Two emerging topics in social science that are also global concerns are the current wars we are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya as well as the slowly recovering economic situation in America. Although the U.S. still has a presence in Iraq, we are more focused on the current wars in Afghanistan and Libya. There are various reasons for these wars like social unrest and the ambitions of political and military leaders such as in the case of Libya, but I feel that Afghanistan proves the more complicated of the two. Some of the factors that contribute to the war in that region are various such as intense ethnic rivalry among various groups, the need to protect the country’s honor as well as religious and political division. Even with the recent death of Bin Laden there doesn’t seem to be a foreseeable end to the war in Afghanistan.
On U.S. soil we have huge concerns about our economic stability on this slow road to recovery from the recent recession. Another related concern is on our government’s spending habits and the possibility of large cuts in aiding social institutions. Many American’s still find themselves out of the job some three years later from the start of the recession with no stable prospects in front of them.
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