Chechnya

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the forty five year long Cold War between America and the Soviet Union had ended. This pivotal event was a bellwether for change throughout the globe, with communist states falling like dominoes and ushering in a new era of the exceptional, indispensable US’ unipolar hegemony characterized by stability, the proliferation of interconnected market economies, and the spread of democracy -- all leading to eternal peace among nations. At least, that is what many of…

Overview of the Asylum Process The United States has long held to the principle that it will not return a foreign national to a country where his/her life or freedom would be threatened. The Asylum process is an essential tool for anyone seeking protection from individuals which mean great harm to themselves and their family back in their home country. This process is directly related to the immigration process. The process can be started as soon as someone enters the country at one of the…

The United States has come a long way since the days of the American Revolution or either of the World Wars. Today war is all about airstrikes, drones, and the use of any other new technology in order to find a way to keep our troops at home and fighting conflicts without having “boots on the ground” as the saying goes. However even with, or perhaps because of, this new technology our country finds itself involved in conflicts that are unconventional to what we have seen in our history. The…

News stories are biased because of how they are interpreted by people and what the media chooses to include or not include in their stories. This makes it biased. We all receive information and think about things differently. It’s not the news that presents the events differently, it is the individual and their understanding of the past and present that forms their opinion about the events presented. Therefore, bias in the news will always be there because we all view and interpret information…

United States this problem is not as large scale as Europe, but if nothing is done to protect our country and it’s citizens, we are all in danger. On April fifteenth, 2013, the Boston Marathon bombing took place. The terrorists were originally from Chechnya, a subject of Russia, but made their way into our country legally. Even if there were no red flags or just a few, everybody that comes in should continue to be monitored to protect the other American citizens. If those two brothers had been…

Britain’s defeat in the American Revolution, Britain’s loss in the American Revolution, the French in the Peninsular War, the French in Indochina and the Algerian Revolution, U.S. in the Vietnam War, the Soviet Army in the Soviet-Afghan War and Chechnya, and the U.S. in Somalia, are some of the cases that demonstrates strong states losing asymmetrical wars (Cassidy 2000, p.42). However, it is important to take into consideration that these cases are not identical. The outcome of the Peninsular…

The paper is trying to draw the line between decisions in Kremlin and results in distinct locations in Russian Federation (Thumann 2001, p194) The development in Chechnya and republic of Sakha are presented examples of Yeltsin administration, the results are attributed to his leadership and his popularity with Russian minorities. (Thumann 2001, p196) Most of the article focuses on individual leadership styles with…

On the 7th of January 2015, gunmen entered the office of Charlie Hebdo and shot dead 12 people, injuring a further 11. Then ensued what the BBC describes as ‘three days of terror’, as the police attempted to track down the gunmen before they escaped. (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30708237) In the end, the gunmen were shot dead by the police. These series of events raised a massive public outcry, from within France itself, throughout Europe and all over the world. The events of charlie…

In the late 1970’s there was a hot bed of political activity throughout the world, which fed into the Cold War. The Soviet-Afghanistan War was a battlefield in which the Cold War super powers never faced each other but fought each other through different avenues like many other conflicts. Years earlier, the American military fought a counterinsurgency in Vietnam in which the Soviets helped the North Vietnamese fight the Americans. Even though the Americans won the major battles within the war…

On Presidents day, April 15th of 2013, the Boston Marathon was the focus of a terror attack. The people behind this attack were brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev,26 years old and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 19 years old. They had been United States residents for nearly a decade before they carried out the attack. As a result of the events, three spectators and one police officer were killed. In addition, more than 250 people were wounded from two bombs placed near the finish line. Sixteen of the wounded required…