The Causes Of The Overwhelming Civil War In Syria

After downswing of its economy in 2001-2003, Israel had significant economic boom with real GDP growth, which was above 5 percent from 2004 to 2007 (State of Israel Corp., 2013). Basically, its macroeconomic policies, stable banking sector, and reliable global markets underlay strong economic performance; furthermore, a strong export of goods and services boosted employment and incomes, encouraging

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

Even still, many farmers are losing their businesses and unemployed laborers are forced to look elsewhere for jobs. Iraq has become more depended on oil reserves to support its economy, and its main industries include petroleum, chemicals, textiles, leather, construction materials, and food processing. Syria's two main sources of economic revenue are oil and agriculture. The Euphrates river plays a major role in the agricultural economy of Syria by supplying it with 80% of its water resources, but ever since the civil war began in 2011 against president Bashar Assad, the economy in Syria has undermined. Inflation has soured in Syria's economy and unemployment is at an all-time high of 60%. Another change from ancient history till now is that Mesopotamian trade has expounded from domestic trade along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the importation and exporting of goods worldwide to this day.

The Syrian Civil War has had a profound effect of all Syrians as well as neighbouring countries and the international community. With more than 11 million homeless Syrians comes consequences beyond what most of the world population has ever experienced or anticipated. Of the displaced, almost 5 million are refugees outside Syria and around 6 million have been displaced inside Syria, with half of all displaced Syrians being children. The main causes of displacement amongst the population is the violence committed by all sides of the war, and which often targets civilians or centres of high civilian activity (such as markets, hospitals, schools, workplaces or high density residential areas). One main group heavily affected by the conflict

The Syrian Civil War is no different. There are two opposing views that feel strongly about what they are fighting for and the war is having a major effect on the country’s infrastructure and rate of development. However, only time will tell if any good will come out of the country’s civil war.

of Syria have a lot of struggles in their daily life. Some of the people have no home and they can’t do many things because of the bombings that occur.

As the war continues against the FSA, we fought in the “heart of the main crop cultivation area”, this means that we are fighting in Ghouta, the main location where we grows our crops. The battle on Ghouta affected our fresh food production throughout Syria. The production of food is one of our main income in Syria, and by starting battles in Ghouta this means that the rebels are trying to ruin the economy. While we continue the war against these terrorists, ISIS has been taking over the oil supplies which are 30% of my income. ISIS does this for their own economical reasons as they are trying to make the land they have hegemony over to be official, the way that ISIS is taking over my main income is similar to how Rome’s economy started to stagnate. Rome’s main income was their gold found in their mines or their olive oil found in their crops, the Goths whom they called barbarians in their culture, started to invade Rome. From the invasion, fields were destroyed and trades were paused. This means that their economy to drop. As warfare continue, they did not have the funds to fund schools and schools were forced to shut down. This means that Rome’s income was taken away from enemy forces. Rome is not the only one to lack the economy to fund schools, I myself no longer have monopoly over most of the schools and buildings as our

In 2013, the GDP was at an all-time high, even compared to prior the invasion of 2003. Showing that despite several years of stifled growth the long-term effect of the reconstruction of Iraq is starting to look more positive. This contrasts with the previous view that the Iraqi economy has not been successfully reconstructed. This is because Iraq was not a failed state, therefore the Iraqi economy was not disastrous prior to the invasion. Meaning an improvement on GDP is a positive sign. The graph in figure 1 appears to show a similar reconstruction performed by the Hussein administration after the first Gulf War in the early 1990s. Suggesting that the US reconstruction effort has not been much better than an attempt by a corrupt regime which the US eliminated. However, the recent faltered of both the fortune of both the Iraqi economy and Iraqi people appears to correlate with the absent of the US in the country. Signifying that the heavy use of US money and corporations has led to a good short-term development but have led to a problem in long-term development. This is mainly due to a lack of expertise and skills to be able to deal with problems as noted previously. Two main examples of this are the health industry and education, health which has some of the best equipment

A current issue on the minds and agendas of the international community is the Syrian Refugee Crisis. The situation has only escalated since its start in 2011, and as the number of displaced Syrians reaches over 9 million, countries around the world, not just the ones in the Middle East, are increasing efforts to offer asylum and aid for these people. The Syrian Refugee Crisis began with peaceful anti-government protests in March of 2011, but after the violent response of the government, rebels, army defectors, and many civilians formed the Free Syrian Army by July of the same year (Mercy Corps, Sept 2nd, 2015). The presence of ISIS within Syria and the differing views of religious groups (namely Sunni and Shiite) in the country only add to the chaos of destruction of the country and the Syrian people’s lives and homes. With the constant state of war within the country, basic necessities like food, water, and shelter have become scarce and Syrian people are looking to find new homes of stability and safety. The large majority of Syrians have fled to the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey. However the burden of harboring these refugees has put huge stress on the countries as the sheer number of people entering the country becomes too much to handle. Today one in five people living in Lebanon is a Syrian refugee (Mercy Corps, Sept 2nd, 2015). With the neighboring countries already beyond capacity, Syrians are looking for shelter in places outside this

When Hafez al-Assad passed away from a heart attack, hope for Syria arose with promises of reform. On June 10th, 2000, Hafez passed away leaving his son Bashar al-Assad with the power over Syria. Bashar attempted to gain support over his people with promises of reform throughout Syria, including a revolutionized economy. People soon began to protest because Bashar had not been following through with his promises. These protests arose and Bashar chose to fight his people rather than meet their demands. Conflict has risen in Syria because of poor political and geographical systems whether this be through the way Assad governs, or through the destruction of Syria.

As the comic points out, the 2006-2010 Syrian droughts, in a way, led to a civil war situation in Syria. The droughts caused the death of 85% of livestock and about a million people lost their farmlands (Example: Withering away of Halaby pepper fields). The Assad government provided no support, whatsoever, to the farmers, and tortured/imprisoned the people who spoke out against the government. This led to mass migration of people living in the countryside to the already overpopulated urban cities. This urban migration resulted in water and job

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

of the imports coming from Europe, Africa and Asia through the Mediterranean ports in Syria and Lebanon and

In this country analysis report, the current political, social and economic conditions of Lebanon have been shaped by historical events that will be discussed. The paper will elaborate the historical factors and events from the last century. As well as the current situation will also be presented in this paper. The main argument of the paper will focus on the factors from history are impacting the current situation of Lebanon. Lebanon had a horrific history under the Ottoman rule and from that time the country and its leadership struggled to give its people the way of life that was offered to citizens of Turkey and other Western countries. From the eve of World War, I to the current situation how people have survived and achieved their independence is also discussed in this paper. With the help of different questions set out for review and their answers, it will be evaluated that through which strategies the government is trying to reach a next level of development.

Due to civil war, Lebanon’s economy was highly affected, for instance central government institutions disintegrated. Therefore the estate was handicapped, and accumulated several debts, for example by 2001 Lebanon had reached $28 billion, or nearly 150% of GDP.