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Second attempt at First Draft The history of Guantanamo Bay, the current happenings with its prisoners and the educated commentary about the prison have brought forth the idea of closing Gitmo. The claim that prisoners are enduring treatment questionable to international standards factors most into this argument. Detainees of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, guilty or not, have been forced to endure inhumane conditions throughout their imprisonment. For this reason, the United States government…

Putin’s Policy of Nationalism Why does President Putin need to use nationalism as a diversionary tactic? This next section will explain the current domestic issues in Russia as well as the methods Putin is using in order to develop a nationalist discourse in the country. When the Soviet Union fell, Russia experienced many economic, social, and political challenges in its transition to democracy. Unfortunately, it left many feeling a lack of national pride and economic suffering. When Vladimir…

The Syrian Refugee crisis has not only increased skepticism towards the idea of a borderless Europe, it has also revived debate about the EU’s relationship with Turkey. There are various reasons as to why the relationship between turkey and European Union is regarded to be problematic . These problems are related to turkey’s geographic location, democratic nature, economic stability, as well as the cultural and historical background of the country. Basically, as far as geography is concerned,…

Fear, it is something nearly everyone have. Fear has it own benefits and disadvantages. It can protect someone from danger or put someone in danger. According to Alix Spiegel, one of the hosts on Invisibilia, on the episode, World With No Fear, “If you have no fear, more terrible things will happen to you, but you don’t personally experience them as terrible. If you have a lot of fear, fewer bad things are likely to happen, but it’s very probable that your life is more painful to you” (Spiegel,…

strategically placing weapons in such a way that they could take out the others’ capability to counterattack in a nuclear exchange, reducing their number of weapons to about 22,000. This remarkable difference in strategy was a possible reason for the Soviet’s downfall, as they had to purchase and maintain twice as many nuclear stockpiles as the US did. At the time of the talks, the US and Soviet Union had begun the process of creating anti-ballistic missiles which would protect them in the event…

Much debate and conflict is occurring between Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea. These countries’ past conflicts have contributed to the current crisis. Crimea, as well as East Ukraine, wants to join Russia. This has led to past promises being broken and worldwide debate about what Russia should do. While countries around the world have responded to this conflict, their actions don’t appear to have a large effect on the actions of Ukraine or Russia. While Crimea has become a part of Russia, there is…

CHAPTER-4 THREATS TO GWADAR PORT 4.1 Internal threats. Internal threats to this project have many dimensions and these will be discussed in following sequence:- a. Political dimension b. Internal security dimension c. Issues related to Infrastructure d. Economic Aspects e. Social dimension 4.2 Political Dimension a. Province of Baluchistan has typical demographic and social pattern in which Sardars have been yielding power since long. The local and provincial Sardars are trying their best to…

forces surrounded Chechen villages and forcibly loaded them onto cattle cars in a manner reminiscent of the German Operation Reinhard. The Soviet Union claimed it was in reaction to alleged Chechen-German collaboration and relocated the Chechen’s to Kazakhstan, Siberia, and Kyrgystan where many deported Chechen’s died. When these Chechen’s finally returned to Chechenya, they were forced to return to urban cities where they needed jobs, which they found in the party structure and oil industry.…

not directly tied to overgrazing, the shrinking of the Aral Sea is related to agriculture. The sea, which was once over 26,000 square miles (larger than West Virginia), is now just over 1,200 (smaller than Rhode Island) (Howard 2014). Located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the lake’s tributaries were dammed and diverted for irrigation by the Soviet Union starting in the 1960s. Over time, the government’s poor planning destroyed the lake and surrounding ecosystem, leaving nothing but a desert…

Before World War II began in 1938 Hitler and the Nazi party’s rise to power came with persecutions before the war even began, especially against the Jewish population with the Nuremburg Laws that were established in November of 1935.Hitler was not the only one persecuting those within their own country before the war, Stalin was also persecuting Soviet Ukrainians in the 1930s with a large spread famine across the Ukrainian farmland. Saul Friedländer’s book, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 1…