NSCC/SA: Deciphering Civil Conflict in the Middle East

NSCC/SA：解读中东内战

• 批准号: 0904731
• 负责人: J. Craig Jenkins
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0904731&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSCC; SA; Deciphering; Civil; Conflict

This award was funded through the Social and Behavioral Dimensions of National Security, Conflict, and Cooperation competition, a joint venture between NSF and the Department of Defense.The Middle East is a global hotspot with over thirty percent of global international terrorist attacks, a major share of deaths from internal armed conflict, and all of the inter-state wars of the past three decades such as the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq conflict and the 1990-1991 Gulf war. Because it is a strategic region with a significant share of the world's energy reserves and the crossroads of the world, it is important to understand the nature of Middle East conflicts and the possibilities for their resolution. Conflict in the Middle East represents a central challenge to twenty-first century international security.This research project will develop and implement a new conceptual framework for understanding civil conflict. The focus of the project will be on the effects of transnational processes such as economic rentierism (the derivation of national revenues by renting internal resources to external clients), international migration, and far-reaching social networks. The project will investigate how these processes shaped the development of civil protest and terrorism in the Middle East since the Gulf War. Understanding cross-national processes requires interdisciplinary conceptual and methodological expertise. Thus, this project will bring together a team including scholars from sociology, geography, and economics, all with international expertise. Several either reside in or originate from Middle East nations. The results of this research will inform scholarly and policy-related understanding of the transnational, transformational processes in the Middle East that were relevant to civil conflict during the 1990s and remain important today.This research will directly influence the interdisciplinary community of researchers, educators and future scholars concerned with the early warning of civil conflict. It will promote an agenda for future research that advances interdisciplinary and multi-method assessment of transnational processes so that the complex consequences of regional change can be anticipated. In addition to policy insights, it will also create visual products (such as geo-spatial presentations of Palestinian migrations and the growth of transnational networks) that will be useful to educators, students and policy makers interested in the changing international order and factors that influence international security.

该奖项是通过NSF和国防部的合资企业“国家安全、冲突与合作的社会和行为维度”竞赛资助的。中东是全球热点地区，全球30%以上的国际恐怖袭击发生在中东，在国内武装冲突造成的死亡中占很大比例，以及过去30年的所有国家间战争，如1980-1988年的两伊冲突和1990-1991年的海湾战争。由于中东是一个战略区域，在世界能源储备中占有很大份额，而且是世界的十字路口，因此必须了解中东冲突的性质及其解决的可能性。中东冲突是二十一世纪国际安全的核心挑战。该研究项目将开发和实施一个新的概念框架来理解国内冲突。该项目的重点将是跨国进程的影响，如经济租息主义（通过向外部客户出租国内资源来获取国家收入）、国际移徙和影响深远的社交网络。该项目将调查这些过程如何塑造自海湾战争以来中东地区民间抗议和恐怖主义的发展。理解跨国进程需要跨学科的概念和方法专门知识。因此，该项目将汇集一个团队，包括社会学，地理学和经济学的学者，都具有国际专业知识。有些人居住在或来自中东国家。这项研究的结果将为学术界和政策界了解中东的跨国转型进程提供信息，这些进程与1990年代的国内冲突有关，今天仍然很重要，这项研究将直接影响研究人员、教育工作者和未来关注国内冲突预警的学者的跨学科社区。它将促进未来研究的议程，推动对跨国进程进行跨学科和多种方法的评估，以便能够预测区域变化的复杂后果。除了政策见解外，它还将制作视觉产品（如巴勒斯坦移民的地理空间介绍和跨国网络的增长），这将有助于对不断变化的国际秩序和影响国际安全的因素感兴趣的教育工作者、学生和决策者。