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
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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.

Автор: Swain Ashok Dr
Название: Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East: The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization
ISBN: 1442247649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442247642
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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.

Автор: Yossef, Amr Cerami, Joseph R.
Название: Arab spring and the geopolitics of the middle east: emerging security threats and revolutionary change
ISBN: 1137504072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137504074
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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).

Автор: Neil Kent, Irina du Quenoy
Название: New Technologies and National Security Challenges
ISBN: 1680539981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781680539981
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Описание: The pioneering essays in this volume explore national security challenges posed by new technologies and examine some ongoing efforts to understand and mitigate their potential negative effects. The authors, drawn from among a roster of international scholars, approach these issues from different yet ultimately complementary angles. Turkish scholar Emin Daskin chronicles the efforts of the Turkish government to develop and implement a Cyber Security Strategy aimed at protecting the country from attacks by both governmental and non-governmental cyber actors. French researcher Christine Dugoin-Clement has studied what she views as a successful case of cyberwarfare, in which Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the eastern separatist region of Donbass have been targeted by cyber attackers attempting to deteriorate their cognition, rendering them less effective in the field. Another French author and military academy instructor, Thomas Flichy de La Neuville, provides a counterpoint study of militarized motorbike attacks in the Sahel, demonstrating that cyberspace is not the only technological sphere in which innovation increasingly threatens security. Finally, American academic Christopher Whyte offers a trenchant critique of current academic studies of cyberterrorism, noting that while “cyberterrorism” appears frequently as a subject of research, the actual work being carried out in this critical area lacks thematic nuance and is only tenuously linked to related major thematic topic areas. The collection highlights the unique challenges faced by countries as they attempt to deal with previously unknown adversaries, as both the nature of the enemy and the field of operations continues to shift with unprecedented speed. It will undoubtedly be of interest to anyone concerned with international relations, cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, and national security in the twenty-first century.

Автор: Tarling Nicholas, Chen Xin
Название: Maritime Security in East and Southeast Asia: Political Challenges in Asian Waters
ISBN: 9811096600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811096600
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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.

Автор: Woo Jongseok
Название: Security Challenges and Military Politics in East Asia: From State-Building to Post-Democratization
ISBN: 1441184333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441184337
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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.

Автор: Anne Mariel Zimmermann
Название: US Assistance, Development, and Hierarchy in the Middle East
ISBN: 134994999X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349949991
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Описание: What does US aid “buy” in the Middle East? Drawing on extensive primary source research, this book examines the role and consequences of US aid to three countries in the Middle East. The author argues that the political survival strategies of incumbent leaders in Egypt, Israel, and Jordan shaped not only the type of aid that these countries received from the US, but also its developmental and geopolitical impact. Leaders who relied heavily on distributing selective benefits to their ruling coalitions were more likely to receive forms of US aid that complemented their distributive political economies and undermined the state’s developmental capacity, which simultaneously rendered them more dependent on US resources, and more likely to cede fragments of their sovereignty to their major donor. Non-distributive leaders, however, could reap the full benefits of highly discretionary and technologically sophisticated aid, incorporating it into developmental policies that rendered them progressively less dependent on Washington—and better able to say “no” when it was in their best interest.

Автор: Zimmermann Anne Mariel
Название: Us Assistance, Development, and Hierarchy in the Middle East: Aid for Allies
ISBN: 1349957011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349957019
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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

Автор: Akbarzadeh S.
Название: America`s Challenges in the Greater Middle East: The Obama Administration`s Policies
ISBN: 1349294691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349294695
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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.

Автор: Joachim Postema
Название: The Middle East: U.S. Policy, Foreign Assistance and Key Issues
ISBN: 1536197505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536197501
Издательство: Nova Science
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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
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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.

Автор: Aydin Aysegul, Emrence Cem
Название: Zones of Rebellion: Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State
ISBN: 0801453542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801453540
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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.