Jack Vahram Kalpakian
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1403614 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jack Vahram Kalpakian |
| NOMBRES | Jack Vahram |
| APELLIDO | Kalpakian |
| FIRMA | KALPAKIAN J V |
| AFILIACIONES | Al Akhawayn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9212-1683 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Rethinking American grand strategy
Journal Article Rethinking American grand strategy Get access Rethinking American grand strategy. Edited by Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston. New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. 488pp. £64.00. Isbn978 0 19069 566 8. Available as e-book. Georgi Asatryan, Georgi Asatryan Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jack Kalpakian J…
The lack of environmental cooperation in the Maghreb
This policy paper uses the Eightfold Path method developed by Bardach and Patashnik to study the problem that is the lack of Maghrebian trans-boundary cooperation on the environment. It argues that political conflict has been allowed to obstruct a field that should remain nonpolitical. The paper concludes with policy recommendations intended to generate debate among decision makers and lead to more effective water management policies
War without Boots
Since its inception, air power has been controversial. It cannot win wars on its own, but it is an important ingredient to many victories. As debate over its role and limits continues, and given current global tensions, Bombs without Boots: The Limits of Airpower offers an important contribution. Schinella, a former intelligence officer assigned to the United States’ National Intelligence Council, explores the merits and shortcomings of airpower …
Rethinking oral history and tradition
Promoting peace on behalf of children
The American war in Afghanistan
For security studies, the western campaign in Afghanistan after 9/11 is one of the most relevant case-studies in conflict, given that it pitted asymmetrically balanced opponents against each other. The United States ended its war in September 2021, and Carter Malkasian's book is an attempt to grapple with its implications. He was an adviser to the United States military in Afghanistan and wrote an earlier book on the conflict (War comes to Garmse…
Forum on Pedagogy
This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate courses in international relations (IR), global politics, and international studies. Contributors teach at universities in China, Ecuador, India, Morocco, South Africa, the United Kingdom–Scotland, and the United States. Because instructors vary the structure, content, and pedagogical approaches in their courses (and perhaps most in their introductor…
Identity, Conflict and Cooperation in International River Systems
Kalpakian tests the dominant assumption that water disputes cause violent conflict between states and other actors in world politics. Using case studies from arid regions to bias the effort towards this assumption, he finds that issues related to identity have been the real source of conflict in the river basins studied. This essential volume: - challenges conventional assumptions about water and conflict - displaces the state as the sole actor i…
Peace agreements in a near-permanent civil war
The conflicts in the formerly united Sudan have led to millions of deaths since the country's independence. The Naivasha Agreement was meant to end these wars. The January 2005 agreement foresaw a future where the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement and the Sudanese government would coexist within the framework of a united country. Subsequently, in 2011, however, the country was partitioned and the conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan have cont…
Climate Change and National Security
David Moran and his team set about to add to the literature of environmental security by providing country case studies addressing climate change through an analytical framework based on a battery
Obstacles facing the diffusion of drip irrigation technology in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco
Research was conducted by the author and an inter-disciplinary team at Al Akhawayn University, Morocco, under a Canadian (IDRC) grant between 2009 and 2011. Using various methodologies, including survey research, the team found several significant obstacles facing the diffusion of drip irrigation technology in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco. These obstacles include lack of access to capital, land titles that cannot be mortgaged, and a weak pr…
Explaining Foreign Policy
Explaining Foreign Policy: US Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars, 2nd edition, Steve A. Yetiv. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, pp. 336, $60 (hardback); $25 (paperback). http://dx
Global Security Watch – Jordan
How Pakistan Negotiates with the United States
The context of the declining performance of violent Islamist groups in Morocco
This article argues that the Moroccan government's antiterrorism program has been relatively successful because it combines religious, economic, and social reforms with law enforcement, as shown with Law 03.03. The article looks at the various arguments given concerning terrorism and its relation to economics, education, and social justice issues. This brief study argues that the causes of terrorism are best understood from the words and discours…
The Turkish-Armenian Rapprochment Processes
Using a case study approach, this study examines Turkish and Armenian attempts at constructing a more positive relationship. It argues that the two countries need to look at what binds them in a web of mutual responsibility toward each other as states first. The only legal link between the two countries is the Treaty of Kars, which updated an earlier treaty. Given that the TARC and the Turkish-Armenian accords were both failures, this article arg…
The Jihadis' Path to Self-Destruction - By Nelly Lahoud
We Are All Moors
Syrian Foreign Policy and the United States
The drone age
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, have become a reality in contemporary war. They are also a symbol of industrial prestige for the countries that produce them. In this
Debating targeted killing
Debating targeted killing: counter-terrorism or extrajudicial execution?." Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15(1), pp. 232–233
Terrorism and insurgency in Asia
This edited volume is useful for scholars interested in critical approaches to terrorism and security. Written in accessible language, it addresses political and social processes in Asia through fo
Rethinking medieval margins and marginality
Bryn Rosenfeld
Decolonizing politics
Decolonizing politics: an introduction." Ethnic and Racial Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Decolonizing politics
Decolonizing politics: an introduction." Ethnic and Racial Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
The American war in Afghanistan
For security studies, the western campaign in Afghanistan after 9/11 is one of the most relevant case-studies in conflict, given that it pitted asymmetrically balanced opponents against each other. The United States ended its war in September 2021, and Carter Malkasian's book is an attempt to grapple with its implications. He was an adviser to the United States military in Afghanistan and wrote an earlier book on the conflict (War comes to Garmse…
Ibn Khaldun's influence on current international relations theory
Ibn Khaldun has been cited as an alternative progenitor of realism and social constructivism in the academic world of international relations. Dr Susan Strange, for example, offers him as an alternative to Machiavelli as an inspirer/foundational text author for the discipline of international relations (1995, 'Political economy and international relations', in International relations theory today, K. Booth and S. Smith, eds, University Park, PA: …
Rethinking oral history and tradition
Forum on Pedagogy
This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate courses in international relations (IR), global politics, and international studies. Contributors teach at universities in China, Ecuador, India, Morocco, South Africa, the United Kingdom–Scotland, and the United States. Because instructors vary the structure, content, and pedagogical approaches in their courses (and perhaps most in their introductor…
The Turkish-Armenian Rapprochment Processes
Using a case study approach, this study examines Turkish and Armenian attempts at constructing a more positive relationship. It argues that the two countries need to look at what binds them in a web of mutual responsibility toward each other as states first. The only legal link between the two countries is the Treaty of Kars, which updated an earlier treaty. Given that the TARC and the Turkish-Armenian accords were both failures, this article arg…
A Tug-Of-War over Islam
The narrow prospects of the SPLA/M's transition into a political party in the short term
This paper argues that the predominant circumstances in Sudan are likely to prevent the SPLA/M from evolving into a political party. At present, the political class in the North has not reached a consensus on how to interact with the South. The government in Khartoum continues to nurture anti-SPLA Southern militias and to link the South's concerns with Darfur. The international community is also divided on how to best deal with Sudan. The interes…
Building the Human Bomb
The terrorist attacks that took place on 16 May 2003 in Casablanca were a result of internal factors. These factors include the terrorists" view of their faith, poverty, and under-education. The links between the terrorists in Morocco and the Al Qaeda network, despite their ideological similarities, are not of a “command and control” nature. The relationship can be described as a franchise operation. The attacks resulted in the alienation of the …
Terrorism and guerrilla warfare theory and practice
A comparative study of how terrorist organisations differ from each other, looking at case studies of al‐Qaeda and the Sudan People's Liberation Army
Morocco and the United States
Morocco is going to have to become more adept at lobbying its interests in the US if the free trade area between the two countries has a chance of success. Notes Jack Kalpakian is assistant professor, International Studies, at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, in Morocco
Building the Human Bomb
The terrorist attacks that took place on 16 May 2003 in Casablanca were a result of internal factors. These factors include the terrorists" view of their faith, poverty, and under-education. The links between the terrorists in Morocco and the Al Qaeda network, despite their ideological similarities, are not of a “command and control” nature. The relationship can be described as a franchise operation. The attacks resulted in the alienation of the …
Managing Morocco's image in United States domestic politics
This article examines Morocco's lobbying and image management efforts in the United States. In the context of the Free Trade Agreement between Morocco and the United States, the article evaluates the extent of that effort, highlights potential tensions with potential competitors in the American political economy and proposes improvements to Morocco's lobbying efforts
Against both Bin Laden and Belliraj
The question about the relationship between al-Qaeda and terrorist organizations operating at the national, regional and international levels has been at the centre of the debate concerning appropriate policy responses to both. Debates focus on the question whether to treat terrorism mostly as a home-gown, grassroots phenomenon, or something significantly inflamed by foreign encouragement and sponsorship. Evidence from Morocco suggests that the n…
A Fevered Crescent
A Tug-Of-War over Islam
The narrow prospects of the SPLA/M's transition into a political party in the short term
This paper argues that the predominant circumstances in Sudan are likely to prevent the SPLA/M from evolving into a political party. At present, the political class in the North has not reached a consensus on how to interact with the South. The government in Khartoum continues to nurture anti-SPLA Southern militias and to link the South's concerns with Darfur. The international community is also divided on how to best deal with Sudan. The interes…
Islamic Radicalism and Political Violence
Ibn Khaldun's influence on current international relations theory
Ibn Khaldun has been cited as an alternative progenitor of realism and social constructivism in the academic world of international relations. Dr Susan Strange, for example, offers him as an alternative to Machiavelli as an inspirer/foundational text author for the discipline of international relations (1995, 'Political economy and international relations', in International relations theory today, K. Booth and S. Smith, eds, University Park, PA: …
Representing the Unpresentable
Contesting the Saudi State
War on Error
The Mind of Jihad
We Are All Moors
Syrian Foreign Policy and the United States
Syrian Foreign Trade and Economic Reform - By Samer Abboud and Salam Said
The context of the declining performance of violent Islamist groups in Morocco
This article argues that the Moroccan government's antiterrorism program has been relatively successful because it combines religious, economic, and social reforms with law enforcement, as shown with Law 03.03. The article looks at the various arguments given concerning terrorism and its relation to economics, education, and social justice issues. This brief study argues that the causes of terrorism are best understood from the words and discours…
The Turkish-Armenian Rapprochment Processes
Using a case study approach, this study examines Turkish and Armenian attempts at constructing a more positive relationship. It argues that the two countries need to look at what binds them in a web of mutual responsibility toward each other as states first. The only legal link between the two countries is the Treaty of Kars, which updated an earlier treaty. Given that the TARC and the Turkish-Armenian accords were both failures, this article arg…
The Jihadis' Path to Self-Destruction - By Nelly Lahoud
Explaining Foreign Policy
Explaining Foreign Policy: US Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars, 2nd edition, Steve A. Yetiv. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, pp. 336, $60 (hardback); $25 (paperback). http://dx
Global Security Watch – Jordan
How Pakistan Negotiates with the United States
Obstacles facing the diffusion of drip irrigation technology in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco
Research was conducted by the author and an inter-disciplinary team at Al Akhawayn University, Morocco, under a Canadian (IDRC) grant between 2009 and 2011. Using various methodologies, including survey research, the team found several significant obstacles facing the diffusion of drip irrigation technology in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco. These obstacles include lack of access to capital, land titles that cannot be mortgaged, and a weak pr…
Climate Change and National Security
David Moran and his team set about to add to the literature of environmental security by providing country case studies addressing climate change through an analytical framework based on a battery
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