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politico-military organization which gathers many western countries. The treaty has been signed on 4 April 1949 after negotiations between the 5 countries that signed the Treaty of Brussels (Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, United Kingdom), the United States, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Iceland, Norway and Portugal. The main aim of the association was to ensure the security of the West after the Second World War in keeping a watch on Germany and in fighting against the soviet invasion. The first

money is that flowing from public sector corruption, which remains endemic in a number of states of the region. Such corruption may involve clearly illegal but covert activities such as the misappropriation of significant levels of funds from the public purse by mid-level or high-level officials, or the abuse of public tenders. A more challenging version of this phenomenon is the involvement of the armed forces in 1 Methodological note This report has been prepared with the use of four major

the European continent. Analyse the key events in Europe in this period and their meaning for European integration. Introduction: The Cold War followed World War II and Europe will soon be divided into 2 blocks. The west supported by the United States and East supported by the USSR. The case of Germany is special but very important, because after the war Germany was divided into 4 zones headed by Americans, French, English and Russian. The three areas of the west will unite and formed the Federal

affected: for example, the USSR was the hardest hit with about 21 million dead, while the United States has been the least affected during the war with 300,000 dead. Destruction are also significant and affect entire regions like the Ruhr, where 70% of buildings were destroyed Some cities were almost wiped out as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The countries most affected are: the USSR, Italy, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Germany. But daily life is difficult. In fact, military spending has exacerbated

September 11 attacks Four planes were hijacked, three of them were flown into highly symbolic buildings: the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, and the Pentagon, the headquarters for the department of the Defence of the United States, in Washington. It was a big shock for all Americans as well as the whole world. These attacks were experienced almost in real time by hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide, the images of the plane striking the second tower of the World Trade

Is China a threat for the United-States? The People’s Republic of China, commonly known as China is located in East Asia and has the biggest population in the world with more than 1.3 billion people. It is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China. For a very long period, China had been under an autocratic socialist system where strict controls were imposed but after 1978, when Deng Xiaoping succeed to Mao and came to power he established a market-oriented economic development

to the Following International Humanitarian Law and Other Related Treaties as of 27-Aug-2010 Protection of Victims of Armed Conflicts Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field. Geneva, 12 August 1949. Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea. Geneva, 12 August 1949. Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949. Convention

I. The beginning of the cold war A. There were deep ideological, economic and political differences between the United States and the Soviet Union before the Second World War. These differences were intensified as a result of their suspicions immediately after the Second World War. First of all ideologically speaking the two blocs were at antipodes In the United States, the government is elected by free elections. The people can form political parties to voice their political opinions. They

African charter promotes not only rights but also duties. -The African charter codifies people as well as individual rights. -In addition to civil and political rights, the african charter protects economics, social and cultural rights. -Permits the States to impose very extensive restriction on the exercice the rights it proclames. But we could say that the provisions of the African Charter reflect the influence of the HR instrument but in occordance with the African traditions. The African traditions

results. 1 — A Constitutional Monarchy The United Kingdom is a parliamentary monarchy. Because there is no actual written constitution in Britain, the relationships between the Crown, the representatives and the people are governed by a whole series of statutory laws (statute: loi), traditions and conventions whereby the monarch has gradually come to have an essentially symbolic function as head of state of the United Kingdom and of the British overseas territories. The