The Genocide On April 7, 1994 Rwandan armed forces killed 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers to discourage the international intervention in the genocide that began an hour ago. The Hutu extremist brutally murdered around one million civilian innocent Tutsis and moderate Hutus, making it the worst episode of ethnic genocide after World War II. The seeds of 1994 genocide war planted early in 1990 are when president began using anti-Tutsi talks to persuade Hutus for the genocide; this led to…
My policy recommendation is that the United States should not invade Haiti. Aside from it not being in the best interest of the United States, there are several other reasons on why we should not be invading Haiti. The crisis in Haiti isn’t something that directly affects the United States and in recent times we haven’t handled foreign affairs in the best way that we could have. For example, you have not made firm decisions regarding a variety of past crises such as North Korea’s nuclear program…
It is arguable that, throughout its history, military influence in Peruvian society has been very significant due, mainly, for the many years of military government. After Independence, the military had governed Peru for 110 years of the 195, of the 74 presidents, 51 were military. The armed forces had participated in Peruvian politics, among other ways, through military coups, co-managing the government with a president-elect, encouraging militarist policies in non-military areas, fulfilling…
Rachel Faber December 2, 2014 Dr. Carmela Coccimiglio ENG1100 You Are Woman, I Am Man: The Need for a Gendered Look at Natural Disaster Efforts Gender roles have long stood to compartmentalize and restrict people. They do not serve, they constrict. Traditional gender roles for women allow them to become specific targets in situations like natural disasters. Gender roles and social norms have allowed women to fall victim to unhealthy lifestyles and, in the case of 60 per cent of Sri Lankan women…
Ever since the United States established itself as a nation, foreign policy has been key to the well being of its economy and citizens. But, yet some argue that foreign policy has lost its importance in the minds of politicians leading the nation over time. Joyce Kaufman states in her book “A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy”, that after the nineteenth century the US bent its ideas of national interest, and ignored the nation’s history that clearly shows a strong foreign policy leads to…
A second option is an intervention by some outside power, which could side with one party to win it. Another option is a negotiated compromise that brings peace. This is basically what they are trying to do in Syria today. Working it out with peace. The final option is partition…
Summary of the “Yes” The Department of Defense is a part of the executive branch of the United States government that deals with national security and the Armed Forces. In the Department of Defense there are three subordinate military departments: The Department of the Army, The Department of the Navy, and The Department of The Air Force. The DOD is planned to have a unique role in the comprehensive response effort for the Ebola outbreak as discussed by Michael Lumpkin during the Senate…
In the field of global health, a consensus has been reached that we can no longer analyze public health issues through a purely biomedical lens, but must incorporate a wide range of other dimensions, such as political, economic, social, and environmental aspects. All these dimensions converge together to form particular places of health that influence disease exposure and transmission. King asserts that a political ecology framework applied to health provides insight into “how health is situated…
states and enforce its regulations, rendering it largely ineffective. Initially, the UN was created to be a mediator between states in order to conduct international relations in a relatively peaceful way, and establish a system which can deploy humanitarian aid. However, there is varying ideas on the execution of these ideals. In David Bosco’s Uncertain Guardians, he articulates the idea of ideological dualism within the foundation of the UN and the pursual of its objectives. He states that one…
In his foundational work The Types of Legitimate Domination (1922) Weber attempts to establish a theoretical framework to help understand the nature of political legitimacy and the means by which it is achieved. By observing human relationships and their interaction with both formal and informal institutional structures, he is able to provide a detailed sociological analysis highlighting fundamental differences between several strategies of domination (Weber 1978: 212). In doing so, he…