Middle East Essays (Examples)
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Weapons Of Mass Destruction WMD Antifa
… After all, Iran has many non-state actors that it patronizes and can outsource an attack to. Much of the Arab community in the middle east appears to harbor resentment towards the U.S. after two decades of war.
One question that one might ask is this: would the threat ……
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Chatfield, A. T., Reddick, C. G., & Brajawidagda, U. (2015, May). Tweeting propaganda, radicalization and recruitment: Islamic state supporters multi-sided twitter networks. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 239-249).
Christenson, G. (2015). CBRN response. National Guard Bureau.
Freberg, K., Graham, K., McGaughey, K., & Freberg, L. A. (2011). Who are the social media influencers? A study of public perceptions of personality. Public Relations Review, 37(1), 90-92.
Garellek, A. (2016, March 4). The ISIS WMD Threat. The Cipher Brief. Retrieved from https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/middle-east/isis-wmd-threat
Jennings, P. (2006). Miami port poses serious risks. Retrieved from https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131634&page=1
Johnston, W.R. (2016, November 30). Summary of historical attacks using chemical or biological weapons. The Johnston Archive. Retrieved from http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/chembioattacks.html
Klein, A. (2019). From Twitter to Charlottesville: Analyzing the Fighting Words Between the Alt-Right and Antifa. International Journal of Communication, 13, 22.
Maras, M-H. (2014). Transnational Security. Florida: CRC Press.
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How Media Coverage Of Operation Desert Storm Was Influenced By The
… by the United States had long-term implications for American political and military leaders alike. This topic is important to analyze today because the middle east remains a global hotspot with the very real potential to erupt in other conflicts with Western powers in general and the United States … including most especially when the United States is at war. Consequently, the American’s public’s response to Operation Desert Storm was no exception, at east during the early phases of the conflict and immediately thereafter. In this regard, Lindsey and Smith (2003) report that, “The Iraq War validated … of the American military.
This positive reaction, however, was in sharp contrast to the American public’s views about becoming further embroiled in the middle east prior to Operation Desert Storm. For instance, according to Lindsey and Smith (2003), “In the prolonged march to war, the public was divided ……
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Curtis, J. (2015, November). Reflecting on strategic results of Operation Desert Storm. Army, 65(11), 24-27.
Khan, H. (2011, July 1). An unbiased estimate of present American competitiveness from deontological and teleological perspectives of utilitarianism. Competition Forum, 9(2), 348-352.
Klotzer, C. L. (2002, October). A lesson for Americans: Desert Storm operation reports were full of lies and distortions. St. Louis Journalism Review, 32(250), 34-39.
Lindsey, J. M. & Smith, C. (2003, Summer). Rally 'round the flag: Opinion in the United States before and after the Iraq War. Brookings Review, 21(3), 20-24.
Operation Desert Storm. (2020). U.S. History. Retrieved from https://www.ushistory.org/ us/60a.asp.
Stilwell, B. (2015, September 12). 21 facts about the first Gulf War. Military.com. Retrieved from https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2015/09/21-facts-about-the-first-gulf-war .
Taylor, A. (2016, January 14). Operation Desert Storm: 25 years since the first Gulf War. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/operation-desert-storm-25-years-since-the-first-gulf-war/424191/ .
Tilford, K. H., Jr. (1993, Summer). Review: The meaning of victory in Operation Desert Storm: A review essay. Political Science Quarterly, 108(2), 327-331.
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How To Conduct A Policy Analysis
… bill that Congress is pushing through. Therefore, it is of critical importance to social welfare, not just in the U.S., but in the middle east as well that this issue be addressed from the right perspective because it is about ensuring that people be allowed to stand up ……
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Beinin, J. (2004). The new American McCarthyism: policing thought about the Middle East. Race & Class, 46(1), 101-115.
Corrigan, E. C. (2009). Is Anti?Zionism Anti?Semitic? Jewish Critics Speak. Middle East Policy, 16(4), 146-159.
Fischel, J. R. (2005). The new anti-Semitism. The Virginia Quarterly Review, 81(3), 225.
Greenwald, G. (2019). The House Democrats’ “Rebuke” of Rep. Ilhan Omar Is a Fraud for Many Reasons, Including Its Wild Distortion of Her Comments. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2019/03/05/the-house-democrats-rebuke-of-rep-ilhan-omar-is-a-fraud-for-many-reasons-including-its-wild-distortion-of-her-comments/
Gutiérrez, A. M. L., & Campos, M. V. (2015). Subjective and Objective Aspects of Points of View. In Temporal Points of View (pp. 59-104). Springer, Cham.
H.R. 1697. (2018). Israel Anti-Boycott Act. Retrieved from https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1697
Moritz-Rabson, D. (2018). Teacher sues Texas after being fired for refusing to sign pro-Israel contract. Retrieved from https://www.newsweek.com/teacher-fired-refusing-sign-pro-israel-document-1262083
Stein, Y. (2003). Any name illegal and immoral. Ethics & International Affairs, 17(1), 127-137.
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Compare Between Monarchy And Democracy
… monarchies, much of the modern world has rejected them, though the West used to be ruled by monarchs. Today, monarchs thrive in the middle east, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where a monarchical system of government has enabled the UAE to bring stability and leadership. However, ……
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Brookings Institute. (2013). Kings for all seasons. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Resilience-Arab-Monarchies_English.pdf
Katz, N. (2019). How super pacs shape u.s. Elections with advertisements that portraym candidates in ways publicly identified campaign ads often avoid. Retrieved from https://scholars.org/contribution/how-super-pacs-shape-us-elections-advertisements-portray-candidates-ways-publicly
Lumen. (2020). Forms of government. Retrieved from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-introsociology/chapter/reading-forms-of-government/
Soskis, B. (2017). George Soros and the Demonization of Philanthropy. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/soros-philanthropy/547247/
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Sociology Law And Identity
… culture has its norms, which ultimately affect what is considered right or wrong. A clear distinction of this is best illustrated in the middle east as compared to Western culture, where in the middle east certain behaviors, e.g., kissing in public, in public is illegal as compared to in the west. This is basically as a result of ……
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Renteln, A. D. (2004). The cultural defense. Oxford University Press.
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Israel And United States
… are many different issues in foreign policy that the government needs to address—from tensions regarding missile treaties with Russia to wars in the middle east to money given to the state of Israel, which has been recognized by the United Nations as a violator of human rights for … is helping to fund a human rights violator by continuing to give billions of dollars every year to an apartheid state in the middle east. A policy change is clearly needed on this issue if America is going to be able to have any moral high ground to … 2018).
The policy change would end all of this financial assistance and restore the moral high ground of America with respect to at east this portion of its foreign policy.
Discussion of the Rationale Supporting This Change
As Johnson (2011) notes, there is a need for more … always supported Israel.……
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Facione, P. (2006). Critical thinking: what it is and why it counts. Insight Assessments.
Hooks, B. (1999). Black looks: Race and representation. South End Press.
Human Rights Watch. (2018). Israel and Palestine. Retrieved from https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/israel/palestine
Johnson, S. A. (2011). Women, Shared Leadership, and Policy: The Mano River Women's Peace Network Case Study. Journal of Pan African Studies, 4(8).
Mearsheimer, J. J., & Walt, S. M. (2007). The Israel lobby and US foreign policy. Macmillan.
Richards, R. (2010). Everyday creativity. The Cambridge handbook of creativity, 189-215.
Sharp, J. (2018). U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel. Retrieved from https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf
Verhaeghe, P. (2014). Neoliberalism has brought out the worst in us. The Guardian. Annotated Bibliography
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Major Issues Facing The European Union
… Immigration Crisis
One of the reasons for the rise of nationalism has been the immigration crisis stemming from the non-stop wars in the middle east that have decimated the region and forced millions of migrants from their native lands. Currently Turkey is threatening to unleash a tsunami of … considerable prestige and support in Germany as native Germans have expressed their discontentment with their leader’s willingness to give refuge to millions of middle east refugees. The Germans, like the Hungarians, the Italians and the British are all concerned about the safety risks, the economic risks, the health … immigrants as threat. Pew Research Center (2016).
As the Pew Research Center (2016) graph shows, nearly three-fourths of Poland sees immigrants from the middle east as a threat, and approximately two-thirds of the public in Greece, Hungary and Italy feel the same way. Opinion was divided in the ……
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Amadeo, K. (2019). Eurozone debt crisis. Retrieved from https://www.thebalance.com/eurozone-debt-crisis-causes-cures-and-consequences-3305524
BBC. (2020). Brexit. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887
Chadwick, L. (2020). Recession could tip EU. Retrieved from https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/27/could-covid-19-coronavirus-trigger-a-european-economic-recession
Grose, T. (2020). Coronavirus tests Europe’s open borders. Retrieved from https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-03-02/europes-open-border-agreement-may-become-casualty-to-coronavirus
Herszenhorn, D. (2019). Europe’s NATO problem. Retrieved from https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-nato-problem-defense-procurement-training-research/
Pew Research Center. (2016). European opinions of the refugee crisis. Retrieved from https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/16/european-opinions-of-the-refugee-crisis-in-5-charts/
Wirtz, B. (2019). The Beginning Of The End Of Open Borders In Europe. Retrieved from https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-open-borders-in-europe/
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FBI Drugs And WMDs
… Aden harbor, the FBI began focusing on suspects who would later be tied to 9/11 and the spread of terror cells throughout the middle east.[footnoteRef:2] It was not, of course, the only incident to spark that focus—but it was an important factor in the development of a new … between the U.S. and Russia with respect to the suspension of the Nuclear Arms Control Treaty.[footnoteRef:7] The destabilization of the relationship between the east and the West is evidence of the growing nature of this challenge. Furthermore, the fact that mistrust plays such a factor in international … of bombs and missiles. It also has to be considered from the standpoint of consequences and outcomes. For example, the invasion into the middle east by the U.S. following both the attacks on the USS Cole and the attacks on the World Trade Centers had a serious consequence ……
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Arnold, Aaron and Daniel Salisbury, “The Long Arm,” Belfer Center, 2019. https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/long-arm
Carter, Ashton B. "Overhauling counterproliferation." Technology in Society 26, no. 2-3 (2004): 257-269.
The Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. “Combating Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” Washington, D.C., 1999.
FBI. “COINTELPRO.” https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro
FBI Counterproliferation Center. “About.” https://www.fbi.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/national-security-branch/fbi-counterproliferation-center
Fischer, Rowena Rege. “Guide to the Study of Intelligence: Counterproliferation,” Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies 21, no. 1 (Winter 2014-15), 78-82.
Liow, Joseph Chinyong. "The Mahathir administration's war against Islamic militancy: operational and ideological challenges." Australian Journal of International Affairs 58, no. 2 (2004): 241-256.
Manchikanti, Laxmaiah, Jaya Sanapati, Ramsin M. Benyamin, Sairam Atluri, Alan D. Kaye, and Joshua A. Hirsch. "Reframing the prevention strategies of the opioid crisis: focusing on prescription opioids, fentanyl, and heroin epidemic." Pain physician 21, no. 4 (2018): 309-326.
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Comparing Irans Military And Culture To The U S Military And Culture
… no two countries could be more different. The U.S. is a liberal, Western democracy with the world’s biggest all-volunteer military. Iran is a middle east nation that operates under a theocracy and mandates military service for its men. In the U.S., the military is something separate and distinct … and the U.S. is an ever-present threat. Many in Iran’s military hierarchy have strong opinions regarding the West and its allies in the middle east and they have made repeated threats to counter any hostile action taken towards Iran with an equally aggressive response (Reuters, 2019).
In the ……
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Adams, G., & Murray, S. (Eds.). (2014). Mission creep: the militarization of US foreign policy?. Georgetown University Press.
Butler, S. (2003). War is a Racket. LA: Feral House.
Chambers, J. (2003). To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America. New York: The Free Press.
Forsling, C. (2017). The military has a toxic leadership problem. Retrieved from https://taskandpurpose.com/military-toxic-leadership-problem
Jacobson, M. (2008). Sanctions against Iran: A promising struggle. Washington Quarterly, 31(3), 69-88.
Ouellet, E. (n.d.). New directions in military sociology.
Reuters. (2019). Senior Iranian military adviser threatens broad response to any U.S. move. Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-aramco-iran-guards/senior-iranian-military-adviser-threatens-broad-response-to-any-u-s-move-idUSKBN1W50WG
Snow, R., & Wynn, S. T. (2018). Managing Opioid Use Disorder and Co-Occurring Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Veterans. Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services, 56(6), 36-42.
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Depression In The Military
… 2018). If not treated, service-related depression can lead to suicide—and as Kang et al. (2015) show, suicide risk among veterans returning from the middle east has been increasing exponentially in recent years. One way that leaders have been trained to deal with military service-related depression is through the … attractive one.
Conclusion
Depression can be a serious affliction for soldiers in the military. Many soldiers and veterans returning from service in the middle east suffer from serious mental health issues. For some it stems from trauma, while for others it stems from a lack of faith, hope ……
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Bonde, J. P., Utzon-Frank, N., Bertelsen, M., Borritz, M., Eller, N. H., Nordentoft, M., ... & Rugulies, R. (2016). Risk of depressive disorder following disasters and military deployment: systematic review with meta-analysis. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 208(4), 330-336.
Bonelli, R., Dew, R. E., Koenig, H. G., Rosmarin, D. H., & Vasegh, S. (2012). Religious and spiritual factors in depression: review and integration of the research. Depression research and treatment, 2012.
Casey Jr, G. W. (2011). Comprehensive soldier fitness: A vision for psychological resilience in the US Army. American Psychologist, 66(1), 1.
Dolphin, K. E., Steinhardt, M. A., & Cance, J. D. (2015). The role of positive emotions in reducing depressive symptoms among Army wives. Military Psychology, 27(1), 22-35.
Griffith, J., & West, C. (2013). Master resilience training and its relationship to individual well-being and stress buffering among Army National Guard soldiers. The journal of behavioral health services & research, 40(2), 140-155.
Kang, H. K., Bullman, T. A., Smolenski, D. J., Skopp, N. A., Gahm, G. A., & Reger, M. A. (2015). Suicide risk among 1.3 million veterans who were on active duty during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Annals of epidemiology, 25(2), 96-100.
Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370.
Reivich, K. J., Seligman, M. E., & McBride, S. (2011). Master resilience training in the US Army. American Psychologist, 66(1), 25.
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