Kin-Country Syndrome Post Cold War

Huntington’s initial article argued that in the post-Cold War era the fundamental source of conflict would not be ideological or economic, but cultural. He continues by arguing that nation states will continue to be the most powerful actors in global affairs, but the conflicts of global politics that are to occur in the future will happen between

Throughout the world`s history, conflict and power has being an important topic to be discussed and analyzed among scholars and researchers. Conflict and power can be found in several areas and levels such as colonization process, wars, inside an organization, and even in our own family, and it can have political, economic, social and cultural reasons. However, there are different types of power such as Reward, Coercive, Referent, Expert and Legitimate, and three perspectives of conflict as Traditional, Interpretive and Critical. Based on these concepts, this paper will explain the conflict and the resolution pointed in a case study, then it will identify the type of power and the perspective of conflict presented in the case, and lastly it will relate the case study with the cooperation and competition model.

Robert O. Keohane, “From After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy,” in

This analysis will evaluate the reasons why the Soviet Union chose to deny that they militarily supported North Korea during the Korean War. This topic might confuse many because the Soviet Union and North Korea were allies during the Korean War and they also supplied weapons to North Korea, trained their soldiers, and even helped plan and approved the invasion of South Korea. I will conduct an investigation to determine the reason the Soviet Union chose to hide their support for North Korea and I will obtain the information from both the North Korean perspective and the Soviet perspective. To obtain the information needed for this investigation, I will use online resources and books.

Although many of us have used the words culture and civilization interchangeably, Huntington spends a great deal of time differentiating between the two. Cultures have a commonality; ancestry, religion, language, history, values, customs, and institutions. These commonalities will define cultural groups; and the largest cultural group possible, at the broadest level, is a civilization. “Culture is the common theme in almost every definition of civilization”.

Civilizations are born, reach their potential under extraordinary leaders, and over time lose their vitality and strength. The remarkable feature in this cycle is that new civilizations emerge out of there fallen leaders, regenerated by new leaders and by outside cultural

What if you were forced to adopt a standing on the government? During the Cold War, which was in 1947 and continued to 1991, America forced its democratic views on a lot of communist countries. America helped decrease communism in many different parts of the world and many different countries. The two places in which America helped exterminate communism in, I will be focusing on are Russia or the USSR as well as Greece and Turkey. During the Cold War America stood for democracy because the whole “war” was about exterminating communism and promoting democracy.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have,” Gerald Ford (1974) said during his address to a joint session of Congress: a warning to the public about the consequences of giving the Government overwhelming control. After the U.S. gained their independence from the British Hegemony, the Founding Fathers of America adopted the Bill of Rights to protect the people from this very situation. The 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution clearly states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”. Nevertheless, by the 21st, the democratic, free nation of

The Cold War, lasting from 1945 to 1991, was a period of time where the United States undertook a numerous amount of social, physical, and domestic changes. As the nations economy prospered due to the war, the citizens grew more comfortable with certain social modifications. In other words, the American state of mind changed which left the country vulnerable to various changes in domesticity. As the country furthered from the likelihood of economic depression, birth rates increased as well as marriages, the voice of the younger generations were finally heard, a counterculture blossomed, and citizens began leaving city slumps for suburbs. Following the Cold War, newly established domestic changes such as the uprise of suburbs, the Baby

After World War II, there was peace and prosperity in America and many other parts of the world. However, for the Koreans, it was the beginning of a never ending split. When Japan fell, Korea was suddenly free, and hoped to finally become a unified state. However, the United States and the Soviet Union had different ideas. The Soviets wanted to have Korea under communist control and the United States wanted to establish a democracy. Additionally, the United States believed that containment, a foreign policy used to prevent the spread of communism, was extremely important. The Cold War is a term used to describe the relationship between America and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1980. Neither side actually ever fought the other, as the end result would have been catastrophic. However, they did fight for their beliefs by using others who fought for their beliefs on their behalf.

As we look at the over, arching aspect of family implications, the most common aspect associated to this is the number of service member deaths. By the numbers alone, those killed in conjunction to the operations of the past 14 years do not hold a candle to the sheer numbers of World Wars I and II, Korea, or Vietnam. We must look past these numbers and look at all injuries, which will then significantly increase the casualty numbers. Many of the millions of wounded warriors resulting of their service, both the physical and emotional trauma, will affect them for the rest of their lives. (Morin, 2011) With casualty rates today we can no longer only look at the service members themselves, the burdens and joys of life continue even in their absence. Now, in today’s families, the decision to serve, or the continuation of service affect everyone within the household.

Even today, divisions in groups have been as a result of continued differences among the uniting groups. Humans have a tendency to incline towards the protection of their interest’s aid favors of their perceived groups. Such favourism makes them advocate fully for their interests posing a challenging opposing side to the interests of their unperceived groups. Many nations today are faced with such opposing groups having differing interests and ideals. People advocating for similar ideals tend to create strong ties of

After the end of World War II, some people may have felt safe. However, even before Nazi Germany put its guns down in Germany in 1945, the political giant, and U.S. president, Franklin D. Roosevelt died by illness. The new president, Harry S.Truman, had to face an unstabilized situation and some new challenges. At first, he had to make sure the war criminals were punished during the Nuremberg trials. He helped create the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and financed the remaking of Japan under General Douglas MacArthur. In 1947, Truman developed the Marshall Plan, which offered more than $10 billion for the reconstruction and reindustrialization of Germany (SparkNotes Editors). The Marshall Plan was so successful that manufacturing plants in Western Europe were producing the product equal to prewar numbers within a couple of years. The U.S and the Soviet Union worked together during the World War II, because they had the same interest. Unfortunately, Joseph Stalin, Soviet premier, did not agree with what Truman did above. He wanted Nazi Germany to pay for what they had done in the Second World War, and he destroyed the factories in Germany in order to make sure the German

Samuel Huntington has made famous his thesis "the clash of civilizations", which was developed in his article in Foreign Affairs in 1993 and in the book that followed, in which the author expanded his thesis and reaffirmed the validity of his theory after the success and controversy that followed the publication of his article. In fact, the “civilizational” approach of conflicts today is now intrinsically linked to a comprehensive theory of international relations, which Samuel Huntington has developed by giving it an important value and a dominant paradigm

In The Clash of civilizations Huntington argued that the future conflict would be different in the Post-Cold war era. In which different ideologies would not be the main reason for world problem but instead it would be because of the differences between cultures. The division of power would be placed in the civilizations that have the similar cultural norms. Huntington states that the “most dangerous enmities occur across fault lines between major civilizations” (20). This argued that foreign affairs cannot be peaceful or accommodating rather that these affairs go onto the basis of the influence of power based on different civilizations societal norms. The major societies that Huntington included were the western, Sinic, Islamic and Orthodox civilizations. The “ fault lines” between these societies