In his masterwork Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ George Orwell famously wrote that war was peace. It was only through perpetual conflict that Oceania was able to maintain internal security. Indeed‚ since the end of World War II the United States‚ through the expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex‚ seems to have taken this message to heart. While the second half of the 20th century was devoted to the Cold War with the Soviet Union‚ the beginning of the 21st century has witnessed the rise of perpetual
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Arguably‚ the War ended in a stalemate because the Iraqi regime that had started the War by invading Kuwait remained in power. Perhaps inevitably then‚ in March 2003 the US and its allies invaded Iraq with the stated aim of overthrowing the regime of Saddam Hussein and destroying that regime’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Some similarities between both Wars are immediately obvious: for example‚ the same country‚ the US‚ led both wars against the same country‚ Iraq. There are‚ however‚ significant differences
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POLI 70462 Security Studies Coursework Assignment 2012/13 Convenor: Dr. Cristina Masters Programme: MA International Politics- International Relations Pathway Student ID Number: 8353679 Word Count - 3035 Security is impossible. Critically engage? Introduction- The sudden terror attack in Boston on 15th April 2013 was a complete shock to the United States that‚ twelve years after 9/11‚ was beginning to slip into a relaxed state of complacency. The only apparent
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goal: “to maintain the traditional order of things in the Arab world‚ with the main pillars of stability intact: Israel‚ Saudi Arabia‚ with the Gulf emirs‚ and the tentacles of the Atlantic world in the major capitals in the oil lands.” Just like Saddam‚ Qaddafi threatened this so-called “traditional order” when he began to shift towards a more nationalist ideology‚ one that was more publicly favorable at the time. In 2006 he threatened “Oil companies are controlled by foreigners who have made millions
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Explain the causes and consequences of the Iraq War (2003) On the 20th of March 2003‚ US cruise missiles and bombs were dropped on Baghdad‚ Iraq’s capital city. The target was the then Iraqi president‚ Saddam Hussein’s and his closest aides‚ who were believed to be in a meeting. It would be the start of a conflict that would still be going strong seven years later. Even after so many years of US-led invasion‚ the reasons for invading Iraq are still debated worldwide. As Allawi (2007) argues ‘in
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Girls and boys sleepily hit their alarm clocks. Adults walked or drove to work. Tourists planned out their day. A few hours later‚ everyone’s life would take a drastic turn. Four hijacked commercial planes crashed in 3 different places in the northeast. The US reacted and invaded Afghanistan‚ disrupting and destroying the government. When did this‚ they created a never ending civil war in several countries that devastated millions. On September 11‚ 2001‚ 4 hijacked planes crashed. 2 planes bursted
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Samuel P. Huntington is the author of the theoretical book “Clash of civilization”‚ which caught people’s attention after the 11th of September attack. The book questions the future‚ and what will be the cause of a World War III‚ and who will be the next enemy of the nation after the cold – World War II. Huntington main point is that the world will not be divided by ideology or economic difference but by the cultural and ethnical differences between countries‚ or more specifically the West and the
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During the War in Korea‚ the main intention was to gain South Koreas territory and to stop the spread of Communism. The war never really ended even while the Peace negotiations were currently happening. (Wikipedia) The war didn’t end till South Korea gained back its territory. South Korea built it’s heavily armed border between their side of the country and the North Koreans. The U.S. troops didn’t withdrawal from their occupation in South Korea since the main intention’s to stop
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Running Head: GEORG 1 George H.W. Bush Essay Shawn Jackson MGT 380 Michael Smith July 15‚ 2013 Running Head: GEORG 2 GEORGE H.W. BUSH ESSAY Many Americans are familiar with the Bush family name in politics; however‚ George H.W. Bush
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Natalie McNulty Outline the Key features of the Just War Theory The base of the Just War Theory starts with philosophers such as Aristotle and Cicero. Their first ideas of any war being ‘just’ involves the act of self-defence as the reason the war began. In their eyes‚ this reasoning made a war just. Ambrose of Milan and Augustine of Hippo developed this idea by coming up with a series of specifications for a war to be called ‘just’. They took this idea from the existing Roman ‘justum bellum’ and
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