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Topic: International AffairsFound 25 articles
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 » |