Michael McCracken Global Politics Prof. Clarke 4/25/13 The Syrian Civil War and Its Effect on the World Environment Since early 2011 protestors have lined the streets of Syria putting on demonstrations calling for the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad. They were calling for an end to a nearly four decade ruling by Assad’s family‚ and the dispersion of the hardnosed Ba’ath Party. Shortly after these protests began Assad ordered the Syrian army to break up these demonstrations with the
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The Second Persian Gulf War‚ or better known as the Iraq War is an ideal event to spark curiosity. There are two main factors that contributed to the Iraq War. They are the causes of the Iraq War‚ and the most dominant groups of people in Iraq‚ which are the Sunni and Shiite Arabs. Then there is the outcome and aftermath of the Iraq War. These two factors changed how society thinks about foreign wars. First and foremost‚ the Sunni and Shiite Arabs were the two factions that lifted the facade
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irony using her perspective as an Iraqi woman‚ Dunya Mikhail personifies war as a machine‚ rather than the traditional masculine perspective of heroism on the battlefield. In “The War Works Hard” war is never ending; it is relentless and without mercy as it destroys everything in its path‚ leaving an endless generational wake of scars among the civilian victims caught in the zone that the war has chosen. The war scars forever. Wars are often glorified in tone to give praise and respect for those on the
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Waging War For What? I’m sure most‚ if not all of you‚ are all familiar with the recently ended Iraq War. Well how would you like to hear that this 8 year long war was not even justified? According to the just war theory the well-known Iraq War is considered not a just war. Why you may ask? Well the just war theory has many different criteria and regulations that have to be met in order to consider a war just. Focusing in on a few of those criteria has determined that it is indeed not a just war. Some
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Prof. Phr 102 War to me is painless it has no feelings or remorse for anybody or anything that crosses its path and will not stop for anything unless its purpose its fulfilled. We live in a time of war and ever since I was born I have always seen it around me and the society I live in. Thankfully I have never been a victim but I do have family members that have paid the maximum price for it. War is death and it will kill anything that crosses its path. The war in Iraq was a war that consisted
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I intend to review “The Bush Doctrine and the Iraq War: Neoconservatives vs. Realists” by Brian C. Schmidt and Michael C. Williams. The reason for choosing this article for review is simply because of its relevance today throughout the Middle East and how the American foreign policy is drastically changing the dynamics of the world. Schmidt and Williams use the elements of the neoconservative Bush Doctrine to show the direct contrast between realists and neoconservatives. The authors use the Bush
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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN CONDUCT OF WAR INTRODUCTION ‘‘War is never an isolated act.” War is a phenomenon of organized violent conflict‚ typified by extreme aggression‚ societal disruption and adaptation‚ and high mortality. Usually a war is a pre-planned activity to begin with by one group or one nation and the group initiates the war by means of violence against the other. The primary feature of this behaviour pattern is a certain state of organized conflict that is engaged in between two or
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Goldstein: Winning the War on War In Winning the War on War‚ Joseph Goldstein argues that warfare is on the decline and growing less intensely than in previous eras. He also focuses on the correlation between the rise of international institutions and organizations structured around peacekeeping to the decrease of huge interstate wars. Goldstein assesses how organizations such as the UN and other NGO’s that focus primarily on peacekeeping and peacebuilding have influenced wars both positively and
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Ethical Implications of the War in Iraq: A Consequentialist Perspective The purpose of this paper is to argue that there was no humanitarian cause for the invasion of Iraq. I agree with Ken Roth’s analysis that the war in Iraq was not for humanitarian purposes and I would subsidize my reasoning with Peter Singer’s ideas of utilitarianism and consequentialism. I will first look at Ken Roth’s analysis; secondly I will analyze Peter Singer’s argument and apply it to Ken Roth’s analysis. Finally‚
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The book here in discussion is “War Fighting”. The main and over all purpose for this book is to explain and give examples of fighting wars. The book consists of the chapters‚ the first “Nature of War”. In this chapter the writer had many different topics‚ The Evolution of War‚ Violence and Danger‚ The Human Dimension‚ Uncertainty‚ and the definition of war just to name a few. The Definition of war is; War is a violent clash of interests between or among organized groups characterized by the use
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