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Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD): To Medicate or not to Medicate?
Crime and Development in Kenya: Emerging Trends and the Transnational Implications of Political, Economic, and Social Instability
The Bush Administration Torture Policy: Origins and Consequences
"And I of Ladies Most Deject and Wretched": Diagnosing Shakespeare's Ophelia with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Millenium Challenge Account: Foreign Aid and International Development Programs of the Bush Administration
A Critical Analysis of the Rwanda-Burundi Genocide and the Sociopolitical Implications of Colonial Rule in Africa
Aphra Behn's "The Rover": Evaluating Women's Social and Sexual Options
The Bush Presidency: Undermining the Separation Between Church and State
From Civil War to Status Quo: Reexamining the Taiwan Strait
The Horn of Africa: Critical Analysis of Conflict Management and Strategies for Success in the Horn's Future
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Topic: International AffairsFound 44 articles
Crime and Development in Kenya: Emerging Trends and the Transnational Implications of Political, Economic, and Social Instability
09/01/10 - 3518 words Postcolonial Kenya has seen a significant amount of development, both politically and economically, since its independence in 1963. Starting with the presidency of Jomo Kenyatta, the nation prospered -- experiencing economic... Go to Article » The Millenium Challenge Account: Foreign Aid and International Development Programs of the Bush Administration
07/27/10 - 6907 words The United States presidency is a complex role, encompassing both domestic and foreign policy responsibilities. As a major world power, the United States has a large role in the realm of foreign policy, and it is the duty of... Go to Article » A Critical Analysis of the Rwanda-Burundi Genocide and the Sociopolitical Implications of Colonial Rule in Africa
07/22/10 - 5675 words There has always been a great deal of intrigue as to why certain people and certain parts of the world are cursed with such a greater deal of suffering than others. Over time certain societies have developed through a series... Go to Article » From Civil War to Status Quo: Reexamining the Taiwan Strait
06/28/10 - 5227 words A scholar and former head of the Asia department on the National Security Council said in 2005, at a time of heightened tensions between China and Taiwan, “One of the greatest dangers to international security today is... Go to Article » Japan's Multilateral Gambit: Leading the Charge Toward an East Asian Community
06/24/10 - 940 words If Japan was a person, it would be an exceptionally wealthy yet rapidly aging individual, who, for two decades, had been struck by illness. One might therefore find it unexpected for this person to be busily working on constructing... Go to Article » How to Think About Iran: Demystifying a Complex International Challenge
06/21/10 - 1188 words "When can we expect a pro-Western, pro-business government in Iran?" asks a US government official in the quasi-fictitious film Syriana. Today, it is highly probable that the same question is still being asked by anxious diplomats... Go to Article » The Horn of Africa: Critical Analysis of Conflict Management and Strategies for Success in the Horn's Future
06/18/10 - 8770 words Conflict management in the Horn of Africa has been relatively unsuccessful. Foreign colonialism created boundaries that have yet to be resolved, and newly independent nations engaged in conflicts responsible for human rights... Go to Article » President Bush, The Iraq Invasion, and "Enhanced Interrogation"
06/16/10 - 2600 words Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote that “to ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”[1] Although this statement was meant towards the civil rights movement, the idea equally applies in other instances,... Go to Article » Exploring Japanese Popular Culture as a Soft Power Resource
05/17/10 - 3087 words Power is the ability to achieve one’s purposes or goals.[1] Through the scholarship of Joseph Nye, the concept of power occupies two distinct spheres: ‘hard’ and ‘soft’. The former purports to have... Go to Article » Idle Youth: Using Sport to Address the Youth Bulge in Sierra Leone
05/11/10 - 16687 words There is a growing consensus that the prevalence of a large youth population is not conducive to peace and that such a ‘youth bulge’ can even increase the risk of civil conflict and political violence.[1] Richard... Go to Article » Islamic Modernism: Responses to Western Modernization in the Middle East
05/10/10 - 1245 words By the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a large part of the Muslim world had begun to lose much of its cultural and political sovereignty to Christian occupiers from Europe. This came as a result of European trade missions... Go to Article » The Dalai Lama, Buddhism, and Tibet: Reflecting on a Half-Century of Change
04/27/10 - 2908 words Throughout history, there have been several ways in which people perceive Tibet. Since it has traditionally been isolated from the world, culturally and geographically, the mystery it provokes has shaped most people’s beliefs... Go to Article » Rationalizing Sexual Tourism: How Some Countries Benefit from Selling Sex
04/22/10 - 5421 words Brazil’s northeast coast has a perfect climate for a booming tourism industry. The beaches are unspoiled, the people are friendly, and the area required only a small amount of infrastructure development to create a haven... Go to Article » The Design of Absent Crisis: The Clinton Administration on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
04/20/10 - 7184 words 1993 was not a very good year for Bill Clinton. An exception, perhaps, being the morning of January 20th when he stood at the west front of the United States Capitol building and took the Oath of Office to become the forty-... Go to Article » Berlin After the Wall: Decades After Its Fall, History Still Haunts
04/16/10 - 6082 words Game Changer—any person, institution, or event whose action significantly alters the current environment and status quo—for better or for worse. They come in many different shapes and sizes; from presidents... Go to Article » Pragmatic Nationalism and Confucianism: The New Ideology of the CCP
04/13/10 - 8503 words Confucianism was one of the dominant political philosophies of Imperial China. Confucianism’s influence declined throughout the 19th century coinciding with the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. Some Chinese intellectuals... Go to Article » Major Development Challenges Facing the Republic of Angola: Completing the Democratic Transition and Making Government Work
04/05/10 - 2343 words Angola today is framed by a history of violent conflict that has left the population far behind on all major indicators. Lacking a democratic culture, the country faces two significant challenges: first, the challenge of completing... Go to Article » Human Rights and Radical Social Change: Liberalism, Marxism and Progressive Populism in Venezuela
03/29/10 - 21622 words “Human rights” is a concept so deeply intertwined into the modern discourse that it seems almost impossible to question it or refer to any standard beyond it. The problematic nature of this issue is not so much that... Go to Article » The Flipside of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
03/24/10 - 3415 words The United Nations states that at its broadest, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be defined as the overall contribution of business to sustainable development (UNDESA, 2007). That being said, unmonitored corporate... Go to Article » Prompts for Progress: Feminism in the Islamic World
03/03/10 - 2830 words From skimpy skirts to smoldering skivvies, American’s remember the 1960’s as a decade of social change and assertion of the rights and strengths of women. True to American style, the women’s movement was fought... Go to Article » Examining the Radicalization of Chechen Separatists During the Resistance Movement
02/24/10 - 2724 words The Chechen people have endured a long history of aggression, culminating at the end of the twentieth century during which a separatist struggle against Russia began, triggering the First Chechen War in 1994. At the onset of... Go to Article » The Burden of Disarmament: UN Peacekeeping Operations & Illicit Weapons
01/27/10 - 6432 words It has become undeniable that illicit weaponry, specifically small arms and light weapons pose an unprecedented global security threat. In fact it may almost be acceptable to say that with the turn of the 21st century, we witness... Go to Article » International Law and Nuclear Weapons: Does the Continued Development of Advanced Nuclear Weapons Violate International Law?
01/26/10 - 1455 words Throughout the twentieth-century, nuclear weapons got deadlier; their range and power have both increased, bringing the potential for greater devastation to the globe. To limit the spread of nuclear weapons, the international... Go to Article » China and the Beijing Consensus: An Alternative Model for Development
01/22/10 - 3305 words In the period since 1989, when economist John Williamson first conceived of the economic and policy recommendations known as the Washington Consensus (Williamson, 1989), this Consensus became generally accepted as the most effective... Go to Article » Report: The Positive Impact of African Union Forces in Darfur
01/19/10 - 4991 words After the wave of liberalization of many African states in the late twentieth-century, the world has seen a rise in the amount of international and internal conflicts that have taken thousands of human lives. Ethnic tensions... Go to Article » A River for Freedom: The Itaipu Hyrdoelectric Project and the Democratization of Paraguay
01/13/10 - 2301 words From 1954 to 1989, Paraguay was subject to the authoritarian regime of Alfredo Stroessner and the Colorado Party. While Stroessner came to power at a time of great economic strife, it was the most prosperous time of his regime... Go to Article » Examining U.S. Foreign Policy, Refuting American Isolationism
01/06/10 - 2448 words From before its birth to the present, the expansion of US power has been analogous to an ever-expanding hand upon the globe. Despite some of today's historically inaccurate politicians citing a revered past of non-interventionism... Go to Article » La Fin D'un Reve: French Newspaper Coverage of 9/11
01/05/10 - 2468 words In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, the reaction of the French media was one of passionate empathy. The September 12th headline of Le Monde reads simply “Nous sommes tous Américains” (We are all Americans... Go to Article » A High Standard of Living, Brought Low by AIDS in South Africa
01/04/10 - 1940 words In 1994 South Africa's regime of apartheid, under which the black majority was suppressed and discriminated against by the white minority, came to an end1. The African National Congress (ANC) won the first free elections in the... Go to Article » China Offers Alternative Development Model in 'Beijing Consensus'
01/02/10 - 983 words The Beijing Consensus, a new development model based on China’s own economic success, is one of the latest ways that China is asserting itself as a major player in international politics. This shift comes as developing... Go to Article » Triumph over Tragedy: The Women's Movement of Rwanda Finds Success Post-Genocide
01/01/10 - 2984 words On April 6, 1994, the Hutu[1] president of Rwanda and the newly elected president of Burundi, also a Hutu, were both assassinated when their jet was shot down while landing in Kigali. In response to the April killing of the two... Go to Article » An Argument for Outlawing Genocide Denial
12/28/09 - 996 words More than half a century ago, famed philosopher George Santayana observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In the 20th century alone, the world bore witness to the Holocaust in Europe... Go to Article » A Study in Violence: Examining Rape in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
12/14/09 - 3368 words “The genocide was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible was the absence, the erasure of seeing the other, of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's... Go to Article » Serbia and the Former Yugoslavia: What's to Be Done?
12/11/09 - 4812 words It is mid-1998. On news programs in the United States, the issue of intervention in Kosovo is addressed as a prevalent concern. It is at least mentioned in every presentation: any progress that's been made or any possible change... Go to Article » From Cutting Trees to Slashing Emissions: Reducing Deforestation in Brazil
11/14/09 - 6354 words Much debate has recently arisen over China’s and India’s responsibilities as related to climate protection. These two countries have repeatedly pleaded that their emissions be judged on a per-capita basis, since... Go to Article » Child Sex Tourism: "Us" and "Them" in a Globalized World
11/04/09 - 5494 words “In London, Hamburg or San Francisco … we rarely see ordinary, middle-aged men and women flirting with homeless teenagers who sit on the pavements begging for spare change, or inviting them out to dinner and then... Go to Article » USAID's Alternative Development Strategy: A Critical Review of Initiatives in Colombia
10/30/09 - 5538 words Since 2000, the United States (U.S.) has devoted approximately 4.7 billion dollars in foreign aid to Colombia (Isacson 2006:1) with the dual aims of resolving Colombia’s internal conflict and of curbing the country&rsquo... Go to Article » Responding to Rape as a Weapon of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo: CIDA's Actions in an Evaluative Framework
10/27/09 - 6511 words At the time of the incident, I was living … in the bush, hiding from the war. One day, I had gone to the fields to collect some food to eat. As I was cultivating, I heard someone screaming loudly and the next minute armed... Go to Article » Stalin and the Drive to Industrialize the Soviet Union
10/21/09 - 2472 words The late twenties and early thirties were perhaps the most transformative period in Soviet history. It was during this period Stalin consolidated his grip on power and was allowed to rule with impunity, instituting his &ldquo... Go to Article » Causes for the Guatemalan Civil War as seen in Paradise in Ashes by Beatriz Manz
10/19/09 - 1450 words The civil war in Guatemala was the longest struggle in modern Latin American history, spanning decades from the late 1950’s to the 1990’s, and leading to deadly armed conflict between government and rebel militias... Go to Article » Decolonization and the Collapse of the British Empire
10/19/09 - 1576 words Before World War II it was fairly said that, “The sun never set on the British Empire.” For decades, this was true; their colonial Empire literally spanned the entire globe. After the War concluded, however, a worldwide... Go to Article » Can the U.S. win the war in Afghanistan?
10/19/09 - 3174 words Nearly eight years into the war, the security situation in Afghanistan has begun to deteriorate at an increasingly fast past. Previously secured areas have been undermined by increasing numbers of militants; significant increases... Go to Article » America in the Post War Period
10/18/09 - 1439 words The end of World War II was not just the end of a war, but also the beginning of a tense and dynamic period that affected society on all levels. This “postwar” period, as it became known, shaped the world as we know... Go to Article » Controlling and Preventing HIV in Southern Africa
10/17/09 - 31 words The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) originated in Africa. According to current estimates, the disease first infected humans in the 1930s, spreading outward in its formative years to the world beyond.[6:1] It was nevertheless... Go to Article » |