Essays on Syria

Military intervention is almost always used solely as a last resort when diplomacy fails and military intervention can be justified. Not all acts of military intervention occur between massive nations and nations that cannot defend themselves. Although sovereignty and non-intervention in the domestic affairs of states are fundamental principles of the international system, intervention by…

International Effects of the Yom Kippur War The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 was an armed conflict between Israel and the Arab countries of Egypt and Syria, fought during the month of October 1973. Egypt and Syria initiated the conflict to regain territories that Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967. Although both sides…

Economic sanctions are a tool in the world of diplomacy that nations use to influence other countries. Further explained in The Impact of Economic Sanctions, “Sanctions can be applied for a variety of reasons, including punishing or weakening a target, to signal disapproval, to induce a change in policy, or to bring about regime change”…

Prompt: Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you. Leading sentence: An issue of national and international concern that is of importance to me is our current debate about the US helping Syria or not. Main point: Syria is currently on a civil war between the Syrian government…