ground lekythoi with a known context from the 5th century BCE. Exploring white-ground lekythoi in context is a complex matter, as many lekythoi lack archaeological documentation. READ MORE

  4. 3. A provocation around the ethics in human-conversational agent relationships : A contribution to an ethically responsible future between humans and conversational agents

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Lea Bachmann; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The usage of conversational agents in domestic spaces is increasing every year and with this ethical issues that we have not anticipated will arise, both because these relationships are human-like and not human-like.This thesis shows that ethically responsible relations- hips between humans and conversational agents in private contexts and domestic environments are much more than conversational design. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Kremlin and Washington in the Levant : A most similar comparative case study of the actions by the United States and Russia in the Syrian civil war

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Isak Flink; [2021]
    Keywords : Syria; Russia; United States; Neorealism; Neoliberalism; Foreign intervention;

    Abstract : Ever since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war two countries have been outspoken about the situation, Russia and the United States. As the conflict has developed these two actors have been active within the conflict both militarily and diplomatically. This outlines the research problem, why these actors have had an interest in Syria. READ MORE

  6. 5. If not us, then who? - On the repatriation of Swedish women and children from the al Hol and al Roj camps in the Syrian Arab Republic

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Aylin Volgsten; [2021]
    Keywords : public international law; international human rights law; repatriation; jurisdiction; terrorism; counter-terrorism; Syria; ISIL; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In the al Hol and al Roj camps in the north-eastern parts of the Syrian Arab Republic, women and children allegedly affiliated with the terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant are detained in precarious humanitarian and security conditions that have been equated with torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by the United Nations. In early 2021, the United Nations called upon states to repatriate their nationals from the camps. READ MORE