Sökning: "internal wars"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden internal wars.
1. Military Interventions in Internal Wars : The Study of Peace or the Study of War?
Sammanfattning : This thesis sets out to increase our understanding on how to conduct successful military interventions in internal wars, such as the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. But, instead of investigating different variables which might contribute to success, the focus is on the practice of knowledge production. LÄS MER
2. Foreign Intervention in Internal Wars : The Case of the Nigerian Civil War 1967-70
Sammanfattning : Scholars of widely diverging persuasions have recognized the implications of the world constellation in which the discourse on foreign intervention with all its manifestations in a civil war has an explanatory value. How-ever, a number of long-standing theoretical, methodological and epistemological challenges still resist clearcut solution. LÄS MER
3. The Power of Symbolic Power : An Application of O'Neill's Game of Honour to Asymmetric Internal Conflict
Sammanfattning : Powerful states can lose wars to militarily weaker opponents. This can only be understood by moving away from an over-simplified traditional definition of power and by incorporating the symbolic dimensions of power. LÄS MER
4. Forces of Destruction and Construction : Local Conflict Dynamics, Institutional Trust and Postwar Crime
Sammanfattning : In 2017 alone, an estimated 68,851 people lost their lives as a consequence of civil wars, that is, armed conflicts that take place within the borders of a state. Such violent conflicts not only lead to immense human suffering, but also leave social, economic and political imprints on the societies that experience them. LÄS MER
5. Krigen som inte blev av : Sveriges fredliga officerskår vid 1800-talets mitt
Sammanfattning : Abstract Sweden has experienced a dramatic change from being a belligerent greatpower in the 17th and 18th centuries to becoming a peaceful small nation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The country has not been involved in war for over 180 years. Modern Sweden has established more or less peaceful relations with other countries. LÄS MER