The Middle East after World War I
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
The paper will paint a clear picture of both the great chances and serious problems of the internationalists' plan to promote closer relationships among nations in the interwar period. While the excerpts depict an idealistic world of governance and war elimination through international...
To what extent has Iran been a destabilising force in the Middle East since 1989?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Iran is a non-Arab Shiite Muslim country of nearly 80 million people, heir to a thousand years of Persian history, and a major regional and international player. Involved for several decades in supporting various armed groups, some of them terrorists, operating in the Middle East...
Political Parties and Elections - Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
Summary - 2 pages - Political science
This text is based on "After the Arab Spring: Do Muslims vote Islamic now?" by Charles Kurzman and Didem Türkoglu, "Elections in the Arab world: Why do citizens turn out?" by Carolina de Miguel, Amaney A. Jamel and Mark Tessler, "The Middle East" by Ellen Lust and "Bricks and Mortar...
Political Parties and Election in the Middle East and North Africa
Summary - 2 pages - Political science
This text is based on "Elections under authoritarianism: Preliminary lessons from Jordan" by Ellen Lust, "Bullets over Ballots: Islamist groups, the state and electoral violence in Egypt and Morocco" by Hendrik Kraetzschmara and Francesco Cavatortab and "Elections and Distributive Politics in...
In what ways conflicts between political entities in the Middle East have been shaped by the history of state formation in the area?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The key terms to understand such situations are "political entities" and "state formation". Speaking of political entities rather than states shows the diversity of actors that make up the political life of the Middle East and can change the configuration of the borders, ranging...
The European Union and its neighbors to the East and South-East of the Continent and to the Middle East
Course material - 11 pages - Political science
The European Union has still very limited means in terms of foreign and security and defense policy, and its members still follow quite different foreign policy agendas. But the EU confronts several and often growing problems and crisis in her immediate vicinity.
Effect of western powers on the Middle Eastern states Studies
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The prevailing issues concerning health, education and labor within the Middle East are as a direct result of historical influence-and by extension design-of Western nations dating as far back as the Napoleonic wars. The origins osf these states were primarily after World War 1...
US Role in the Middle East
Case study - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
According to the Collins World Dictionary, stability refers to the quality or state of being stable, especially in resistance to deterioration, displacement, or change. It is the constancy of purpose, order, or character. Due to the vastness of energy resources, especially oil, in the...
Middle Eastern Studies
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The last century, particularly after World War 2, has witnessed high levels of conflict and warfare within the Middle East(Richards and Waterbury 345). The most predominant and extended conflict is that of the Arab-Israeli conflict which has born five major wars and is still at play...
Why is the Middle East so important for the United States?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The Middle East is politically as complex as its position on a map suggests: an addition of states with imprecise and moving borders, situated at the strategic crossing between Europe, Africa and Asia; this juxtaposition of small- and middle-range powers with no big powers...
Occidental intelligences facing Middle East's quest for nuclear weapons: the case of Israel Vs. the case of Iran
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
The nuclear bomb is much more than a common weapon, it can determine the balance of the powers, it is a crucial point for understanding the international strategic relations: the nuclear bomb represents the possibility for a country to be wiped off the map. Between 1950 and 1990, it is important...
The future of architecture lies in the Middle East
Thesis - 3 pages - Architecture
Persuasion is one of the strongest weapons in the history of English language. The persuasive powers of the English language are unlimited. Writers have long used English as a creative tool to convey messages to their readers, express certain feelings, reflect specific images, share emotions,...
Music and the generational divide within youth of the Middle East - published: 25/03/2010
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Western culture has infiltrated all corners of globe. Even in Iran, where government officials went to great lengths to preserve their cultural autonomy, pop music created for an Iranian audience is written in English. The identity of Muslim youth is repeatedly combated by examples of Western,...
Music and the generational divide within youth of the Middle East
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Western culture has infiltrated all corners of globe. Even in Iran, where government officials went to great lengths to preserve their cultural autonomy, pop music created for an Iranian audience is written in English. The identity of Muslim youth is repeatedly combated by examples of Western,...
Islamism in the Middle East: The new face of nationalism
Thesis - 4 pages - Philosophy
Islamism and nationalism are apparently contradictory terms. One suggests the existence of solidarity is based on religion and faith. In case of Islam it is the "community of believers," the "ummah" which refers to another part of the nation state. This is a recent concept which presupposes the...
China-Middle East relations and how the natural resources affect their relations
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
It remains without a doubt that the economic boom that China has witnessed in the last few decades had many implications for other regions of the world, including the Middle East. To fuel its ever increasing production and consumption patterns, and its ultimate search for economic...
European union and regulation of the peace process in the Middle East since 1991
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
Launched with the Madrid Conference in 1991, the israeli-Palestinian peace process led to the historical handshake between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres at the White House in Washington. American president Clinton, thus sealed the signature of a statement of principles, and reaffirmed the...
French foreign Policy in the Middle East during the 5th Republic
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
The roots of the conflict in the Middle East started around 1950 when the British mandate in Palestine was given to the United Nations which decided then to create the state of Israel on the Palestinian lands. Some migratory waves of Jewish settlement had already started to come to...
The United States foreign policy orientation in the Middle East after September 11 in a neorealist perspective
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
September 11, 2001 brought changes to the rules of the international system established at the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union allowed the United States to reign at the top of the international area. It was able to dominate the world as the only superpower in possession of...
Middle East Communication: indigenous advertisements to a local country or region (2006)
Case study - 7 pages - Management
The Middle East region is booming and is now the second fastest growth area in the world after China. Political and economic reforms across the region provide a new dynamic business atmosphere where consumer demand and consumption is on the rise. High oil revenues coupled with low...
The emergence of Al-Jazeera in the Middle East
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Olfa Lamloul, in her book entitled Al-Jazeera, Defiant and Ambiguous Mirror of the Arab World wrote, ‘The short history of the disrespectful Arabic channel Al-Jazeera, broadcast from the emirate of Qatar,provides valuable reference points in the maze of Middle Eastern issues in the...
Was the establishment of a specifically Jewish state in Palestine the most favorable way for Britain to protect its post-WWI imperial interests in the Middle East?
Essay - 10 pages - Modern history
History textbooks that deal with the birth of the Zionism repeatedly take for granted a major component of the movement's early success underlying British support. The beginning of the history of Israel is commonly preoccupied with Theodor Herzl or the Balfour Declaration, but very rarely is...
During the Cold War, what role did oil play in driving western intervention to the Middle East?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
After the Second World War in 1945, a new world order came up: Western Europe had to recover from the damages the war caused, and the US and the Soviet Union were competing against each other for power in a Cold War period. During this era, lasting up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in...
Towards a democratisation of the Middle-East?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The Middle East has traditionally been a region where democracy has never really managed to break through. The times of the caliphs had been replaced by a more or less violent period of colonisation. When the time for decolonisation finally came, most of the states -some more or...
Kuwait: The hidden moneymaker of the middle East
Thesis - 8 pages - Geography
Kuwait is a small sovereign emirate strategically located on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf, tucked between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The name comes from an Arabic word translating to “fortress built near water,” which it very much looks like on a map. It has a rich history...
The role of private equity firms as an alternative investment model in the Middle East and globally
Tutorials/exercises - 27 pages - Finance
The global economic reality has witnessed a recent international increase in the private equity markets. This fact has brought up many concerns as to whether this will have a positive or negative outcome (Financial Services Authority, 2006). This document will present an overview of private...
Critically Examination of US policy toward the Middle East in the twentieth century
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Throughout the course of its history, the United States has utilized its foreign policy objectives for the purposes of pursuing its own needs. Although the United States has, in rare instances, pursued foreign policy objectives for the purposes of altruistically improving outcomes for citizens in...
Religious belief and religious identity as separate forces in politics in the Middle East
Essay - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the debate over slavery that took place in America in the nineteenth century, apologists for both sides appealed to Christianity, the Union's dominant religion, to justify their respective cases. George Armstrong, in his 1857 book The Christian Doctrine of Slavery, stated that, “[I]t...
Examining issues of credible commitment from third parties in the Middle East and Aceh, Indonesia
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
There are universal aims for international intervention in conflict resolution that should be used as a guide by all third parties. Kimberly Maynard mentions some of these aims in her book, Healing Communities in Conflict: International Assistance in Complex Emergencies, addressing issues of...
The feminist movement in the Middle East in comparison to the feminist movement in the U.S
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The feminist movement in the United States began more than a century ago. Although it was not labeled as such until the late 1950s, a review of women's history in the United States reveals that women have long fought for social, economic and political parity. While the roots of the feminist...
