79 The Arab Uprisings in Historical Perspective Jerzy Zdanowski* PL ISSN 02398818 HEMISPHERES Vol. 29‚ No. 1‚ 2014 The Arab Uprisings in Historical Perspective Abstract At the turn of 2011‚ turbulent events occurred in the Middle East. Initially‚ these protests were a form of civil disobedience‚ but the situation later developed in several directions. In Tunisia and Egypt‚ the authorities finally gave in to the growing protests. In Jordan‚ Algeria‚ Morocco‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Kuwait‚ the United Arab
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The Armenian Genocide is a genocide that happened amid and soon after the First World War‚ from 1914 to 1918‚ which brought on the passing of 1‚5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as an immediate result from the Young Turks’ administration’s arrangements to free the Turkish grounds of Christian populace to accomplish their container Turkic dreams. Formally‚ the genocide stated when 250 Armenian erudite people and pioneers of the general population on the 24th of April‚ 1915‚ in Constantinople
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A RESEARCH ON MY FRIEND LUKE BY FERNANDO SORRENTINO Fernando Sorrentino is a notable Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires on November 8‚ 1942.Sorrentino was married to Alicia Fraiman in 1969 and they have three children: Juan Manuel (1970)‚ and the twins María Angélica and María Victoria (1978). And since October of 2009‚ they also have a granddaughter‚ Pilar‚ Juan Manuel’s daughter. He is been writing short stories for more than thirty – two years. Fernando Sorrentino books for youngsters and
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Falkenburg Luke Civil War Relapse?: Hezbollah & Sectarianism in Post-War Lebanon DEC 11 2012 Masters Jonathan ‚ Hezbollah (a.k.a. Hizbollah‚ Hizbu ’llah) . Counciil for Foreign Relations January 3‚ 2014 Meier Daniel The Effects of Arab Spring and Syrian Uprising on Lebanon May 2013 Ospina Mariano V. Syria‚ Iran‚ and Hizballah: A Strategic Alliance Global Security Studies‚ Winter 2014‚ Volume 5‚ Issue 1 Picard Elizabeth Lebanon in search of sovereignty: Post 2005 security dilemmas 2012 This chapter
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Hezbollah is a Shi’a Islamic terrorist organization. They had emerged in Lebanon in the early 1980’s as a consolidation of other Shi’a militias. Their early activities in the 1980’s had mainly focused on the Lebanese civil war acting against American and Israeli forces. This came about due to the Israeli’s occupying Lebanon for eighteen years up until 1990. Hezbollah waged an asymmetric war using guerrilla tactics such as suicide attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces. Hezbollah is regarded
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Aung San Suu Kyi: A Transformational Leader and A Symbol of Hope April 2‚ 2012: Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) have won a landslide victory in Burma (BBC News Asia 2012). This signifies a new chapter in humanity which may improve the lives of millions of Burmese. An Incarcerated Leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) is one of the world’s greatest leaders in the struggle to fight for democracy (Ball 2004). The 1991 Nobel peace prize winner devoted her life to the
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The Decline Of the United States as the Worlds Only Super Power The United States has experienced a steady decline as the world’s only super power‚ and this steady decline will continue until the United States is no longer the world’s hegemonic state. There are a number of factors that directly influence this decrease in power from the United States on the world stage including: a struggle to sustain economic hegemony
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Nick Wood Movements essay October 15‚ 2014 Hamas The word Hamas is an acronym‚ from the Arabic for Islamic Resistance Movement. Hamas grew out of the ideology and practice of the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood movement that arose in Egypt in the 1920s. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin founded this Palestinian Islamic group in 1987 during the first intifada‚ as a result of the Israeli taking up most of the West Bank or Gaza strip and later emerged at the forefront of armed resistance to Israel
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Political Science Democracy in the Age of Globalisation Clash of Civilizations or a Broken Clock? In his book The End of History and the Last Man‚ Francis Fukuyama argues that the only ideological alternative for post-Cold War nations is a capitalist free market economy‚ human rights and liberal democracy and that the world had reached ’the end of history ’. Samuel P. Huntington on the other hand believed that the worlds future primary axis of conflict will be along cultural and religious
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Flashforward to 2001 and the terrorism has grown in the outskirts of the capital city and everywhere else In Iraq. Saddam Hussein had made little to no effort to remove the threat from the country. Saddam was more focused on suppressing the Kurdish uprising‚ which had been and ongoing fight since the eighties. The UN had implemented sanctions against the Iraqi government for using deadly force on the nation’s own citizens. The UN had been keeping a close eye on Iraq‚ but now more than ever‚ Saddam had
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