The truth of the matter is that even though such groups have their epicenter in the Middle East, their atrocities are meted out on people who often are in different regions of the world. ... This essay discusses the threat of radical Islam in the Middle East and why the US should worry over the ability of domestic terrorists to collaborate with terrorists from the Middle East. The Threat of Radical Islam in the Middle East Radical Islam in the Middle East poses a threat on peace not only in the region but to the Western world since jihadists view the West as enemies of their fundamentalist i...

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The Middle East isn't a prime location to do business anyway, and with so much devastation going on there right now, I don't see in the near future an opportunity for terrorists to facilitate an attack comparable to the devastation of 9/11. ... Granted, that was in the past, and the actions of the U.S. to end the Japanese attack on the U.S. in World War II can't really be used to describe the current state in which we live due to terrorism, though it does paint a picture about the way terrorists interacted in the world prior to 9/11, and it is proof that the terrorists at that t...

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The thesis deals with United States' approach in making foreign policy decisions with reference to the Middle East, more specifically with focus on the countries of Iraq and Egypt. ... The second chapter outlines the cultural-historical background of United States' involvement in the Middle East. ... It aims to conduct a critical discourse analysis of proclamations made by the two most recent American administrations, those of Bush and Obama, regarding their foreign policy decisions towards the Middle Eastern countries of Iraq and Egypt. ...

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Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 DEMOCRATIC PEACE THEORY 2 3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS 4 3.1 HOW TO SPREAD DEMOCRACY 4 3.2 SECURITY INTERESTS IN SEEING DEMOCRATIZATION SPREAD 5 3.3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROGRAMS 6 4 REASONS FOR NOT SPREADING DEMOCRACY 8 4.1 INTRODUCTION 8 4.2 POLITICAL ASPECTS 8 4.3 ECONOMIC ASPECTS 10 4.3.1 CHINA 10 4.3.2 MIDDLE EAST 11 5 CONCLUSION 12 REFERENCE LIST 13 1 Introduction Last century, the number of democracies in the world increased significantly (Smith & Hadfield & Dunne, 2008: 53). ... Therefore, this work will concentrate on the democracy of the Unite...

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The Iranian hostage crisis had played a huge part in setting the mood for foreign contact between the United States and many other Middle Eastern nations into the 00s, however there were many other events that shaped U.S. involvement in the Middle East. ... That same year many communist nations in Eastern Europe began to fall and the Berlin wall that divided East and West Germany was torn down. ...

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And terrorists "are Islamic extremists aggregating in the Middle Eastern and North African regions; devising plans to wreak terror in the lives of innocent people. ... Furthermore, governments in the Middle East and North Africa have for many years adopted laws and policies in the name of combating violence or "terrorism-, which are not in consistency with their obligations under human rights law and standards. ... Since the September 11th attacks in the US several countries in the Middle East and North Africa have taken or stepped up measures presented as "efforts of combating terroris...

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(Berry 145) To relate the media directly to our case study we should look at a specific example being broadcast from the Middle East. Most Americans receive their news from privately owned television stations while in the Middle East almost all television station there are government owned and regulated. ... Most foreign policy issues come from problems in the Middle East and most lifestyle issues are broad ranging but generally targeted towards specific freedoms and rights we have versus their homeland. Be aware that not all Middle Easterner's hate America's foreign policy that ...

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The Definition of Israel Before we begin, let me remind you of the definition of Israel. Israel considers itself to be a Jewish state (formally codified in its 1948 Declaration of Independence), which means that its entire purpose is to provide what is commonly referred to as a "Jewish homeland". Why a race or religion must have a singular nation-state forcibly created for it is something of a mystery; my sons are white/Asian interracial, so they have no "racial homeland"; should this be considered a crisis? The natives of the Americas have no distinct "homeland" either; should families be di...

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Hate towards every Middle-Eastern person, hate towards every Muslim, hate towards every person that looked like they may resemble or fit into the category of being a Muslim. ... The treatment of women by the males has always been questioned here, and often people have judged Muslims from the Middle East because of the wars the United States has been involved with against them. ... By wearing the hijab women were clearly showing that they were of Middle-Eastern decent or of the Muslim religion (Stodolska 18). ... Both male and female Muslims, and Middle Easterner's were feeling the heat of...

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Germany had been divided into East and West. The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into east and West. ...

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For more than a century, major powers have tried to control an enormous source of wealth and power in the Middle East. ... Oil is plentiful in the Middle East with the two largest holders, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, managing the oil price time bomb. ...

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The Roots of Reformasi in Indonesia Indonesia, from Acheh to Irian Jaya, is equivalent in distance from London to Moscow. It has a population of more than 200 million, which is nearly twice the population of Japan. Its archipelago layout, rather than making communications more difficult, ma...

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The terrorists responsible for the atrocity came from the Middle East, some from Saudi Arabia and others from the countries around Afghanistan, countries previously considered by the West to be so far off that they were not a immediate danger or threat. ... If he did possess weapons of mass destruction, then he could single-handedly start a war involving the entire Middle East. ... So now is Saddam really the greatest evil in the Middle East? ...

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President Obama's speech confirmed the second standard because he addressed ISIS as being accountable for the deaths of thousands of Iranians and posing a threat to the United States when he said, "At this moment, the greatest threats come from the Middle East and North Africa, where radical groups exploit grievances for their own gain. ... Hitler's statement is similar to how the media has depicted a war on terrorism since the attacks on the World Trade Center and used this impersonal force as the backbone for gaining public support for intervention in the Middle East. ...

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From 1965 until 1973, the United States of America was at war with the communist nation of North Vietnam. One of the darkest and most controversial time periods in American History, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam caused drastic cultural changes within the American nation.1 Americans...

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Money was distributed between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U.S. and Europe. ... The large and growing disparity of wealth between the rich and the middle-income citizens made the U.S. economy unstable. ... Mussolini's political views as a young a young gentlemen were almost completely opposite of what they became when he was a middle-aged man. ...

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Suicide Suicide is a sociological phenomenon that plagues societies all over the world. For many of the victims that fall to the pressures of the world, suicide is the method used to end their lives. But what makes them so bold and daring as to commit such a heinous act? Why do those who commit suicide feel that suicide is the only way to end all the pressures that are on their shoulders? According to classical and contemporary social theorists, there exists explanations as to why suicide is an option that individuals choose to exercise when they are feel there is "no way out" of their predi...

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Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ... Therefore, in 1955 Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union signed the Alliance Treaty in Warsaw, Poland, known as the Warsaw Pact. ... With the Berlin Wall being built in 1961, through the middle of Berlin, the countries East Germany and West Germany were formed. ... East Germany was involved in The Warsaw Pact, while West Germany was in NATO. ...

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A young Canadian citizen was on his way home after a vacation in the Middle East. He has a layover in New York and while there is taken into custody by US agents in plain clothes. He is questioned for days on his purported terrorist affiliations, all of which he vehemently denies. He is then cuffed,...

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The United States has attempted to impose democracy based upon traditions that are foreign to Middle Eastern cultures. According to Day (2006), Middle Eastern ideas of how a democratic government should work are entirely different from how the West views democracy. ...

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"A final battle was over the provisions of the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) agreement. ... The Truman Doctrine, which was initially meant for Europe and the Middle East, was adopted and used by future presidents and applied the new Vietnam conflict. ... It was now obvious that the problem of communism went much further than just Europe and the Middle East and this alone proved to America that communism anywhere was a threat. ...

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The slow uptake of technical innovation was key in the British decline, for instance the Gilchrist-Thomas process of removing brittle phosphorous from pig iron opened the way to the use of phosphorous -rich ores, in plentiful supply in North East England, thus providing the cheapest iron ore in the world for the production of steel. ... Unfortunately the public school formed the model for the new system of secondary education, which the less privileged sectors of the new middle class were allowed to construct for themselves after the Education Act of 1902, and whose main object was to exclude ...

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The East took over all of the communist values that we look at the U.S.S.R for. ... This split of Germany and the ideological differences between the East and the West laid some of the groundwork for the Cold War. ...

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the geographical concepts of Brazil such as the culture, history and its importance, language, trade, etc and how they compare to those of the United States. Brazil is the largest and most populous country in Latin America, and has the support of a vast wea...

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This phenomenon is called interdependency; and an example of interdependency would be when East Asian countries faced the Asian Financial Crisis altogether beginning in 1997, making the situations even worse because all the neighboring countries were economically suffering. ... Many nations, especially in the Middle East, fight for territories because the territory contains historical, religious, and ethnic values (Frieden, Lake, Schultz, 2014). ...

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