Bøger af Glen Segell

Israel, Gaza and Hamas 2014: Operation Protective Edge in numbers: 50 days of fighting; 4,258 rockets fired at Israel; 735 Iron Dome interceptions; 5,226 air strikes; 32 tunnels destroyed; 74 dead on the Israeli side; and some 2,200 dead on the Palestinian side. The historical chronology of the accumulation of these on a daily basis can be reaped from on-line newspaper sources. This book goes behind the scenes to analyze the thinking at the time, from the Israel side, on Strategy and Tactics, Comparing Operations Cast Lead, Pillar of Defense and Protective Edge, Missile and Rocket Warfare and Protection, The Tunnels and the Cyber, Legal Issues and Demilitarization, Deterrence and Leverage, Intra-Palestinian Processes, The Civilian Front and Public Opinion and Beyond the Military Front. The goal of victory in a war is the destruction of the enemy's army. This volume concludes that in Operation Protective Edge neither side achieved victory in this sense. The 50 days of fighting didn't resolve the Israel-Palestinian impasse. The door is open for a future Israel, Gaza and Hamas armed conflict. The ball is in the court of the counselors.

Israel today finds itself navigating a landscape of changing threats. This analysis reflects a fundamental update to Israel's basic security-military concepts, emphasizing the importance of the "campaign between the wars" and outlining causes for war. The main shift in Israel's security challenges today stems from Iran's aspirations for regional hegemony as manifested by the country's efforts to achieve nuclear military capability and to develop a broad, regional sphere of influence via Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip.

The Middle East and North Africa (MEN) region is characterized by numerous crises. These range from the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping through the region to religious fundamentalism, violent sectarianism, vast economic discrepancies, pressing environmental challenges, the intrusions of external actors in the region, and a debilitating authoritarian culture. This book looks at the rights and value of individuals and states and the relations between the two.

This volume is a collection of the proceedings of the international conference "Shipping Security: Maritime Aspects off Africa," that was held as an online event due to COVID-19 on 18 February 2021 and open to a global public audience. The video recording of the webinar was made available after the event. There has been a rigorous peer-review of the presentations published in this volume. The volume has been edited by Dr. Glen Segell, Ezri Center for Iran & Gulf States Research, University of Haifa, Israel and the Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State, South Africa. Contributors in addition to the Chapter from the Editor are Opening remarks by Dr. Serge Tshibangu, Special Envoy of the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Chairperson of the African Union, and Chapters by Rear Admiral (Retired) Hanno Teuteberg SM MMM, South African Navy, Mr. Hirotaka Mori, Japan Ship Centre, London and Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), London Office, Emeritus Professor Francois Vrey, Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA) University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, Mr. Timothy Walker, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, Dr. Stephen Blackwell, Trends Research and Advisory, UAE, and Dr. Jude Cocodia, Niger Delta University, Nigeria.

The purpose of this Book is to show that political philosophy really does matter. It comes as a result of "Is there a Third Way ? Workshop held at the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European ideas (ISSEI) at the University of Bergen Norway in August 2000. This question "Is there a Third Way? " This comes at the end of a Millennium and the turn of a Century which has shown vacillations in European Ideas and conflicts from religion to politics to economics to civilizations. The question is therefore whether or not there is a need for a strong body of convictions to exist as a bulwark against the pressures on government to compromise or change policies. Such a question is posed in debates as the importance of the economy in politics but does not simply put economics above everything. This being reductionist questions if there is a "Third Way" beyond economics and politics which would not create an ideological paralysis of political parties and elites which have formal control of nation-states. It also questions whether there are alternative economic systems other than exists today for example the LETS or barter system. In perspective, the Third Way is presented in articles in topics from Theological, Economic, Political and Historical Perspectives.

This book is written shortly after a referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) referred to as BREXIT whose results decided that the UK would leave the European Union (EU). It shows the thinking at the time in 2017 and 2018 before the exit on 29 March 2019 about intelligence, defence capability and defence industrial cooperation between the UK and other EU states.

This volume is a collection of the proceedings of the webinar "Developments in the Middle East" held on 14 October 2020. Speakers at the webinar were, and so chapters in this volume are written by Professor Philippe Burger, Dr Thamar E. Gindin, Dr Eben Coetzee, Ashkan Safaei Hakimi, Professor Amatzia Baram, Dr Eran Segal, Dr Soli Shahvar, Dr Ido Zelkovitz, Dr. Glen Segell, Professor Theo Neethling, Professor Hussein Solomon, Dr. Moshe Terdiman and Professor Shaul Chorev. The event was the first international webinar to mark the academic collaboration between the Ezri Center for Iran & Gulf States Research, University of Haifa and the Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State. That academic collaboration being within the "Framework for Academic Collaboration"that was agreed upon and signed between The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel and The University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa in April 2018.

This book, written in honor of Arno Tausch, presents cutting-edge research on globalization, development, and global values. Internationally renowned authors cover topics such as global economic and political cycles, global values, and support for terrorism. Over the last five decades, the Austrian political scientist Arno Tausch was a pioneer in studies on globalization, development and global values. This collection of essays takes up the issues dealt with by Tausch and presents perspectives for the 21st Century. Throughout his work, Tausch applied quantitative methods to study the fundamental issues of the global political economy and the global political system, like dependency, economic and political cycles, and global values, based on a rigorous study of available social scientific data, like the World Values Survey and the Arab Barometer.

2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Association (NATO). The President of the USA, Donald Trump is not an ardent support of NATO, or indeed many other things and has called for America First," that other NATO member states weren't sharing the burden, and so he might withdraw from it, and that there would be a reduction of American armed forces in Africa. This report considers NATO and the USA in Africa since the end of the Cold War and looks to the future. The role of others, China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, the United Nations and the European Union will also be detailed to consider if they could or would fill a void if NATO and the USA withdrew or if their increasing interest would prompt Trump to be more active in NATO and in Africa.

In 2010 looking back the first decade of the new millennium saw the European Union deploy nine security missions to the African continent, quoting the European Security and Defence Policy. None of these had any direct link to radicalisation of religion. Unlike the numerous United Nations security missions that European states had previously contributed to, these were part of a grand strategy designed to link the African Union and the European Union in a process of trans-regionalism defined as a unique organisational infrastructure (joint secretariat for research, policy planning, preparation and coordination of meetings and implementation of decisions). The rationale being that security and its associated peace and stability are the basis for sustainable development in other areas. In 2018 looking back finds an altered picture due to the necessity to respond. This paper will look at the view from 2010 and the view from 2018 to follow aspects of EU-Africa security relations. It will explain the 2010 development of trans-regionalism detailing the security missions and the 2018 EU-Africa cooperation through multiple frameworks that now also focus on migration and terrorism due to radicalization with a religious cause. These frameworks include: the Cotonou agreement, the joint Africa-EU strategy, the EU Council three regional strategies for the Horn of Africa, Gulf of Guinea and Sahel. Africa-EU relations also take place through formal dialogues, such as the EU-Africa summits. At the core of interest is European Security and efforts to solve migration and terrorism but the humanitarian aid is also provided as it has been identified as a catalyst.

International politics or international relations (IR), as it is presented in the flow of daily news, concerns a large number of disparate events: leaders are meeting, negotiations are concluded, wars are started, acts of terror committed, and so on. In order to make sense of all this information we need to know a lot about the contemporary world and its history; we need to understand how all the disparate events hang together. At university, we study these topics, but it is a basic tenet of the academic study of international politics that this rather messy picture can be radically simplified. Instead of focusing on the flow of daily news, we focus on the basic principles underlying it. This is what we will try to do in this book. So, let us begin by thinking big: what is international politics, how was it made, and how did it come to be that way?