State Peace and Development Council

attain power. Machiavelli is claimed to be the founder of “modern” politics, and to have redirected political thoughts. His work contrasts the thoughts of ancient Greek political philosophers. Both Plato and Aristotle believed in the superiority of the state over individuals’ interests. In their ideal, rulers were supposed to build an environment…

The Catholic Church has been a big influential force in the Latin America. It influence can be found since the beginning when Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. On the first island that they landed, Hispaniola or now Haiti/Dominican Republic, was were the church started to spread its influences. Among their priorities, the first of Church was stablish in the new continent. The other priority was to be a conscience to the “conquistadores” or conquerors about fair treatment of the…

is defined by the neoliberal institutionalist Robert Keohane as ‘the practice of coordinating national policies in groups of three or more states, through ad hoc arrangements or by means of institutions’ (Keohane, 1990: 731). On the other hand, bilateralism can be regarded as two states cooperating and engaging in two-way policies, while unilateralism as a state addressing international issues with a one-way approach. Nevertheless, despite their differences, those three approaches should not be…

and/or maybe even a historian. His speeches that made out to be iconic are also obviously still remembered. He had received many military medals and even had a few statues, plus a memorial erected and engraved in his name. His funeral was the largest state funeral in his time. 350 Million watched it on the television, including 25 million in the United Kingdom. And 112 Nations sent representatives to attend the said gathering. Though he is almost always portrayed as good, he did have a darker…

poverty, starvation, unemployment, and ethnic or political persecution. In our interviews, former child soldiers and commanders alike reported that children are more malleable and adaptable. Thus, they are easier to indoctrinate, as their moral development is not yet completed and they tend…

than the blood diamonds, it is more so about the people who live in the diamond conflict areas and how little they benefit from it. Despite all the money that the minerals are sold for, those funds are going to everything but the specific nation’s development; it brings up rise to civil unrest more than anything. The earliest diamonds were found in riverbeds in India until when in the late “1800’s diamonds were being found in Africa,” shortly after Africa was…

After considering the operational environment, the problem is defined by identifying the tendencies and potentials of the involved actors, the tensions of the existing conditions and the desired end state. Thus, for CENTCOM the problem was how to remove the Saddam regime and destroy the WMD capability as quickly as possible while maintaining an element of surprise and without alienating regional allies. To accomplish this, GEN Franks and his planners…

Al Gore is the acclaimed winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was the runner-up for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2007 1. He has received international recognition for his involvement in politics, business, and environmental activism. He was the vice president under Bill Clinton from 1993-2001, the Democratic nominee for the 2000 Presidential Election, a member of the board of directors at Apple, and a senior advisor to Google2. He has taught at…

Improvement of Korea-Japan relationship: three negotiable fields Japan is geographically one of the closest countries to South Korea, at the same time, historically the most uncomfortable country because of Japanese colonization in the early 1900s. In a point of the South Korean government, although Japan’s distortion of history made the relationship worse, it is necessary to maintain a close relationship between two countries in the rapidly changing situation of East Asian region. To make an…

According to a Journal article “Depression and Chronic pain” written by Alex Holmes, Nicholas Christelis and Carolyn Arnold, Chronic pain is reported by 18.6% of Australian adults and the development of chronic pain has been associated with a range of physical, psychological and social risk factors (Holmes, Christelis & Nicholas, 2012). Upon the initial assessment visit, John had expressed to the community nurse that he had often shown signs…