United Nations Convention Against Torture

Through perseverance the day finally came where the scared Lakshmi could finally leave with the help of the American man. Primarily due to substandard living conditions, broken family structures, and widespread unemployment, citizens of developing nations struggle to persevere.…

While not matching the intensity and devastation of World War I and World War II, the period following 1945 would seem to most casual observers of history as a generally violent one, consumed with deadly regional wars, revolutions, and the possibility of a nuclear exchange. Though acknowledging the rivalries, anxieties, and dangers of The Cold War, historian John Lewis Gaddis, in The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System, argues that it was the longest period of…

2014-2017, we observe that there has been a growing tendency around the globe but not limited to the United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Turkey to see the rise of a populist rhetoric where demagogues are increasingly indulging in “gesture politics” while supporting and advocating for policies that right violate the sanctity of the right to privacy and other human rights in an attempt to ‘call for’ doing something about topical security issues and combating terrorism.…

Contemporary academic and public security discourses have produced a substantial body of literature on terrorism. However, there currently does not exist a single accepted definition of terrorism or what classifies an organization as a terrorist group. Different organizations that compile and classify terrorists and terrorist organizations operate under different and at times contentious and contradictory definitions of terrorism and terrorist groups. This is reflected in state classifications…

The king then decides to raise tariffs and causes the colonies to panic and worry about further taxation. Finally, those who pushed for Independence gained enough momentum to to declare independence from England. Before the United States entered the second world war there were Americans who did not believe America should entertain such war, until we are attacked. The attack on Pearl Harbor created fear in the homes of many Americans. This attack gave America reason to enter…

Every country must do its best to destroy the ISIL and fight against the terrorism around the world. At the same time the US president mentioned it on his statement clearly that, they would hunt down terrorists who threaten their country, wherever they were. That means the US will take action against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. The US military in Syria will help to the Syrian opposition. The US military will train and equip these fighters against ISIL. The US will not rely on an Assad regime,…

the personnel waited fierce fire resistance and, in fact, been psychologically prepared for cruelty. Moreover, according to the materials available in the Commission of Inquiry, many of the military personnel were of Armenian nationality – an enemy nation for…

and wrong. In order to understand the arguments made by both Glenny and Power’s we must first put into terms what the definition of genocide is in order to make the line between genocide and death caused by fight is. According to the UN Genocide convention in 1948…

On Tuesday, September 19th, President Donald Trump gave his first United Nations Speech. The article by The Washington Post addresses and extracts his main points of the night. First, it stresses Trump’s statement that the world faces “great peril” from rogue regimes with powerful weapons and expanding terrorists. He then encourages fellow leaders to help the U.S. defeat failed or murderous ideologies and “loser terrorists.” Embracing national sovereignty was Trump’s next point which according…

leading energy source. This chapter also addresses the Suez Crisis where a terrible shock spread through all the oil-importing nations, including the United States, which is not only the biggest oil producer, but also the biggest oil consumer. As a result, the Middle Eastern oil flew into America, and the oil companies competed to follow because businesses compete and nations do not. Consequently, President Eisenhower was unhappy with using the Middle Eastern oil and used an importing control.…