Doha

On my way to the United States, I had three transits in between. First, I had a flight to Doha, Qatar which was a nine hours long flight. It turned out to be different than what I had imagined. It was a completely new experience for me. On my flight to Doha, I met new people and one of them was from the same culture that I was so, talking to her made me feel comfortable during that long hour flight. She was also travelling to United States but she had different route so we parted from Doha airport. I had to stay in Doha for four hours and then, I had another flight to Frankfurt, Germany. Everything was going fine and I was waiting there for my next flight to be announced so that I can go and sleep on the plane. And, it happened exactly as I had thought. I slept all my flight from Doha to Frankfurt, which was about eight hours long flight. When I arrived at Frankfurt, I was so hungry and I wanted to finish the security check and everything so that I can go and grab something to eat. But, while I was going through bag check, one of the security check person came and started talking to me. Suddenly, he told me to go with him inside the office. I got so nervous; I did not even know…

The Geography of Bliss: Summary of Chapter 4 (Qatar) At the very beginning of the chapter, Eric presents Saud bin Mohammed al-Thani, a seikh member of Qatar 's royal family that spent $1.5 billion on art masterpieces in a couple of years. The author wonders if the secret to happiness really is money, so he bought a plane ticket to Qatar 's capital city, Doha, where there are so many rich people. It 's at the beginning that he mentions what he concluded after visiting Qatar: “taxes are good,…

The house of a debate on The Doha Debate show believed that “The War on Terror has become a War on Islam.” Anas ALtikriti and Dr. Mustafa were with the motion; Faisal Abdul Rauf and Ramzi Khouri were against the motion. What compelled me to write this analysis is Anas Altikriti, founder of Muslim Association of Britain, and his usage of rhetoric to drive his appeal to ethos and pathos. Anas started with a nice introduction that restated what the house believes and how complex the issue is.…

DOHA ROUND, 2001 The Doha Development Round or Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is latest round of trade negotiations among the World Trade Organization (WTO) which initiated in November 2001 under then executive general Mike Moore. It is the Fourth Ministerial Conference with the goal to bring down exchange hindrances around the globe, and along these lines encourage expanded worldwide exchange. The Doha Ministerial Declaration provided the mandate for the negotiations including on agriculture,…

Indeed, from the perspective of sustainable development some of the most important decisions that may flow from the negotiations that were launched in Doha are to be found in sections that do not explicitly mention environment, development, or sustainable development. Agriculture. Agriculture will be at the heart of the post-Doha negotiations, and sustainable development will be at the heart of the agriculture negotiations. It is hard to overstate the importance of agriculture for sustainable…

I think the most likely outcome will be that current trends continue, and that the WTO will struggle to complete the Doha Round, and that in response more Regional Trade Agreements will be created in order to further the goal of global free trade. I believe that as stagnation continues to plague the WTO’s Doha Round, more and more countries will see their only opportunities at freer trade in such RTA’s, and that this will have a sort of snowball impact – that as more and more RTA’s are agreed…

Kyoto protocol “commits industrialized countries to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions” (“Kyoto protocol”). Even though Kyoto protocol was adopted on 11 December 1997, it took nine more years (16 February 2015) to enter into force due to difference among various member nations. Kyoto protocol binds only developed countries as they are the principal emitters of greenhouse gases for the past many years due to heavy industrialization (“Kyoto protocol”). The first commitment period started in 2008…

The main purpose of the WTO is to improve trade liberalization; the organization attempts to do this by conducting talks between the member nations. Unfortunately, many of these talks were unsuccessful, “trade liberalization efforts were spectacularly derailed when the WTO’s flagship project, the Doha Round, collapsed after emerging economies such as China and India grew increasingly assertive and refused to accept the terms pushed by the more-industrialized countries” (Beary 778). As well as…

It needs another international institution to govern this matters. TRIPs was formed in 1995 in order to govern some issues related to intellectual property right such as trademarks, patents, copyrights, and trade secret. The main actors of TRIPs are industrialized countries. It was created in Uruguay round due to the request of some developed countries, however, at that time, developing countries have opposed this agreements because they will lose the revenues to some developed countries. Some…

with an aim to curb the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (“Kyoto protocol”). Kyoto protocol “commits industrialized nations to stabilize their greenhouse gas emissions” (“Kyoto protocol”). Even though a Kyoto protocol was adopted on 11 December 1997, it took nine more years (16 February 2015) to enter into force due to differences among various nations. The Kyoto protocol binds only developed countries as they are the principal emitters of greenhouse gases for the past many years…