Abstract
Over the last hundred years, the Middle East has been one of the most troubled regions in the world. This paper attempts to define the attributes for success in the modern world that the Arab community lacks such as freedom, knowledge and woman power and how these impact the current political situation.

Outline
Islam Causes Conflict in the Middle East
Islam Does Not Cause Conflict in the Middle East
The Arab-Israeli Dispute Causes Conflict in the Middle East
Israeli Leadership Contributes to Conflict in the Middle East
Palestinian Leadership Contributes to Conflict in the Middle East
Lack of Democracy Contributes to Conflict in the Middle East
Oil Profits Cause Conflict in the Middle East
Water Scarcity Could Cause Conflict in the Middle East

From the Paper
"Sharon has spent years trying to erase the stain of the Lebanon War. Still, the legal defeat would seem to be the least of his troubles. After he won the premiership by promising to bring peace and security to Israel's citizens, Sharon has produced neither. The conflict with the Palestinians continues to escalate. The day of the court ruling, four Israelis died in Palestinian attacks; the following day, six soldiers died in a strike against an army roadblock. Sharon responded with a rare speech to the nation--in which he disappointed all expectations that he would announce a new policy direction. Among voters, confidence that he has a strategy is bleeding away. In one Israeli public-opinion poll, 29 percent of respondents said that Sharon had a clear plan, while 58 percent said he was simply reacting to events."

Tags:israel, palestine, arab, islam, syria, lebanon, gaza, arafat, oil, water

Abstract
The paper examines the reactions of the Muslim community to the publication of cartoons with Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. The writer argues that, while agreeing with the view-point that the extremist version of Islam may be in conflict with some of the ideals of democracy, he strongly believes that a moderate version of Islam, is in no way incompatible with democracy. The paper further examines how moderate Islam is practiced by an overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world. The paper further argues that both the violent reaction of some Muslims against the publication of the Muhammad cartoons, as well as their publication in the first place, were examples of insensitivity and intolerance towards the views of others.

Outline:
Introduction
Does Islam Support Terrorism?
Exercising the Freedom of Speech?
Compatibility of Islam with Democracy
Conclusion
Works Cited

From the Paper
"However, most moderate Muslims argue that this passage is about a specific incident and should be read in the context; they also point out that the Quranic and Islamic teachings about "jihad" and war almost invariably stress upon the concept of a "defensive war." For example, Verse 2: 190 of the Quran says: "Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors." ("The Rules of Jihad"--BBC) Some Muslim scholars also believe that the "internal" Jihad--the fight to overcome their own selfish desires--rather than fighting an external enemy is the greater Jihad in Islam."

Tags:liberal, fair, elections, human, rights, individual, liberties, violent, reaction

Abstract
The paper argues that the sequence of events following the Second World War provided the foundations which unavoidably led to increased tensions and an ensuing Cold War. The paper discusses the differing ideologies, the competition for spheres of influence, the advancement of weaponry, the arms race, as well as a lack of trust, all of which entrenched the Soviet Union and the West into an unpreventable power struggle. The paper shows how these events made friendly relationships between the two sides impossible for decades to come.

From the Paper
"The end of the Second World War brought forth a dramatic change in the global power structure. Whereas before the war there had been a power struggle between five great nations, the completion of the war brought an end to France, Germany and Britain's claim as world super powers. Emerging from the chaos were the two remaining super powers: the Soviet Union and the United States, with the remnants of three former super powers aligning themselves with the U.S. to create a power bloc. The result was the Cold War, where from 1945 to 1989, these two sides involved nearly the entire globe in a conflict. Yet from very early on, Historians and Political Scientists have questioned whether or not the Cold War was unavoidable, or if the Western World could have in fact lived in peace and cooperated with the Eastern Bloc."

Tags:Eastern, Block, Soviet, Union, United, States, arms, race, communism, democracy

Abstract
This paper examines the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto, concentrating on those that appear to have been adopted by Western democracies such as America. The paper explains why the adoption of socialist policies by Western democracies does not imply contradiction and looks at how, at the heart of this explanation lies the conflict between Marxism as a social theory and Communism as a political ideology.

From the Paper
"Marx's theory, as it appears in the Communist Manifesto, is fundamentally a social theory. It is an attempt to understand human society, and it takes its cue from the theory of historical dialectism as proposed by Hegel. By applying the dialectic to the material and economic conditions of human existence, Marx is able to pinpoint a class struggle as informing all of history. But the theory also predicts the ultimate triumph of the Proletarian class, and for this reason it is easily adopted for ideological purposes. Marx is exhorting the workers to hasten the inevitable outcome, so that the ideal society is achieved sooner. The social theory is impeccable. But by transforming it into a political ideology Marx has given rise to fundamental contradictions in politics. The Communist party is said to be a selfless organization that only exists to hasten the just society. As Lenin interprets it, the state simply ''withers away'' after the overthrow of the bourgeoisie (79). History testifies to the fact that this does not happen, and instead the Communist Party becomes a totalitarian power."

Tags:Engels, material, dialectic, class, struggle, capitalism, socialism, unionism

Abstract
This paper argues that the most significant conflict in recent times over a major ideal was the Korean War. It suggests that the ideology of communism versus democracy was responsible for the rise of the developmental state and the economic Asian "miracle," which led to the conflict of the East Asian financial debacle of 1997-1998.

From the Paper
"Consistent with the Japanese model, in South Korea, the industrialization that spurred such "breakneck economic growth" (Sang-Hun 2005) in one generation from 1960-1994 "was driven by government initiatives rather than market forces [as a] planed economy" (Hasung 2006). In South Korea large financial conglomerates, family-owned and operated chaebols, backed by the government were key players in this drive to lift Korea from poverty to power by developing Korean industries where capital markets were not yet established and competition in domestic markets was low. CFOs like Daewoo's Kim Woo Choong was committed to building a Korean industrial empire and mandated by President Park Chung to do so. The incessant amassing of wealth, popularly patriotic, was the general consensus invigorating that generation and sustaining the chaebols system."

Tags:communism, democracy, China, industrialization

Abstract
The paper explains the bipolar idea that depicts the world as divided into two camps, both militarily and ideologically, with the West representing democratic ideals and with the Soviet bloc representing Communism in opposition to democracy. The paper describes the era of the Cold War when the two sides engaged in an escalating arms race that lasted until the Soviet Union dissolved. The paper relates that today the process of globalization replaced the economic aspects of the bipolar world and terrorism and the globalization of the conflict in the Middle East has taken the place of the Soviet Union as the major threat to the West.

From the Paper
"The bipolar world that developed after World War II represented the basic perceived structure of world politics during the Cold War. The bipolar idea depicts the world as essentially divided into two camps, both militarily and ideologically, with the West representing democratic ideals, and with the Soviet bloc representing Communism in opposition to democracy. Much of the world divided between the two camps, with the two sides creating mutual defense pacts among member nations, and with much of the rhetoric of the age based on the clash of ideologies as well as images of a military threat from the other side."

Tags:arms, race, nuclear, power, Communism, democracy, Gorbachev

Abstract
The paper describes how the island of Taiwan has long been a territory under some form of Chinese rule. The paper relates that the current political turmoil between China and Taiwan has its roots in the Chinese civil war in the early part of the last century. The paper notes the American support of an independent Taiwan that ensured it did not fall to the Communists. The paper shows how the solution to the difficulties between Mainland China and Taiwan is not a political one, but an economic and commercial one.

From the Paper
"The cross-strait relationship between China and Taiwan has been a point of geo-political concern since the end of World War II following the removal of Japanese colonial control when the Island experienced a brief period of political independence. This period was short-lived since only a few years later the island was inundated with Chiang Kaishek's Nationalist troops fleeing Mainland China and Mao Zedong's Communist troops. While the island of Taiwan has been variously claimed and ignored by Chinese dynasties throughout history, it was not until it was used as a place of refuge for the Goumingtang, or the Nationalists as they are known in English, that it morphed into a long-term point of contention for China and a line in the sand, as it were, for Western democracy and a buffer against Communist dominance in the region."

Tags:Chiang, Kaishek, Nationalist, troops, Communism, democracy, Kai, Fang, Goumingtang, DPP

Abstract
This paper examines the conflict that resulted in the Korean war. The thesis of this paper asserts that the most significant conflict in recent times over a major idea was the Korean War. The idea that launched that war was the whether the ideology of communism or democracy was going to prevail in Korea. We further argue, however, that this ideology was responsible for the rise of the developmental state and the economic Asian "miracle" (Stubbs 218), which led to the conflict of the East Asian financial debacle of 1997-1998.

From the Paper
"The thesis of this paper is that the most significant conflict in recent times over a major idea was the Korean War. The idea that launched that war was the whether the ideology of communism or democracy was going to prevail in Korea. We further argue, however, that this ideology was responsible for the rise of the developmental state and the economic Asian "miracle" (Stubbs 218), which led to the conflict of the East Asian financial debacle of 1997-1998. In China and Korea the idea was contested by the use of force. Although the Soviet Union had trained and armed the regime of Secretary General ..."

Tags:ideology, financial, economic, 1997, 1998

Abstract
This paper discusses the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) as it emerged following the Second World War, from 1949 to 1989. It looks at how this was a pivotal time for the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union and how East and West Germany were significant fronts in the Cold War. The paper looks briefly at the end of the conflict, with the peaceful revolution of 1989.

From the Paper
"After five decades of international conflict, waged between the imperial champion of the communist ideology and the frontrunner for western democracy, the latter prevailed in the peaceful revolution of 1989. With the reunification of Germany, and two years later, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cold War had ended with little violence or resistance. And from the perspective that the invasive and draconian presence of Soviet supported regimes had fallen in Hungary, Romania, Czechloslovakia and Poland, the end of the Cold War certainly appeared to light the way toward the pervasion of civil liberty, capitalist evolution and democratic policy representation."

Tags:communism conflict democracy, Potsdam conference

Abstract
This paper presents a background and history of the Cold War. The paper explains the origins of the war including the main characters and countries involved in it. The writer then offers an interpretation of the main causes behind the conflict and how it developed into the long-term conflict it became. Finally, the paper examines its effect on Europe, the United States and the rest of the world.

Contents:
Introduction
The Origins
The Main Causes
Start of the Cold War
The Cold War Intensifies in Europe
Division of Germany
Other Tit-for-Tat Cold War Events in Europe
How the Cold War Affected the Rest of the World?
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Although the Cold War occurred after the Second World War, it had its roots in the events that took place towards the fag end of World War I. At the time of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the First World War was nearing its end; Russia's new Communist leader Vladimir Lenin decided to withdraw his country from the war. Military intervention in Russia by the United States, Britain, France, and Japan, soon followed? purportedly to restore the collapsed Eastern Front in their war effort against Germany. (Legvold, para on ?Background.?) The Communist Russia saw the intervention as an attempt to undermine the fledgling revolution. This sowed the seeds of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States that came to fore several decades later in the post World War II period."

Tags:russia, soviet, union, america, united, states, communism, democracy