Konflikty zbrojne na Bliskim Wschodzie i w Afryce w drugiej dekadzie XXI wieku. Przebieg – uwarunkowania – implikacje
Armed conflicts in the Middle East and Africa in the second decade of the 21st century. The course ¬– the conditions – the implications.

Author(s): Katarzyna Czornik, Miron Lakomy
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: war; armed conflict; Syria; Iraq; the Islamic Sate; Libya; Israel; Palestine; the Central African Republic; Mali
Summary/Abstract: There currently exists a burning necessity for undertaking an academic analysis of the nature of the armed conflicts which occurred in the second decade of the 21 century in the Middle East and Africa. With an increasing frequency they exert a significant influence on the security of the nations of NATO and the European Union, a clear sign of this being the immigration crisis of 2015 and the dramatic increase in the number of terrorist attacks in Europe in the recent years. The problem grows more serious as the world and local public opinion perceive the above symptoms in a very simplified manner, saturated with stereotypes or distortions, frequently thoughtlessly proliferated by the mass media. The main research purpose of the monograph is to present the course, the basic conditions and the most important implications of the selected armed conflict in the area of the Middle East and Africa in the second decade of the 21st century. Altogether six armed conflicts have been selected for the analysis: in Syria, Libya, Mali, the Central African Republic, the war with the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Among the specific aims of the presented monograph the following should be enumerated: the discussion of the course of all of the selected armed conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, the verification of the stereotypes and distortions which have grown around these conflicts, the characteristic of the most important internal and external factors which have influenced the eruption and the course of the selected armed conflicts, the distinguishing, as far as it is possible, of the common features of the military conflicts in Africa and the Middle East in the second decade of the 21st century and the indication of the most important implications of the armed conflicts for the security of the discussed countries, as well as international security.

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