Humanitarian intervention

Research Annotated Bibliography #1 Source A: Poverty, Inc. Dir. Michael Matheson Miller. Acton Institute, 2014. Netflix. Source Evaluation: This documentary and all the information compiled in it is reliable. The director, Michael Matheson Miller, is a research fellow at the Acton Institute and has been working internationally, with a focus on poverty, for the past ten years. His expertise and careful research on this subject created a wonderful resource for my presentation. This source,…

Kosovo is located in the Balkan region of South-east Europe and has been point of contention throughout history. Neighboring Serbia has longed alleged that “Kosovo is Serbia”, while Kosovo Albanians (Kosovars) strongly disagree with this perception. The intent of this research paper is to identify the causes of strong ethnic tensions and oppression in the region. Furthermore, to identify the operational variables that have affected unit operations during the NATO lead air and missile campaign…

Literature Review There are obvious humanitarian norms about helping a victim, but there are also rational and irrational fears of what may happen if one attempts to intervene (Darley & Latane, 1968). In certain circumstances, the norms favoring intervention may be weakened, leading bystanders to resolve the conflict by not intervening. One reason for nonintervention may be due to the presence of other onlookers. However, when only one bystander is present in an emergency, if help is…

The Price of Containment The influence of outside countries manipulating Greece during its Civil War beginning in 1943, for their own gains, contributed powerfully to the successful conflict against communist forces within and outside of Greece. This war would transpire with the aid of foreign states to show the world the weaknesses in the supposed victorious and all- powerful ideology, and that these communist forces could be defeated under the right circumstances. The Greek Civil War violently…

The wind howls, the bullets of rain shoot down, and the sun hides behind thick daunting clouds as Hurricane Katrina ransacks the vibrant southern coast of the United States. States including Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and many more surrounding were then thrown into a war against nature. On August 29, 2005, $118 million cubic yards were destroyed and over $110 billion dollars in damage were left in Katrina’s path of destruction. On that day, 1,836 lives were taken and millions more…

anti-Semitism or upon threat of death following incarceration in concentration camps following Kristallnacht. The initial orders were only concerning adults but, under the orders of Pierre Laval, the French police included children in the deportations as a humanitarian measure since many of these children’s parents had already been deported or detained; in reality, they would have been the responsibility of the state if they had not…

It is premised on the assumption that in a color-conscious racially stratified society, one response of populations defined as inferior would be to accept as true the dominant society's ideology of their inferiority (McVeigh, 2004). For some African Americans, the normative cultural characterization of the superiority of whiteness and the devaluing of blackness, combined with the economic marginality of blacks, can lead to the perception of self as worthless and powerless (McVeigh, 2004).…

Mandelbaum believes that U.S foreign Policy has failed since the end of the cold war through different factors. Mandelbaum makes a strong case ideologically crusading into regime change, which invariably fails regardless of how virtuous the intent is. We first need to define what foreign policy and the cold war is in order to evaluate Mandelbaum and whether he thinks U.S. foreign policy has failed or not. He mentions that the years of 1991-2014 were very distinct from any previous period in…

Was the partition of Palestine necessary? Palestine and Israel have been almost constantly in the last 50 years been at war or tension between the two separate parties. This fighting began 1947 by the United Nations partitioning the land in Palestine to be given to Israeli groups to create a separate a state. This essay will ask, was this partition necessary, to for both Arab and Israeli to be accepting of each other and live peacefully next to each other. Some people claim that other methods…

1.0 INTRODUCTION As humans we actually exposed to the contact and communication with each other either gender, that men and boys, women and girls as well as the opposite gender, that is men and women in matters such as learning, about muamalat and others. But now, with the growing sophistication of the world we see that promiscuity is rampant among young people or teenagers, whether in the real world or in cyberspace. Having children at a young age teenager is not a small thing, but it is the…