World Affairs

  American Foreign Policy of Isolation / American role in World War 1 & 2 (Part-2)  20 th  century and American Foreign Policy: [1] President Woodrow Wilson after Theodore Roosevelt (1901-08) become the president of America with the slogan of “He kept us out of war,"  Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt both were inclined of internationalism, although the emphasis was more on Principles than on Pow er. v View of Theodore Roosevelt: Roosevelt considered as a “ Rough Rider” during the Spanish – American war and as a president from 1901 to 1908, embodied the new and more muscular spirit of internationalism. He saw that isolation did no longer exist in the national interest. He explains in these words: “The increasing interdependence and the complexity of international political and economic relation” Also explained: “Render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world.” v World War 1: World War 1...

Arab Spring in Yemen Part - 1 / Case study of Yemen in the light of Arab Spring   In 2011 a wave of pro-democracy protests started in the Arab world which knows as the Arab Spring. The wave causes a change in the government of Arab states. Yemen became one of those countries where the protest converted into the civil war. The protest uprising in Yemen because, the country already facing the issue of rebellion, humanitarian crisis, and foreign intervention, and these factors also became a reason to convert the state protest to war, in which foreign intervention is visible. The protest in Sanaa uprising after the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia and similar protests in Egypt where the rule of government changed by the people protests. To understand the conflict of Yemen it is important to analyze the background and history of Yemen. The history and background provide the directions of the Arab Spring situation in Yemen and aftermaths. Strategic and Demographic importance Yemen fac...