التحليل المكاني لانتشار ظاهرة الارهاب في العراق دراسة في الجغرافية السياسية == Spatial Analysis Of The Spread Of The Phenomenon Of Terrorism In Iraq (Study In Political Geography)
Author name:
مؤيد زاحم فيصل عباس
Supervisor name:
عباس غالي داوود الحديثي
General topic:
Geography
Specific topic:
Human Geography
Degree:
Master
University:
University of Baghdad - Ibn Rushd College Of Education For Human Sciences
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Baghdad
First pages:
10T1578 - p.pdf
Abstract:
تتناول هذه الرسالة ظاهرة الارهاب من منظور الجغرافية السياسية ومدى ما ينطبق منها على العراق. ولهذا جاء العنوان ( التحليل المكاني لانتشار ظاهرة الارهاب في العراق ـ دراسة في الجغرافية السياسية). لقد تحددت مشكلة الدراسة في سؤال رئيسي نصه ( ما المقصود بالتحلي | The current thesis addresses the phenomenon of terrorism from the geopolitical prospective and the extent of its appliance to Iraq. Thus, the title came as (The Spatial Analysis of the Circulation of Terrorism Phenomenon in Iraq - A Study in the Geopolitics). The study problem was defined in one main question saying (What is the meaning of spatial analysis of terrorist operations from the geopolitical prospective) which led the researcher into other questions such as what are the causes behind the prominence of terrorism phenomenon? What is the pattern of distributing the terrorist operations? What are the impacts of these operations? What are the strategies developed domestically, regionally and internationally to confront this phenomenon. As to the research basic hypothesis, it stated (the governorates ethnically diverse and of long borders were more affected with terrorist operations). Hence, the research aims are mainly represented in identifying the terrorism territories in Iraq, stating terrorism impacts and how to confront it from a geographic prospective. The study significance lies in being the first of kind in Iraq as a scientific thesis in the field of geopolitics - and may in the Arab Homeland - especially when the followed method in analyzing the phenomenon is the system approach which is one of the very modern methods in the geographic use, opening the door wide in front of the researchers, students, professors and specialists to many types of studies about terrorism phenomenon. Within that light, the thesis was divided into five chapters including thirteen sections. The first chapter was a theoretical framework of the study, while the second chapter was dedicated to define the concept of terrorism, its causes and goals, whereas the third chapter was specified to analyze the patterns of (distributing) terrorist operations. As to the fourth chapter, it addressed the factors affecting the circulation of terrorist operations in Iraq, then the fifth chapter dealt with the strategies followed to confront this phenomenon. The study arrived at a pool of conclusions, the most important of which were the non reaching to a collective preventive internationally accepted concept of terrorism, the terrorist operations increase with the increase of population intensity and diversity in the governorates, and Baghdad governorate had the biggest share of the overall terrorist operations. The thesis recommended the necessity of the geographers' participation in the process of analyzing the maps and data related to terrorism, the necessity to construct an efficient neutral security system of army, police and other forces supported by effective economic, political and social systems in a way ensuring the restoration of vitality and coherence to Iraq as being an effective geopolitical unit in the regional and international systems in the field of dealing with terrorism phenomenon
