Geopolitics

If I were to write a book about my life story to date, I would call it “Determination and Dreams”. My dreams drive me to excel and I’ve learned that determination is one of the best characteristics I can use to pursue these dreams. I work hard in life and I push myself so my dreams can become a reality. My big dream is to receive an exceptional education and use it to change my community, locally and hopefully one day nationally or internationally, for the better. This dream has pushed me to…

The key general capabilities necessary to rebalance the Joint Force 2025 given the current strategic direction and global security environment to ensure Freedom of Maneuver (FOM) in the global commons and dominance within the cyber and space domains. Enhanced capabilities to protect cyber and space domains and synchronized partnered alliances are required to counter threats to these domains. This rebalancing is warranted to maintain a level of readiness that meets the needs of the National…

Introduction The Republic of Turkey is one of many states greatly affected by the current Syrian Civil War, which has also caused an immense displacement of Syrian refugees seeking safety. As a neighboring state, it is burdened by the great influx of refugees, prompting an adjustment on the refugee policy, the state of Syria and the Islamic State. Its foreign policy greatly depends on systemic variables such as geography, alliances, and relative power. According to Joseph Micallef,…

The 9/11 terror attacks in New York City thrust Islam to the forefront of the western world. Islamic militancy gained global recognition and a discourse began on the Islamist movement. In the weeks following the attacks, public perception of Islamic violence, Jihad, and Islam were blurred by the media. This confusion created an aura of distinction, fueling nationalism and reigniting the West vs. East debate. Despite this, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US government remained firm.…

Financial Market The financial market includes markets in which funds are transferred from people who have an excess of available funds to people who have a shortage. • With weather being around freezing through parts of Florida analysts are worried that Orange Juice corp. will suffer. The orange juice future rose 10% in the past week. Traders are still anticipating a short production because of a disease and fruit sizes being smaller than usual. • After the deep water horizon disaster, oil…

Before the Great Migration, there were not many African American outside of the rural southern states. However, in the early 1900s, African American saw more labor and social, economic opportunities in the North factories and industrial industry located in the Northern states; hence the movement began. But this movement still limited African American population to the East Coast; it was not until the Great Depression and World War II that pushed this population to migrate further north, Midwest…

Nathan Buning IAH 201 Dr. Magee Section 22 –Paper 2 10/26/14 From Relative Isolation to Increase Global Involvement From the time of the Spanish American War until the beginning of Cold War, the United States went from relative isolation to increased global involvement because of geopolitical interests, the roaring twenties, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The consequences of this increased global involvement on American society was anti imperialism…

President-elect Barack Obama conducted a series of town hall meetings during his cross country “Mainstreet Tour.” On December 4, 2009 there was a memorable moment in Allentown, PA. There was an audible buzz in the crowd when it came time for questions from the audience. A large group of people eagerly pointed to one young man in hopes that Obama would call upon him. Obama said, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Alright I’ll make you first just because everyone is very excited about this young man…

Darwin’s Nightmare, a documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, takes place in Tanzania, an underdeveloped country in Africa. It depicts the economic conditions of the people of Mwanza, Tanzania. The people in the town suffer from poverty, they gave up their jobs as farmers to go into the fishing industry. The movie is about fish, specifically the Nile perch fish in Lake Victoria but the main theme of the movie revolves around the exploitation of natural resources by one country…

International relations contains many elements and one of the major components is world politics and security. It has been viewed that security Is a ‘contested concept’ as it implies the absence of threat, the meaning of security has been broadened to include areas of politics, economy, society and environment but an aspect of concern is whether security is limited to and only individual, national and or international. In this essay it will discuss how national security has been the essence of…