https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa Tensions in the Middle east en-us 2017-11-23 19:32:22 UTC 2025-10-23 02:15:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211892958 - FDI will go to a central location such as China rather than equally between nations.
- Exports from current superpowers may fall.
- More foreign trading, especially in Asia.
- Changing working sectors (such as US is going back to the primary industry)
- GDP of current superpower such as the US may fall as power leaves.
- This GDP may then go to emerging superpowers such as Asia/MINTs.
- Superpowers may experience a trade deficit as they are taking in more imports from newer superpowers such as China.

]]> 2017-11-30 15:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211892958 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893145 Religious and ethnic tensions, as most of the region is Muslim, but there are Sunni and Shia sects, located in many Middle Eastern countries which are in conflict with each other.

Middle East has had tribal / religious divisions, the most recent ones caused by Islamist uprisings in Syria and Iraq.

Islamic terrorist groups believe that war should be fought all non-Muslims.

Cultural stereotyping and racism occurring in the 1980's & 1990's as war films depicted an Arab or Islamic group as the bad guys, especially after the 9/11 attack on the US.]]> 2017-11-30 15:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893145 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893311 Following the first Gulf War in 1991 and following the invasion of Allied forces in Iraq in 2003, oil installations were damaged in Kuwait.  
The Middle East is rich in resources, but has little water and farming/agriculture, attributed to climate change and global warming. Mass scale crude oil burning with superpowers causes huge levels of carbon pollution due to wealth of nations this could be avoided with green alternatives, e.g. wind turbines. 
Superpowers such as China and the USA are set to benefit from oil reserves made accessible by global warming in the Arctic. This will limit their desire to slow or attempt to reverse global warming effects. ]]> 2017-11-30 15:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893311 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893335 There is an increasing life expectancy due to improved quality of life. 
There is improved infrastructure. Increased younger population, higher employment.  
Health services improved for people.
Better education for people, higher literacy rates
Less unemployment
Greater population density within cities
Decrease in areas of conflict, greater diaspora of people
Diffusion of language
Decreased infant mortality
Increased birth rates
Decreased death rates
Greater cultural diffusion]]> 2017-11-30 15:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893335 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893640 - Afghanistan has been unstable since the soviet invasion of 1979 and has been viewed suspiciously by the USA and its allies for hiding Islamist militants, responsible for attacks such as 9/11. 
- Russia views any destabilising of the Middle  East caused by Islamist uprisings as a threat which might spread to its own territories (In territories such as Chechnya) 
- The creation of a Jewish homeland state  (Israel) in 1948 politically unified the Muslim Middle East in Opposition to it. 
- A major supporter of Israel struggles to maintain a positive influence in the Arab world. ]]> 2017-11-30 15:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893640 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893883 - Five of the top oil reserves are based in the Middle East. 
- Central supplier of oil from Libya, Saudi and UAE. 
- Western interest in controlling oil fields increased after rise of 'so called Islamic State'. 
- Iran has the world’s largest copper reserves
- Syria not only rich in oil but also; marble, natural crude asphalt, silica, gypsum, cement, salt and steel.
- Water resources in the Middle East are depleting so big threat of water shortage over a considerable part of the states in the area.
- Fossil fuels account for 80% of the economy]]> 2017-11-30 15:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211893883 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211896174 Summary of the Israel-Palestine Conflict:http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/20436092

Chechnya Profile: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18188085]]> 2017-11-30 15:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211896174 u11thompsonj https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211898370 2017-11-30 15:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211898370 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211899042 2017-11-30 15:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/ddh3alogvgxa/wish/211899042