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'. ... As James Wolfenson, President of the World Bank, noted '...[i]f we do not have greater equity and social justice, there will be no political stability and without political stability no amount of money put together in financial packages will give us financial stability'.2 Wolfenson's words, even if they appear to invert justice and stability as '...

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Most accounts centre largely on change in the social scene across Western Europe during the 16th century with intense focus on colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade as the central feature to its inception some stating "slaves were the capital that made capitalism"2. ... Firstly ships would leave Western Europe for Africa filled with goods for which sailors would exchange for slaves the most popular and important commodities were weapons and gun powder followed by textiles, pearls and other manufactured goods. ... It is estimated that between 25 and 30 million people, were tak...

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With the lingering memory of the more than 300,000 U.S. troops either killed or injured in World War I, isolationism was the dominant sentiment in most political circles. Americans were not going to be "dragged" into another war by the British. ... It was in this context that the democratic world, led by the United States, was faced with a refugee problem that it was morally bound to deal with. ... Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity - Jews".2 German Jews we...

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History 185 Test #2 04-01-03 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that paved the way for the creation of our modern day governments and societies, was an era of political and social revolutions. ... The French endured a long and bloody series of one single revolution also, and the world would never be the same. ... Because of the lost wars such as the War of the League of Augsburg and the Seven Years War with England, France had a war debt of half its annual budget. ... Napoleon proved to not only be a genius at war, but also at politics and domestic reform. ... This w...

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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. ... More importantly, Turkey would prove to be an indispensable partner and a deserving candidate for membership to the EU. ... Literature Review Whilst studying the literature on the importance of energy security and its impact on EU-Turkey relations it is possible to find some literature that lay a hand on these matters such as Mankoff's work,2 essays produced at the Center for European Reform (CER) and green papers of the European Commission on energy issues. ... Only 0...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. ... For several centuries slaves were the most important reason for contact between Europeans and Africans. ... The epidemiological impact of the Old World destroyed not only Native American societies, but also a potential labor supply. ... Among such criteria were constructions of gender, definitions of criminal...

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