Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges … and the Need for Change, Hicham Alaoui, Robert Springborg
Автор: Downes Alexander B. Название: Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong ISBN: 1501761145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501761140 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6640.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likelihood of civil war and violent leader removal in target states and fails to reduce the probability of conflict between intervening states and their targets. As Downes demonstrates, when a state confronts an obstinate or dangerous adversary, the lure of toppling its government and establishing a friendly administration is strong. The historical record, however, shows that foreign-imposed regime change is, in the long term, neither cheap, easy, nor consistently successful. The strategic impulse to forcibly oust antagonistic or non-compliant regimes overlooks two key facts. First, the act of overthrowing a foreign government sometimes causes its military to disintegrate, sending thousands of armed men into the countryside where they often wage an insurgency against the intervener. Second, externally-imposed leaders face a domestic audience in addition to an external one, and the two typically want different things. These divergent preferences place imposed leaders in a quandary: taking actions that please one invariably alienates the other. Regime change thus drives a wedge between external patrons and their domestic prot?g?s or between prot?g?s and their people. Catastrophic Success provides sober counsel for leaders and diplomats. Regime change may appear an expeditious solution, but states are usually better off relying on other tools of influence, such as diplomacy. Regime change, Downes urges, should be reserved for exceptional cases. Interveners must recognize that, absent a rare set of promising preconditions, regime change often instigates a new period of uncertainty and conflict that impedes their interests from being realized.
Описание: Increasingly the Middle East and its growing population face a highly complex and fragile security system. The book analyzes these emerging security challenges in a comprehensive and systematic manner. It draws national and regional security issues into both the global security and human security perspectives.
Описание: In this study, which highlights a renewed emphasis in international affairs on regional studies, the co-authors provide an assessment of the revolutionary changes in the politics and security of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Описание: These studies map the differing understandings of danger in this region and explore how contending narratives of "threats" and "security" affect the national maritime security policy deliberations within the countries of this region.
Описание: Examines the political role played by armed forces in South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Taiwan. This work analyzes how security threats have shaped the military`s organization, doctrine, and domestic political role at various stages of political development, from the state-building period to today`s post-democratization era.
Описание: 1. What Does US Aid "Buy" in the Middle East? 2. Aid and the Logic of Political Survival Unit One: Israel 3. Non-Distributive Survival Strategy 4. Origins of US Aid to Israel 5. US Aid to Israel: Developmental Bargain Unit Two: Jordan 6. Distributive Survival Strategy 7. Origins of US Aid to Jordan 8. US Aid to Jordan: Geopolitical Bargain Unit Three: Egypt 9. Hybrid Survival Strategy 10. Origins of US Aid to Egypt 11. US Aid to Egypt: Illusive Bargains 12. Conclusion
Описание: Barack Obama has faced many challenges in reversing U.S. policy on the Middle East. This book highlights points of resistance to Obama`s efforts regarding U.S. foreign policy and what lessons may be learned from this experience for the remainder of his presidency and his potential second term in office.
Описание: The Middle East in 2021 faces continued political instability, civil wars, terrorist threats, economic crises, the proliferation of unconventional weapons, external military intervention, and the ongoing spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). It remains to be seen whether the territorial defeat of the Islamic State (IS) organisation and the recent diplomatic normalisation agreements brokered by the Trump Administration between Israel and several Arab states augur improved regional stability. U.S. stated policy goals have remained broadly consistent across Administrations: deter interstate conflict, counter terrorism, ensure the global flow of energy resources, and preserve U.S. influence in the face of rival power competition.
Автор: Akbarzadeh Shahram Название: America`s Challenges in the Greater Middle East ISBN: 1137358815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137358813 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5309.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Barack Obama has faced many challenges in reversing U.S. policy on the Middle East. This book highlights points of resistance to Obama`s efforts regarding U.S. foreign policy and what lessons may be learned from this experience for the remainder of his presidency and his potential second term in office.
Описание: This book examines the role of the emerging African nations in the new international order of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, little significance has been placed on the African continent in the security and political considerations of the Western world. However, post-9/11 international security has been redefined, and new challenges have been identified. Thus, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Africa is facing a variety of new security challenges. Africa has become an increasingly important battleground in the fight against terrorism. Since the beginning of 2011, the new revolutions, now known as the Arab Spring, that swept through North Africa have created new challenges for the African continent and are compounding the African peoples' struggles for poverty alleviation, state stability, security, socio-political and socio-economic development, democracy, and good governance. In addition to these crises of civil war, ethnic conflict, state insecurity, and rampant corruption at all levels, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has ravaged the continent for the past four decades. The only major pan-African organization--the African Union--is unable to lead and defend the continent effectively. At this crucial period when the continent is confronted with these myriad of security challenges, it needs effective, strong leadership that possesses both human and natural resources to play a leadership role in Africa and lead the continent in the new global order of the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume analyze many of these issues and place them in the wider context of global security.
Автор: Aydin Aysegul, Emrence Cem Название: Zones of Rebellion: Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State ISBN: 0801453542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801453540 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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How do insurgents and governments select their targets? Which ideological discourses and organizational policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory? Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence suggest that both insurgents and governments adopt a wide variety of coercive strategies in war environments. Zones of Rebellion integrates Turkish-Ottoman history with social science theory and unveils long-term policies that continue to inform the distribution of violence in Anatolia. The authors show the astonishing similarity in combatants’ practices over time and their resulting inability to consolidate Kurdish people and territory around their respective political agendas.
The Kurdish insurgency in Turkey is one of the longest-running civil wars in the Middle East. For the first time, Zones of Rebellion demonstrates how violence in this conflict has varied geographically. Identifying distinct zones of violence, Aydin and Emrence show why Kurds and Kurdish territories have followed different political trajectories, guaranteeing continued strife between Kurdish insurgents and the Turkish state in an area where armed groups organized along ethnic lines have battled the central state since Ottoman times.
Aydin and Emrence present the first empirical analysis of Kurdish insurgency, relying on original data. These new datasets include information on the location, method, timing, target, and outcome of more than ten thousand insurgent attacks and counterinsurgent operations between 1984 and 2008. Another data set registers civilian unrest in Kurdish urban centers for the same period, including nearly eight hundred incidents ranging from passive resistance to active challenges to Turkey’s security forces. The authors argue that both state agents and insurgents are locked into particular tactics in their conduct of civil war and that the inability of combatants to switch from violence to civic politics leads to a long-running stalemate. Such rigidity blocks negotiations and prevents battlefield victories from being translated into political solutions and lasting agreements.
Автор: Snow Donald M. Название: Middle East, Oil, and the U.S. National Security Policy ISBN: 1442261978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442261976 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 10560.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The text focuses on three interrelated subject areas that are at the heart of the current foreign and national security dilemma: the Middle East, energy policy, and military manpower policy. Remedying these obvious cases of policy dysfunction would create opportunities for less confrontational, adversary-driven foreign and defense posture.
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