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Forty-eight years ago today, in the year of 1969, the people of Papua New Guinea were still using stone tools. Whereas, families in the U.S. were watching on television as their countryman were landing on the moon. There has to be a reason for the people of Papua New Guinea using stone tools in the modern age, while countries like the U.S. are more advanced in technology and this country hasn’t been around as long as countries in Europe and Africa. Geography is the reason of the inequality…

We propose a total annexation of the Philippines as an American colony in order to protect American economic interests abroad. Firstly, recent economic success in the United States has created an economic surplus that cannot be contained within American borders that must be spread to other nations. Finding new employments for capital has and should be achieved by “great industrial countries [turning] to countries which have not felt the pulse of modern progress.” The Philippines would be a new…

Relations and Comparative Politics, teaching and conducting research at a major research university. UCSD’s Department of Political Science’s model of cross-disciplinary work, ethos on close mentoring and supervision, emphasis on methodology and multivariate analysis, wealth of world-class faculty across subfields, combined with the extraordinary research facilities and resources, make your distinguished university an ideal place in which to pursue a doctoral degree in Political Science. My…

China Sea, in this article the issue with China and South China Sea is examine, presenting how China has claimed maritime rights over the Paracel and Spratly Islands in 1958. The issue with the South China Sea has always been present within the Southeast Asian countries, ever since world War ll, however conflict has been escalating. According to Leszek Buszynski, and his article The…

Running Head: THE MEKONG REGION The Mekong Region Phone Myat Khine, Mersaydies Rudolph, Pattida Sisukkham, Lin Wai Phyo Webster University Thailand Campus Introduction Mekong is known as one of the greatest rivers of the world, which regarding as the fourth most important river in Asia (Olivares, 2014). As it crosses the countries of Southeast Asia, it first starts from 5,000 meters altitude in the Tibetan Plateau and crossing China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, ending in…

1.2 Good network In malaysia, Penang Port is the strategical geographical location. Penang Port has a good network with Thailand and Indonesia and also know as the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT). Malaysia has good network with Thaialnd and Indonesia. (Asean Ports Association Malaysia, 2010), Penang Port can be positioned as a regional transshipment hub and upgraded to be one of the major container ports in the Bay of Bengal. The figure below show the map of IMT-GT.…

Why South China Sea is victim of disputes? The South China Sea is intentionally sited. It is sited in a way that it overlaps the main lanes of the sea between Asia, Middle East and the Europe. It becomes the main international way for sea trade and transportation, where most of the world’s largest traffic passes. As a global concern, the geopolitical and economic importance of the South China Sea lessens the secure navigation of tanks in water. The region plays a strategic maritime and military…

Nowadays, forest performs a significant role our daily life. One of them is peat land forest. Peat land can be found in almost every country in the world. In Southeast Asia there are 27 million hectares of peat lands, of which 83% is located in Indonesia (Wetlands International, 2014). According to Wetlands International, (2014, p. 1) “Peat land is wetlands with a thick organic soil layer (peat) made up from dead and decaying plant material”. However, despite the fact that peat land has an…

the physical features of those lines on a map and the people who live there. In his book, Asia’s Cauldron, Robert D. Kaplan explains how physical and cultural geography is an important factor when dealing with the issue of the South China Sea in Southeast Asia. Throughout his book, he argues whether or not the South China Sea should be worth protecting, argues that the surrounding cultures can, and also how his argument relates to my personal Christian convictions.…

III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & EMPIRICAL APPROACH III.1 INTRODUCTION The Chapter 3 investigates the research methodology and empirical approach that going to be used in this dissertation. As stated in the Introduction Chapter, the overall research project aims/objectives are to identify any constraints, flaws, and problems of implementation the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) Agreement on Engineering and Architectural Service scheme in the street level in Indonesia. Moreover, it will…