The basic aim of this alliance was to protect European states from the possible aggression by USSR, which after the Second War looked determined to expand her frontiers. ... (iii) The Regional Command: The Regional Command is entrusted with the task of defending Canada and US NATO after the disintegration of USSR: The collapse of socialism in the late eighties and the disintegration of USSR in December 1991 virtually ended the cold war between the socialist and capitalist countries, which had marked the later half of the 20th century. The end of the Cold War, practically, brought to an end th...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... The war of 1812 was a depiction of English relentless cling to the land that it had lost. ... Those at the conference also decided to meet recurrently after the conclusion of the war. ... Conflicts in both Korea and Vietnam have seen both American and British military powers fighting for the common cause of Containment fearing the overall Domino Effect of Communism that was ever prevalent in the Cold War. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar ...

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1.0 Introduction The international security has been shifted by the tectonic geopolitical role of cold war. ... In fact, Putin has intensified the cold war between the west and Russia that risk Russia losing it international reputation. ...

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Two horrific wars have been fought and caused by European countries, in which countless lives of soldiers and civilians were lost. ... Also, advances in science lead to the development of weapons that can pose a global threat, which was highlighted by the Cold War, are but some of the many changes that have occurred in Europe over the past century. ... When the Aftermath of the Great War and World War 2 was over and life started to return to normal, the European nations decided they had seen enough blood-shed and slaughter, which is why they began to think of preventative's, rather than ...

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Introduction Over the last half century the United Nations has been providing regulation, order and peace throughout the world since the end of the second World War. ... In conclusion I intend to discuss several "milestones " achieved by the UN over the past 50 years and the UN's powerlessness in the Cold War Era from 1945 to 1990. ... The creation of the League of Nations began after the First World War (1915), then United States President Woodrow Wilson welcomed the idea of a general association of nations. ... In war time 1942 the idea of a new international organi...

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By measuring the historical intensity of international economic links, the World Bank has identified that between the two World Wars and through the Great Depression the global poverty rose strongly and inequality widened. ... Moreover, the end of the cold war and the fall of communism in 1988 precipitated the communist countries to adopt a new model of economy. The models that were in place since World War II collapsed and the laissez-faire neo-liberal capitalism became the dominant ideology. ... There are, at least, five different levels of development: industrialized countries, the economi...

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Victory in the aforementioned war meant that Britain was never occupied or defeated like the other six founding countries members. Although Britain had suffered greatly in the Second World War, the people of Britain had not been as directly affected by European differences; so the desire to form a stable Europe was not as urgent as on mainland Europe. ... Every British Prime Minister (PM) from World War II onwards has had to make a choice between the EU and the US, which has been especially visible in recent months when taking into account the recent situation in Iraq. ... However Wright ident...

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In addition, there is evidence that parasites were much more common in Asia than in the colder European countries, leading to additional depletion of the human capital stock. ... Brick became a common building material in Poland in the fifteenth century , and its use spread across Europe over the next several hundred years, thus protecting the Europeans from the ravages of fire, and helping to protect them from their own wars. ...

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At the height of the Cold War, MAD, or Mutually Assured Destruction, was the only thing keeping the United States and Russia from going to war. ... Moreover, President Bush's administration's nuclear weapons decisions and policies "suggests that our existing nuclear weapons are too inhumane for any practical use in a world of civilized countries, because of this sovereigns don't believe we will use them in war, therefore they no longer represent leverage for us in conflict. ...

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The Sources of State Authority (1) Objectives This lecture has four objectives: (1) to define what is meant by constitutionalism; (2) to provide an overview of the basic propositions that underpin the established British and American constitutional doctrines; (3) to review...

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Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin notes that in the post-Cold War era, America's power and prestige may ultimately depend less on being a military superpower than on being an information and entertainment superpower. ...

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