Sökning: "Iraq"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 71 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Iraq.
1. The Remaking of American Strategy toward Iran and Iraq : Outline of a Theory of Foreign Policy Change
Sammanfattning : This study sets out to develop a realist-constructivist theory of foreign policy change. The theory claims that whenever policymakers believe that the distribution of power favors an expansive grand strategy or necessitates retrenchment, they will act accordingly. LÄS MER
2. Remaking Iraq: Neoliberalism and a System of Violence after the US invasion, 2003-2011
Sammanfattning : After the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of Saddam regime in 2003, the US administration undertook the complete remaking of Iraq as a national-state. The initial steps of the US administration were the quasi eradication of the old Iraqi State. LÄS MER
3. The Privatisation of Security and State Control of Force: Changes, Challenges and the Case of Iraq
Sammanfattning : The thematic focus of this dissertation is the privatisation of security, that is, the increasing use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform security- and military-related tasks traditionally associated with the state and institutions such as the police or the military. More concretely, the study investigates security privatisation in the context of violent conflict and in relation to the problem of state control of force. LÄS MER
4. Great Britain, the United States, and the Security of the Middle East: The Formation of the Baghdad Pact
Sammanfattning : Anglo-American post-Second World War relations in the Middle East included cases of close cooperation and conflict. An example of the former was the Pentagon Talks in 1947 when an American statement pointed out the general objective of maintaining the security of the Middle East by retaining the British political, economic, and strategic position in areas supported by the United States. LÄS MER
5. Promised Soils : Senses of Place Among Yezidis in Dalarna and Sheikhan
Sammanfattning : This is an ethnographic study that focuses on Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna, the Yezidi cemetery, in Borlänge. The Swedish town of Borlänge has one of the largest Yezidi diaspora communities in Western Europe; a majority emigrated from the Northern Iraqi region of Sheikhan during the 1990s and early 2000s. LÄS MER