Strengthening Ties: Arab-Japan Relations Pre and Post-Oil Shock, and Japan\\\'s Shift Towards Arab Partners for Energy SecuritySummaryThe relationship between Japan and Arab nations has seen a significant transformation since the oil shocks of the 19 Continue Reading...
IntroductionUntil recently, the history of the Arab states with regard to Israel has been one of conflict and cold peace. With the signing of the Abraham Accords, the UAE has turned a page in Arab-Israeli relations. It now appears that a warm peace i Continue Reading...
Japanese-Arab Relations from Meiji Era to the 1980sIntroductionThe Meiji Era in Japan established a new centralized form of government with the goal being to cement Japan as a nation-state and world power. Meiji was very interested in learning from a Continue Reading...
Territorial Control and Geographic Distribution of Terrorist Attacks: A Comparative Study of IS and FARCIntroductionOne of the critical aspects of understanding terrorist activities is examining the relationship between the territorial control of ins Continue Reading...
PTSD in the Middle East Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most common mental health or psychological disorders facing people in the Middle East region. This condition emerges from episodes of social upheaval, combat, and violence t Continue Reading...
Health and Environmental Issues in the Middle East and Third World Countries The World health organization states that "More than three million children under five die each year from environment-related causes and conditions. This makes the environm Continue Reading...
Role of Democracy in the Middle East There has recently been a wave of democratic uprisings sweeping across the Middle East. Starting in Tunisia, the call for democratic reforms spread through Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Iran and many oth Continue Reading...
Oslo Accords Jonathan Zaun Political cartoon by Carlos Latuff, illustrating both the lack of communication and the incessant foreign interference which lies at the heart of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict The ongoing conflict between the state o Continue Reading...
Water Crisis in the Middle East What is the Six Day War, and what are the various events that led to the War? What is the background of the War, and what were its consequences? The Six Day War took place in the month of June 1967. The crisis had act Continue Reading...
The New Cold War: Sunni vs. Shia Muslims and the Proxy War Between Saudi Arabia and IranIntroductionDebates over the rightful succession to Muhammad have spawned centuries of ideological and physical battles between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Although n Continue Reading...
The force of the explosion ripped the building from its foundation. The building then imploded upon itself," read a Defense Department report on the attack. "Almost all the occupants were crushed or trapped inside the wreckage (CBS News, 1983)." I Continue Reading...
AbstractThe Corona Virus pandemic has spread rapidly across the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has infected millions across the globe and almost stalled economic activity even as countries restrict movement to stop the spread of the virus (Dabrowski & Continue Reading...
The U.S., through the offices of Condoleezza Rice has taken the mediator role and agreed to meet with the negotiators from both sides in order to prepare the final draft for the documents in the summit (BBC News, 2007). Therefore, all these points c Continue Reading...
drives a person to terrorism? As Hamid (2008) notes, the drive to become a terrorist can be part of a personal journey that has roots in personal beliefs. For Hamid, those beliefs were religious and rooted in his Islamic conviction. He believed in Continue Reading...
95-133. In this selection, Chong examines the foreign policy used by Singapore during the 1990s to establish its credentials as a full participant in the international conversation. I will use the examples explored in this article to support the th Continue Reading...
Isma'ilis believe only the descendants of Ali and Fatimah can be considered the rightful caliphs. As the center of power weakened in Baghdad, Persian nobles ignored the caliph and established their own kingdoms. Toward the end the Abbasid only had I Continue Reading...
I take an oath of loyalty to the table / coated with white Formica, a cup full of pens, the ashtray / I dreamed that the State had passed out of existence / and with our children / we'd settled down in the three volumes of the / dictionary."(Shabtai Continue Reading...
Ali gives the reader the impression that there must be value in letting go of hatred and acknowledging the better emotions, such as those which are present in the former work by Ali, even if such purity is not the end to our means it is infinitely v Continue Reading...
Conflict and Conflict Resolution Conflict & Conflict Resolution A theoretical perspective Discussion of Various Theories Rational Choice Theory Charles Tilly's from Mobilization to Revolution Durkheim's Concept of Anomie Relative Deprivati Continue Reading...
(Feldman and Slattery 201) In this environment, it is likely that the people of Somalia would welcome the devil himself if he was carrying food and water, and these circumstances have not been lost on those who would exploit them for their own poli Continue Reading...
Some of the most productive areas in terms of copper are the Gimbi, Jawando and Mavo in Wase LGA. This region is accredited to be the richest region in terms of natural minerals and holds commercially viable mineral levels like the copper deposits, Continue Reading...
Political, financial and most of all ethnic interest are going to "to further muddle the results. Perhaps most dangerous is that the results did not yield a Parliament whose ethnic proportions match those of the country, and will therefore be percei Continue Reading...
This was in keeping with the Marxist principle of a classless society. In the United Nations, the United States has had an equal standing with other nations such as Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. The United States has participated in United Continue Reading...
Middle Eastern Students: What Is the Effect of Advisory Participation in the Adolescent Years- Grades 8-9 Benefits of student advisory Adolescence and its effects on learning Functions and Expectations of Advisory Program Middle Eastern Student a Continue Reading...
Given water scarcity, the high costs of desalinisation and other unconventional methods of supplying water, and the pollution of surface and ground waters, Israel sought other natural supplies of water from the Litani" (Dolatyar, 2002). The Israeli Continue Reading...
This time Israel captured the Sinai peninsula and occupied some territories it had captured for some time (Jonah, 2002), including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank (Hanania, 2005). While Israel saw this as the rights of the victor, Arabs saw it as a Continue Reading...
These happened while the state of Israel has experienced remarkably economic and military growth during the 1990's. The protection of the people in particular would have to be instated as terrorism, although not an important factor in the war, has c Continue Reading...
Arab Israeli Conflict The Arab-Israeli conflict The current Arab-Israeli conflict has a long standing history which goes back to the 1910s when the Ottoman Empire was still in place. During the WWI, the Germans sided with the Ottoman and the Britis Continue Reading...
Tibetan Conflict Tibet has received much attention from the West. It is described as having a rich cultural heritage. It is viewed as being a victim of Communist aggression. It is hailed as a tourist destination. Each of these has some truth to it. Continue Reading...
Middle East/ Africa Security Issue Introduction The ends, ways and means strategy is a method of understanding what the objective is for a particular issue (ends), how that objective will be achieved (ways) and what resources will be required to ma Continue Reading...
The Art of Negotiation Introduction The Syrian conflict has lasted for several years now and peace talks have gotten underway just as many times, with numerous players adopting different sides of table. The problem with the negotiation process when Continue Reading...
Israel vs. Palestine Conflict The author of this report has been asked to write an essay about the conflict between the Israeli people and the Palestinians as it has existed over time. Much of the conflict has actually extended over millennia when i Continue Reading...
This is not always the case. Some may be educated and economically well off, within particular fundamentalist sects, but use an idealistic vision of the past to provide a solution to what they see is lacking in the contemporary world. This was true Continue Reading...
" that one administration official observed, "I can assure you a young generation of terrorists is being created" (Zaharna 2003). At present, "The current [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict is mortgaging the future of both nations. A new generation of P Continue Reading...
The international community can obviously respond by seeking to marginalize the Taliban and similar movements as extremists. However, it has become clear following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that western governm Continue Reading...
1. The terroism eras before and after 9/11 are quite different with respect to the role that the Israel/Palestine conflict plays. Since 9/11, the majority of terrorist incidents in the United States are committed by domestic, right-wing terrorists (N Continue Reading...
S.'s difficulty interpreting the modern Middle East. The U.S. is a young nation. It is difficult for the United States to fully understand why age-old religious and tribal conflicts can have such an eternal importance in a history-saturated region. F Continue Reading...
(Renner, 2002, p. 26) The Taliban committed millions of acts of fundamentalist-based violence. They isolated women, forced them to wear the Burka, the most conservative of Islamic veils, closed girls schools, forced women to stop working and beat p Continue Reading...
Palestine Conflict Most people are aware of the conflicts between Palestinians and Israelis, and are aware that what the two sides are incompatible with each other. This incompatibility between what the two sides wants is what has made finding a per Continue Reading...
