Tag: Domestic Politics
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Who must go?
Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime just collapsed. After 24 years in power and 13 years of civil war, Assad would fall to an opposition offensive that lasted just 11 days. The opposition advances were so fast that they have forced me to do rewrites on most of the article, with Damascus falling before I was able…
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The regime’s greatest protector and greatest threat: military policy in Tajikistan
Every state needs an army, and Tajikistan is no different. In Tajikistan, the army is made up of multiple military and paramilitary branches, which all serve to protect the dictatorial regime of Emomali Rahmon from internal and external threat. This army js Rahmon’s most important tool to keep power, but also the seems to be…
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Tajikistan, the model dictatorship
Tajikistan is not a country often discussed by international media. It is a poor post-soviet state without much to make it stick out. It does not have the economic miracles and close relations with the west of the Baltics, nor the natural gas wealth of western Central Asia, nor has it been assaulted by Russia…
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Analyse av nasjonal beredskap og krigstrussel i Bosnia
Bosnias politiske historie og system Bosnia dukker stadig opp som samtaletema i militær sammenheng på grunn av sin nylige historie. Etter å ha vært en del av Jugoslavia siden 1920 holdt Bosnia en uavhengighetsavstemning i 1992. I respons til Bosnias uavhengighetserklæring forsøkte de bosniske serberne sin egen uavhengighetserklæring med Republika Srpska. Krigen som fulgte er…