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result of the conflicts between the European countries. Disputes between countries and its allies led to the devastating effect on the Eastern nations. While there were many causes that led to the war, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by a Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip was the final spark that triggered WWI. The Austrians saw the murder as a perfect pretext to crush Serbia. The four years of the Great War resulted in unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. The grueling…

Mark Biondich is a professor of the Balkans at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His book, The Balkans, looks at the region following the decline of the Ottoman Empire. More specifically, he discusses how the contrasting forces of nationalism and foreign intervention have caused the mass violence which are unfortunately synonymous with Balkan history. Balkan nationalist movements followed a similar path beginning with cultural revival and ending with political agitation for national…

Marco Vesovic, and W. B. Yeats. Akhmatova, a Russian, and Yeats, an Irishman, each encountered the turmoil caused by World War 1. However, Jarrell writes from an American standpoint about World War 2 and Vesovic, born in Montenegro, speaks about the Serb siege of Sarajevo (Steere). The themes of four poems written by these authors are all the same: war. Yet, the tones and literary…

The questions surrounding religion and morality make up much of all the great philosophical debate. There is constant discussion on the nature of the relationship between religion and morality and what role religion plays in morality. A large component of the argument can be seen through the idea of human rights and the different thoughts on the subject. Two philosophers that have strong beliefs on human rights are Richard Rorty and Michael Perry. While Rorty brings to light many aspects of his…

This war was the result of the country Yugoslavia breaking up. Part of the country, the Bosnian-Serbs, wanted to remain with the greater part of Serbia, so a group of rebels attacked the capital of Bosnia after the country declared its independence (“The War in Bosnia and the Moral Dilemma of Refugees”). This act of protest is what sparked the fire…

World War 1 was a major event in history, not for just one country but for many. World War 1 was also associated with the making of the modern world and modern technology as well as helping us understand what mistakes not to make. There are long-term effects and short-term effects that led to World War 1. Some of these long-term causes included Imperialism and Militarism which are big contributes for the world to go at war. There were also these short-term causes that started to light the fire…

Human Nature, Plagues and the Antidote People are born with an equal capacity to do good and to do evil. In every person there is a ceaseless battle between Eros and Thanatos; the need to preserve and conserve life and the need to destroy all living things, respectively. Life has myriad of events that bring Eros and Thanatos into conflict. War is a constant in human nature so it is expected that was will also be seen in the physical world. War is aided by many different sources but on of the…

Greed and Grievance – a complementary approach While many scholars dealing with the academic or policy implication of this debate align themselves with either the greed or grievance camp, others believe that it is the combination of the two that has the biggest explanatory power when it comes to exploring the motives behind intra-state conflict. As highlighted by Murshed and Tadjoeddin (2007: 24), “grievances can be present without greed, but it is difficult to sustain greedy motives without…

World War. For example, the Black Hand, a pan-Serbian nationalist group in the Balkan Region, organized the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which directly led to World War I. The Black Hand “specialized in encouraging ethnic Serbs…to work for unification with Serbia,” and the organization felt that Austria was unjustly preventing this mission (Goff 97). Because of the organization 's nationalist belief that Serbians must be united, they felt that it was necessary to spark…

“What commonalities are seen in genocide we have studied”? The commonality I have seen in genocide that they all have a common goal, which is to eliminate the race or races that are believed to be inferior. Examples of past genocides are the Holocaust, Rwandan, Cambodian, and Bosnian. However, for genocide to occur eight steps must proceed according to Gregory H. Stanton. Subsequently, genocides do not happen in a day; they take months if not years to prepare for a mass killing to eventually…