How far do you agree that the origins of the Cold War were mainly due to Stalin´s foreign policy of expansionism? Soviet actions after 1945 were seen in the West as part of a concerned attempt to expand the communist world. The collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945 had left a power vacuum in large part of central and Eastern Europe which Stalin, using the presence of the Red Army, took advantage of in order to strengthen the position of the USSR and spread communism. When looking at the events of the
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Lynn (hence, the D, H, and L) to transport letters of credit across the Pacific, DHL expanded rapidly in Asia and Europe (the early 1970s), the Middle East (1976), Latin America (1977), Africa (1978), Eastern Europe (early 1980s), China (1986), and Albania and the Baltic States (1992). Today, DHL has more than 53,000 employees, 209 aircraft, 2,381 stations, 12,203 vehicles, and 32 hubs and subhubs serving more than 675,000 destinations in 227 countries. In one year, it handles 95 million shipments—not
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March 2016 International Women’s Day: Celebrating the Good News International Women’s Day, March 8,is a time to celebrate what has been accomplished by and for women.There is much to celebrate! This month also marks the arrival of Easter, March 27,when we celebrate the good news that God so loved women that he sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to pay for their sins on the cross and give them life everlasting. While on Earth, Jesus went against the customs of the times that treated women as inferior
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Professor Dr. Patrick Dua Course: IR 221 30.01.2012 The Macedonian – Greek Issue Current Situation of Macedonia Republic of Macedonia is a country located in the South of the Balkan Peninsula and is bordered with Serbia and Kosovo to North, Albania to East, Greece to the South and Bulgaria to the West. The capital of Macedonia is Skopje; a city located in the Northern part with a population of about 700.000 is the biggest city in the country. The total population of this country is around 2
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e-Government Systems Quality in Kenya: Possibility on Synergy by Godfrey M karimi Email: goddie2007@yahool.com Abstract For some time the government and the private sectors have existed independently in the e-Government systems development and implementation. The two have often interacted on the outsourcing by the government and the implementation of tenders by the private sector. The government has been charged with the provision of the benchmarks and the contracted body in the private
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INTRODUCTION / STARTING POINTS Alpha bank is a Greek bank, which is present in many countries, not only in Greece and Macedonia. It is a successful international financial institution, which is present in Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Albania, United States and in Macedonia. In spite of its international presence and tradition, the bank (through its’ acquired predecessor) has been present on the Macedonian market since 1993, it has problems with its perception and recognition, which
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HP Pavilion dv7 Entertainment PC Maintenance and Service Guide © Copyright 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Athlon and Turion are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Bluetooth is a trademark owned by its proprietor and used by Hewlett-Packard Company under license. Intel and Core are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows Vista are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. SD Logo is a trademark of its
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14 Foreign Aid and Foreign Investment Financial flows to developing countries take two main forms—aid that comes from foreign governments, often called official development assistance, and investment from foreign private companies, known as private capital flows. Official Development Assistance After World War II and until the early 1990s, the main source of external finance for developing countries was official development assistance provided by the governments of high-income countries in the form
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CULTURE SPECIFIC AND CROSSCULTURALLY GENERALIZABLE IMPLICIT LEADERSHIP THEORIES: ARE ATTRIBUTES OF CHARISMATIC/TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP UNIVERSALLY ENDORSED?1 This study focuses on culturally endorsed implicit theories of leadership (CLTs). Although crosscultural research emphasizes that different cultural groups likely have different conceptions of what leadership should entail, a controversial position is argued here: namely that attributes associated with charismatic/transformational leadership
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Economy, Efficiency and Effectiveness Name Institutional Affiliation Government agencies are commissions appointed and granted powers and authority to oversee specific functions such as Bureau of economic analysis. Bureau of economic analysis provides economic statistics and its main function is to give a clear understanding of the economic status of the US by giving an accurate and relevant data. Cochran, J. (2013). A state agency may be of either national or state government. Performance
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