The Globalization of World Politics

Question: Identify how the actor/country you focused on views the world and how it contributes and constrains solutions to the global problem. The chosen country is the United States. Answer: In recent years, the condition regarding the political, economic and living issues of the people in Syria has become a serious issue for the world. Studies have reveled that about more than 250,000 people in Syria are dead, and above 11 million of other peoples were forced to leave their homes during the armed conflict in Syria, happening since last four and a half years. The story of the civil war so far revels that the uprising voice of some teenagers who raise their voice against the president and begin the revolution with the help of opposition supporters in 2011 (Martinez). The violence increases and the descended into civil war with the formation of rebel brigade to fight against the government in 2012. The UN Commission has reported that they have evidence against the parties to commit a war crime by performing murders, rape, and forceful disappearances. IS has also been blamed for the campaigning of terrorism. In 2013, a chemical bombing killed hundreds of Syrians (Wedeen). As stated by Pratto, during the start of the conflict, more than 4.5 million people have left the country and the war involved parties reject the humanitarian agencies to invade the land to help the civilians. In 2014, a US coalition struck Syria to destroy IS. During late 2015, US has launched a program to train the rebellions to fight against IS to negotiate being abandoned. Several Syrian activists took up the weapon and joined the anti-government battle that spread and overlapped distinct nations, regional and international communities (Perthes). From 20122 to 2014, the ISIS invades on large areas of Iraq and Syria. As per the order of US President, the Central Intelligence Agency aim to control the situation by providing anarchistic arm services in Syria. But focusing on the public attitudes of the American public towards Syria has reveled something different. Though the fight of US against ISIS has praised by the Congress and growing international coalition, some questions are occurring regarding the commitment of US to destroy and degrade the IS force and also about the military strategies in Syria. Studies have revels that almost 70 percent of the American public is considering IS as the number one threat to the United States. The idea of US to send ground troops to the Islamic States if the airstrikes are not enough is supported by 57 percent of the American public. Two third portion of US natives believes that the Syrian opposition is very weak to stand up against Assad and IS. Some believe that Assad is as worst as IS and disagreed to the military operations against the army of Assad. Apart from the civil war issue, the majority of the American public believe that if the government allow the refuges to enter the nation, then it is possible that the IS may target the United States as they have done Paris attack. But if the refuges are allowed to enter the nation then 78 percent have supported that they should be considered equally. The US government responded to the Syrian president for the call to work on the nonviolent movement to recover the economic and environmental trauma. The government has respond to the promise but somehow failed to fulfill all the promises (Baylis). The US nation is standing behind those who are fighting for equality, dignity and human rights in Syria. The US administration needs to support the United Nations recommendations and the diplomacy policy instead of military war. The government needs to stop the rebel forces and build some immediate plans to stop sending arms. US nation strengthen the arms export agreement for the neighboring countries of Syria like Turkey, Jordan, and Israel. The US administration engaged with Russia to urge to the UN to take a major step to restarting international negotiation for the critical political environment. These must include the Syria's regional neighbors including Iran. The United States is supporting the efforts to consider the individual responsible for war crimes. The Syrian issues have created problem regarding the refuge issue and humanitarian crisis that are spreading out of the region. There are more than 1 million Syrians in the neighbor country. US has declared the major issue of refugee and supported UN agencies to call other nations for aid. US officials are thinking to support the transfer of Syrian chemical weapons to UN control. This will help the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to remove and destroy the weapons safely (Etling). 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