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War, imperalism and Culture
Dissertation - Relations Internationales - 7 pages - Format Microsoft Word
"Oil rules the earth and the Middle East becomes a powder-keg" : this citation explains very well the economic, but also political and military, challenge that the Middle East represents. Indeed this region offers hugeness of economic ressources and serves as a landbrige between Europe, Asia and Africa. A matter of course that lead the Europeans powers over 150 years ago to impose their domination on these countries, of which strategical position gained in importance with the raise of nationalism culminating with two world wars and later with the cold war, and which still captivates the world by its growing resistance towards western cultural domination, the iranian nuclear threat and finally by its main role as a region being witness of the “clash of civilisations” (Samuel P. Huntington).
Thus, regarding the necessity for every hegemonic country to have a certain influence on this region, the old longing concerning this region may be still present in western civilisation, symbolised by the US superpower, disguising a new form of colonialism behind the image of liberalism. But how can the latter conceal imperial domination and western ideals ?
Plan du document :
A) The Middle East : witness of the passage from European colonialism to American imperialism
B) The different way that international hegemony is perceived on both side of the Atlantic is a corollary of the psychology of power
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