...James F. Miskel James F. Miskel is professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Violence as Strategy: The Palestinian Case James F. Miskel In the context of political or military competition...

... reliance on takfiri violence is paradoxically a source of both persistence and failure. Anthony N. Celso is associate professor in the Department of Security Studies and Criminal Justice, Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas. Copyright 2014 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2014 Al...

...Molly J. Miller While many cite the February 2003 outbreak of violence in the Darfur region of Sudan as the beginning of what a chorus of international actors are now calling genocide, the conflict in Darfur has quite complicated historical roots. This essay examines the regional, ideological...

...P. R. Kumaraswamy; Manjari Singh The ability of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to provide basic food to its citizens and inhabitants and thus ensure food security has been hampered by a host of physiological factors and resource constraints. Some of the periodic social upheavals and violence...

... neighbors, having signed and implemented but two peace treaties (with Egypt in 1979 and with Jordan in 1994). Despite the initial promise of the Oslo process, Israel remains the target of unremitting hostility, terrorism, and violence, and is shunned by most of the Arab states. Where does Israel’s quest...

... sponsors. MQ 12.2-02 Lesser 5/8/01 10:34 AM Page 8 Policy toward Algeria after a Decade of Isolation Ian O. Lesser After a decade of extraordinary turmoil, and despite continuing violence, Algeria shows...

... violence. Although it was under one-party rule until 1992, Kenya had a relatively open political system. For the first two decades after inde- pendence, it also had one of the most impressive economic growth rates in Africa. In December 1991, President Daniel arap Moi reluctantly and under pres...

..., and thirty-six Christian churches and monasteries destroyed: The security organizations in Kosovo—KFOR, the UNMIK international police, and the Kosovo Police Service (KPS)—failed catastrophically in their mandate to protect minority communities during the March 2004 violence...

... theatre. In Matar’s chapter 4, “Moors in British Captivity,” we encounter those seventeenth- century Barbary corsairs who were “the terrorists of their day,” engaged in piracy, enslavement of Europeans, and violence against Christians. The author expands on this idea in note 7. (A good feature...

... government under the leadership of Ariel Sharon, who had been elected to terminate the Palestinian violence and not to pursue a peace settlement. The Bush administration in its first months in office encouraged the two adversaries to settle their problems by themselves, although at the same time...

... the stage was set for the violence to continue. It helps to personalize the developments in Spain. Otherwise one can be caught up in waves of revenge killings and the logic of retribution. Two inci- dents seem to have formed the brackets for the ETA’s current activities. The first was the kidnapping...

..., London’s West End continues its brilliant politi- cal theatre. In Matar’s chapter 4, “Moors in British Captivity,” we encounter those seventeenth- century Barbary corsairs who were “the terrorists of their day,” engaged in piracy, enslavement of Europeans, and violence against Christians...

... Barbary corsairs who were “the terrorists of their day,” engaged in piracy, enslavement of Europeans, and violence against Christians. The author expands on this idea in note 7. (A good feature of some university press books, if not carried to an extreme — which Matar does not — is room provided...

... to actors rep- resenting ever-smaller self-proclaimed racial, ethnic, religious, and class entities. One way to deal with the intellectual problems posed by the statement is to remind ourselves that terrorism is a tactical use of violence, not a strategy or policy in itself. Therefore we can apply...

.... In this essay we argue that the violence in Kosovo is rooted in Yugoslav policies implemented since World War II, and not, as some would argue,3 to interethnic hatred traced back to the 1389 battle of Kosovo Polje, where a Muslim Ottoman army defeated a Serb-led Christian force, putting an end...

... and widely followed monotheistic religions is increasingly becoming the worm of all forces of instability, violence, and even evil. Once heralded as the home of human civilization, it is now seen as the host of political illegitimacy, social intolerance, and religious militancy. Even those who...

... for the kind of sectarian civil war that convulsed Lebanon dur- ing the 1970s and 1980s and still plagues Iraq today. James Jay Carafano, a scholar with the conservative Heritage Foundation, notes that “many of the same toxic dynamics that drove the frenzy of violence 1. David Enders, “Weeks Spent...

... Associates. The Long War Vincent Cannistraro and Philip Giraldi After five years of a declared “war on terrorism,” the Bush administration has failed to devise a coherent and comprehensive strategy to deal with political violence. There have been no repetitions...

... steps. It is foreseeable that we may not jump the hurdles of vio- lent opposition before we even reach the Road Map’s starting point. Indeed, the cycle of violence lives in our collective memories. It is not hard to imagine the process being stalled by Palestinian terror activity by Hamas...

... its apogee in the 1970s with groups like the Red Army, Red Brigades, and Baader-Meinhoff. These movements intended to defend the “oppressed” of the capitalist working world and the impoverished masses of the Third World from the depredations of interna- tional capitalism through violence...