Kris Corbett
Nationalism: Catalyst To Conflict?
The arrangement and design of the world had undergone a dramatic shift beginning with the French Revolution in the late 18th century. A world comprised of empires, in which multiple ethnic groups of disparate culture, language, and traditions coexisted under one domain, began to transform into a world of nation-states.
[Politics] Genesis Of The Palestinian Identity
An Arab population, essentially absent of a national consciousness prior to the twentieth century, forged a collective identity spurred conjointly by the forces of modernization and external influences. Zionism, the British mandate, and policies of international actors helped evoke a national consciousness, consequently forging the Palestinian identity in its nascent stages....
[Politics] Israel’s Paradox: A Jewish, Yet Democratic State
The clash of divergent nationalisms within the same territory culminated in the establishment of a sovereign state by one nation, but rendered the other a splintered population devoid of a nation-state. After centuries of a scattered existence in Diaspora, the Jewish people rejoiced as the Zionist project achieved the creation of their own state, safeguarded from the perils of anti-Semitism....
[World] Vernacular Politics: Islamists’ Clout In Turkey
Turkey’s experiment as a secular, westernized state represents not only an anomaly, but the prototype of secular modernization in the Middle East. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder the Turkish Republic in 1923, embarked on a series of social and political reforms, abolishing Islamic institutions, positions, and insignia to secure Turkey’s position as a modern democracy....
[Politics] Erosion Of The Nation-State: The Effect Of Terrorism & Ethnic Conflict
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the international system shifted from bipolarity to unipolarity, redefining the structure of the system. As a result, US primacy in this unipolar world has constituted the most salient element affecting the arrangement of the system and defining a world comprised of nation-states....
[Politics] The Probability Of An Islamic State
The current governing paradigm in most Arab countries of the Middle East is marked by executive supremacy unbridled by any legal body to balance potential despotism of the ruler. Bereft of a legitimate legislature and judiciary to counteract and neutralize an unjust and authoritarian executive, these Middle Eastern countries seek to reform and ameliorate their form of governance to attain prosperity, just rule, and political justice. ...
[News] The Politics Of Israel
As a country economically, culturally, and politically disparate from its neighbors, Israel represents a democratic bastion in a region rife with stagnant, totalitarian regimes. Zionism yielded a state born of immigrants from various backgrounds bound by a common Jewish identity, deeming Israel’s existence anomalous. The Eastern European immigrants of the aliyot developed the political framework of the pre-state period; these Zionist leaders subsequently became the leaders of the new state in 1948, opting for a representative parliamentary democracy. ...
[Politics] Hezbollah & The Politics Of Lebanon
Hezbollah emerged in Lebanon as a corollary to foreign invasion by a country deemed the anathema of the Islamic world. In 1982, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon subsequently spawned the force that was to resist it. In its nascent stages, Hezbollah existed as an Iranian proxy whose raison d'être was to resist and eject this foreign occupier in attempt to extricate Lebanon and restore its sovereignty. ...
[Politics] The Shia Awakening
The impetus and objective of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 proved incongruent with its actual corollaries. The removal of Saddam Hussein inadvertently disrupted the existing power distribution between Shia and Sunnis, precipitating a momentous change to the status quo which had long persisted in the Middle East. ...
[Politics] Politcal Economy Of The Middle East
The political economy of Middle East is determined by a combination of economic development, state structure, and social actors, but more broadly by concomitant economic, social, political, religious and historical forces. ...Author Info
Kris Corbett
is pursuing a Masters degree from New York University in International Politics, with a regional focus in the Middle East. Kris is expected to graduate in May 2010, upon which she would like to pursue a career in U.S. Foreign Policy - security and intelligence. Kris attained her Bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University in the 2004. In 2006, she moved from Scranton, PA to Manhattan where she currently works for a private equity firm.
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