A PhD dissertation was discussed at the College of Political Sciences

A PhD dissertation was discussed at the College of Political Sciences, Al-Nahrain University, titled “Geo-Strategic Differentiation in American Strategic Thought towards Regions of Competition and Global Conflict – Selected Models”.

The dissertation was submitted by the student Walid Jarkas Isaaed Al-Jubouri, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ali Hussein Hamid. The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Ali Faris Hamid, Prof. Dr. Haitham Karim Swayan, Prof. Dr. Munem Khamis, Assistant Prof. Dr. Ihsan Adnan Abdullah, and Assistant Prof. Dr. Ruba Saheb Abd, in addition to the supervisor Prof. Dr. Ali Hussein Hamid.

The study focuses on the importance of the geographic factor and its centrality in the process of geo-strategic analysis. Despite the major transformations that the international environment has witnessed in the 21st century, the importance of the geographic factor and a state’s vision of its surroundings and areas of influence, and then formulating its strategies in all areas that its influence reaches, still largely determines the nature of international interactions and their outcomes.

The dissertation combines the importance of geography and integrates it with political science in general, and strategic approaches and analyses in particular, within what is known as geopolitical or geo-strategic writings, in an attempt to promote the importance of the geographic factor and its centrality in the field of strategic analysis, while focusing at the same time on strategic thought and its importance in determining the paths of change in states’ policies.