International Security Assistance Force

The agriculture industry in Palestine is crucial to the economy, and is the pillar of their food security. However, the agriculture industry in Palestine is being controlled and restricted by the Israeli government. Israel continues to use the Palestinian agriculture as a means to inflict collective punishment on the Palestinian people to confiscate more land in the Occupied Territories’ (OT). Israel continues to confiscate Palestinian agricultural land and aquifers by denying Palestinian…

Madagascar has an economy that focuses strongly on their exports. The agriculture is the mainstay of the country, and includes fishing and forestry accounting for more than one-fourth of the GDP and employs roughly 80 percent of the population. The main agricultural products produced in Madagascar include: coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava, beans, bananas, peanuts, and livestock products. The primary source of fuel for Madagascar is the use of firewood which is responsible…

have had a long history of collaboration. In the 1970's, the U.S. began to provide Mexico with equipment to eliminate marijuana and opium poppy fields. Because the U.S. was the highest consumer of drugs, they did not ignore the uncontrollable international drug trafficking affairs in Mexico. Former Mexican President, Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), got the U.S. to accept the war on drugs as a co-responsibility between the U.S. and Mexico. As reported by Ray Walser, a policy analysis, In March of…

Genocide of 1994 was an international disaster and the question of how much the international community was to blame for it has been debated to this day. Sure, the Rwandans who organised and executed the actual genocide must be fully responsible, but the word genocide implicates everyone. Governments and powerful people failed to prevent and halt the killing campaign. Everyone shared the shame of the crime. Belgium withdrawing their troops and leaving the peacekeeping force; the US putting…

it seems, produces a series of issues for society. In the last century, some countries, particularly developed countries, have shifted policy in the direction of low fertility. Combined with the advances in medical technology, people get better assistance, which improves the average age within a short period of time. As a result, people are happy and live longer. However, aging population problem has emerged. Although medical advances and better healthcare improved life expectancy age, the…

but with a twist: It is under military occupation, and signs of U.S. and Iraq security forces are everywhere. UNICEF Iraq representative Wright said that the decay is a result of a decade of neglect and underfunding during the sanctions era, as well as the impact of three wars, starting with the Iran-Iraq war. Iraq relies on a joint effort in which UNESCO along with UNICEF and the World Bank are providing assistance in planning and implementing comprehensive reform of the education sector. This…

Larry Dwyer and Chulwon Kim, were respectively, the academic project leaders of a study of the determinants of bilateral tourism flows between Australia and South Korea. The project was undertaken on behalf of the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and the National Centre for Tourism in Australia, and the Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is association with the Korea Tourism Research Institute (KTRI). The resulting report was titled Destination Competitiveness: Development of a…

error. There are National Response Plans for every possible disaster whether it is homeland security or natural disasters. During Katrina, the mass confusion was a result of gross underestimation of the potential threat and a poor understanding of the different levels of responsibility. Currently, Regional Command and North Command only oversee portions of the relief effort and only provide assistance…

Pakistan. For Fair, Pakistan’s apprehensions about India are more ideological than security driven, essentially, the Pakistan army is the defender of Pakistan’s ideological frontier; the Islamic identity of Pakistan versus the Hindu India. Furthermore, the author contends that the Pakistan army is convinced of being a victim, as it re-interprets history to portray itself as a sufferer of injustices perpetrated by outside forces. Fair supports her revisionist stance about the strategic culture…

President of the USA to Eden, the prime minister of Britain. Eisenhower insists in his letter, “The use of military force against Egypt under present circumstances might have consequences even more serious than causing the Arabs to support Nasser”, implying the fear of the possibility of the Egyptian alliance with the Soviet Union. Britain and France consequently withdrew their armed forces from Egypt due to American pressure in a few days and the crisis just ended with their…