Conflicts Between Middle Eastern Countries And The Middle East

Often called “The Crossroads of the World”, the Middle East stands between three continents: Asia, Africa, and Europe. Over thousands of years, migrating traders and conquerors crossed this region and spread the ideas, inventions, and achievements of many civilizations. It is an incredibly important part of the world with rich history, important resources, and deep religious and cultural traditions. However, in the past decades up to today, the Middle East has been consumed by conflict and chaos. Although different circumstances surround each issue, religion, terrorism, disputes over the control of natural resources, and weak governance primarily allow conflict to persist in the Middle East.

For decades, the Middle East has been a hot bed for one conflict after another. Countries like Russia, China, and North Korea are using

The Middle East is a region of Western Asia and Egypt; some of the countries in this region are Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq. According to Anderson, Seibert & Wagner (2006), this region is of vast geo-economic importance and since ancient times, it has been a center of world affairs. This part matters to almost all superpowers. The geographic factors that contribute to the strategic importance of the Middle East are; trade routes, oil, terrain or geography, ideology, and faith. The Middle East has always been a destination for both tourists and entrepreneurs.

Over the past decade, wars and interventions in the Middle East have broken up existing states, fostered sectarianism and destroyed infrastructures, creating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. After years of revolutionary upheaval, the Arab world 's old system is on the verge of collapse. The United States and other countries bear the blame for this emergence and growth of the indigenous movements like the Taliban, AL-Qaeda, and IS. Order in the Middle East has been undermined by corrupt and illegitimate governments, abundance of energy resources, inadequate educational systems, and various religion-related and secular problems. Outside action have added to the problems, from poorly drawn national borders to recent interventions. In

Successful nations allow conflict to arise within and outside of the nation. War is the offspring of such political intercourse. The intention to gain power and control serve as enablers for national and international wars. Attaining power and control expand potential competition from a regional to a global level. The United States have involved itself in such terrorists attacks due to the desire to possess such resources, power and control. The Islamic State of Iraq also commonly known as ‘ISIS’, Salafi jihadist militant group that follows an Islamic fundamentalist is the offspring of such desire from the United States and the Western Hemisphere. America’s interest and influence for oil in the middle east gave birth to ISIS. The United States and the Western Hemisphere desire for power and control enable terrorism.

Another reason why the arab spring occurred was because of unemployment. Due to the significant rise in population over the years, and government’s inability to create jobs, many grew frustrated and poor as a result of these conditions. The middle east has also had a very unstable political groups constantly taking over power. From religious extremists groups to leftists groups. Because of the common land that all endured political instability, many revolutionists from all over the Middle East were able to unite on certain common ideology and citations. Needles to say, the unemployment that overwhelmed the middle east was able to unite upset civilians all over the arab world which is why the Arab Spring was as great as it was.

The challenge to this question is that there are way too many trigger points to choose from, and the Middle East and Southwest Asia have recently been violent places to begin with. However, with that being stated, I will list what I estimate as being the top three key trigger points. One’s first presumption is that it would be oil, but it is not. First and foremost is the trigger of religious tensions and that of the Islamic Jihadist movements. This includes the divide between Israel and Palestine, the Druse

There are different reasons for the terrorism: actually, along with personal, political opinions , religious fanaticism and resentment over social exclusion, the legacy of colonialism lurks behind the current wave of violence in

Providing security in the middle east has been a priority and also a challenge for the international community, especially within the last two decades. Through this time period the middle east as a region, despite its wealth of natural resources, has experienced severe conflict caused by corruption, religious tensions, and the disenfranchisement of local citizens just to highlight a few crucial issues. Because of these issues the Middle East has been a hotbed for instability. My article, “What Will It Take to Prevent a Security Decline in Mosul” is a briefing by two RAND Corporation security fellows Shelly Culbertson and Linda Robinson. In their briefing they discuss main challenges the international community must prioritize addressing in

Global structures have shifted, and we are in a transitional period of history. Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Afghanistan and Pakistan are all trouble spots for the world. The United States responded to 9/11 with a global War on Terrorism, and as a result, Islamic extremists see the United States of America as an evildoing infidel. Their ultimate goal is to make everyone submit to Islam.

With fearsome, terrifying headlines featured in popular news sites like The Economist, the Middle East seems to be an even more chaotic region of the world. Understandably, when one thinks about the Middle East, one cannot help but imagine the constant chaos and political strife led by corrupt officials and leaders against democracy. This short-sighted and heavily biased perspective of the Middle East may not be entirely incorrect, however it neither does the Middle East justice. The general people do not fully realize the rich political history and circumstances that led to such a diverse history in one of the oldest civilized regions of the world. Middle Eastern history dates back to nearly 2500 BC in Mesopotamia and since then, has been

A civil war broke out in Afghanistan because the Taliban wanted to rule over the nation, but the government of Afghanistan rejected its demand to govern the whole country, so the Taliban initiated war with the government. Then, half of the nation supported the Taliban, and other half agreed with the government’s decision, resulting in 2 belligerents for the civil war.

Since the early days of the Roman and Greeks, there have been major changes; Europe, Germany, England and France has become a powerhouse, the United States of America has been discovered and today it is one of the most powerful and dominant countries in the world with Russia, Japan and China; major countries with valuable resources. The only place in the world that has not changed or improved is the Middle East. The Middle East for centuries has been a major problem for North African countries, Asia, as well as many European countries. From the 1900 's to the present day, the Middle East has been causing problems to the USA. The involvement of the USA with the Middle East will lead to an era of terror that will affect the US and Europe.

From the inception of the Arab Spring in Tunisia to the most recent round of insurrection in Yemen, vulnerable states in the Middle East and North Africa have undergone waves of debilitating conflict. The chain of events that rapidly spread the revolutionary sentiment from capital to capital was not expected, and surprised the world. Ostensibly bloodless coups intermixed with violent rebellion and created a new Middle East and North Africa. The largest, and arguably most important country embroiled in the rash of regime change is Egypt. Egypt is the center of gravity of the North African states, and has been a strategic ally of the United States since 1975. The recent conflict in Egypt was preceded by years of corrupt authoritarian rule and increasing levels of poverty and lack of opportunity, which ultimately led to untenable levels of frustration within the Egyptian polity. The conflict participants: President Hosni Mubarak and his National Democrat Party (NDP); the semi-autonomous military establishment; the protesters; and the Islamists (Muslim Brotherhood) clashed together in a battle of wills which ultimately deposed Mubarak and the successive Islamist regime and led to another round of elections. Apart from the inertial forces of revolution playing upon the state of Egypt by her neighbors, Egypt had significant domestic social issues which factionalized and provoked the people to protest in the streets. Primary factors which led to the call for change were

It can be noted that energy geopolitics concerning resources such as oil plays a substantial role in shaping the globe. Reasons for why correlations between political violence in the Middle East and the geopolitics of oil can be connected is due to the Middle East being one of the most prominent locations in the world to refine oil along with the regions long history of political and economic turmoil. Examining the history of the Middle East throughout the years, it can be said that, both internally and externally Middle Eastern nations are heavily involved in oil related conflicts against one another or find themselves in conflicts with others such as the U.S over oil distribution and political direction as both issues open the Middle East to foreign interference by third party entities who may use discrepancies in the Middle East to pursue nations interests concerning oil. The contemporary phenomenon of terrorism within the region is both a product of historical development and political instability as these factors in recent times have led to a growing occurrence of terrorism that seeks to capitalize off the instability that state actors find themselves in. If we were to make an assessment of the growing modern-day reliance of oil which has significantly increased globally and the on-going political instability occurring all around the Persian Gulf then, it should be understood that, the conflicts to which these issues present are no where near close to being resolved.