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The Doctrine Nixon put into place is very important in regards to U.S. history. The doctrine states “Supply weapons but not troops to countries fighting off communism. During his term in office president Nixon was extremely passionate about two specific policies that were very important to him both of which accumulated in 1972. He visited china in attempts to set into action the normalizing of the Peoples Republic of China. He also visited the Soviet Union, where he agreed to sign the first…

2007, pg. 202). As the world is so reliant on this finite resource it is a crucial problem that needs to be addressed with a sense of urgency. Peak oil will force the change in which society operates and will have a dramatic influence on the economic condition of the world as it has had in previous years. The demand for oil globally is going to be forever increasing unless alternatives are found. Peak oil is unquestionably linked with the economic state of nations and has great potential…

The global issue raised in this article is whether or not offshore balancing can be used in today’s world and be an effective practice that the UNited States should readopt. The practice of offshore balancing is a strategic international relation where a great power uses a favorable country to check the rise in power in a non favorable hostile country. Mearsheimer states that “offshore balancing, the United States would calibrate its military posture according to the distribution of power in the…

Much like Napoleon Dynamite, Justin Bieber, and da Bears, Ronald Reagan and his presidency are extremely polarizing. For years, republicans look to Reagan as a great example of conservatism, while democrats labeled Reagan as an extremist and a Great Prevaricator. Many policies and behaviors were neither flagrantly good nor bad, it merely depends on the political perspective of the individual. Undisputedly, the modern world still witnesses the effects of the Reagan era. The legacy of Reagan’s…

for any given unemployment rate. Mankiw and Taylor (2011) and Begg, Fischer and Dornbusch (2008) have both shown that the Breakdown of Phillips curve was caused by several reasons such as high boost in the price of oil on world markets because of the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) supply cuts, another reason was the “Expansionary or accommodative monetary policy pursued by central banks.” During this period the United Kingdom and many other countries began to…

Carter knew the severity to resolve the issue at any cost. This is significant because if the issue was not resolved United States would lose its closest ally in the Middle East and major trading partners. Carter was aware of the response of the OPEC countries ( consisting mostly of Arab nations), which announced an oil embargo that led to drastic upheaval in the economy, due to the American involvement in the 1973 Yom Kippur War (Stein 2). Such involvement almost led to a direct confrontation…

(World Development Indicators). Fuel exports as a percentage of Nigeria’s merchandise exports has risen from 10.3 percent in 1962 to 90.9 percent in 2014 (World Development Indicators). According to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the value of these petroleum exports to the Nigerian economy…

overshadowed by the recession of 1973-75. Several things contributed to this decline. The most obvious and well known was the Oil Crisis in 73, which saw sharp declines in the availability of gasoline. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), not only decreased production, but also selectivity setup embargos on several countries that it believed supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War. This had an adverse effect on the US economy, since it is so car dependent. Long lines were the…

Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil Timothy Mitchell (London and New York: Verso, 2012) Timothy Mitchell, in his book ‘Carbon Democracy’, ventures into a very broad and interesting area of democratic struggles as reflected largely in the transitioning from coal to oil as a primary source of fuel for industries in essentially already industrialized countries. In other words, the author primarily argues that the production, acquisition of energy and the emergence of democratic…

late 20th century, the Middle East had been struggling with instability and hostility. Afghanistan had been locked in war between the Soviets and the Mujahideen. Israel and Palestine continue to fight each other after Israel was established in 1948. OPEC raised oil prices after the United States sent aid to Israel causing the oil embargo of 1973. Among these conflicts, a little-known president, Saddam Hussein, would grow to become one of the worst leaders since World War II, and cause a seven…