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c. Explain the situation with regard to any two of the following 1. Iran – nuclear weapons – the Middle Eastern region 2. India – Pakistan Introduction I nternational relations is a branch of political science, which deals with all political phenomena likely to exceed the state borders. It concerns the relations among states within the international system, the role of intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations and transnational actors. International

The process of privatisation, especially the preparation of nationalised industries for privatisation, was associated with marked improvements in performance, particularly in terms of labour productivity.[92] But it is not clear how far this can be attributed to the merits of privatisation itself. The "productivity miracle" observed in British industry under Thatcher was achieved not so much by increasing the overall productivity of labour as by reducing workforces and increasing unemployment.[93]

Toutes séries réunies CLASSES DE PREMIÈRE SESSION 2007 ANGLAIS CORRUPTION IN AFRICA Public outrage about corruption in Africa has been openly expressed since early 1990, spawned by pro-democracy movements that drew large numbers of people into political debate and encouraged them to organize street protests, and strikes. And other outbursts of discontent introduced multiparty politics to many Africans and even sometimes urged people to remove unpopular leaders, either through the ballot-box or outright

Amazon's servers. Later, the website was "ousted" from the Amazon servers, without a public statement from the company. WikiLeaks then decided to install itself on the servers in France. Recently, Assange said that he is seriously considering seeking political asylum in neutral Switzerland and setting up a WikiLeaks foundation in the country to move the operation there. Members and goals The WikiLeaks website first appeared on the Internet in December 2006. The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese

At the beginning of the second half of the last century it was usual among sociologists to define the West as an ‘advanced’ model of society, worthy of being a frame of reference for non-western societies, labelled as ‘underdeveloped’ by definition. Terms such as ‘modernity’ and ‘modernization’ – as synonymous with western-styled ‘progress’ – characterized any comparative approach. Then, in the 1970s and 1980s, sociopolitical and economic transformations required a relabelling. Western society began

French and the British. The main reason why those colonists left Europe behind was because of religious persecutions. They sought asylum in America where they hoped to be free to practice their own religion. In addition to religious persecutions, political as well as economical factors were a triggering point in colonialism. After a seven years long war which opposed the British to the French –a war about the governance of North America- emerges under the soldiers a feeling of nationalism which would

sellers’ asking prices would fall; a trade resulted from an agreement on price terms. The public nature of the terms of trade in a double auction prevented the formation of surplus-reducing trades that may be observed in Chamberlin’s decentralized markets. This result illustrates one of the most important findings that has come out of the subsequent literature: outcomes can be sensitive to the nature of the economic or political institution, a theme that will come up in the papers that follow. A second

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men(people) had been killed and so many men(people) had been hurt. The North lost 364 000 men(people) and the South lost 258 000. All in all, a million men(people) died from the war on a population of ten millions, what represents 10 % of the total. In terms of destruction and human losses, the American Civil War was the most expensive of the American history(story). Balance sheet economic In the South Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, Motive(Mobile) and Vicksburg was fields of ruins In the campaign(countryside)

moment, the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the Afghan war, and that continues today to provide intellectual and political guidance of a critically important kind. The academic and religious arguments that she criticized then – the apologies for terrorism and the refusals to accept the use of force against terrorists and their allies – still need to be addressed and criticized, and the terms of her critique are still the right ones. But standard just war theory, which Elshtain expounded and defended