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1	Losing By Winning: America's Challenge Waging Counterinsurgency Warfare Lukoff, Lee Allyn January 2014 (has links) Thesis advisor: Dr. Hiroshi Nakazato / Thesis advisor: Dr. Gerald Easter / Losing By Winning: America's Challenge Waging Counterinsurgency Warfare is an analytical study of America's experience waging counterinsurgency warfare in the Philippine- American, Vietnam and Iraq Wars. In each war, counterinsurgency warfare was applied to achieve the strategic objectives of American Foreign Policy as outlined by the President of the United States at the outset of each war. Initially, large swaths of the American electorate and political class favored achieving the strategic objectives of each war studied. Over time, as counterinsurgency tactics were put to use, and made headway towards achieving the strategic objectives of the conflict, public support for each war precipitously declined over time and either jeopardized the ability of the United States to complete its counterinsurgency campaign or lose them altogether. This occurred because images of atrocities and perceptions of violations of the laws of warfare (both real or imagined) were formed in the minds of Americans which created a political dynamic where the American public and their elected leaders in Washington D.C. could no longer legitimize continuing to support the ongoing war. The analytical insights drawn from this study give one an understanding of the unique challenges that confront the United States in employing counterinsurgency warfare to achieve the strategic objectives of the United States in the wars its fights. / Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2014. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science. Counterinsurgency warfare
2	Alternative Pathways to Peace and Development in Rural Chiapas, Mexico Hollinger, Keith H. 01 July 2011 (has links) The concept of peacebuilding holds enormous importance for international relations, particularly in regions facing impending violent conflict and those recovering from such conflict. However, in order for peacebuilding to be a viable alternative to traditional peace operations, scholars and practitioners need to have a shared understanding of what peacebuilding is and what goals it hopes to achieve, in addition to fluid strategies for implementation. This dissertation seeks to identify strategies for building sustainable peace through sustainable community development and democratization. Using a qualitative metasynthesis of five ethnographies conducted in Chiapas Mexico, this dissertation develops mid-range theories, or strategies, for building peace in Chiapas and in regions experiencing low-intensity conflict more generally. These strategies are based upon the development of Pluriethnic collective governance at the local level in regions that are experiencing low-intensity conflict related to indigenous communities. / Ph. D. Peacebuilding Mestizaje Zapatismo bottom-up peace peace operations peacekeeping sustainable peace counterinsurgency warfare low intensity conflict new wars rebellion conflict analysis conflict prevention disaster management Chiapas Mexico EZLN Zapatistas IndÃgenas indigenous campesinos peasants economic development community resilience resilient communities sustainable development bottom-up development collective development collective democracy democratization sustainable democracy indigenismo

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