Trade and foreign exchange started to be liberalized in the Caribbean in the early 1990's. ... Therefore the Ethiopian army was supplied with modern weaponry as the U.S had one of the best military's in the world at that point in time. However eventually when the country was taken over by a left wing regime of the new military, the U.S were then reluctant to provide as much military support to Ethiopia(shinn). ... For example in Syria the have heavy military power but they are not known for their production of weaponry however they still manage to have lots of them [Ahm 14]. ... ...

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Military regimes: goes hand in hand with authoritarianism. A military regime is when the military runs the state. The military would intervene in politics, its legitimization and its long-term implications. An example of this is Nasser with a military coup in Egypt in 1952. ... When they shut down servers for computers twitter was still able to be used on cell phones to spread the word. 31: China's Role in Africa China's emphasis in Africa is on trade and investment not on foreign aid. ...

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Some areas were even colonized because of their strategic or military importance to protect the lands that imperialists had conquered e.g. ... The most important motive of the military side was the weak military forces of the colony continents. These continents were militarily weak and backward, and were no match for the sophisticated arms of the Europeans.1 Colonies provided the European countries with manpower, which was forcibly taken into the army to enable them to conquer more areas. ... There were a smaller group of foreign financiers and capitalists who manipulated every area of life an...

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The success of the military was largely in part to the weakness of surrounding empires such as the Byzantium Empire and the Persian Empire. ... The traders were not armed with anything but ideas which they traded with the people they met in foreign lands. The influence of Muslim traders became so great that they became an incentive to foreign nations wishing to strengthen themselves. ...

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Leopold who had been in the military and travelled extensively in his youth decided that Belgium needed empire. In domestic affairs he emphasized military defence as a basis of neutrality. ... A ten per- cent tax was placed on all foreign goods contrary to the principles the state was ...

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Effective military resistance by coastal states provided a marked difference between the experiences of the two groups of people. ... The Africans were divided into numerous states across a vast area and were based around the coast, or, at least, were used to dealing with foreign people through trade. ...

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