In 1921, the League established the first high commissioner for refugees under the guardianship of Fridtjof Nansen to deal first with the Russian refugees in .A passport was established for the first time for these refugees. ... These revolutionary style governments were seen in countries like France, Germany, Poland and Russia. ... But also before then, the war between Russia and Poland did not help as the dismemberment of Russian empire and the associated famine of 1921 many refugees fled to mostly France and Germany .others who could not make it to these two countries ran to Asia minor...

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This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Europe. Clearly, the project is aimed at loosening Russia's dominating grip on oil and gas. ... Russia's share in European energy marked is remarkable as Europe currently imports 42% of its gas, a third of its oil and a quarter of its coal from Russia. ... This fact will increase European reliance on Russian energy even further. ... In 2002, 38% of oil imports came from OPEC with Norway (24%), Russia (22%) and others, incl...

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This trend is also followed in countries such as Holland, Poland, Italy and Germany with these countries gaining more centralized power, allowing for more stable governments. ... For the Russian Campaign in 1812, Napoleon took 14,000 troops from the Kingdom of Holland, which ended in disaster, with only a small number of the initial troops from Holland returning. ... This then led to the Dutch welcoming the methods of the Prussians and Russians, rather than following French rule. By doing this, Napoleon would fail as being seen as a liberator following the arrival of Prussian and Russian rule ...

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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. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... The final stage of the French Revolution occurred when the bourgeois failed at government and their republic floundered. ... He lost his navy, he lost to guerilla warfare in Spain, and his fatal loss occurred when he attempted to invade Russia and led his...

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One of the first attempts at organizing a system of arbitration to deal with war crimes was The Hague Convention of 1907, which was signed by multiple countries, including Germany, The United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. ... Likewise, the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928, which also was signed by Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia, established a law making aggressive war illegal, and an initiation of such a war an individual crime (Encyclopedia Britannica Online). ... This document, entitled the London Agreement, also stated that the defendant's positi...

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It argues that globalisation is undermining the ability of governments to provide a legitimate social bond between governors and the governed. ... Early definitions also demonstrated an optimistic, progressive, modernist teleology exemplified in Kenichi Ohmae's McKinseyesque cartography of a borderless world in which the nation state becomes increasingly irrelevant.6 Globalisation becomes a 'normalising discourse' of power conditioning the policy responses of governments to the perception, if not always the reality, of global market integration. ...

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Indeed, this movement particularly, across international borders that people invented, has become an important policy issue for the governments all over the world because it affects the lives of people in many areas. ...

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