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administration had taken control in America in 2008. Pash did not know what Putin had on Obama, but it had to be something big. For the US President to withdraw the missile system in Eastern Europe, allow Syria to go unchecked, and Putin to annex Crimea was in a word incomprehensible. Under the previous American administration any of these actions would have caused a negative reaction with military escalation. Thus the only logical conclusion was Putin had the goods on Obama, or Obama was a…

Document 1 1. The authors felt that the basic problems facing the Western Roman Empire is that a lot of the population is excluded from political responsibilities. They were not able to organize themselves so they could be protected. Also they could not serve in the army. Also their economy was going to a downfall, most of the people were agricultural laborers bound under the feudal system to work on his lord’s estate. Document 2 1. One reason they declined is because the empire was too large…

I stand before the United Nations Security Council representing the country of Sweden to discuss what we find is of great concern to our proud sovereign state. To initiate today’s proceedings, I wish to thank the Security Council and the United Nations on behalf of our country for allowing us to appear before you and to present our case. Our nation will argue that the threat the Russian Federation poses to our state is of utmost urgency and importance. Furthermore, we request assistance on this…

In President Obama’s 2015 speech to the United Nations, he speaks of the various issues plaguing humankind, and proposes solutions for addressing them. In his speech, Obama speaks regarding the necessity of forging international cooperation and reaching a high standard of human rights, in an effort to create a just and habitable world. He also forms a call to action against those who choose to trample such rights, and engage in violence and intimidation in lieu of diplomacy. Throughout Obama’s…

On June 23rd 2016, the United Kingdom is holding an “in-or-out” referendum in order to determine whether the United Kingdom should stay as part of the European Union (the EU) or leave the international organisation. The United Kingdom and the EU have an interesting history with many disagreements over institutions. This then caused a national identity crisis as to whether the United Kingdom wants to class itself as being ‘European’. This is relevant to the main argument for exiting the European…

they signed a treaty subsequently giving Hungary to the Habsburgs and the Aegean Coast to the Venetians. In the year of 1718 their strong grip on their European territories was hanging by a mere thread. 1774 came in the blink of an eye and they lost Crimea while giving the Russians the authority to protect their Orthodox Christians. By 1798, the French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte had already established his foothold in Egypt and conquered Palestine. While this was taking place, other…

Born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia, Ayn Rand was surrounded by pogroms aimed at the Jewish and anti- semitism increased after the assassination of Tzar Alexander II in 1881. There were two younger sisters in her family: Natalia, known as Natasha, and Elanora, known as Nora. Her mother was Anna Borisovna née Kaplan and they had a mutual dislike of each other as Rand thought she was a social climbing, unprincipled conformist and Borisovna thought her daughter did…

There is an argument in international relations that state sovereignty is being undermined by globalisation. Scholars argue new global powers are bringing about the end of state sovereignty as states are losing the ability to effectively govern their own societies and economies. (Ohmae 1995, Scholte 2000 in McGrew 2014: 16) This essay however will attempt to reaffirm the importance of the sovereign state despite globalisation, initially through examining some arguments for the proposed idea, and…

The World’s current security environment is uncertain and complex. Globalization amplifies emerging conflicts that bring national and transnational security challenges to the United States, which require employment of the military as national instrument of power. The United States military supports conflicts ranging from peace to war, and varying in purpose, scale, risk, and combat intensity. The ability of the United States military to advance its national military objectives depends on it…

Russia showed military aggression against the Ukraine in 2014 when they invaded the Crimea. They have always felt that the Ukraine is apart of Russia since historically it has been. Whenever there is aggression like this, it typically shows a heightened amount of nationalism which comes out of a feeling of superiority from the nation and…