The origins of the Syrian conflict: Climate change and human security: by Marwa Daoudy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 249 pp., $29.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-108-46682-0doi:10.1080/13629395.2021.1908495Fred H. Lawson
“Simple as Water,” which is currently streaming on HBO Max, tells the story of five families who are living with the horrible effects of the Syrian civil war. One is a mother in... See full article at Gold Derby 11/20/2021 by Charles Bright Gold Derby...
Week 1: Origins and Foundations of the Multilateral System The United States was at the forefront of the creation of multilateral institutions in the 20th century and has championed the creation of international norms and laws since the mid-nineteenth century. Yet, Americans are often ambivalent ab...
While the toll of the war is often described in sweeping statistics — 8 million refugees, 1,000 Russians killed in a day or $500 million in aid — over the past 12 months many groups and individuals have come to symbolize resistance to the war and resilience amid the carnage. Millions o...
The causes of the Trojan War are unclear; the Achaeans devastated a rich city. This Greek campaign is celebrated in the epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. A rapid decline of the Helladic culture set in at the end of the 13th century, marked by the abandonment of the palace at Pylos ...
The Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman site of Dura–Europos (or simply "Dura"), dubbed the "Pompeii of the Syrian Desert" by Yale historian and archaeologist Michael Rostovtzeff, was jointly excavated by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters from 1928 to 1937. Given...
Some forty years later, around 1280, a Syrian military historian, Al-Hasan al-Rammah, described rockets (Chinese arrows) and documented recipes for making gunpowder in "The Book of Fighting on Horseback and With War Engines". The same manuscript also contains a depiction of a strange flounder-...
He’s also right about the overrepresentation of self-identified Jews in the origins of the most sophisticated variants of movements designed to take advantage of Western self-doubt – Franz Boas’s anthropology, Theodor Adorno’s psychology and sociology (the Frankfurt school), Freud, postmodernism...
Kurds and the Statehood Option The Kurds of Iraq live in what is practically a state. The Syrian Civil War has resulted in greater autonomy for the country's Kurdish population. To the K... H Bozarslan 被引量: 0发表: 2014年 加载更多 ...
Merkel’s third term was dominated by internal and external threats to the stability of the EU. TheSyrian Civil War,ongoing strife in Libya, and unrest elsewhere in Africa and theMiddle Eastprecipitated an influx of refugees into Europe on a scale unseen sinceWorld War II. As countries reinsta...