The Historical Roots Of Modern Day Conflicts

In 2014, Russia captured the Crimea and Sevastopol, and unfurled tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine border. This is where the conflict flashed between pro-Russian separatists and the new government in Kiev. Russia's actions, including reported military aid for separatist troops, mark a serious major threat to generally accepted principles of world order, such as, sovereignty and

There has been tons of contentions and conflicts in the second largest country in europe and while the news presents us all these ideas about what going there, the truth, as it always is, is much more complex. The recent turmoil in the Ukraine has brought up a lot of issues remembered in the cold war. Russia Annexing the crimean peninsula from the Ukraine scaring western powers, specifically the United States, into the old policy of Soviet containment and using any means to put negatives towards the “eastern block” preventing the spread of its influence. Although the United States and it NATO/European Union current policy’s towards the eastern block have attempted to contain this strong autocratic style of

The US’s global influence and power place a broad range of intervention tools at its disposal. Even though tensions between Russia and Ukraine are lower than they were a couple of years ago, the impact of the US is visible. First, in the form of economic and political sanctions against Russia (Daiss, 2016). These penalties have proved costly to Russia and in some way have deterred further Russian aggression.

The purpose of this essay is to inform on the similarities and differences between systemic and domestic causes of war. According to World Politics by Jeffry Frieden, David Lake, and Kenneth Schultz, systemic causes deal with states that are unitary actors and their interactions with one another. It can deal with a state’s position within international organizations and also their relationships with other states. In contract, domestic causes of war pertain specifically to what goes on internally and factors within a state that may lead to war. Wars that occur between two or more states due to systemic and domestic causes are referred to as interstate wars.

The definition of injustice is a lack of fairness or justice. What are the Injustices of war? Many people come out of war empty handed and or without the ability to work. People who are at war don’t always get the help they need or just don’t have the willpower to move on in life because of the sacrifices they made.

Religion can be an excuse for war however it is never the full reason, monarchs always have an ulterior motive behind the backing of war. Religion is a belief that unites people while it separates people, the belief that has cause countless wars and death all in its name. Well that is exactly what happened in the sixteenth century of Europe, a conflict began over religious ideologies. Europe’s Wars of Religion was unlike most wars that claim to be based on religious reasons alone, the wars that erupted around Europe were all civil wars within Christianity. The Age of Religious Wars, was a period where everyone took what the Reformation could offer them and apply it to their own way of life. Bits and pieces to form a new religious identity that

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a sector of the Arab-Israeli conflict. At large, it is the result of misunderstandings and inactions. This conflict has been greatly influenced and altered by the opinions and movements made by outsiders, specifically international powers such as the United States. Those states have both helped and hurt the situation; moreover, the attempts of exterior mediation have ultimately furthered the extremes of both the Israelis and the Palestinians. In more aspects than one, Israel has been the victor of the conflict, not because they have won, but because they have repeatedly taken charge and taken what they wanted. At times, that has meant complete abandon of authoritative orders. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have been mostly reserved during the conflict. That has resulted in their land being overtaken and their wishes being ignored. While both groups have been wronged to a certain degree, neither has taken clear steps to reconciliation. The steps taken have all been completely one sided. Key themes surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict include the effect of World War I decisions on the polarity of the region, the idea of nationalism both internally and externally, as well as the influence of the Cold War on Israeli-Palestinian relations. Despite all the failures, there is still hope for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be

Many times America has intervened in foreign conflicts such as World War I and World War II. Although Americans did not intervene in World War I until later, their role was to stop Germany from sinking US ships and to stop Germany form trying to conquer most of Europe because it posed a threat to democracy, according to Woodrow Wilson. In the novels The Quiet American, by Graham Greene and in For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway, Americans get involved in foreign conflict. Although they have the same motifs, which is to help the local people they both take on a different way of helping them. In Greene’s novel the American tries to apply a “Third Force” to get things settled and introduce the idea of democracy. On the other hand, in Hemingway’s novel the American helps fight against the fascist by planning a bomb attack.

The Balkan Peninsula has long been known as the “tinderbox of Europe” because it has been an area of conflict and political unrest for centuries. The countries and people that occupy the peninsula are constantly in chaos and at war with each other. This trend continues today with the problems in Bosnia and the recent international crisis in Kosovo. Throughout history, small local incidents in the Balkan Peninsula have escalated into large international crises. World War I is a perfect example of what started as a regional conflict and grew into an all-out European war. A small local European struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia over the territory of Bosnia erupted into a full-blown worldwide conflict

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In this essay I will be giving the definition of war and conflict and I will be describing the causes of war and giving examples of wars that have happened because of the conflicts that I will be mentioning in my essay. The causes of war I will be looking at will be; Politics, Nationalism, Ideology, Land, resources, historical rivalry, ethnic conflict and religion. These are the main causes of war.

A conflict that started when the Romans invaded and conquered Judea, the homeland of the Jews, and claimed it to be Palestine. Later on, Palestine was conquered by the Arabs. For more than a thousand years, the Arabs have inhabited in Palestine.

The crisis in Ukraine and Crimea’s recent accession to Russia are events that clearly highlight the underlying sources of conflict in global politics. While Russia sees its actions in Crimea as a “reunification” and the respect for the right of self-determination, the West views it as a threat to European security and a violation of territorial integrity. Crimea has been a debatable topic from the time it came under the control of the Russian Empire in 1783 during the reign of Catherine the Great. The justification then was similar to the reasoning being used by Vladimir Putin today. Catherine declared that she was protecting ethnic Russians in the region from the Ottoman Empire, much as Putin is claiming to protect Russians from Ukrainian

The post-Cold War era has been characterised by internal and deep-seated conflicts (Bercovitch 2011:2). Most of the violent conflicts that have arisen in these past decades come from intractable roots, as the conflictive patterns have become part of the social system (Notter and Diamond 1996:2). They stand out by a prolonged – and often violent – struggle by local groups, who are in the need of security, ethnic recognition, equality, access to political institutions or economic participation, among others (Azar 1991:93).

In the Ukrainian crisis with Russia, there have been many non-state actors involved since the beginning of the invasion of Crimea. “From the Russian diaspora, non-governmental organizations, paramilitary groups and volunteer militias, there are a diverse range of non-state actors involved in the crisis” (German and Karagiannis, 2016). There has been a large impact in regards to religious groups with the Ukrainian conflict, such as the Russian Orthodox Church being able to rationalize why there was a need to invade Crimea. In Ukraine, a subset church of the Russian Orthodox Church broke off from the Russian Church to play a proactive role in assisting the pro-Ukrainian militias during the conflict. Organized crime and rise of militias have caused uncertainty for the country of Ukraine as the country lacks the ability to stabilize its regions against the crisis from the militias to Russia’s invasion.