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121	Военно-политическое противостояние Саудовской Аравии и Ирана в контексте борьбы за лидерство на ближнем востоке (конец 1970-х – начало XXI века) : магистерская диссертация / Politico-military opposition of Saudi Arabia and Iran in the context of contention for leading position in the Middle East (the end of 1970-s – the beginning of the XX century) Соколов, Н. В., Sokolov, N. V. January 2016 (has links) Работа посвящена изучению и анализу противостояния Саудовской Аравии и Ирана как основных претендентов на лидерство на Ближнем Востоке. Автор раскрывает специфику арабо-иранских отношений в контексте цивилизационного подхода, анализирует особенности борьбы за лидерство двух стран на фоне основных событий на Ближнем Востоке конца XX – начала XXI века и выявляет военно-политическую направленность саудовско-иранского противостояния в современных ближневосточных конфликтах – сирийском и йеменском. / The paper is dedicated to the study and analysis of the confrontation of Saudi Arabia and Iran as the main contenders for the leadership in the Middle East. The author reveals the character of the Arab-Iranian relations in the context of civilizational approach, analyzes the features of the two countries struggle for the leadership against the background of major developments in the Middle East in the period of the end of XX to the beginning of XXI centuries and reveals the political and military direction of Saudi-Iranian confrontation in the modern Middle East conflict such as the Syrian and Yemeni ones. БЛИЖНИЙ ВОСТОК САУДОВСКАЯ АРАВИЯ ИРАН ВОЙНА В СИРИИ КОНФЛИКТ В ЙЕМЕНЕ АРАБЫ ИРАНЦЫ MASTER'S THESIS MIDDLE EAST MODERN MILITARY CONFLICTS SAUDI ARABIA IRAN SAUDI-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIPS WAR IN SYRIA CONFLICT IN YEMEN ARABS IRANIANS
122	Empire of the Hajj: Pilgrims, Plagues, and Pan-Islam under British Surveillance,1865-1926 Low, Michael Christopher 16 July 2007 (has links) From roughly 1865 to 1926, the forces of European imperialism brought the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca under the scrutiny of non-Muslim interests. The driving force behind this dramatic change was the expansion of the British Empire’s maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean basin. With the development of steamship travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, colonial authorities became increasingly involved in the surveillance of seaborne pilgrims. During this period, the hajj came to be recognized as both the primary conduit for the spread of epidemic diseases, such as cholera and plague, and a critical outlet for the growth of Pan-Islamic networks being forged between Indian dissidents, pilgrims, and the Ottoman Empire. As a result, the British and Ottoman empires engaged in a struggle for control of the hajj, which would ultimately reshape both the hajj and the political landscapes of the Middle East and South Asia. Anjuman-i Khuddam-i Ka‘ba British Empire Caliphate Cholera Hajj Hijaz India Indian Ocean World International Sanitary Conferences Islamic World Kamaran Island Khilafat Movement Mecca Ottoman Empire Pan-Islam Pilgrimage Plague Quarantine Red Sea Saudi Arabia Sultan Abdul Hamid II Yemen World History World War I History
123	Human, not too human: a critical semiotic of drones and drone warfare Vasko, Timothy 14 January 2013 (has links) Taking as its starting point Nietzsche’s and Foucault’s theses on liberalism and war, and Dillon and Reid’s extensive engagement thereof, this thesis offers a critical conceptualization of drones and drone warfare. I argue that deployment of drones specifically over and against bodies and communities in conflict zones in and between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and until recently, Libya, is the material practice of a legal and political doctrine and precedent that has been established and policed most prominently by the United States and its military and intelligence apparatuses since the end of the Cold War. This novel precedent, however - due to its necessarily mutually constitutive relationship with a perceived danger said to be emerging from specific spaces, bodies, and communities in the decolonized and still-colonized worlds - locates its ontological and thus political genealogy in the anthropological knowledge that legally justified the (in)humanity of peoples and communities in these spaces during the era of high imperialism that lasted roughly from the nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. I theorize this as a mode of political, tragic nihilism through a reading of some key theories of Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, and Nietzsche and specifically, their import to the field of critical security and international relations theory. I demonstrate that the semiotic image of the drone is a highly pertinent point of departure through which we can understand these political stakes of strategic discourses enunciating the imperatives of both the Revolution in Military Affairs as well as recent global counterinsurgency/counterterrorism operations, specifically as they relate to claims about what it is drones are said to productively offer such militaristic projects. Ultimately, I argue that it is through the semiotic image of the drone as a clean, precise tactic that furthers the strategic goals of counterterrorism to target specific bodies that we can begin to politically theorize a particularly malignant political nihilism symptomatic of contemporary liberal societies. However, I also suggest that it is through Nietzsche’s politics of nihilism that we can begin to think about radical critical interventions that resist such a dangerous mode of politics. / Graduate International Relations Theory RBJ Walker Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Friedrich Nietzsche Violence Postcolonial Theory Political Theory Colonialism Anthropology Semiotics Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) War on Terror State Terrorism Human Rights Nihilism Tragedy World Politics International Politics Barack Obama Administration UAVs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Afghanistan Pakistan Yemen Somalia Iraq International Ethics International Law Genealogy Materialism Weapons
124	The law enforcement approach to combating terrorism : an analysis of US policy / Nagel, William C. January 1900 (has links) (PDF) Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Cover title. "June 2002." AD-A405 990. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-80). Also available via the World Wide Web.
125	How resource rich countries attract foreign direct investments: a study of Western Asian countries and strategies of industrialization and diversification Nguyen, Kimthoa Thi 27 October 2015 (has links) Submitted by Daniele Santos (danielesantos.htl@gmail.com) on 2015-12-22T14:18:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Kim.pdf: 16567554 bytes, checksum: 66c9041725ea8ef983365706311596d5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Janete de Oliveira Feitosa (janete.feitosa@fgv.br) on 2015-12-28T18:33:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Kim.pdf: 16567554 bytes, checksum: 66c9041725ea8ef983365706311596d5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2016-01-07T11:30:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Kim.pdf: 16567554 bytes, checksum: 66c9041725ea8ef983365706311596d5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-07T11:31:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kim.pdf: 16567554 bytes, checksum: 66c9041725ea8ef983365706311596d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-27 / Fuel is a self-depleting resource and long term dependency on this commodity alone will not suffice. An export trade oriented approach can lead to faster industrialization while diversification leads to economic sustainable growth. This research seeks to understand how countries compete for foreign direct investments, and how certain activities have the most impact in the competitive global marketplace. Research suggests that when companies decide to invest abroad, they seek only to find countries that facilitate their strategic objectives. The results conclude with appropriate levels of government accountability, credibility and visibility with the private sector, foreign direct investment is attracted by policy advocacy and policy reform. By reviewing countries such as United Arab Emirates in direct comparison to Western Asian countries, including Kuwait and Iraq with high levels of fuel exports, along with Qatar with optimistic marketplace indicators and plentitude of skills and capabilities – research seems to suggest that despite high capabilities and attractive GDP, promotional investment activities yield the highest returns using policy advocacy and reform. Investment promotion agency IPA Policy advocacy Investment climate United Arab Emirates UAE Saudi Arabia Kuwait Iraq Qatar Oman Yemen Country competitiveness Industrialization National capability Technological capability Oil Fuel exports Resource curse Resource dilemma Developing nations West Asia Institutional capital Foreign direct investment Administração de empresas Investimentos estrangeiros Desenvolvimento sustentável Concorrência Industrialização Inovações tecnológicas Combustíveis - Exportação Recursos naturais Oriente Médio
126	The Reconceptualized War : A critical analysis of the new war theory through a case study of the Yemen War Malmgren, Victor January 2021 (has links) The much-debated new war theory suggest that a new type of organized violence has developed during the last decades of the twentieth century. These new wars occur during an era of globalization and differ from old wars concerning four factors: the goals, the actors, the finance, and the methods. One of these new wars is the war in Yemen (2015-), a country divided and war torn, suffering the world's largest humanitarian crisis. The study aims to critically analyse the application of the new war theory through a qualitative singular case study of Yemen. The analysis shows that an understanding can be made about both Yemen and the theory. The Yemen War revolves around reinvented and/or rekindled particularistic identities, formerly kept under control, but now unleashed after years of exclusion, increasing economic gaps, the Arab Spring, and the dismantling of the central state during an era of globalization. The war took on decentralized characteristics, the Yemeni government lost its monopoly on violence leading to several state and non-state actors involved in the war. They are sometimes financed by external actors or through looting, racketeering, kidnapping, etc., all akin to the methods of new war warfare which sees civilians as the main victims. The study argues that an even greater understanding can be made by reformulating the theory as a process rather than as separate factors only showing the differences between new and old. The new war process shows the interconnectedness between the four factors, while simultaneously including other impactful new war terms and concepts such as globalization, the motives of war, and the reoccurring and persisting violence. Globalization then becomes part of the new war process rather than being a separate element. Yemen War New War New War Theory Kaldor Mary Kaldor Iraq Globalization Saudi Arabia Bosnia Yugoslavia Jemen Krig Nya Krig Kaldor Mary Kaldor Irak Globalisering Saudi Arabien Bosnien Jugoslavien
127	Between Interest and Interventionism : Probing the Limits of Foreign Policy along the Tracks of an Extraordinary Case Study : The GDR's Engagement in South Yemen Muller, Miriam Manuela 13 March 2015 (has links) This case study is the first comprehensive analysis of the German Democratic Republic’s activities in South Yemen, the only Marxist state in the Arab World and at times the closest and most loyal ally to the Soviet Union in the Middle East during the Cold War. The dissertation analyzes East German Foreign Policy as a case of Socialist state- and nation-building and in doing so produces one major hypotheses: The case of South Yemen may be considered both, an ‘exceptional case’ and the possible ‘ideal type’ of the ‘general’ of East German foreign policy and thus points to what the GDR’s foreign policy could have been, if it hadn’t been for the numerous restraints of East German foreign-policy-making. The author critically engages with the normative and empirical dimensions of the ‘Limits of Foreign Policy’ by including a constructivist perspective of foreign policy. Apart from the case study itself, the dissertation provides the reader with a thorough overview of forty years of East German foreign policy with a focus on the interests and influence of The Soviet Union as well as the first introduction and methodological approach to East Germany's foreign policy in the Middle East. The empirical side of the analysis rests on archival documents of the German Foreign Office, the German National Archive and the former Ministry of State Security of the GDR. These documents are reviewed and published for the first time and are complemented by personal interviews with contemporary witnesses. The interdisciplinary approach integrates and expands methods of both History and Political Science, applicable to other cases. Conducted research is intended to contribute to academic discourse on South Yemen’s unique history, divided Germany’s role in the Cold War, East German foreign policy, but also the long-term impact of Socialist foreign-policy-making in the Global South which so far has been neglected almost completely in academia. / Graduate / miriam.mueller@fu-berlin.de South Yemen PDRY GDR Foreign Policy Divided Germany Cold War Soviet Union Socialism State-Building Nation-Building Gulf of Aden Crown Colony of Aden British Occupation National Liberation Front Marxism-Leninism Postcolonialism Neocolonialism German Identity Arab Nationalism Arab Socialism Arab Nationalist Movement Al-Hirak Southern Movement Constructivism Socialist Development Global South Middle East Arab Spring Marxist Critical Bab Al-Mandab Socotra Yemeni Socialist Party YSP FLOSY National Liberation Front NLF SED Honecker Ulbricht East Berlin
128	Gender – Bilder – Sanaa. Eine Ethnographie Linke, Irina 29 August 2017 (has links) Diese Studie erkundet den Zusammenhang von Gender und Bilderpraktiken in Sanaa vor dem Hintergrund der globalen Zirkulation von Bildern. Von Geschlechtersegregation gekennzeichnet und an der Peripherie globaler Bilderproduktion liegend, bietet sich der Jemen für die Erforschung des Spannungsfelds von Bildern und Gender an. Betrachtet wird insbesondere, wie Jemenitinnen öffentliche Bilder entschleierter Frauen auf eigene Vorstellungen von Sittsamkeit und Unsichtbarkeit beziehen und wie öffentliches Erscheinen von Frauen verhandelt wird. Ein filmischer Zugang führt zur Betrachtung der performativen Dimension von Bildern. Gefilmte Mikrosituationen werden nach einem hermeneutischen Verfahren interpretiert, das sich am Prozess-, Interaktions- und Diskursverlauf der gefilmten sozialen Praxis orientiert. Sprache wird kontextualisiert und zu Bildern in Bezug gesetzt. Befunde zur Rolle des Umgangs mit Bildern bei der Geschlechterkonstitution offenbaren drei zentrale Themen. Erstens sind Bilderpraktiken von Frauen dynamische und konflikthafte Prozesse, in denen Frauen genderspezifische Räume und Rollen aushandeln. So werden beispielsweise jemenitische Frauen, die im Fernsehen erscheinen, dem Anderen zugeordnet, visuelle Elemente öffentlicher Bilder von Frauen werden heruntergespielt. Zweitens gefährden Bilder die Geschlechtersegregation. Indem das Verbot für Frauen, sich zu sehen zu geben, auch Bilder umfasst, wird das subversive und transgressive Potenzial von Bilderpraktiken deutlich. Es wird deutlich, dass sich hinter früheren wissenschaftlichen Befunden zum islamischen Bilderverbot teilweise genderbezogene Blickverbote verbergen. Drittens folgt die Suche jemenitischer Frauen nach dem eigenen Bild einer Dialektik von Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit, denn oft erreichen Frauen öffentliche Sichtbarkeit durch die Repräsentation von Unsichtbarkeit. Diese Ergebnisse verdeutlichen die Notwendigkeit performativer Ansätze bei der Erforschung von Bildern und Medienpraxen. / This ethnographic study explores the intersection of gender and image usage in Sanaa, Yemen, against the background of the global circulation of images. Yemen is a gender-segregated society at the periphery of image production and provides a powerful context in which the phenomena of this intersectionality can be captured and analyzed. Of particular relevance is the means by which Yemeni women relate public images of unveiled women to their requirement of modesty in front of men outside their close families. Within this setting, the negotiation of women’s public appearance is studied. A filmic approach leads to a consideration of the performative dimensions of images. Filmed micro-situations are interpreted according to a hermeneutic method, informed by the procedural, interactive and discursive aspects of social practice. Using this methodology, spoken language is contextualized and related to image practices. Findings on the role of image practices in gender constitution concern three main themes. First, image practices are found to be dynamic and conflictual as gender-specific social spaces and roles are negotiated. For example, Yemeni women who appear on TV are often attributed to the Other, and on the level of language, visual elements of public images of women are downplayed. Second, images pose challenges for gender segregation. As prohibitions on women allowing themselves to be seen in person extend to their images, the subversive and transgressive potential of image practices become apparent. Interestingly, this reveals that some prohibitions on images in the Islamic context discussed by previous researchers are in fact gendered restrictions on looking at women. Finally, the search of Yemeni women for an image of self follows a dialectic between visibility and invisibility. Often those women who reach public visibility do so by representing invisibility. This work demonstrates the need for performative approaches to the study of images and media practices. Gender Bilder Jemen Sanaa dokumentarfilmischer Zugang direct cinema Performance Frauen Geschlechtertrennung visuelle Kultur Blick Bilderpraktiken Ethnographie Medienethnologie Unsichtbarkeit Sichtbarkeit Selbstbilder Fremdbilder sozialer Raum Phänomenologie Übersetzung jemenitische Medien Satellitenfernsehen Bilderverbot gender images Sanaa Yemen visual culture performance documentary filmmaking direct cinema visuality eye image practices gender segregation media anthropology social space transnational TV Yemeni media phenomenology invisibility visibility images of self images of other translation gender performativity embodiment 301 Soziologie, Anthropologie LC 96335 LB 44355 LC 13355 LH 61090 ddc:301
129	Titres et statuts territoriaux au Moyen-Orient / Territorial titles and statuses in the Middle East Joie, Thomas 02 July 2013 (has links) Les titres et les statuts territoriaux occupent une place centrale en droit international en raison de la territorialité de cet ordre juridique. L’émergence des Etats du Moyen-Orient présente des spécificités historico-juridiques, qui sont en grande partie à l’origine des problèmes territoriaux actuels. En effet, dans la région étudiée, l’application des régimes de protectorat et de Mandat a eu une incidence considérable sur les titres territoriaux des Etats. Contrairement à la colonisation pure et simple, ces régimes territoriaux laissaient, en principe, subsister pour l’entité sous domination, une personnalité internationale distincte. Une telle situation intermédiaire a très souvent conduit à des interrogations sur les règles de droit international applicables. La présente étude envisage justement cette problématique : quels effets ont eu les régimes de protectorat et de Mandat sur l’établissement ou la modification des titres territoriaux ? L’objectif de l’étude est de contribuer à mettre en exerguel’origine des titres territoriaux au Moyen-Orient, pour mieux comprendre et analyser les problèmes territoriaux actuels dans la région. / Territorial titles and statuses occupy a central place in international law because of the territoriality of this legal order. The emergence of the Middle East States presents historical and legal specificities which are largely the sources of current territorial problems. Indeed, in the region under study, the application of Protectorate and Mandate regimes had a significant impact on the States territorial titles. Under these territorial regimes, unlike outright colonization, a separate international personality remained, in principle, for the entity under domination. Such an intermediate situation has often led to questions about the applicable rules of international law. The study considers precisely this issue: what effects have had the regimes of Protectorate and Mandate on the establishment or modification of territorial titles? The objective of thestudy is to contribute to highlight the origin of territorial titles in the Middle East, in order to better understand and analyze the current territorial problems in the region. Souveraineté territoriale Statut territorial Titre territorial Mandats de la Société des Nations Protectorat Moyen-Orient Personnalité juridique internationale Différends territoriaux Uti possidetis Autodétermination Palestine Israël Syrie Liban Irak Jordanie Golfe persique Kaweït Bahreïn Qatar Emirats arabes unis Arabie Saoudite Oman Yémen Territorial sovereignty Territorial status Territorial title Mandates of the League of Nations Protectorate Middle East International legal personality Territorial disputes Uti possidetis Self-determination Palestine Israel Syria Lebanon Iraq Jordan Persian Gulf Kuwait Bahrain Qatar United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Oman Yemen 340.5
130	Bezpilotní letecké prostředky v národní bezpečnostní politice USA. Nová tvář války proti terorismu / Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in US National Security Policy. New Face of War of Terror Matějka, Stanislav January 2014 (has links) The paper deals with the use of unmanned aircraft of the American national security policy. It examines the history of unmanned aviation, its military use, and cost- efficiency. It then examines the main obstacles and problems with their use in national security that this technology meets and will meet in the future after a higher level of autonomy is developed. These problems involve legal issues, international and domestic American law, the issue of civilian casualties, the role of the media, and public opinion. The final chapter focuses on the problems of technical, strategic and operational issues. In this section the research paper comes to the first conclusion which claims that the introduction of more autonomous systems to war will radically change its structure and, consequently, standard procedures and strategies. Case studies are included to illustrate how successful the drone strategy is applied in the five countries where the United States leads a war on terror. The research using the theory of the revolution in military affairs concludes that these UAVs pose the greatest challenge in history and it goes well beyond military matters. UAVs in national security affect the understanding of the basic principles of war in relation to the concepts of warrior ethos and just war.

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