Foreword Preface iii v Chapter 1 The Cold War Era 1 Chapter 2 The End of Bipolarity 17 Chapter 3 US Hegemony in World Politics 31 Chapter 4 Alternative Centres of Power 51 Chapter 5 Contemporary South Asia 65 Chapter 6 International Organisations 81 Chapter 7 Security in the Contemporary World 99 Chapter 8 Environment and Natural Resources 117 Chapter 9 Globalisation 135 Chapter 1 The Cold War Era OVERVIEW This chapter provides a
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and replicated it as they grow up. Thoughts, customs, traditions are passed on and embedded within children. As children, they internalize these without much thoughts, it simply becomes an imitation game. In this way, children reproduce these ideologies without thoughts, a very passive action. However, at a certain age, once the children had enough knowledge and tools to think and reason for themselves, they begins to question social norms. From that point onwards, it becomes a constant battle
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capitalize on their grievances and succumb to their greed. Diamonds then became a kind of incentive for violence. This applied not only to RUF fighters, but eventually to their opponents also. There were very few ‘traditional’ battles fought during this war, but the ones that did occur were always in and around diamond rich areas. Keen notes that, “thousands of civilians were expelled and kept away from diamond-rich areas… rebels often forced diamond prospecting work to continue and then took diamonds”
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Short Essay on War and Terror The United States is known as a Super Power in the world today for two particular reasons and they are one, the outcome of World War II and two, how the President at that time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt handled conflicts at home as well as conflicts overseas. During that time the United States was going through some challenges dealing with the Great Depression and the difficulties of Germany beginning to start conflicts in Europe where there was nothing being
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integrity) and to achieve independence of action, while interacting with both more powerful and less powerful countries. As with most other nations, Beijing's foreign relations have been conditioned by its historical experiences, nationalism and ideology, and the worldview of its leaders, as well as by the governmental structure and decision-making process. At times China's domestic policies have had wide-ranging ramifications for its foreign policy formulation. Another characteristic Chinese
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his political acts "(Ibid, 1-2). In the field of international relations, realism became the dominant analytical paradigm mostly after the start of the Second World War, when it displaced idealist doctrines, promising "to provide more accurate information, more powerful, and more relevant answers" to the roots or causes of peace and war (Brecher& Harvey, 54). At the same time, many features of the current realist paradigm can be traced back to the time of Thucydides, Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas
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the years leading up to the attack, and bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network may have had a close relationship with the Taliban army and police. So, an American-supported group not only turned away from American ideals, but sought to commit jihad (or “holy war”) against their original
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Between perception and victimization: Trends and issues in victimology Natti Ronel, K. Jaishankar & Moshe Bensimon Part I: Justice for victims Chapter One............................................................................................... 12 Ideology and the behavior of perpetrators and victims of violence Noach (Norman) Milgram Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 32 An informal approach to delinquents and their victims: An
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the second half of the 20th century. If any find this story plausible, they would do well to study this handsomely produced and well-illustrated edited collection on the attempted transfer of the American ‘modern kitchen’ to Europe during the early Cold War period of the 20th century. At the outset, editors Oldenziel and Zachmann position themselves at the cutting edge of the historiography of technology. Following Langdon Winner’s classic lead (1), they see politics as embodied in the modern kitchen
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Precipitating World War Two The subject of war has always been a touchy one. War, and all of its unpleasant components- death, fighting, and destruction- are never suitable for an agreeable discussion. Acts of war are invariably followed by suffering, which is exactly what Europe was doing in 1918 and the following years. The burden of World War I was so oppressive that it left Europe, in its entirety, in ruins. The countless efforts to ease the strain generated by the war had ultimately failed
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