Search results for "Iraq"

Polish military missions in the public perception after 2001

2017

Poland since the beginning of the twenty-first century, and was involved in several military operations of great significance in the political and military for the whole world. The fight against global terrorism in Afghanistan, the implementation of the provisions allied to the US and military involvement in Iraq, the obligation to NATO allied partners from the Baltic countries are just a few of the examples of Polish military involvement on the map of global risks. How to take part in military interventions, military operations and fulfill its alliance commitments approached Polish society? This article is an attempt to approximate public sentiment towards Polish military engagement in the…

Social Inclusion and Exclusion in the Life Stories of Deported Asylum Seekers from Finland to Iraqi Kurdistan

2018

This study explores how social inclusion and exclusion manifest as a dynamic continuum in the everyday lived realities of irregular migrants. Based on narratives of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers, who were eventually deported from Finland, the analysis depicts the ways in which societal structures, personal negotiations as well as relationships and social networks interplay in lives characterized by multiple locations, transitions and positions. Establishing and maintaining social contacts, belonging to various networks and being able to decide and act are primary factors that help us understand how the narrators relate to the continuum. The participants construct narratives illustrating seve…

Missing a lot of this world : formal education and political competition in Iraq through a Yezidi lens

2017

This thesis examines Yezidi perceptions of access to formal education for Yezidi children and youth from the Sinjar region of Iraq, a primary homeland of the Yezidi people and an officially disputed territory between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the federal government of Iraq in Baghdad, between the periods of 2003–2014 and 2014 onwards. These two time frames are selected and differentiated to reflect two major events in the recent history of Sinjar – the downfall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003 and subsequent de facto control of Sinjar by the KRG, and the seizing of the area by the Islamic State (IS) group and subsequent displacement of the majority of the Yezidi communit…

The Royal Prerogative redefined : parliamentary debate on the role of the British Parliament in large-scale military deployments, 1982-2003

2014

Circumstances of the rise of the so-called Islamic State according to Patrick Cockburn’s perspective

2018

The aim of this article is to analyze the rise of the so-called Islamic State in the perspective of a Middle Eastern and commentator for “The Independent”, Patrick Cockburn, who also publishes in the “London Review of Books. The text begins with a sketch of the geopolitical determinants for the spread of the Islamic holy war, i.e. jihad. Then, it focuses on the disturbing phenomenon of sectarianism – directed mainly at the Shia branch of Islam – the attitudes of extremist Sunni preachers. The third chapter presents the complex combination of events that has contributed to the growth of extremist tendencies in Iraq. The subject of further deliberations is the conversion of the initially secu…

Bliski Wschód w ogniu. Salaficki dżihadyzm w ujeciu Patricka Cockburna

2015

Celem rozdziału jest omówienie obrazu salafickiego dżihadyzmu w Libii, Iraku i Syrii, który od lat analizuje Patrick Cockburn - komentator i reporter londyńskiego dziennika ,, The Independent". Cockburn, jak ujęła to Claire Fox (The Institute of Ideas), pisze w sposób błyskotliwy, pogłębiony i krytyczny. Autor, najpierw skupił się na przebiegu i skutkach upadku, rządzonej przez pułkownika Muammara Kadafiego, Arabskiej Libijskiej Dżamahiriji, o którym zdecydowały naloty Paktu Północnoatlantyckiego (NATO). W drugiej części tekstu zostały opisane sukcesy Islamskiego Państwa Iraku i Lewantu (Islamie State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS), fundamentalistycznych (salafickich) dżihadystów, którzy kontro…