World War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. ... Eventually, historical analysis conducted in decades after the event, lead to a shift from the guilt perspective, to a broader one of various interacting factors. ... In his article "Domestic Causes of the First World War", Arno Mayer detached his analysis from the usual multi-factor explanatory model, and focused instead on the role of domestic policies in igniting the war. ... In his...

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Any attempt to analyze the transition from a Cold War system of international relations to a post Cold War one, will incorporate an analysis of the general nature of the system itself, in this case the system of international relations in Asia; of the actors involved and their respective roles; how changes in the political environment and in specific policies of the actors shape the evolution of a new system; and finally the nature of the new system with its own actors, their new roles, and new concerns. ... In my essay I will focus on this dual analysis of the content and form of the major ...

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A close analysis of American immigrants shows that most of them came to the United States to evade political atrocities in their countries. ... A close analysis of the Italian immigrants shows that close to 80% of them came from Southern Italy including Calabria, Abruzzo, Sicily, and Campania. ... A close analysis of the settlement patterns of the Italian immigrant settlements shows that they were highly concentrated in certain areas. ...

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The Cold War is a term used to describe the period of non-violent conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, between the mid-1940s and lasted until the early 1990s. This essay seeks to examine the political relations between the leaders of Britain, the United States of America and the Soviet Union during and immediately following World War II. The deterioration of Soviet-American relations was the combined result of the mistrust between both sides and the inconsistent American foreign policy resulting from the replacement of Franklin D. Rooseve...

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In a research study that was conducted to give an in depth analysis on the definition of a civil war, Gersovitz and Kriger (2013) explained civil war as a "politically organized, large-scale, sustained, physically violent 4 conflict that occurs within a country principally among large/numerically important groups of its inhabitants or citizens over the monopoly of physical force within the country" (p. 3). ...

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I will undertake this analysis of the sovereignty case in five steps by: 1) providing an overview of sovereignty; 2) offering a brief explaining of non-intervention and it's correlation with sovereignty 3) analyzing the principle of self-determination; 4) describing the evolution of the disagreement from September to December of 2012; and 5) Conclusion Sovereignty Historians date the modern concept of sovereignty back to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which conferred privileges upon territorial rulers with little attention to the ethnic and religious affiliations of their peoples. ...

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I will undertake this analysis of the sovereignty case in five steps by: 1) providing an overview of sovereignty; 2) offering a brief explaining of non-intervention and it's correlation with sovereignty 3) analyzing the principle of self-determination; 4) describing the evolution of the disagreement from September to December of 2012; and 5) Conclusion Sovereignty Historians date the modern concept of sovereignty back to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which conferred privileges upon territorial rulers with little attention to the ethnic and religious affiliations of their peoples. ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...

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The desire for intelligence is rooted in the instinct for survival. Some type of intelligence has been used since the very beginning, starting with the first civilizations. When a new nation starts, intelligence is key to grow and sustain their culture, much like the Americas. The key to their succ...

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The Little Prince which was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and was published in 1943 during the World War II, is my favourite great book. Although the story is simple, but it enlighten me so much. The story started with the author's plane was forced down in the Sahara, a thousand miles from hel...

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An important topic in international politics today is if Iraq has the ability to politically succeed. Judging by their present democratic and military standing; Iraq seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The westernized view of political success or democracy is still in reach but Iraqi citizens...

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From 1965 until 1973, the United States of America was at war with the communist nation of North Vietnam. One of the darkest and most controversial time periods in American History, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam caused drastic cultural changes within the American nation.1 Americans commonly regard the war in Vietnam as a gruesome and brutal war that was a complete failure for the United States armed forces. The media's impact on American culture caused a rapid decrease in the approval of the war and resulted in a political and military defeat for the United States. One o...

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"I always hear Caesar did, Caesar conquered. Was not there at least a cook along?" "Bertolt Brecht In 1914, the world witnessed one of the most terrible and bloody wars in the history of mankind to that date. World War One, at that time entitled the Great War, began as a result of the conflict between the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbia. On the surface, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, seemed to be the cause of the events that led to a European and, eventually, a world war. ...

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This essay will give detailed analysis on the reasons that contributed towards their downfall such as the rise in nationalism, the Second World War and arguably the First World War, the rise of the US and other such factors. ...

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