Essays on Civil War

War is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived; but can it really be considered a victory if everything is lost in the process? A hopeless war with no foreseeable end is not a war worth fighting. The identity of a country rests in its citizens....

In this paper I will try to highlight the role that the European Union played in the Syrian crisis, taking place right at its doorsteps. Through its history, the European Union has showed a strong interest towards Middle-Eastern countries but, despite the good intentions, the...

Mediation in civil wars has grown exponentially. Civil wars fall in the area of concern for the whole world in contemporary times. But how do the intervention by the third parties decided? What are the factors that influence the behavior of the world to civil...

Women played a crucial role in the Civil War. They did not sit around and wait for their husbands to get home. They did not sit around and let the men take over. They took action. Whether the men wanted it to happen or not,...

Ethnic civil wars are an increasingly widespread issue seeing violence not only between active participants but towards non-combatants. Kaufmann contends that there is a lack of action by the international community, whose responsibility it is to protect those endangered by ethnic civil wars. He uses...

In most cases, women are viewed as victims, and rarely do they play the role of perpetrators in African wars. Hence, whilst the public life of politics which cuts across ethnic groups that comprises war-making decisions is being dictated by men, women are involved in...

The Neoclassical Period, end of the 17th century through much of the 18th century, aided in the formation of today’s society and the Western country. The Declaration of Independence and The English Civil War occurred during the Neoclassical Period. The French Revolution began around the...

The civil war in Yemen began in the late 2014 when the rebellious Houthi-Saleh dominated Sanaa, Yemen’s capital. The Yemeni military surrounded the Houthi-controlled port, Hodeidah, with help from the United Arab Emirates as an attempt to destroy the rebellion. Hodeidah is a port in...

The war started on March 15, 2011, as demonstrations by the people, they were dubbed as people uprising. The protesters had their grievances demanding that the then government was incapable and should be surrender power. In April the same, the demonstration turned chaotic as military...

The ongoing Syrian civil war, which began on March 15, 2011, has become a prime example of modern-day proxy wars. This civil war expanded into a proxy war due to Russia’s and Iran’s aim to keep their ally, President Bashar al-Assad in power countering the...