COMPARE AND CONTRAST FIRST GULF WAR AND THE BALKANS WAR

Instructions:

Includes scholars writing specifically about the post-Cold War period. At the start of the 1990s there was a seminal conflict event that coincided with the end of the Cold War – the First Gulf War. Across the rest of the 1990s, and in particular in the 1999 Kosovo War, another conflict occurred, which was also seminal in revealing how the international system was structured and operating. In this essay, you will compare and contrast aspects of these events and international relations theory. Be sure to draw on that full range of readings to address the questions below.  Your assignment is to compare and contrast the First Gulf War and the Balkans Wars, Students will write a 6 page essay, Student essays should consist of at least 1,500 words of text (at least 6 pages of double-spaced and 12 point font of text). To successfully complete Project 1, you will need to organize your responses to these specific questions and then craft formatted essays. Your essays will be evaluated in terms of how thoroughly you: answer the questions; use resources to document your main points; and properly cite referenced work. Your essays should address all of the questions assigned. Citations and a bibliography will likely make up an additional 1–2 pages. Each essay should include each of the following attributes:

1. A title page;

2. Well-developed introductory paragraph explaining the purpose of the essay and briefly referencing some of the main points/contentions offered in the essay;

3. The body of the essay should consist of your effort to best answer the primary questions from the assignment prompt and should consist of the required length of words of text (at least 6 pages of double-spaced and 12 point font of text

4. A concise concluding paragraph that briefly restates both the purpose of the essay as well as some of the primary argument offered by you, the essay’s author. Be sure the concluding paragraph does not introduce new information;

5. A list of all sources consulted in the preparation of the essay. The essay should be formatted according to APA-style documentation. This includes the format of the list of references. Below are the questions that must be answer in the essay as detail as possible.

• In your reading, how did the conflicts differ in their nature? For example, was one a simple case of one state’s aggression against another (e.g., Iraq v. Kuwait in the First Gulf War), while the other conflict was born from the breakup of a multiethnic state after the Soviet collapse? For example, did the legacy of the past, or history, matter more in one conflict than the other?

• Compare and contrast the “leadership” role played by the United States in these two conflicts. Did the United States take the lead and shape the international community’s response similarly, and did others follow the United States unreservedly?

• What differences in cooperation do you find in the two wars? For example, did coalitions against “aggression” form more easily in one than the other, and if so, why might that have been the case?

• Which international relations theories that you have studied, particularly in Module 2, best explain each war and the international community’s response to it? Be clear how the wars are similar or different, and what aspects of theory best account for these similarities and differences.