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This Thesis tries to explain why did Saudi Arabia conduct Proxy War to Iran in the Syrian Conflict. Since the beginning, Saudi Arabia and Iran had a stagnant relation; they are not far from confrontation. Their fight has always enlivened every conflict in the Middle East region, including the worst humanitarian problem in human history, which is the Syrian Conflict. Using Andrew Mumford’s proxy war theory and rational choice by focusing the approach on the rational actor model by Graham T.Allison, Saudi Arabia’s decision to take part in the Syrian Conflict through its proxies is based on the consideration of strategic outcomes and more rational cost-benefit calculations of proxy war.

Keywords: Proxy War, Proxies, Syrian Conflict, Hegemony, Strategic Outcome, Cost-Benefit, Saudi Arabia

This research aims to identify the perspective of university student toward Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The idea is to understand what influenced university student perspective in the context of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The program ran for one week during the 9 May till 16 May. 37 participant was asked about their response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through an online questionnaire (Google Form). The writer found that most of the university student is bias to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because of the media they use as the source of information. The result of this analysis can be useful for others researchers to understand the characteristic of media that influenced university student perspective most.

Keywords: university student, perspectives, media, conflict, Israel, Palestine