Essays on Military Conflict

Introduction

The word culture has been commonly used in the current society. However, it is worth noting its true definition. Biagetti & Lugli (2014) asserts that if one made an inquiry of its meaning from anthropologists whose sole responsibility is studying culture, then it is common knowledge that he would receive a variety of answers from them. Despite the different definitions, most of them put emphasis on same aspects. For this discussion, therefore, the definition of culture will be given. Also, the article will provide its five primary characteristics, and the overview of the physical geography, military conflict and its impact ...

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The Caucasus is a region, characterized by diverse ethnic and religious composition and the high number of ethnic conflicts and separatist regions. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states of this region witnessed and suffered numerous confrontations on the ethnic ground and faced several claims for separation and independence. Azerbaijan and Armenia confronted each other because of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory; Chechnya was a problematic region of Russian Federation, striving and fighting for independence, as a result, suffered two wars; and Georgia – a tiny mountainous state that shares borders with Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, witnessed a ...

1.The age of hope The keys to understanding of present and future, as a rule, inextricably linked with the understanding of human past. Imperialism has long been a dominant force in the history of human civilization. Imperialism is inseparable from the colonial policies, the seizure of new territories and the exploitation of indigenous peoples. Someone inclined to regard imperialism as a purely negative phenomenon, but it’s worth noting that it also had some positive effects. At the end of the XVII century Britain and France have entered the group of the most powerful nations. It was the beginning ...

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This paper is to deal with one of main issue of post-WW2 world, namely the phenomenon of civil war. The analysis of this paper is devoted to such questions as the reasons for certain civil wars as well as concrete instances of such internal conflicts. Also, the paper is to discuss the major theoretical contributions and controversies related to the civil war research program: firstly, civil wars are defined conceptually, and then, operationally. Second, major theories relating to the issue of causes of civil wars and their results will be discussed, along with future directions and policy implications. The ...

Is Globalization a Peace Producer?

Globalization is defined as upspring of a global society in which political, cultural, economic, and environmental circumstances in one part of the globe have particular significance for people in other parts of the world. (Globalization; Salzman, 2008). The globalization refers to rapidly growing connections between nations, economies, and societies (Barbieri and Schneider, 1999:387). Several literatures or studies have evaluated globalization in the context of international politics and social security to ascertain whether it is a peace producer or not (Blanton and Apodaca, 2007).Of course, most of the literatures have different views on the subject matter. This paper examines globalization in ...

1. Introduction

The Early Modern Era in Europe started with a continuing epic of wars between religions from the previous era but by the end of the 1700s things were looking up in some ways for a chance at democratic rule in England. Religion became less and less important in military conflict as single rulers, Monarchs, became the law of the land. They were from within families such as the Hapsburg Dynasty and the Tudor Dynasty who’s Kings became powerful enough to compete for power and riches. (Perry 468). Finally one country, England, successfully implemented a Bill of Rights to give power to a ...

Wilfred Owen was one of the most prominent anti-war poets of the early 20th century; unlike many of his peers, he dared to depict war as unfeeling, unsympathetic and gritty. In his poems, especially “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, war is shown to be horrible and shocking – a far cry from the romanticism and patriotism of his countrymen. From a sociological critical lens, Owen’s poetry was the start of a backlash against the perceived glory of war (World War I in particular) from someone who understood its grim reality – these poems demonstrate the foolishness of patriotism and nationalism in the face of ...

Nobel Prize in 2005: R. Aumann & T. Schelling <Student’s name> <University>

Aumann, Robert John (b. 1930) - Israeli-American mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in economics in 2005 (together with Thomas Schelling) "for his work on conflict and cooperation through analysis in the framework of the theory of games." Unlike Schelling Aumann worked almost exclusively mathematical analysis of game theory. Commenting on the award of the Nobel Prize in economics, he even said that in the economy as such understands not too deep. If Schelling studied mainly strategic cooperation of the conflicting parties ( ...

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There are still many myths and mysteries that remain undiscovered despite the time that has passed since World War II ended. World War II is considered as the deadliest and most devastating human conflict ever recorded. The cumulative number of casualties was over a hundred million. It was an event of total war between some of the world’s leaders in terms of economic and military capabilities such as the United States of American, France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union which was during that time headed by the Russian Empire, China, Poland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, ...

The First World War was the most devastating loss of life in human history up to that point, with nearly 10 million killed in action and millions more wounded or missing. The new technologies and war tactics used in the conflict, with combat aircraft, deadly gases and trench warfare, made this particular war especially devastating. In Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem Dulce et Decorum est, he describes the horrors of war, especially the specific terror that occurs during a gas attack in World War I. The poem itself is a treatise on just how atrocious war is, and the inherent disgust that ...

Every historical event has its reasons, prerequisites, characteristics of development and further consequences. Particular feature of historical events is that their meaning changes with each epoch’s interpretation of it. There were events which contemporary scholars called insignificant and even harmful for the development of their society. On the other hand, representatives of the next generations would consider those events essential for the development of modern social order which is more advanced and democratic than the former one. In other words, history is an interpretative science and it gains new half-color each time scholar from a new epoch looks into ...