International Security Assistance Force

unnecessary things, such as facilities and equipment. The host for the 2016 games, Brazil, has been sliding into what it is calling a “financial calamity” and the games still went on. They spent hundred of thousands of dollars on a unneeded security force of 85,000 soldiers. All that money wasted when it would be put to better use for affordable housing and clean water. Their game’s final price tag was estimated to be over 20 billion dollars. Fernando Meirelles says that “We are in a…

Online student resources include Blackboard support, IT services Assistance center, an Online Writing Lab (OWL) and access to the college library databases and e-books. Grand Canyon University Grand Canyon University was founded by the Southern Baptist Church. It was started as a place of higher learning for ministry…

foreign aid doesn’t come in monetary form alone. Other measures such as sharing expertise in sectors of the economy, providing education and collaborative response to crisis and disasters would go a long way to providing poorer countries with the assistance that they…

ideologies that they became a threat to each other. Gaddis claimed that the American politicians, having to face such a malevolent force, had to adopt Machiavellian tactics when necessary in order to maintain their safety. Although this claim remains valid to an extent due to the fact that some of the United States’ unscrupulous actions were employed to maintain their security, it is mostly false because it unfairly vilifies the Soviets, does not take into account that the Americans sometimes…

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America and has had a difficult path to democracy characterized by the ongoing struggles between generations of family dictatorship and civil war. Sean M. Lynn-Jones, an editor for the Belfer Center Studies in Harvard university, defined contemporary democracy as having several common elements. First, democracies are countries in which there are institutional mechanisms that allow the people to choose their leaders. Second, prospective leaders…

You’re lying completely naked on a cold, cement warehouse floor, condensation building up, chained and shackled to a wall with hundreds of other women and children screaming and crying around you. You’re not quite sure how long you’ve been here by now; weeks, months, years. It all blends together. Your body is bruised and sore all over. You hear the sound of a door slamming and look up. All of a sudden, you feel someone grab your hair tightly and yank as you scream in protest. No one ever…

American citizens and elected officials must decide when America should defer to the judgments of international organizations. This decision is especially difficult knowing that these organizations have the potential to act against the interests of individual Americans, American businesses, or the country as a whole. Supporting these interests on the surface might certainly make no sense. Although it is expected that we ask our government to make decisions that positively affect the United…

General Assembly Resolution A/Res/51/210, the development of terrorist groups, both international and domestic, was highlighted as a major aspect of terrorism, as well as an acts of terrors committed. Within Resolution A/Res/51/210 a multitude of measures were called for in order to combat the increasingly fatal repercussions of terrorism. These measures included a recommendation to increase specifically relevant security “officials to improve the capability of Government, prevent, investigate,…

benefits. Leerkes explained how governments in prosperous countries are increasingly regulating and selectively restricting international…

According to a report by the U.N office for Disaster Risk Reduction(UNISDR), in the past two decades disasters related to weather have killed more than 600,000 and 4.1 billion people have injured left homeless or in need of emergency assistance (Cumming-B ). The economic cost of global warming is estimated at 1.2 trillion a year, which is about 1.6% of the global GDP ( Harvey). By 2030 this cost will rise, according to Harvey, 3.2 % but for developing countries the losses will be up to 11 % of…