Connor Stone
Professor Bruce Magnusson
POL 258
20 November, 2015
Discussing Success in Military Intervention In mid-September of this year, a military coup was launched in Burkina Faso by members of a presidential guard unit in support of former President Blaise Campaore. Campaore enjoyed 27 years of rule as the nation’s president before being peacefully removed from office (Vogt and Hinshaw). The coup lasted about a week and was met with significant public disapproval; protests and violence erupted in the nation’s capital, Ouagadougou. France and the UN, as well as the United States all weighed in on the situation, calling for an end to the coup which endangered democratic elections planned for October 11 (Vogt and Hinshaw). Ultimately, pressures by protestors and the military put an end to the coup and interim President Michel Kafando was put back in office. Presidential and legislative elections have been rescheduled for
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Even if I had clear evidence to suggest that this is more than just hypothetical rambling, I am not certain that we really should change the discourse surrounding military intervention, because I do not know if it would lead to any greater insights about the politics of nations in which military coups take place. I merely wish to provide some food for thought, or some inspiration for greater research into the causes and effects of military intervention. Perhaps a closer examination of existing case studies may provide some justification for alternative discourse on military coups or perhaps future attempts will prove harder to clearly define as success or failure. Further studies are almost always being conducted by scholars of African politics and their research could very well be what I seek, an even more complicated example of military intervention, where success and failure are not so easy to
Many wars have happened through out our history. From the B.C to the 21st century. But some people believe some of these war should be forgotten or not learned about. To be specific, the War of 1812 and this is major issue. The issue on this is that some believe that it should be taken out of history books. This is because the ink prices have sky rocketed and not putting this in would save them money.Others believe that keeping it would be better. This is because many great accomplishments came out of this war. My opinion is that the War of 1812 should be left in the history books.
Beloff, M., & Spencer, R. (1960). Canada in the World Affairs: From UN to NATO, 1946 to 1949. The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, 26(2), 345.
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While America was at war in Vietnam in the late twentieth century, there was a backlash of rebellion from the American people against the war. One particular group of people who protested were the students and these protests often escalated which leads to the investigation of the question, through opposing viewpoints,: To what extent did the National Guard overreact to anti-war protests at Kent State on May 4, 1970? The following sources were analyzed due to their crucial value of providing alternate viewpoints to the investigation. This event contains modern relevance due to the fact it questions to protection of United State citizens and freedom of expression. However, despite the violence portrayed by protesters, the National Guard escalated to counter violence too swiftly against the minute threat of the unarmed students.
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In 2005, Faure Gnassingbe came into power after taking over for his father, Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ruled Togo for 38 years. The elections of Togo have been affected by violence and vote tampering accusations. Many people want to leave Togo due to fear of the government and police, both of these have been known to shoot and excessively beat citizens regardless of their race or sex. People want Faure Gnassingbe to resign and a change in the constitution limiting Presidents to serve only 2 terms. People have been protesting this idea peacefully until the police and government reacted with violence.
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