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Does ideology cause conflict or is it just an exacerbating factor ? This essay will examine ideologies and conflicts in attempt to determine whether ideology is the sole cause of all conflict, whether it is only a contributor, if it has no affect on conflict, or controversially in today's society if it is now being use to discise other reasons for conflict. In order to determine whether ideology is the cause of international conflict or just an exacerbating factor then we must first be able to define what an ideology is, and also what constitutes as a conflict. The oxford dictionary describes ideology as "any comprehensive and mutually consistent set of ideas by which a social group makes sense of the world1". It uses examples such as liberalism, communism and nationalism. The term was first used French philosopher Antoine Destutt de Tracy. The concept of ideology originated in the writings of Karl...

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