Muslim Brotherhood -- Arab Spring in Egypt The Arab Spring of 2010, in which angry citizens in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen took to the streets by the hundreds of thousands to demand changes, did not always result in the positive changes envision Continue Reading...
The UAE as a Developmental StateIntroductionIn recent years, the UAE has been ranked as one of the most developed countries in the world: it has achieved, throughout its united journey, record-breaking rates of growth in all fields, which has placed Continue Reading...
Intelligence in War: Iraq, WMDS, and the Rise of the Policymakers In 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before the UN Security Council that Iraq had mobile weapons labs and was in possession of uranium, which was being used in the Continue Reading...
Review of Policymaking in a Transformative State Policy-Making in a Transformative State: The Case of Qatar is a collection of scholarly essays, edited by Tok, Alkhater and Pal (2016). The collection addresses the need of Qatar to examine more critic 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...
questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001784438>. This work is a consummate discussion of the strain that immigration has placed on the public and social systems of Denmark, as another example of the strain and stress pulling public opinion in favor of anti Continue Reading...
The customs of the Iraq population are however, a complex mixture of Middle East elements along with Arab features. This mixture is what makes the complexity of this state and the thing that brings Iraq a very unique image. We may say at some extent Continue Reading...
At the time of this report on October 27, 2010, the Brotherhood spoke out against boycotting the upcoming election, but projected a rather optimistic attitude towards resolving the conflict that confronted them. Still, in light of this optimistic at Continue Reading...
S. exports, but only reduced them, to increase imports from Mexico, to stimulate the opening of manufacturing plants in Mexico and to lead to the loss of jobs for the American population Ultimately then, the free market is a beneficial theoretical m 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...
They resort to force to resolve International Disputes quickly. They also have a very 'black and white view of the world' in that they see elements as 'good or bad'; 'friend or enemy'.. It is therefore said that America is living in a Hobbesian stat Continue Reading...
" (19:481) in order to wield the power of the opaque concept of 'national security' in foreign policy, the executers must use a careful construct of realities and perceptions that hang between an actual danger and a perceived threat. (9:144) Taking Continue Reading...
War Without Victory Nominally, the United States achieved victory in the first Gulf War. However, the decades of fighting in the Middle East, punctuated by the second Gulf War demonstrate that the United States was not victorious in that war. Howeve Continue Reading...
Abraham Path Initiative The Abraham Path: The evolution of the enterprise over time One of the most divisive regions of the world is the Middle East. The Middle East is fraught with conflict not simply because of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian te Continue Reading...
U.S. And Int'l. Relations International Relations Theories and the Role of the U.S. In the Middle East A Short Analysis of U.S. Culture Theories and Interventions intervention in the Middle East has had very divergent consequences for both Iraq an Continue Reading...
Democracy in Tunisia Democratization is a process that involves a transition advocated by either people, or political leaders who eliminate authoritarian systems and created democratic systems of government. However, in most cases, the people initia Continue Reading...
Reciting Colonial Scripts: Colonialism, Globalization and Democracy in the Decolonized 1. Problem/Puzzle & Research Questions How have colonialism as well as the successive globalization/imperialism fiddled or tinkered with national identity, geo Continue Reading...
All in all, Turkey is once again western through democracy, but eastern through its identity elements. 4. Impact on Turkey's development and the relations with the United States, Europe and the Middle East An interesting element at this stage is c Continue Reading...
U.S. Role as 'Policemen of the World' Thesis and Outline Draft Introduction and Thesis currently holds the most important and influential role in international politics and represents a decisive player in all recent international conflicts. This r Continue Reading...
In other words, the power and the wealth could easily fall in the hand of the few privileged ones, and their rights would be better served, than those of the marginalized, powerless and poor population (Paribatra, 1999). 6. Conclusions and Recommen Continue Reading...
Iran Country Assessment -- Economic Assessment Iran Country Economic Assessment Economic Assessment Like many other Islamic countries in the Middle East region, Iran's economy is heavily dependent upon its oil and natural gas resources. According Continue Reading...
For the most part none of these three examples ever had the experience of living under an autocratic form of government and so the transition from one form of government to another was much smoother. A tradition of democracy supersedes the influence Continue Reading...
international community to know why so many movements have taken place. Was it the fall of the liberal pluralism theory? Is it the beginning of a new era of politics? The realism theory has been hurt badly by the recent developments of the internati Continue Reading...
Nations and Nationalism Exist: Comparison of the Work of Laitin, Geertz, Hobsbawn, and Anderson The objective of this study is to compare the work of Laitin, Geertz, Hobsbawn, and Anderson and to answer as to which argument is the most persuasive f Continue Reading...
USA Hegemony There are no fundamental differences between now and what international politics used to be in the first half of the 20th Century. It is true that the post-WWII period has been more peaceful, but it is not because of a fundamental trans Continue Reading...
International Politics on the World Stage: A Geographic Basis of Power Although geography can play a role in regional conflicts and alliances, it ultimately is not the 'be all and end all 'of determining who is a friend and who is a powerful enemy i Continue Reading...
Nuclear Power and IranIntroductionIrans vision for itself is one in which the state has seen its future as predicated upon the use of nuclear power. Iran has repeatedly downplayed reports that it intends to pursue enrichment for the purposes of build Continue Reading...
Persian Contraction From 1700 to 2000 Persia represented an important link between East and West. It held the Middle position and in geopolitical terms, this position meant a lot as the Industrial Age began to get underway in the modern era. Persian Continue Reading...
" These events have been repeated time and again across the country where ordinary Syrian citizens have been forced to take to the streets to make their demands known, while Assad remained cloistered away. For instance, Corbin (2011) reports th Continue Reading...
Egyptian Infitah Policy (1973, Sadat)IntroductionAnwar Sadats Infitah policy was a reversal of Nassers policies. Nasser had presided over a command economy in which market economics were centralized and controlled by the government, with little to no Continue Reading...
Beginning in December of 2010 in Tunisia, protests and grassroots political activism spread throughout North Africa and the Middle East. The Arab Spring resulted in regime change in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria. However, the Arab S Continue Reading...
Armenian Genocide Research Paper ProposalTopicThe Armenian Genocide refers to the systematic extermination of the Armenian population by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The events of the Armenian Genocide are widely recognized as one of the fi Continue Reading...
In 1990 Saddam Hussein invaded and annexed Kuwait, Iraq’s neighbor, over a dispute regarding oil production and debt. Iraq had protected Kuwait during the Iran-Iraq War the previous decade and Hussein wanted the debt owed by Iraq to Kuwait canc Continue Reading...
Political Violence and Extremism in IsraelQ1The Factors of Political ViolenceReligion does not constitute a silver bullet explanation for political violence, as there are a multitude of factors that contribute to radical action. For example, there ar Continue Reading...
Palestine under Occupation: Reaching the ‘Other’ through Bearing Witness and Citizen Journalism Introduction The conflict in Palestine is largely portrayed in the mainstream media as a complex issue (Chomsky & Pappe, 2015). A theoreti Continue Reading...
Mubarak instated sweeping reforms that liberalized Egyptian economic policy within a neoliberal framework, but those reforms came at the price of repression, oppression, and corruption leading to widespread income disparity and disenfranchisement esp Continue Reading...
Egypt, Fashion and Merchandising Religion, culture, national pride and tradition all play a part in merchandising approaches and fashion businesses in Egypt. The tradition of the family, gender issues, the roles of men and women in society, the exten Continue Reading...
Middle East Literature: Portrayal of women in the Arabian Nights Introduction Women play a significant role in the Arabian Nights. Many of the stories and tales in the collection explore the nature, potential dangers, and limits of the sexual drive o Continue Reading...
