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Russia Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington were both well known political scientists that had two very different views about the future of the nations of the globe. Fukuyama, in his essay The End of History and Man, argued that with economic growth countries would begin to focus on free market policies and democracy. This move to free markets and democracy would inevitable cause the nations to become so similar, his convergence theory. Samuel Huntington argued, in The Clash of…

The National Guard State Partnership Program (SPP) stems from a 1992 Department of Defense (DOD) desire to create and expand military security cooperation efforts in Eastern European countries. Sensitive to Russian concerns that US Active Duty military cooperation activities would appear threating, the DOD established the National Guard State Partnership for Peace program. Starting in the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, this program paired US National Guard soldiers and…

In April 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev began to introduce new reforms that would lead to the end of the Cold War and bring down the "Iron Curtain" only five years later. The reforms, called Perestroika and Glasnost, gave the Soviet-controlled countries more free will, which led to chain events resulting in countries pulling away from communism one by one. On December 25 1991, the world watched on in amazement as the Soviet Union officially disintegrated into 15 separate countries. Mikhail Gorbachev 's…

One of the first things one learns in international politics is that domestic politics shapes international politics. This cannot be more true given the situation of the Syrian war. Despite originating as an uprising against autocratic rule, the Syrian civil war has transformed into a brutal proxy war. It not only gives the Middle Eastern region conflict through its mass destruction of cities and the death of thousands, but also to the questions it provokes about human rights and the power of…

Florence Nightingale pushed the government to make changes to better soldiers health in hospitals. Not only did she push for this reform during the Crimean War, but after too. Nightingale became well known for her work in helping sick and wounded soldiers in the war. How she essentially founded nursing and set an example for the rest of the years to follow. She spent her nights caring for soldiers, giving her the name “Lady with a Lamp.” Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on the night of…

succession soon and is likely to acquire nuclear weapons. Turkey and Egypt stand up to real emergencies. Northern Africa fears a developing al Qaeda. What's more, Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine is prone to enable al Qaeda-adjusted jihadists in Crimea and in Russia itself. That outcome is less troubling than the possibility of divided war on the European mainland. The international order and worldwide security are collapsing at a speed not seen since the 1930s. Dealing with this mayhem…

Ikenberry’s assumptions that the liberal world order will remain are true, his belief in global institutions and Chinese integration are flawed. After summarizing Ikenberry’s arguments, it will be argued that world in entering a transitional stage that will hold realist values, but eventually give way to liberal commercialism. Ikenberry misunderstands the Chinese Sea disputes; China does not fear the backlash, it is the multinational corporations and business within China that fear the backlash.…

this case, via fleas infected with a virus called Yersinia Pestis. According to one story about the Mongols and the Plague, the Mongols have intentionally spread the plague by catapulting their plague-ridden cadavers over the walls of Caffa in the Crimea (Caffa is located near the Black Sea and is currently known as Feodosiya, Ukraine). Although some believe that this is how the Mongols have spread the plague and that they are behind the ground cause of the Plague in Europe, others have…

Technology was somewhat revolutionised from the mid-nineteenth to the end of the twentieth-century and is often considered contingent in the transformation in the nature of warfare in the same time period. However, when assessing the extent to which the deployment of new technology influenced the nature of warfare, it is first necessary to define what exactly the ‘nature of warfare’ refers to: the duration, organisation of forces, intensity, experiences of civilians and outcomes of each war.…

When she recently return from Crimea in 1956, she met with William Farr; Britain’s foremost statistician at that time, in a dinner party at Colonel Alexander Tulloch house. With the statistic she collected she found out that if they want ends to the suffering of patients, the Army Medical…