CHAPTER ONE Failed States‚ Collapsed States‚ Weak States: Causes and Indicators ROBERT I. ROTBERG Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence and can no longer deliver positive political goods to their inhabitants. Their governments lose legitimacy‚ and the very nature of the particular nation-state itself becomes illegitimate in the eyes and in the hearts of a growing plurality of its citizens. The rise and fall of nation-states is not new‚ but in a modern era when
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ADMISSION GUIDELINE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS KOREAN GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (UNIVERSITY RECOMMENDATION) ( 2013) SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Office of Admissions TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Application Timeline ················································································1 2 Offered Programs ·····················································································1 3. Admission Quota ·····················································································1
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University of tilburg | Oil consumption in less developed countries | Empirical study on oil consumption in less developed countries | Abstract: This paper investigates the relation between GDP and oil consumption in a sample of 71 LDC’s. Two outlier countries with a deviating rate of oil consumption are found. Equatorial Guinea has relatively low oil consumption‚ while The Seychelles has relatively high oil consumption‚ in relation to their GDP. After that possible factors that might affect
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Public Environmental Awareness and Education Action can be taken in a variety of areas to increase environmental awareness and education. Some of these categories are: environmental legal rights and responsibilities and associated consequences‚ use of the media‚ awareness raising campaigns‚ incorporation of environmental issues in mainstream education‚ increasing awareness and education in target groups and encouragement of public participation in environmental matters. As the following case studies
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GLOBAL PEACE INDEX 2014 MEASURING PEACE AND ASSESSING COUNTRY RISK QUANTIFYING PEACE AND ITS BENEFITS The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is an independent‚ non-partisan‚ non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive‚ achievable‚ and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. IEP achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness; providing metrics for measuring peace; and uncovering the relationships between
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Insight Report The Global Competitiveness Report 2012–2013 Klaus Schwab‚ World Economic Forum Insight Report The Global Competitiveness Report 2012–2013 Full Data Edition Professor Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum Editor Professor Xavier Sala-i-Martín Columbia University Chief Advisor of The Global Benchmarking Network The Global Competitiveness Report 2012–20013: Full Data Edition is published by the World Economic Forum within the framework of The Global Benchmarking
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Alphabetical List of Countries Name | Constitutional form | Head of state | Basis of executive legitimacy | Afghanistan | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature | Albania | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence | Algeria | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry subject to parliamentary confidence | Andorra | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence
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Pakistan Foreign Policy The quest for security has been at the heart of Pakistan’s foreign policy since independence. Pakistan’s security environment derives its origins from the circumstances in which Pakistan was created. The violence accompanying the portion leading to the emergence of the two independent states of Pakistan and India generated hostility‚ which continues to afflict relations between the two countries mainly because of the unresolved issue of Jammu and Kashmir. The issue is the
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Arthur Barclay Business College Stella Maris Polytechnic St. Joseph Campus‚ Capitol Hill‚ Monrovia‚ Liberia Course Title: English 201: Sophomore English I Topic: HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC: “Its Social Ramifications and Impacts on the Liberian Society” Thesis: Perhaps the most life-threatening‚ incurable but preventive disease to the human race is the HIV/AIDS Pandemic‚ and the awareness and understanding of its social ramifications and impacts on the Liberian society is paramount. Prepared
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Current Status of Women in India According India’s constitution‚ women are legal citizens of the country and have equal rights with men (Indian Parliament). Because of lack of acceptance from the male dominant society‚ Indian women suffer immensely. Women are responsible for baring children‚ yet they are malnourished and in poor health. Women are also overworked in the field and complete the all of the domestic work. Most Indian women are uneducated. Although the country’s constitution says women
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