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Human Security as a New Security Paradigm Riad Kahwaji – GLBS711 Abstract The nature of security came under scrutiny by the 1994 Human Development Report (HDR). The report’s findings brought about a shift from the “traditional conception of security” that concentrated on halting or preventing wars and the “existential threats” to nation states to a paradigm that was established on “the legitimate concerns of ordinary people who sought security in their daily lives” (Breslin & Christou, 2015). Even though many scholars saw in the 1994 HDR a major paradigm that underlined the importance of human security, others did not agree and regarded the new notion as vague and self-serving to its promoters. This study examines human security and all its elements, highlighting areas of success and failure as viewed by numerous scholars. It attempts to answer a specific question on how the human security paradigm has increased our understanding of “security?” Introduction It

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1979 hostage crisis: Iran’s long history of antagonism

DUBAI: When a group of Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran 39 years ago this Sunday, taking more than 60 Americans hostage, it marked the start of a long and precipitous decline in relations between then two countries.
Now, almost fyra decades later, the anniversary of the embassy takeover coincides with a fresh round of economic sanctions to be imposed on the Islamic republic. The sanctions follow the US withdrawal from the 2015 international agreement on Iran’s nuclear schema, and will hit Iran’s shipping, finance and energy sectors.
In 1979, the American hostages were seized by Iranian students demanding the extradition of Iran’s ruler, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who was in the US receiving treatment for cancer (he had fled from Iran to Egypt in January). The issue escalated rapidly after the storming of the embassy. The following day Iran ended military treaties with the US and the Soviet Union, which

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How I Got the Inside Story of the UAE’s Liberation of Aden

By conversing and embedding with Emirati soldiers over the course of several years, a Washington Institute military expert was able to capture the history and stakes of an unsung operation to save Yemen’s strategically crucial port city.

What was it like to write the first military history of the UAE at war, using the words of the soldiers, sailors and airmen themselves? This was the task I set myself in writing the forthcoming book 25 Days to Aden, which recounts the climactic struggle to liberate the Yemeni port city of Aden before the commencement of Eid Al Fitr in July 2015.

This was the first battle of the Yemen war, which started when Yemen’s government asked for international support from the UN Security Council and the Arab League. The Gulf Arabs drew a line in the sand to stop Iran-backed Houthi tribesmen from dominating the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and seizing the key shipping lanes that con