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these states and the European Union” (Naumescu). Russia is getting weaker as oil prices drop, and as they lose their interests to the west, but as they use violence and no diplomacy to act on their own selfish needs, the international community or NATO will get involved. The hostile annexing of Crimea is still not recognized internationally. Both nations would be deeply hurt, for example Ukraine would not have its main sea port, and some major cities, the economy would die along with its people.…

With the death the Dictator General Franco of Spain in 1975; Spain began taking the first step towards democracy. In 1993, Spain became a member of the EU, benefitting greatly from the freedom movement of services, people, money, and goods inside of the European Union. Spain also benefited from allowment of movement between countries, allowing the service economy in Southern Spain to flourish. Unfortunately, recent events threaten the short lived prosperity of all members of the union. With…

a single entity to resolve global issues on its own. The supporters of the preservation of NATO claim that the organization promotes multilateralism. On the other hand, many non-supporters label NATO as “obsolete.” According to Joseffe Joff, many alliances end after the war, but NATO has survived for “all the old reasons,” essentially, making it useless. In addition to Joff’s reasoning, some claim that NATO is an obstacle between “renationalization of our defense policies” (Flamini).…

IR 739 MIDTERM A-) What elements assure or contribute to America’s global security? As the leading power of today’s international system, The US have two important factors that assure her global security in today’s world. In my view, the more important of the two factors is the US naval power. Theorists like Alfred Mahan state that, if a nation wants to secure its borders and emerge as a respected power, then it should have a strong navy to control the seas. However, having a strong navy only…

populations. The United States and the United Kingdom are also both majority English speaking countries, though the United States has no official national language. In addition they both are a part of many of the same international organizations, such as NATO, the UN, and the WTO, just to name a few ("United Kingdom vs. United States." - Country Comparison). On top of demographic similarities, is the amount of global media shared between the United States and the UK. America’s obsession with the…

ruled without attention to the best interests of the people. However, it was not the United States or the E.U. or NATO that destroyed the Soviet Union. The elected leader of the RSFSR, Boris Yieltsin, colluded with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus to break up the USSR. Therefore,…

buildings in order to pressure Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his Serbian forces from Kosovo. The Chinese embassy was not one of the locations that NATO intended on bombing. Regardless, according to Source B, the attacks “...killed three Chinese journalist and rendered the embassy building unusable…” and “...more than 20 injured.” as stated in Source C. The NATO strike against the Chinese embassy in the Kosovo campaign between March 1999 and June 1999 were of importance because they demonstrated…

The national debt and federal funding have been a hot topic for years now. Many believe that just like in the average American’s pocket book, reducing spending leads to decreasing debt, which will produce a positive outcome for America. The effect of this thinking has led many to support the government’s decrease of federal spending on big ticket items, in particular, the Department of Defense. One of the most common arguments revolve around the fact that the United States spends more money on…

Gapminder is a non-profit venture that provides free statistics in visual forms of animated bubble chart, bubble map and mountain chart known as Trendalyzer. The Gapminder team creates surveys online using the survey software called SurveyGizmo to collect their data. It helped portray the data in a way that enable users to understand without being confused by the complicated conventional lines and bar graphs. Users can access the data straight from the website or download an offline version into…

The methods trained are also in question. The methods used for lifting and moving the NATO litters are based on illustrations from old Army manuals. The same manuals do not describe the ergonomics or any other scientific research performed in order to come to the recommended conclusions. This leads us to question the entire manual being…