These are “Democracy in the MENA and the Arab Spring movement” that I engaged during this course. I found the Arab Spring movement most eye-opening and useful because it was a challenge for the states in the MENA. It affected on the state governments, and sometimes caused a civil war and overthrown in some states in the region. It was just a big public phenomenon. Of course, the Arab Spring movement made the Islamist terrorism lost their prestige, but after that, the terrorist regained the power because some states in the region lost their power and had some civil war, and the Islamist terrorist took an advantage of this.
b) Which reading did you find most useful during this class? How was it useful? This can be either an assigned reading or something you discovered while working on your research. If the latter, please provide a full citation so we can expand our libraries. …show more content…
For example, according to Douglas Little, “few aspects of U.S. foreign policy since 1945 have been more controversial than the activities of the CIA, which at one time or another has shaped in almost every Middle Eastern country” (Little, 2004, 663-701). This may be because the CIA is used to be tending pretty much information collector. But, the United States foreign policy and CIA’s aims will have to merge at the end of any incident. On the other hand, Douglas Little also mentions that “George W. Bush would rely on a much more potent bullet in America’s arsenal—old-fashioned military intervention—to achieve regime change in Iraq in March 2003” (Little, 2004,