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This thesis explores the projection of violent direct action in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan since 2007 through May 2011. Machine-coded events data from the free, publicly available, on-line Reuters archives was fitted to both regressor and time series models to test the hyp…

Can guerrilla war be just war, and can guerrilla wars be fought morally? This thesis explores these questions by using a single case study, that of the Lebanese Hizballah, with the intention of contributing to an understanding of the jus in bello of guerrilla warfare. Because th…

In 1987, the uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip significantly changed the nature of the Palestinian threat to Israel and pushed the West Bank and Gaza Palestinians into the forefront of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This study examines the emergence of the Palestinian …

This thesis argues that while there are various contending notions of how a government can improve its chances of success in a small war, few strategies will be effective without the application of a comprehensive program of population control measures. For this study, small war…