Fighting about Women: Ideologies of Gender in the Syrian Civil War
Journal of Global Security Studies, 2020 This article seeks to map and explain the sudden increase in the appearance of female combatants in the propaganda distributed by various parties to the Syrian civil war.
Ora Szekely
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Will We See Helping Hands? Predicting Civil War Mediation and Likely Success [PDF]
, 2014 We examine whether features highlighted as important for mediation in existing research allow us to predict when we will see mediation and likely success out-of-sample.
Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede +1 more
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Escalate or Negotiate? Constraint and Rebel Strategic Choices Towards Rivals in the Syrian Civil War
Terrorism and Political Violence, 2021 Theories of interaction among rebel groups in civil wars, like other works in the armed conflict literature, continue to see force as foundational to the trajectory and outcome of conflict. But evidence from inter-rebel conflicts in the Syrian war, which
Regine Schwab
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The Syrian Civil War – Evolution of the Syrian Army's Way of War
Military Strategy Magazine, 2021 During the years of the Syrian civil war (2011-) the Syrian army changed its modus operandi in the Strategical, operational, and tactical level. The change accord because the previous operational concept failed, and the army forces were unable to carry major offensive operations.
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A space view of agricultural and industrial changes during the Syrian civil war
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2021 The agricultural sector in Syria was heavily affected by the civil war that started in 2011. We investigate the war’s impact on the country’s atmospheric ammonia (NH3) from 2008 to 2019, using measurements from the infrared atmospheric sounding ...
Rimal Abeed +5 more
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Climatic Stress, Internal Migration, and Syrian Civil War Onset
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2019 Syria recently suffered a once in 500-year meteorological drought followed by one of the worst conflicts of the twenty-first century. We exploit subnational variation in drought impact to examine associations between climatic stress and Syria’s political
K. Ash, Nick Obradovich
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La configuration géopolitique au Moyen-Orient à la veille du soulèvement en Syrie (2003-2010)
Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2013 This article analyses the diplomatic relations of the Syrian regime with neighbouring countries in the Near East, especially with Iran, in the last years before the current civil war.
Isabelle Feuerstoss
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Jordan and Syrian humanitarian refugees' dilemma: international law perspective
Heliyon, 2022 Jordan is not a signatory of the 1951 humanitarian refugees' treaty or its 1967 optional protocol. However, Jordan in 1998 signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UNHCR. Therefore, Jordan is legally obligate to receive refugees.
Amir Salameh Al Qaralleh
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Violent non-state actors and the Syrian Civil War: The ISIS and YPG cases
, 2017 This book sheds new light on the security challenges for failed states posed by violent non-state armed actors (VNSAs). By focusing on the Syrian Civil War, it explores the characteristics, ideologies and strategies of the Islamic State (ISIS) and the ...
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THE ALEVI / ALAWITE FACTOR IN TURKEY - SYRIA RELATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS [PDF]
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2019 The Syrian civil war exacerbated sectarian divisions between the Alawite-ruled Syrian government and Syria's Sunni population, straining also the relations between the Sunni majority and Alawite and Alevi minorities of the neighboring Turkey.
Mkrtich Karapetyan
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