United Nations Convention Against Torture

listed as goals to be met (United Nations MDG Report 2014). These are called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which were created with the intention to help Third World countries develop. Even though these issues are considered vital to the well-being of peoples in Third World countries, there are a number of issues…

A key factor of sovereignty lies in the status of its external recognition; according to Li and Zhou: financial sovereignty is a component of sovereignty itself and therefore is “…composed of financial sovereign status, financial sovereign authority, and financial sovereign capability.”(Li and Zhou, p. 178). Sovereign status, being based on the recognition and consent of other states, should not be affected by globalization of financial capitalism, leaving the other two components from Li and…

could work together for the common good of bring justice to the world’s people. B) In this reading I learned more about the Nuremberg trails and how each country really could not agree upon on how to move forward. Each nation formed…

The sharp ideological distinctions between East and West began to fade. In the 1990s, Multilateralism was strong, in that almost unanimously the UN resolutions against Iraq inversion of Kuwait, Angola, Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, were handled through multilateral efforts. But that period is behind us. There has been a steady rise of new economic powers, and expansion of nuclear club member states, the growing…

This research examines several cases of US humanitarian intervention in the 1990s, focusing on the transformation of United States foreign policy goals between George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order” platform in 1991 to Bill Clinton’s “Policy on Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations,” in 1994. These polices starkly contrast one another—the first offered preventive, non-combat measures while the latter focused on combative peacekeeping missions—although both are guised as humanitarian aid. The…

It is important to know the distinction between the theories presented by Rousseau and cosmopolitan democracy. Both theories form nations and have specific guidelines for a nation to follow. Rousseau based his theories on the Spartans and Romans of ancient time. He studied the small nation-states and their developments, and found characteristics that made them prosperous. While, the theory of cosmopolitan democracy is a response from an ever changing global climate during the Cold War. With more…

The country of Germany is located in Western and Central Europe, neighboring Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, France and Switzerland. Germany has an estimated population of 82,727,000 people; where 13% is under the age of 15 and 27% is over the age of 60. In this large population the life expectancy at birth is 81 years and a health life expectancy at birth is 71 years old (“World Health Organization”, 2015). Within this country there is an estimated 701.6 thousand live births and an estimated…

intervention some nations would have been stripped of their human rights and the intervention only aided them in the long run. Whichever it is, with case by case support we will try to examine the different concerns of both sides of the argument and we will conclude our results and opinion. Before this essay begins, we would like to…

uphold our responsibilities in our democratic society. Voting is both a right and a privilege to be taken seriously and with great care. When electing a president one must take careful consideration to the many roles that, the president will fill. The United States president will lead the country as the head of state and head of government, additionally; the president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. Therefore, it is…

Human Resource managers are accountable for developing, leading, and coordinating all the administrative functions of an organization. They conduct the recruiting, interviewing, and hiring of new staff; confer with top executives on strategic development. Human resources managers are employed in almost every industry. They work in most offices and they work full time during regular business hours. Human resource managers have a lot of vital tasks that they are responsible for; not only have to…