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Sudan's Refugee Situation and the UN

significance of human dignity, there must be a strong sense of connection. People are known to follow blindly, no matter if what ...

20th Century Development and Industrialized Countries' Impact

Part of the "umbrella of protection" that has been extended to lesser developed countries by the more industrialized countries of ...

United Nations and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

President Bush had in fact stated the obvious and appointed John F. Bolton, a critic of the institution, as the new UN ambassador...

Global Poverty Reduction

International releases an annual Corruption Perception Index, which does not seek to measure actual levels of corruption present i...

Mexico and Industry

suggests that the growth in factories and industry is not really proving positive for the society in Mexico. It is also per...

Is the UN Effective?

again determined that something had to be done to prevent further conflicts, and thus the United Nations was born. It began in 194...

Legal Refugee Status

people who were refugees and/or who were seeking asylum to leave an environment of persecution. On the other hand, refugees are ma...

Conducting Business in Asia, Middle East, and the United States

Asia is a huge expanse of land, containing many countries, the most well-known of those, of course, being Vietnam, Japan, China, K...

U.N. Security Council's Antiterrorism Actions and Their Legality

any specific reference to the use of "any means necessary" to uphold UN resolutions with respect to Iraq (Pappas, 2004). A...

North Korea and Options for the United States Government

recently that "Crushing the U.S. plot to attack North Korea is a very important issue related to peace and safety of Asia and the ...

Single World Government Pro and Con

of World Government" was the only way "peace and justice will be guaranteed" (West Point, n.d.). A world government would bring ab...

International Organizations and Their Global Role

to unite countries. On the other side of the argument is the idea that these organizations are weak and ineffective and merely exa...

Contemporary Relevance of the UN

on June 26, 1945 and went into effect on October 24 of 1945. The purpose of the UN is "To maintain international peace and securit...

Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Its Opposition

the "loyal opposition" that he believed is needed in order for the two-party system to work best. He opposed FDR seemingly at eve...

History of WMDs in Iraq

2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...

UN's History and its Role

author explains that everyone has heard of the World Trade Organization (Fasulo 4). Many know it as the WTO. The latter organizati...

Bosnia, Rwanda, and the UN

task for which the old peacekeeping technique, designed to contain conflicts between states, was not suited" (Urquhart, 2004, p. 1...

3 Views on Freedom, Equality, and Tolerance

no longer solve the most pressing problems of the modern world." In other words, one has to reevaluate what is socially conscious ...

Decolonization and the UN

by delegates from 50 nations (Howard, 2005). Two months later they had completed the charter for the UN (Howard, 2005). The United...

Transnational Effects of Terrorism

groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience (Dammer and Fairchild 294). Terrorism can occur within t...

THE FUTURE OF THE U.S.-INDIA RELATIONSHIP

The question we attempt to address in this paper is, what is the future outlook for Indian-U.S. relations? Will the next sixty yea...

The Legitimacy of the War in Iraq

is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...

Slavery: From Ancient Times to the Modern Day

the following: In todays world, it seems that the people are turning a blind eye to what is really going on as it respects the top...

Environmental Management Systems; Environmental Policy Statements, the Regulatory Register and Key Legislative Characteristics

confirm the companys commitment to environmental management strategies. This will often include a recognition of the impact the co...

Overview of Rwanda

In the early 1990s Rwandan guerrilla forces mounted a series of attacks from their base in Uganda, with the result that in 1993...

Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention

breach (Carey, 2001). The frequent interventions by the United States in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo and even East Timor, S...

Military's Peacekeeping Role

Article 42 (Cox, 1999, p. 239). Peacekeeping operations take the form of one of two models" 1. Unarmed observer missions (Cox, 19...

Ten Year Planning of United Nations Finances

In seven pages this paper discusses UN funding operational member nation shifts and their implications within the next decade. Si...

United Nations Security Council Threats

of challenges that constitute threats to international peace and security, and whether this new trend is a positive development fo...

New Role of Russia in the United Nations

In twelve pages this paper discusses Russia's past, its present, and speculates on what its future might be with an emphasis upon ...