Coup d'état

Critical Analysis: Daughter of Persia Daughter of Persia is about a young girls journey through life after being born in Iran. She was born to the third wife of her father and was his 15th child. Shazdeh, her father, had 36 children to eight different wives. She lived in Tehran on a compound with the rest of her family. Shazdeh believed in all of his children being educated and active, even though this wasn’t common for girls at the time. This set Saitti apart from other woman throughout her…

3.1.2. The Portuguese Restoration War (1640-1668) As Charles V married Isabella of Portugal, Portuguese was possessed by the Habsburgs through the political marriages which were traditionally implemented. Since his son, Philip II of Spain, also known as Philip the Prudent, both Spain and Portugal were considered harmonious, the usage of ‘’the Iberian Union’’ was common. However, when Philip IV of Spain began to overtax Portugal, Portuguese felt uncomfortable with the situation. In addition to…

1991. Inspired by the start of the crumble of the Soviet Union in August, many of the Chechen nationalists felt that the newly reformed Russia was at its weakest and most vulnerable, allowing them to seek independence. Not long after the attempted coup d’etat in Moscow, did Chechen militant Shamil Basayev seek to draw international attention to Chechnya through the hijacking of an Aeroflot flight to Turkey (Murphy,…

Despite the fact that Brazil has improved in their economy over the past few decades, it is however a weak state in the sense of its: political institutions, institutional arrangements, political parties, and uneven economic development. As Huntington has argued, Brazil’s transition in reference to the Modernization theory does not fit the society because getting rid of the traditions in the region has led to a non-legitimate bureaucracy. And in other words, the modernization theory sequence is…

It might be surprising to know, but actually “As of the 2015 elections, Argentina has a higher percentage of women in elected seats in both the National Lower House and the Senate than the world averages: 35.8 percent and 41.7 percent, respectively, in comparison with 22.9 percent and 22.3 percent” (McCay). Something that is often forgotten is the fact that even though inequality might be fought against and protested, without people in politics agreeing with the movement, things will never…

In the world of Spanish Christendom, few figures are more shrouded in legend and mystery than Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, or El Cid. While modern observers would perceive the notion of a knight changing his loyalty as treasonous, El Cid is renowned for having done this very act. He served under three different rulers during his lifetime, one of them having been a Moorish king. A fierce warrior and an ambitious ruler, historians remember El Cid for his many accomplishments. Unfortunately, he was a…

Introduction Set mostly in Afghanistan in the regime of Taliban, the book Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini has won many hearts from its reader. The book that first published in 2003 really deserves a title as The National Bestseller. Bringing the theme of friendship, betrayal, guilt, redemption and the uneasy love between fathers and sons this novel had me thrilled and moved, both at the same time. Hosseini successfully portrays the feeling of the characters and also the situational at…

country was in chaos, but people were dreaming about finally becoming a democratic country after being under the longest dictator in the history of Korea. However, new military authorities, led by Jeon Du-hwan, took over the government with 12.12 coup d’etat. People were devastated that the government fell under the military leader again, and people in Gwangju, mainly led by college students, gathered together to fight against the new authoritarian government. The leaders of the government knew…

Fidel Castro is revered as one of the most prominent communist leaders of the last century. On August 13, 1926 Fidel Castro was born in Birán, Cuba to his parents Angel Castro y Agrgiz and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel had six siblings consisting of four sisters and two brothers. His brothers were Raul and Ramon Castro, and his sisters went by the names of Juanita, Angelita, Enma, and Augustina Castro. His dad was a Spanish immigrant who made a fortune constructing railroad systems with the means of…

Modern revolutions have an almost archetypal pattern in which the popular masses overthrow an ancient, dogmatic totalitarian regime in favour of a more liberal and secularist political system. It is therefore of little wonder that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 received immense interest – and also became a subject of incredulity, perhaps – when the people deposed of the pro-Western Shah of the Pahlavi Dynasty and his constitutional monarchy only to be subjected to Ayatollah Khomeini’s…