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Ivan Eland has suggested that traditional territorial definitions of empire are “too restricted, particularly in an age in which nationalism and nuclear weapons… mpose constraints on blatant territorial conquest and annexation by great powers.... ??1 Territorial control, nevertheless, is integral to any definition of empire though it may not necessarily be sufficiently inclusive....
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he United States foreign policy could no longer simply address state actors and disregard non state actors; it could no longer support , or turn a blind eyes towards , oppressive, authoritarian and p regimes , and , above all, it could not allow a religious wave of anti-American/Western sentiment to sweep through the middle East and negatively affects American strategic interests in the region(Talbott and Chanda,2001;Chomsky,2002;Wolin,2002).... foreign policy towards the middle East took a more dramatically aggressive turn following 9/11....
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Optimistic dreams of a new world order in which markets were free and peace became the global modus operandi were shattered in the early 1990s with the explosion of ethnic conflict and humanitarian tragedies on a grand scale.... The ethnic conflict threatened the territorial integrity of countries throughout the world including Somalia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia in Africa; Bosnia and Kosovo in eastern Europe; state-sponsored ethnic cleansing in East Timor in Asia and extreme violence on the North American island nation of Haiti....
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yria is located at the heart of contemporary middle eastern political, social and economic issue.... rdquo; Lawson (2009) comments on the events in Syria with an in-depth understanding of the complication situation there and taking into consideration all conflicts in the middle eastern region.... The paper "The Political Regime In Syria" discusses how Lawson in his book attempts to present an uncommon approach to the key aspects of Syrian society, values, politics, and economy....
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Book Report/Review
American imperialism predates the collapse of the Soviet Union and the past quarter-century of American hegemony.... The author identifies whether the Philippines should have defied George Washington's warnings in the first place and whether it would be wise if America returned to an isolationist, non-interventionist foreign policy position....
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The essay "Late Capitalism, the US hegemony, Global Turbulence, and Their Connections" discusses the rise and decline of the US hegemony, as elaborated and interpreted by Giovanni Arrighi, in his book “The Long Twentieth Century”.... his write-up would first analyze the aspect of the rise and decline of the US hegemony, as elaborated and interpreted by Giovanni Arrighi, in his book “The Long Twentieth Century”.... he aspect of the US hegemony, though is overall different from the prior hegemonies of various regions of the globe, yet shares some similarities with those past scenarios (hegemonies)....
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When one analyzes the global system, regardless of what metric is being determined, it is almost an unavoidable fact that the United States has, and continues to exhibit a level of hegemony over the entire global system.... This level of hegemony began after the Second World War; at a point when other world powers were exhausted after a lengthy period of engagement – often taking place upon their own territory....
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Research Paper
nbsp;Conflict and tensions between the middle East and Western powers are rooted in political and cultural/religious differences.... Scholars have argued that imperialism during colonization was particularly significant for countries in the middle East and North Africa (MENA).... This resistance to empire is deeply rooted in resentments developed during colonial dominance, resulting in nationalism in the post-colonial era which cumulatively gave way to resistance countered by persistent interference by the West and especially the US within the middle East and promulgations of nationalism were complicated by the Gulf War which brought an international community into a middle East conflict (Alkadry, 2004)....
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