Bashar al Assad's Rise to Power.
Introduction
As seen on television, Syria is in disarray and in the midst of a deadly conflict. This conflict did not appear out of nowhere. In fact, this Syrian Civil war is the result of a variety of historic and contemporary factors. In the middle of a grosme civil war, Syria is experiencing consistent intervention by world powers like the United States of America and Russia, a variety of human rights abuses and the ever growing threat of islamic extremist in the region. Too many political scientist and historians Due to foreign intervention, a political power vacuum, religious strafe and the Arab Spring it isn't surprising to political scientist and historians that all of these factors have contributed
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Towards the beginning of the cold war both the Americans and the Soviets had their crosshairs on the Middle East due to its geographical and resources as of which rendering the Middle East as a important asset. As the Soviets expanded their, territory the Americans implemented a strategy known as comainment which would consist of propping up capitalist governments funding insurgent groups and funding new markets. As the Americans assisted in the establishment of the Gulf Cooperation Council it also overthrew of the Iranian government. Moreover the soviets installed a Iraqi puppet regime, funded a fundamentalist Iranian government and backed the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party during the Syrian Crisis. .[David W. Lesch]. Moreover the Arab Baath Party was a national socialist party who placed a pro soviet Colonel in charge of the Syrian armed forces and scuff july pulled of a coup in 1963 thus putting All Thought the cold lasted 45 years its apparent that its effects may last a …show more content…
As of which when Hafez met his demise Bashar came outta of nowhere and was installed as the new leader of Syria. Even though the former dentist had no experience in leading a country he was a sign of new hope. As time passed it was apparent that Bashar was as cruel if not crueler than his father. Yet with this spontaneous introduction of power Bashar Al Assad during the Syrian Civil war he inserted his new found power by starving millions of his own citizens {Alex
For Hafez al-Assad just like in any other fair country the eligible voters must support or not the candidacy. Fortunately, for him a majority of the votes were on his favor with a 97 percent. According to the new formula concept, the old conservative parties would recover and integrate under the National Progressive front. Unfortunately, for Assad never took place due to security concerns in the country. Al-Assad authoritarian regime lasted for thirty years; he developed order and stabilized the government during his period. Most of his negative publicity came from over staff, mediocre public service and the ongoing Israel conflict. Hafez Al- Assad past on 10 June 2000, and his son Bashar Al Assad was delegated to assume the presidency of Syria quickly after the constitution was amended to drop the age requirement from 40 years minimum to 34 years of age. This revision allowed Al-Assad (son) to assume
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I am writing to you today as a student at the College of William and Mary. I am in an International Security class and recently we studied the events occurring in Syria. As you are well aware, the situation in Syria has been dramatically deteriorating in recent months with the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the recent entrance of Russia into the conflict. Syria, meanwhile, has been in the midst of a ravaging civil war since the early spring of 2011. Currently, the government of Syria is led by President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the Syrian Ba’ath Party, a branch of the same Ba’ath Party that Saddam Hussein was also a member of. This similarity may lead some to think that Syria will end up like Iraq, with a
Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian crisis of modern time. The “Syrian Civil war Began in March of 2011, between rebel brigades and government force; economy and infrastructure is destroyed” (Library, 2016). “Divisions between secular and religious fighters, and between ethnic groups, continue to complicate the politics of the conflict” (Corps, 2016). Additionally, the Syrian civil war has taken a significant
Today the international committee and other nations around the world argue whether or not President Bashar-Assad of Syria ought to step down from his position as leader of the Syrian people.it’s not too late to save Syria from falling apart.
With an election year just a year away, the topic of immigration and how it affects us as a nation will be one of the more controversial and hotly debated subjects. The United States deficit has reached 18 trillion dollars, this has made many question the financial implications of President Obamas executive order on immigration. Social programs are paid for by federal, state, and local governments and policy makers and the public want to know how these programs will be affected by his executive order. Those that defend the order state that the nation only stands to gain on tax revenue that had
Syria is currently all over the news regarding what many have to come to see as a civil war. A term like civil war needs to identify the players and the reasons for the war. In this case the players are being identified as pro government or antigovernment with a Sunni or Shia overtone. Sunni and Shia are the two major sects of Islam and both have a historical based conflict going back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad and how Muslims should be governed. This conflict has caused tensions and violence to flare up throughout Islamic history. This conflict has carried into modern times and has becoming a rallying point for Muslim people calling for change with their government and across the Middle Eastern region. The
Bashar Al- Assad has been president for the past fifteen plus years. Under his leadership the country has ended up in turmoil. Bashar Al- Assad is the source of the problem. He can not be apart of the solution. His leadership is not the key to stabilizing Syria and fighting terrorist groups. It is the obstacle. President Bashar Al- Assad's government has killed more people then the Islamic State (ISIL).
In the 2000s Scientology has exploded into a more widely known; and widely made fun of religion. Scientology is still a contested religion. Scientology as a religion has not changed their view on psychology; if anything Scientology has become more extreme in their view on medicine of the mind. Celebrities such as Tom Cruise (Scientology’s biggest star) have recently spoken out about psychology and psychiatry saying, “I’ve never agreed with psychiatry, ever,” evidencing the religion’s view on psychology and psychiatry has not changed (qtd. in Wright 363). The more extreme practices of convincing its members that the cure to physical ailments is Scientology has changed; since the religion no longer claims to be the cure for the common cold. The
There, he was educated at the French-Arab al-Hurriyet school and continued on to medical school, specializing in ophthalmology ("Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria"). After graduated the Tishrin Military Hospital in 1992, he moved to the United Kingdom to further his medical education, he was there when his elder brother, Bassel, died. On returning to Syria, he was placed in the military and quickly rose through its ranks. When his father died, the Constitution was amended to change the minimum age of presidency from 40 to 34, the age Bashar was at the time. “The Assembly nominated him for the presidency within days of his father's death. . .Bashar [al-]Assad received, according to Syrian press reports, 97% of the vote” ("Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria"). He changed many reforms, reeling back on the laws on that restricted free speech and press, he had freed hundreds of political prisoners, and encouraged people to speak to him about new changes they seek in government. He made changes in liberalizing the economy and had vowed US $1 billion to the job unemployment sector, that had reached a high of 20% in Syria. He even had aims to resolving Syria’s relations with other countries like Israel and the rest of the Arab world, even applying for the membership of the World Trade Organization (“Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria"). For a few years, the future of Syria seemed optimistic, the
Syrian civil war started in 2011 was the outcome of the opposition against the President Bashar al-Assad regime. The uprising emerged as a response to the Arab spring movement that lead to regime change in Tunisia and subsequently turned into mass unrest rooted into the discontent with long-term dictatorship and poor economic situation in the country (Manfreda, n.d.). The number of Syrian citizens killed in the civil war reached 140000 since March 2011 (SBS 2014). The European Commission (2014, 2) reports approximately 9.3 million civilians “in need for humanitarian assistance”. The scale of armed rebellion between government and opposition that lead to an increasing number of casualties among civilians did not remain unnoticed by the
There are a lot of things fueling violence in Syria, but there are 3 major parts. One of them is Sectarian conflict. Another is divided opposition. And the final one is foreign inference. Because of these 3 things there is too much violence in Syria, and too many people are dying.
Syria, a state located also in western Asia, in a region famously known as Middle East. Geographically, its’ location is bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey. The state is currently in the middle of turmoil, torn between three sides, the Assad Regime, the dictatorial current President of Syria, the Syrian Opposition (Free Syrian Army and Jaysh Al-Islam), and ISIS. There are also Kurdistan armed forces mixed in the civil war, causing even more problem in Syria. To understand the geopolitical condition of Syria, we need to analyze the pre-civil war condition of Syria followed by ISIS infected condition.
The wave of Arab unrest that began during the Tunisian Revolution reached Syria in Mid March 2011. Currently, the political, socio-economic and humanitarian situation in Syria has escalated to the
According to Cleveland, the concept of ‘upheval and renewal’ can be considered a common feature for the countries in the Middle East in the 1970s. After the formation of independent states, one can notice a general tendence in Arab republics towards the consolidation of their power. This essay aims at comparing and contrasting this process in Egypt and Syria starting from 1970, year in which both countries saw the coming into power of new leaders, Anwar Sadat and Hafiz Al-Asad, and a subsequent change from the previous regime’s policies. Given the shortage of space and the complexity of the matter, the focus will be only on the most evident aspects of authoritarian power consolidation under those two leaders without going too much into