OP Art to the Rescue: Fundamentals for a Hostage Crisis.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Flora
Keyword(s):  
Hostage Crisis

The Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis: The Perpetrators, their Tactics, and the Russian Response

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Pilch ◽  
Adam Dolnik
Keyword(s):  
International Debate ◽  
Negotiation Strategies ◽  
Crisis Negotiation ◽  
Hostage Crisis ◽  
The Future ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Media Event ◽  
Successes And Failures

AbstractThe Moscow theater hostage crisis was a spectacular media event, which sparked a wide domestic and international debate concerning the appropriateness of the Russian response. This article attempts to reconstruct and assess the events that took place in terms of negotiability of the incident, and seeks to provide an analytical perspective on the possible alternatives that were available to the Russian authorities throughout the crisis. Part I provides a brief overview of the events that unfolded. This section of the article also places Chechen motivations behind the incident into perspective with regard to past Chechen operations and to their overall strategy. Part II focuses on the details of the attack itself, particularly the Russian response. Special attention is devoted to analyzing the successes and failures of both the negotiations and the tactical assault. The conclusion discusses the implications of the Moscow theater incident for the future, including its potential impact on the likelihood of success of crisis negotiation strategies and the future tactics of the Chechen rebels.

The Kingdom of Jordan: The Eye of the Hurricane in a Turbulent Middle East

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. p65
Author(s):  
Sri Michael Das
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Eastern Oyster ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
World War ◽  
Hostage Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Anwar Sadat

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, situated not only physically at the center of the world has also been the center of some of its most significant moments. These involved the Kingdom’s role in supporting peace between Israel and Egypt alongside former President and Humanitarian Jimmy Carter. Carter, demonized for his Southern style and failures in the Middle East, especially during the Iran Hostage Crisis, engineered one of its greatest diplomatic feats ever: Peace between ancient enemies, Israel and Egypt. Their long-standing vendetta which had real consequences for centuries nearly moved the modern world to the brink of World War 3. In stepped President Carter, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and eventually, the Royal Family of Jordan and all that changed. In this paper I would like to explore the personalities, roles and conditions that brought them together, re-celebrate their achievements, and challenge the world to model their characters and repeat their successes. Once again or even still, Israel is the pearl in the Middle Eastern oyster, and a weary world is eager move on. It is my hope my research will give us an inkling where to begin a process that could once again prevent a Global Conflict.

scholarly journals IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEAL: CHALLENGES FOR REGIONAL AND GLOBAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Waseem Ishaque ◽  
Syed Jawad Shah ◽  
Aman Ullah
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Economic Sanctions ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
International Debate ◽  
Hostage Crisis ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Nuclear Assistance

Reza Shah Pahlavi laid the foundations of the Iranian nuclear quest in the 1950s by getting nuclear assistance under reciprocal arrangements in the US-sponsored Atom for Peace program. Iran is a signatory of the NonProliferation Treaty (NPT) since 1970, and by their perspective, all protocols under NPT have fully complied. The 1979 revolution in Iran proved a watershed in relations with the USA due to the hostage crisis and increased hostility, which resulted in economic sanctions and isolation. However, Iran covertly pursued its nuclear program, which remained the subject of international debate until the nuclear deal of 2015 aimed at limiting Irans nuclear capability for the lifting of sanctions and breaking isolation. On 16 January 2016, in response to Irans compliance with the provisions of the nuclear deal, all nuclear-related sanctions were lifted. President Trump since taking over office has repeatedly criticized the agreement and decertified it unilaterally. This article analyses implications on regional and global strategic management.

Power

Deadly Virtue ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 62-85
Author(s):  
Heather Martel
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
Hostage Crisis ◽  
Colonial Order ◽  
Relations Of Power

Protestants at first expressed kinship with Indigenous people also subjugated by the Spanish, seeking an alliance initiated by an agent of Fort Caroline with a neighboring Indigenous King Houstaqua. Identifying as refugees caused the French leader Laudonnière to lie to his superiors, including Indigenous leader King Saturiwa, but especially to his patrons in France, by concealing his dependence on Indigenous kings, as well as relationships with Indigenous people that might cause identity issues. This chapter will develop this analysis through a broader look at French Protestant relations of power, dependence, and the contagion of identity, as played out with Indigenous people and in the Fort Caroline colonial order, including several mutinies among the French and a hostage crisis and war with Indigenous people.

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