Abstract The root causes of the refugee crisis have been the incidence of the two world wars of the 1914 to 1919 and 1939 to 1945. ... These continued until the Second World War era. After the Second World War, the development of the international refugee protection regime continued to gather momentum irrespective of difficulties. ... In the process, Many Armenians fled to Syria, Western Europe and Middle East in during the First World War between 1914 and 1919. ... Historically, it is on record that the League of Nations was founded in the aftermath of the first world war by the Treaty o...

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Before one can truly understand why the European Empire fell, it is necessary to discuss why the Europeans alone succeeded in achieving almost universal domination throughout the world in the decades before the First World War. ... This was a big lead-in to the First World War because in addition to the clash between nation-states, there was rising internal friction within nation-states as well. The map of the European alliance system in Thick Facts 1 can be helpful to understand why Germany in particular was itching for a war. ... They all seem very happy and enthusiastic about fighting t...

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The British and French demonstrate that a strong central power is necessary to maintain power on a world scale. ... The wars with France to the South and England to the West surround the Dutch. ... To the south of the Republic the French waged wars, leaving the Dutch with no way to protect their country or their industries. ... This is demonstrated in document 1, the graph shows the steady decrease in Dutch ships on the Baltic because there is no longer a need for the British industries to hire shippers when they have their own ships. ... The war fought by the Dutch was not for territorial gai...

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Australia being the child has done just that throughout its history, and similarly to how a child will grow to an adult, Australia has shown after being involved in two World Wars for the mother country, that it has developed to be a multi-cultural, and unique nation. "Australia has undergone enormous changes since the Commonwealth came into being on 1st January 1901."1 Since this time its population has increased four-fold, as Australia is now home to one of the world's most diverse societies, with almost every culture and religion being practiced within our land. ... The Great Depres...

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Pressures toward absolutism came from three needs experienced by heads of state and their advisors: 1 to bring and end to religious discord; 2 to surmount the problems created by changes in the European economy; 3 to enable their military forces to compete successfully in warfare transformed by gunpowder weapons. ... He wrote immediately after the civil wars in England in the 1640s, conflicts that partially stemmed from religious fanaticism. ... Absolutism provided a strategy for survival in a frightening political world, just as predestination served as a rock of certainty in an uncertain s...

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"Bismarck was a Machiavellian and immoral power politician-. (1) He used skill and opportunities to achieve his goals in the foreign and domestic policy. ... At the Congress of Berlin in 1878, after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, he confirmed his dominant position as negotiator between the great Powers, Britain Austria-Hungary, France, Italy, and Russia. Bismarck negotiated the exceptional Austria-Hungary alliance of 1879 which was "the first formal alliance between two Great Powers concluded in peace-time since the outbreak of the French revolution and the end of the ancien régime ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. ... The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" ... That this was accepted by many, was partly because the war was seen as an adventure, and perhaps because the last war where there was mass recruitment was almost one hundred years previous, the majority of those fighting in the interlude being well-trained career soldiers...

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In this "The Six Books of the Common wealth" (1577) he defined sovereignty as "the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth" (Bodin, p. 1). ... Moreover, the Reformation, Counter-Reformation and the following wars of religion helped to prepare the ground for a secular political system. ... The bloody Thirty Years War was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) and the conclusion of these religious wars would be determined by the secular ruler and not by an external authority, such as the Pope. ... This system of the secular state after the Treaty of Westphalia formed the basis of the...

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Some kind of 'cost benefit analysis' is not so easy when globalisation is perhaps the most over used and under specified concept in the international policy sciences since the passing of the 'Cold War'. ... In such a context part of the problem with understanding globalisation is the nature of the populist, sometime hysterical, discourse on the subject to be found not only in the media but also in a range of so-called scholarly texts that reduce 'globalisation' to a set of slogans to be either exhorted or demonised.1 Throughout the 1980-90s for many of its adv...

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Language is the part of us that make us humans and unique individuals in the world and it allows us to express our identity. ... As a result, the view of culture around the world is changing and the desire to have an integrated world culture reduces the number of languages that humans speak. ... Wars, earthquakes, tsunamis and such kinds of natural catastrophes can shift the balance between languages. ... During the last three centuries, the language has been in constant decline and was spoken by less than 1% of the nation. This decrease was due to two world wars, television, and the increasin...

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However, instead of reaching India, he found himself on the unknown grounds of the Caribbean islands describing them as "the most fertile, and temperate and flat and good in the whole world "1. ... Columbus was able to see inhabitants interacting in their natural surrounding, and he perceived them as people who are simple and do not look savage, although "all are populated and make war with one another "3. ... When Columbus was first acquainted with the beauty and diversity of the Caribbean islands, he was enchanted by the scent of flowers and trees, stating how "this was the most delightful...

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More often than not, this reference would be used under the topics of art and literature by the Western world. ... The precarious outcomes of the assumptions by the influential West has resulted in the misrepresentation of what the truth can be, and has impacted both ideologies and the interrelationships between these parts of the world. ... There has been great debate on how colonialism has been a vehicle for moving Western-superiority into global intuitions such as compartments of the United Nations, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, and many other global non-profit administra...

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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. ... Only 0.6% of the world's oil reserves and 2.0% of proven natural gas reserves are located in EU. ...

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The epidemiological impact of the Old World destroyed not only Native American societies, but also a potential labor supply. ... The southern wheel shaped the huge traffic to Brazil which for three centuries was almost the almost exclusive preserve of the largest slave traders of all, the Portuguese.(1) Despite their use of the Portuguese flag, slave traders using the southern wheel ran their business from ports in Brazil, not in Portugal. ... Among such criteria were constructions of gender, definitions of criminal behavior, and conventions for dealing with prisoners of war. ... The first ...

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