Can Clausewitz's concepts of genius, friction and the centre of gravity be applied to the war on terror?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Ever since evolution, man-kind has been moving hand in hand with war. Just like people, war has evolved too and never stayed the same over a period of time. Wars, such as the ones fought by the Vikings or Barbarians, and the wars of the Roman Empire already revealed...
Constantinople: the Key to European Balance in the pre First World War World
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
One can view the First World War and claim that it was fought for a complex web of rationales by a complex web of interdependent actors and the events of June 1914 sent the whole system into a state of madness and disarray. However, one can also claim that Europe was systematically into...
America and the First World War
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The First World War was a tragedy that America entered under false pretenses and exited with lasting wounds. America's involvement was encouraged by those who had the least to lose from the war: industrialists, politicians, and journalists. Their efforts were crucial in shifting...
Stone versus Douglass: Two contrasting yet complementary views of the war
Thesis - 7 pages - Modern history
The American Civil War is one of the most controverter parts of American history. It bore all sorts of names from the more neutral “War between the states” to the revealing name of “Abolition war” or even “Secession war”. Those different...
The Global War on terrorism and the effects in the Euro-american relations: Causes, consequences, solutions
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
Terrorism has become the most important threat regarding international stability in the 21st century. Though the Euro Atlantic community considers that it is of the utmost importance to eradicate it, it is not able to set up a common strategy. Since the war in Iraq, the Bush administration...
The State, War, and the State of War by Kalevi J. Holsti (1996)
Book review - 7 pages - International relations
The State, War and the State of War has been published in 1996. Its author, Kalevi J. Holsti is a professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. This book is based on his previous study: Peace and War: armed conflicts and International Order 1648-1989....
The Iraq war: an International Relations Theory Analysis
Case study - 16 pages - Political science
On the nineteenth of March 2003 America and its allies started their invasion of Iraq. This intervention had the official goal of the struggle against a terrorism-friendly country, to avoid the expansion of mass destruction weapons and establish a democratic breakthrough in the Middle East. This...
The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in the post cold-war Europe
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The CSCE (Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe) was born with the Helsinki final act in 1975, as the territorial statu quo seemed definitely taken for granted by both the communist block and western countries. On the 1st of August 1975, 35 heads of states from Europe, the US and...
The period from 1948 to 1953 was a phase of high intensity in Cold War history and decisively shaped the future of the European continent. Analyse the events in Europe in this period and their meaning for European integration.
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
After World War II, Europe was destroyed and two superpowers emerged; the United States and the USSR. The United States was the only state to have the atomic bomb and used the massive weapon against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and the USSR was important because of the fight against Nazi...
Media in Germany after World War Two - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The development of media in the Western Germany during the period of the Allied Occupation (1945-1949) and in the first decade of the Federal Republic (1949-1959) The media is present all around the world. The media tries to express facts, entertainment, opinion, and other information. In this...
Britain is widely regarded as the 'awkward partner' in europe: how accurate is this assessment? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
“We have our own dreams and our own tasks. We are in Europe, but not part of it. We are linked, but not combined. We are interested and associated, but not integrated.” Winston Churchill's famous quote aptly describes Britain's approach to European integration since the inception of...
Gas warfare during WWI
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
World War One was a war of stalemates. The western front turned to trench warfare quickly after the failing of Germany's Schlieffen Plan and soldiers remained in the trenches for the rest of the war. However, WWI was a war stalemated technologically as well. An example...
Clausewitzian theory, application and its relevance in a modern context of warfare
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
Carl von Clausewitz was an active theorist, writing extensively on the history and philosophy of military warfare. His most famous and widely read book, On War (Vom Kriege,) was published after his death in 1832. It was written in response to, and impacted by, the Napoleonic Wars,...
The war between Honda and Yamaha
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
In the 1960s, the Japanese market could have been defined as fragmented, where sources of competitive advantages were numerous but was easily imitable. Barriers to the entry are low and market positions are unstable. Indeed within 5 years, Yamaha managed to dethrone Honda Tohatsu. With the high...
Motivation for United States to enter the World War II
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The intervention of the United States in WWII was not caused by the plight of the Jews interned in concentration camps or because of the threat of Japan, but for the purpose of defending Britain and France and stopping the spread of German dictatorship through Europe. The United States adopted...
Charlton Heston: Winning the cultural war (An analysis of the speech)
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Charlton Heston was often considered as one of the most talented actors of our time. On the big screen, the Broadway stage, and on television, Charlton Heston repeatedly proved himself as an excellent portrayer of human character. He was born as John Charles Carter on April 10, 1924 (IMDb, 2009)....
ETA and the role of the Spanish government in the war on terrorism
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
Basque nationalists claim that there has always been Basque speaking people (speaking Euskera- the name of the Basque language) in the territory that extends from Bordeaux in the north to Zaragoza and Burgos in the South and to Santander in the West. Such claims are not believed to be true by...
Using arguments put forth by Paul Collier and Ted Robert Gurr to provide a brief comparison of works related to the causes of civil war
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Napoleon Bonaparte once said that “a man will fight harder for his interest than for his rights.” In a time where individual ‘wants' and the protection of singular self-interests has become a primary focus for the average citizen, governments have been daunted with the task of...
Pepsi and Coca-Cola (Coke) war
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Coke and Pepsi have both have been the results of experiments conducted by creative pharmacists, John Pemberton and Caleb. D. Bradham respectively. Their creation has sparked off a rivalry between the two companies that has continued since the inception of both the companies. The rivalry between...
The mobile Operating Systems War
Dissertation - 79 pages - Management
The mobile operating system market is relatively recent. Many major companies hailing from the computer and mobile sector are competing in order to take over this huge market. Until very recently, each mobile manufacturer developed its own proprietary operating system. Most of the mobile phones...
Banana War
Case study - 6 pages - Economy general
I have found this argument interesting because it is important to introduce to the public, the serious situation in which they are forced to work as workers of the third world. With this, I want to denounce the serious violations of the rights of the workers working in multinationals, that...
Westward expansion and the Mexican American war
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Jackson believed in a strong presidency and he vetoed a dozen pieces of legislation, more than the first six presidents put together. He shaped the modern Democratic Party and dominated American politics in the 1820s and 1830s....
The measure of America: how a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism, Claudia Roth Pierpont
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology
Based on Boas's life and achievements, Claudia Roth Pierpont's article ?How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism' deals with the origins of anthropology in the United States, laying emphasis on the importance of Boas, the "rebel anthropologist?, in the transformation of...
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
Many times when I watch a movie, I ask myself, why in the name of all things good am I watching this film? Who in the world would ever find this entertaining or interesting? What purpose could this possibly serve? These and many other thoughts went through my head while watching The Phantom...
War: A truth and a lie
Thesis - 3 pages - Political science
In the words of Otto Von Bismarck, “people never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” In keeping faith with this notion, numerous passages that have been read and discovered throughout the duration of this course thus far correlate with war...
"The French lost the language war", argues John Kay. Do you agree?
Essay - 1 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Language has become an important issue due to globalization. Previously if a person spoke only one language it did not matter much. However the situation is completely different in the modern world. Learning English has become mandatory for every individual to surive in the globalized world. John...
Old and new wars
Book review - 2 pages - International relations
This study is based on the article written by Paul Richards in 2005: New War: An Ethnographic Approach. What was really important in this article, according to me, was to discover a new way to look at and to study wars. In this study, I will try to sum up what I've found in the...
Civil War and Reconstruction: The Freedmen's fight for an equal share of the American Dream
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
The analysis of the way emancipation was acquired is revealing of the reason why the freedom the slaves obtained turned out to be so limited. The context must be taken into account. The reasons why the war started and was going on were not clear so clear anymore. Making emancipation a...
The US-Soviet conflicts in World War II
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
There were many conflicts between the U.S. and the USSR during World War II as the alliance between the two countries was held together only by their common desire to defeat Germany and Japan, not by any common ideology. A new conflict arose from the question of security. At the Yalta...
Great Britain during the Second World War
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Since 1933, the UK and France were not weren't ready economically and financially to wage war against Germany. In 1933, its leader Adolf Hitler, seized power lawfully, and wanted to take revenge after the humiliation of the Versailles Treaty. Indeed, after WWII, France, the UK and the USA...
