Council on Foreign Relations

master’s and doctoral degrees and while she was a professor at Stanford University. The average student working towards a master’s degree spends about fifteen hours of studying each week (Nelson). Rice spent about twelve years earning her Ph.D and was an above average student. Although the exact time she spent studying is not documented, one could presume she spent about twenty hours studying per week. In total, the amount of time she studied political science in college was 12,514.2 hours. With just her college experience, she exceeds Gladwell’s 10,000 hour theory. Condoleeza then furthered these hours with practical application teaching and working. Presumably, these total hours of deliberate practice contribute to Rice’s expertise in foreign affairs and…

the laws that would need to be changed and how long it would take to have the laws changed would take years. Our military and government should be allowed to interrogate and torture anyone at anytime if it could save American lives. Techniques of torture like waterboarding and force feeding could be very useful in gathering information from terrorists. If our military was given permission to torture terrorists it could save many lives and possible stop future attacks and maybe end a war. I…

The American Civil War The American Civil war was one of the bloodiest wars in American History, but one of the craziest things about this war was that it was a war between our own country. There are many reasons and causes that led up to the event known as the Civil War, some of them being that the north wanted to stop the act called slavery, which is when whites treat blacks terrible and make them follow commands and especially make them do hard work, if the order is not followers, they could…

In international law, the use of force is an important factor to consider reason being because it can be very controversial. If every country were to use force because they wanted to prove a point or show another country that they are more powerful then every state would use force to get their way. An issue that highlights the use of force is the United States – Iraq war. Through resolutions, articles, customary international law, relations with terrorist groups and humanitarian intervention we…

ideology led to the Cold War. In reaction to the great economic, political, and military strain the United States and the Soviet Union were forced to make great domestic changes which would have lasting consequences. Drawing from lecture, Kaufman (2010), and the Council of Foreign Relations (2014), I argue that the Cold War greatly influenced the internal politics of both the United States and Soviet Union. Section I argues that the Cold War arose from the ideological rivalry between the…

Ambrose Burnside was born near Liberty, Indiana, on May 23, 1824. He was the son of a court clerk and farmer, but had dreams of being in the army. In 1843 Burnside began his journey by receiving an appointment to west point, a United States Military Academy. To say he had a hard time is an understatement. After nearly being expelled several times, he ultimately graduated in 1847 at the middle of his class - 18th out of 38 students. Burnside began his career in the Army as a Brevet Second…

greater chance of the regime surviving (de Mesquita and Downs 5). However, in a transcript for the Council on Foreign Relations, it is stated that nations, democratic or not, that provide “institutions of accountability,” which are essentially coordinated goods, have better rates of economic development than countries” that do not (Council on Foreign Relations). This means that if an autocracy were to provide these institutions of accountability and a democracy does not, the autocratic state…

to inhabitants within their country that Western civilization is enforcing their own interest upon our nation to relinquish an organization they know so little about. U.S. diplomacy has gone awry on numerous occasions, in regards to the nation of Iraq. Starting from the second Persian Gulf War, when the U.S. intervened themselves in an Arab-Arab conflict between Iraq and Kuwait which they served no purpose, later prompting economic sanctions and trade embargoes on Iraq, depriving their country…

Language usage is an essential aspect of living in the world. Language is how we communicate and prosper as we grow. There is not just one language, but many. This does not mean that one person could speak every single language or none at all. All of us, the United States, in particular, demonstrates the ability to speak one or multiple languages. However, one-language speakers, or monolinguals, are at a disadvantage in today’s world rather than multilingual speakers because language learning…

he was not dragged by any foreign political and ideological loyalties. When the revolution broke out, Saleh was among non-commissioned…