According to the American Political Science Review, "they observe that democratic leaders are beholden to voters, and argue that voters oppose war because of its human and financial costs. " If the majority of the citizens in a nation oppose going to war, and the government decides to do so anyway, then any and all the negative aspects that come along with war, such as casualties and financial strains are the fault of the president and the country's government. ... The political system is originally modeled after the communist Soviet Union. ... It was a boundary set up as a surrender o...

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While previous political transitions had seen similar circumstances, the actual events in question had generally occurred individually. ... In regards to the political aspects of unification, it effectively left a Germany with no national or ethnic minorities, as well as having undisputed boundaries. ... For all the good that seemed to be imminent as a result of unification, many problems also arose regarding the political transformation that Germany was undergoing. ... The conflict between West Germany's goals of national unity and international integration remained the...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. ... This would be an opportune time, since the United States was heavily invested, both economically and politically, in the Vietnam conflict in 1969. ... Both the Chinese and Soviets hoped the United States and our Western allies would deem this rift as a sign of regional and political instability between the two Asian nations, resulting in military cutbacks and a reduced...

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In the article A Political Science Perspective on the Balance of Power and the Concert, the author Robert Jervis (1992:717) states, "The growth of a nation's power, if it becomes great enough to menace other strong states, will be at least partially self-defeating; the attempt to dominate the international system will call up a counter-balancing coalition that will restrain the state. ... A period of time in political history that great exemplifies a multipolar world was the time after the Napoleonic war and the firs World War. ... From the Concert of Europe to the End of the Cold Wa...

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The country could not exist under one administration since the occupying powers wanted to achieve their own political ideas. ... Also the political differences between the "Bizone (the merged zones of the USA and Britain) and the Russian and French zone were significant. ... Such problems were the disarmament and peace treaty, the fixing of the boundaries and the conditions for the economic unification. ... This kind of animosity and suspicion dominate the foreign politics until the late 1980's. ... Berlin seemed to be again reflecting the political world of the late 40's. ...

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The Suez Crisis of 1956 demonstrates the inextricable link between the vehemence of Cold War politics and the decline of the once invincible imperial powers. ... The Suez crisis undoubtedly resulted in a pivotal shift in global politics. ... Furthermore it is a prime example of Cold war behaviors and politics in order to gain geographic and cultural alliance, just as it was seen in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. ... The crisis also emphasized the intensity and complexity of the Cold War crisis and the lengths, but also boundaries experienced by both America and the USSR. ...

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According to Dean Acheson, "If the best minds in the world had set out to find us in the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war, politically and militarily, the unanimous choice would have been Korea ". ... In other words, the Korean War happened soon after World War 2, and Korea was in horrible condition politically and militarily. ... At the end of the Korean War, the political boundaries of the Korean Peninsula remained divided and North Korea's population grew rapidly. ...

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Communism is a political theory about leading a society to equality. ... However, America feared this political view because their ideology was very different from that of communism's ideology. ... Eventually, European countries were divided into East and West by the "Iron Curtain" (Doc A), the boundary that separates the Warsaw Pact countries from NATO countries; America was in charge of Western Europe and the Soviet Union was in charge of Eastern Europe. ...

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Instead, communist governments were established in all those countries, noncommunist political parties were suppressed, and genuinely democratic elections were never held. ... Poland's western boundary will be moved to the Neisse River, a territory containing approximately nine million Germans. ... These ethnic groups view the decisions made at Yalta as a political betrayal of their respective nations. ...

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Having a division of Europe between the east and the west only gave a physical boundary to this cold war and meetings in Tehran and Yalta assured that this conflict of powers would ensure a battle of cultural development. ... This period was one of the most repressive political campaigns ever launched denying people unalienable rights and condemned many innocent victims. ...

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