Mercenary Activities in International Law - Customary Law and the United Nations Legal measures to fight mercenary activities find its source in laws adopted at the end of the XIX century regarding the obligation to respect neutrality which were codified in The Hague Convention (N° V) of 1908 concerning the rights and duties of neutral powers and persons in land warfare. ... Indeed, one of the main purposes of the UN Charter is: To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measu...

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Democracy as a form of government has been viewed through the prism of western liberal ideological thought. This has resulted in the critics of Indian democracy emphasizing the unique limitations on its operation and considering it India's weakness rather than strength. However such critiques ignore...

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This was followed by a number of other totalitarian measures, for instance, Hisham Kandil's government drafted a protest law to limit the demonstrations and pacify the people's growing discontent, which clearly goes against the very idea of revolution and against any logic that a post-revolution regime should undertake. ...

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By defining democratization in the first section, focusing on the two variables- inclusion and governmental accountability- a comparative democratization scale to measure the level of this democratization achieved in the countries being studied will be established. ...

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