The Arab-Israel Conflict and US Foreign Policy Rani Erum Lecturer of Federal Urdu University‚ Department of Political Science‚ Karachi‚ Pakistan The Arab Israel conflict remains one of the most considerable and complex dilemmas facing the international community. The enduring quarrel between Israelis and Arabs has directly and indirectly propagated many regional wars in the past five decades‚ jeopardized Western entrance to important oil resources in the Middle East‚ provided a good
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Cuban Missile Crisis: A Foreign Policy Analysis The Cuban Missile Crisis was an exceptionally significant event in history that became the closest confrontation leading to a possible nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. This thirteen-day confrontation’s major occurrences will be analyzed by the rational actor model and how the leaders John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev made rational decisions that led to the avoidance of nuclear annihilation. In addition to the rational
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There are three sections in Crankshaw’s Bismarck: Bismarck going into politics‚ unifying Germany as Chancellor‚ and the aftermath of the unified Germany. Bismarck is one of the few men in history that could pull this off and be that successful. He united a lot of different cultures and became one of the most powerful leaders in all of Europe and his new German almost controlled the continent. Bismarck joined the political sphere as a member of parliament. As he was joining the parliament people
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and how it came to be‚ as well as a look into the actual obstacles that Bismarck had to overcome in order to join the Germanic states in to one‚ solid German nation. This will be accomplished by focusing on significant people and significant political and economic views that they held to show the differing positions in 1848 – 1849‚ and by looking at pertinent facts in the 1850s. This will also focus greatly on Otto von Bismarck‚ who is the man most credited with bringing the thirty-seven Germanic
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Throughout the Cold War the United States considered the installation in Latin America of radical regimes-socialist‚ Marxist-Leninist‚ or "leftist" in any way- to be utterly intolerable. Any such development would represent an advance for the communist cause and a vital loss for the West. Acceptance of this outcome could weaken the credibility of the United States as the leader of the west and as a rival for the USSR. In the eyes of Cold Warriors‚ the consolidation of any left-wing regime in the
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standard. Foreign nations became dependent on the United States’ prosperity because economic problems‚ such as crop failures‚ were affecting their stability. This along with many other factors developed America’s strong sense of nationalism. The concept of social Darwinism was applied not only to domestic concerns‚ but to foreign concerns as well. Americans felt that their previous abilities to empower themselves over the Native Americans set as a precedent for their capability to influence foreign nations
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Otto Von Bismarck was instrumental in the unification of German states up for 1871. His experience as ambassador in St. Petersburg and Paris gave him considerable experience in foreign affairs‚ and his aim sought to deliver Prussia a higher status in Europe. Representing the Junker class‚ Bismarck was a great opportunist‚ delivering and commanding decisions well by exploiting situations at the right time. He accomplished unification through diplomatic persuasion and well prepared wars. He would often
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Encyclopedia: foreign policy Top Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Britannica Concise Encyclopedia General objectives that guide the activities and relationships of one state in its interactions with other states. The development of foreign policy is influenced by domestic considerations‚ the policies or behaviour of other states‚ or plans to advance specific geopolitical designs. Leopold von Ranke emphasized the primacy of geography and external threats in shaping foreign policy‚ but later writers
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authenticity may lead one down an incomplete path. This paper will discuss in large part the differences of two particular passages and which of the two I found most persuasive. James Eayrs’ article “A Low Dishonest Decade: Aspects of Canadian External Policy‚ 1931-1939” and Norman Hillmer’s article “Defence and Ideology: The Anglo-Canadian Military Alliance in the 1930s” both explain Canada’s relations‚ or lack thereof‚ with Great Britain. While Eayrs’ viewpoint is a much more negative one. For instance
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To what extent was Bismarck responsible for the unification of Germany in 1871 and account for the effect this had on the balance of power in Europe‚ any threats faced due to this imbalance and how Bismarck countered these threats. Otto von Bismarck‚ a charismatic diplomat and first chancellor of Germany‚ was one of the main driving forces behind the unification of the pre-German states. By opposing socialism and...... into the German Empire. His actions and results would usurp the balance of
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