Geopolitics

Regarding Russian intervention in Crimea, both John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Mankoff emphasize the importance of this region to Russia’s overall strategy. Despite a general agreement on Russia’s intentions, they pursue different arguments regarding the catalyst of this intervention. Both scholars discuss the role of the West in this intervention; however, Mearsheimer’s use of offensive realism constitutes most of his argument on why the West played a fundamental role in the Crimean invasion.…

“Possession of the right kind of colonies would do more than allow an uninterrupted flow of these valuable commodities to the mother country for domestic consumption and for re-export. The supplying of the colonies with provisions and manufactures would stimulate the home industry.” (Williams, 30.) Colonies were not simply political or expansionary ventures, but entire economies monopolized for the benefit of the home state, helping to satisfy the massive demands created by the same system.…

Fundamental Factors #9 Yi Zhan Crude Oil Scenarios 1. Weather Bearish By checking and comparing the weather condition this week to next week in State College, PA, I found the temperature next week will be a little bit higher than this week. These data came from (https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USPA2267:1:US). The demand of heating oil will be decreased next week. So, I think it would be bearish in effect. 2.…

“Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...” this quote of Gabriel García Márquez from One Hundred Years of Solitude is just a summary of never-ending conflict in Colombia. Colombia had a chain of civil wars since late 19th century. But the most bloody and inhuman link of this chain was the period of “La Violencia”. Following the assassination of liberal leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, “The Bogota Riots” changed the destiny and became the trigger of the countries violent history. “Even if…

ISIS is an expansion of ISI (Islamic State in Iraq) and is working in both Iraq and Syria. Just until two years ago, ISIS had been a subsided group of al-Qaeda. They are now becoming rivals of al-Qaeda. ISIS is a very specific Islamic group that wants to use force and military power to change the beliefs of the Middle East. They use views of pure religion to raise large amounts of money from donors and use that money to recruit soldiers from all over the world to help Islam. ISIS is a mafia-like…

areas of overlapping that become interesting as they illustrate the maxim, “The personal is political and the political is personal.” The two parts of the study show how Changez’s life becomes an eddy caught in the cross currents of international geopolitics, especially in the aftermath of the attacks on the twin towers of WTC and what it means to be a Pakistani, however privileged, in America in the midst of such literally earth-shaking events. The second part looks at the no less turbulent…

If America and the coalition wish to defeat the Islamic State and re-stabilize Iraq and the Levant, Assad should be funded and the FSA discarded.The continual conflict in Syria is one of the most controversial and misconcepted engagements in the modern era, because of media organizations spreading these truthless allegations and misconceptions. Most westerners view the Syrian Civil War as a fight between an evil regime led by the brutal and malicious Bashar Al-Assad, and Peaceful democracy…

Well it makes the Holocaust looked at with a broader viewpoint. After this realization the Holocaust was all about ethno politics and geopolitics from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. The Holocaust can only be described when wider geopolitical and strategics terms are put into consideration along with the Nazi German ideology. Another way it affected the Holocaust is Adolf Hitler…

Marshall Poe, history professor and author of The Hive, and Thomas L. Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention, discuss two different but similar topics: Wikipedia and global supply chains. Both of these collaborative paradigms come with consequences that can be either positive or negative. In the world today, collaborative paradigms generate both positive and negative ramifications in the way that people, businesses, and countries all over…

In 500 words or less, please provide a personal statement that addresses your reasons for transferring and the objectives you hope to achieve. I served on active-duty in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years. During this memorable period, I discovered an immeasurable amount of my inner abilities: strengths, weaknesses, ambitions, and morals. Having spent years abroad in sixteen different countries on three continents, I maximized this unique opportunity to polish the intangible skills I brought…