Oil. Iraq is a member of the oil cartel OPEC, and has the second largest oil reserves in the world, second only to Saudi Arabia. The world's complete dependence on oil partially explains why the West was so worried at the prospect of Saddam Hussein having the weapons of mass destruction. ... Oil prices would consequentially rise uncontrollably, and the world would grind to a literal halt, sending many economies straight into a recession. As a result the West, with countries such as Britain and the USA so dependent on oil, must ensure that Iraq doesn't harness the potential to cau...

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Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. ... Clearly, the project is aimed at loosening Russia's dominating grip on oil and gas. ... As said above, the EU relies on imports for almost 80% of its oil supplies and indigenous oil supply is expected to move below 10% of consumption in maybe less than ten years. Without any doubt, the EU security of oil supply is fundamentally a question of the security of supply to be expected from the global oil market too. ... At present oil price levels the EU's oil bill for imp...

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In nineteen fifty nine, significant oil reserves were discovered in Libya (CNN). ... In nineteen ninety nine, he turned over suspects in the Lockerbie bombing, and in two thousand three the country agreed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction. ... Gaddafi Expansion Gaddafi was the first leader of the oil-producing public of Libya to challenge the power of the oil companies to set prices and decide the return to the producer governments. He demanded a higher rate of return which in the end the oil companies could not refuse (BBC). ... This helped to energize OPEC and laid the basis for the...

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Furthermore, all nuclear development and chemical weapons are controlled and regulated by the peacekeeping troops due to dangerous results. Many problems can appear than the obvious harm; however, these weapons could disrupt the entire ecosystem. To illustrate, during Desert Storm there was a concern when the oil wells kept burning that it could cause meteorological problems with the weather, which could have been the culprit of strange seasonal changes (Lawson 94). ... For instance, the peacekeepers mission was to protect the oil interest because there was a possible threat of loosing it ...

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While being bombarded from the sky, a naval blockade strangled Japan's ability to import oil and other vital minerals, and its ability to produce war materials (Long). ... In the course of time, the effective naval blockade would have starved the Japanese into submission through a lack of oil, rice, medicine, and other essential materials, according to Chief of the U.S. ...

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Microsoft Case Part I: The government has been looking into Microsoft since 1990, when the Federal Trade Commission first started examining charges of monopolistic behavior. In 1995, Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department reached a settlement that required the company to change a variety of business practices, including key aspects of its licensing agreements with personal computer makers (2). Microsoft has grown into an enormous and powerful corporation by a combination of aggressive business practices and having written operating systems (DOS and Windows) for personal computers. From oper...

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Your life is literally worth less than that of a Jew; the Israeli military likes to fire indiscriminate heavy weapons such as rockets or shells at Arab neighborhoods if they think a terrorist might live there, and they casually dismiss dozens of innocent casualties or even deaths as unfortunate but necessary. ... However, if you're killed, whether it be at a checkpoint by a trigger-happy soldier or as "collateral damage" due to the indiscriminate use of powerful area-effect weapons, you can take comfort in knowing that somebody in Israel will promise an investigation ... that quietly goes...

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After eight years of hardline, ultraconservative and anti-Western leadership by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, drastic presidential change has occurred in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hassan Rouhani's somewhat unexpected but highly optimistic election has turned heads in the west. The big question now is how will he change Iran's current perception as the political bogeyman of the West? In addition, how have relations with Iran and the U.S. morphed over time and how will the installment of a new and more pragmatic president be any different than the one that preceded him. There is no way to...

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Klare compares water to crude oil. ... Another common feature is that both crude oil and freshwater resources lying underground cross borders and develop a conflict potential. ... Using underground water supply in arid areas needs relatively high investment; therefore, unlike crude oil, there have not been any bigger conflicts over the resources. ... There is a well-known issue of the Caspian Sea, however, since that is a reservoir of salt water, the issue is not about the distribution of water but about crude oil and gas deposits. ...

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The doctrines also include religious education on the use of weapons as part of their training. ... Azumah (2015) observes that since the oil boom of the 70s and 80s, Saudi Arabia gave many scholarships to Wahhabi scholars so as to fund radical mosques in Africa, Asia and the West. ... With plenty of oil resources, the terror groups ultimately find their way into the rest of the world from where they mete out violence on societies with divergent thought. ...

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The 1997, World Drugs Report the UNODC estimated the value of the market at US $400 billion, ranking drugs alongside arms and oil amongst the world's largest traded goods.5 Globalization, which is described, as the widening, deepening and speeding up of the global interconnectedness6 has been as efficient to illicit trade as to the licit. ...

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Introduction to International Relations GV 1600 Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the current structure of the United Nations. How would you reform it for the better? The United Nations came into being in 1949, following on the heels of one of the most defining periods of the twentieth century - World War Two. The purpose of the UN was, and still is, clearly defined. That is to provide a structure for dispute settlement amongst states, to promote and recognise equality, sovereignty and independence, and also to develop the Less Developed Countries (LDC's). ...

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Introduction As the world modernizes, the relationship between nations becomes increasingly important. Globalization has taken over, allowing countries to lower transactions costs across areas of economic trade and social interactions. This has prompted international governments to create trade, soc...

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Essay Question 1: How has the Arab Spring fundamentally changed Middle Eastern society and the evolution of future politics in the region? The implications of this movement have resulted in a global impact that crosses borders, oceans and continents, significantly affecting the social, political, and economic status of each country involved. This movement affects not only the future of those countries, but also the rest of the world due to the changing of fundamental beliefs at a national and geopolitical level. To be sure, political reform and economic reforms are intertwined, especially in ...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive and ideological apparatus, is thus to be considered as well. In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. So instead of conceptually...

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On the night of 17 July 1936, the Spanish army, inspired most of all by General Franco, started the Spanish Civil War by rebelling against the Second Republic. A central goal of the rebels was the destruction of left-wing organisations. Franco's fellow officer, General Queipo de Llano, instructed hi...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 GENERAL Pinto (1994) described project manager is truly the heart and soul of a project. Project managers are expected to successfully bring their projects to fruition (achieved pre-determined quality) while keeping a tight rein on budgets (costs) and schedules (time). In order to fulfill the requirement of time, cost and quality, a project manager needs to acquire a set of skills to help him to manage the project and solve variety of problems during the implementation of project. These skills can be divided into two categories, which are hard s...

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