talks about the state of affairs in Afghanistan. The Taliban is still very much around even though they are not in control of the government. The government is led by President Hamid Karzai‚ who is said to be very corrupt. There are also the forces of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)‚ and the US forces led by Commanding General David Petraeus. The Taliban is on one side‚ and on the other side are the government and the other forces. Each side seems to claim they have made headway and the other
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The US and its NATO allies which were engaged in a bitter the Cold War with the then Soviet Union decided to use Pakistan as a frontline state against their enemy. Prof Munawar Sabir in his scholarly lecture delivered at the Superior University‚ Lahore‚ exclusively for the CSS students preparing for interview on ‘Geo-strategic importance of Pakistan’. He highlighted the geo-strategic importance of Pakistan by discussing Pakistan’s relations with its neighbouring countries and the major powers
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jacob stevens P R I S O N S O F T H E S TAT E L E S S The Derelictions of UNHCR T here are currently over 20 million people ‘of concern’ to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Just over half of those are internally displaced or stateless‚ with 8 million having fled across an international border. Established in 1950‚ unhcr was charged by the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees with the protection of their interests: full political and economic rights in
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The Cause of War: Stoessinger’s Misperception Framework By Anthony Marchitto Political Violence has been affiliated with governments and nations since the beginning of political history and plays a huge role in the causes of Wars around the world. What causes leaders to declare war? Many philosophers have based their studies and theories on this question; many have different perspectives. One philosopher‚ John Stoessinger‚ has expressed his theories on the causes of war through what he calls
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During the Cold War‚ the United States and the USSR wanted to put their government systems and ideas into people’s minds. A map provided by NATO presents us with information about the Warsaw Pact’s influence on Europe (Doc 5). Since the United States created NATO‚ the USSR responded by implementing the Warsaw Pact. By creating NATO‚ they were able to influence democracy on most of the Europe‚ leaving the Warsaw Pact with a few countries. This gave the United States the advantage‚ because since they
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was achieved through the Treaty of Maastricht‚ which established the European Union and made the Euro standard currency in many countries. Two political actions that were taken to stabilize Western Europe were the formation of NATO and the Helsinki Accords. NATO was originally formed to preserve international security. But it was eventually undermined by President Charles de Gaulle of France when he withdrew military support from the organization and went on to develop France’s own nuclear weapons
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com/hk/en/corporate/corporateprofile.page [Accessed: 22 March 2011] AirAsia (2011b) Mobile Check-in [Online] Available at: Boniface‚ B. and Cooper‚ C. (2009) Worldwide Destinations Casebook: The Geography of Travel and Tourism‚ Oxford‚ Butterworth-Heinemann Cento‚ A. (2009) The Airline Industry: Challenges in the 21st Century‚ Heidelberg‚ Physica-Verlag CityJet (2011a) A Truly European Airline [Online] Available at: http://www.cityjet.com/about-us/ [Accessed: 21 March 2011] CityJet (2011b) Flying with us [Online]
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stop the spread of Communism and communist expansion through military‚ political and economic means. Specifically in the Cold War era‚ the U.S. implemented this policy through the Truman Doctrine and the founding of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Another factor of the containment policy was the Soviet Union’s rejection of the Marhsall plan. Containment started in 1949 with the Truman Doctrine. The development of the Truman Doctrine initiated in February of 1947 when England‚ weakened by
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The alleged misunderstandings were that the War Guilt Clause was to prevent Germany from any counter-arguments and asking for reimbursement. However‚ it was later associated with Germany and its "war guilt". This illustrates that "In politics‚ perception is reality" because despite the true purpose of the War Guilt Clause‚ the perceptions of the Allied nations of Germany’s role in World War I became reality for them. Not only did it become reality‚ it completely altered their perception and believed
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public administration reform program. Government and Private Sector Government •National Authority of Science and Technology •E-Governement Project •Open Source lab •Various ministry setup web‚ email‚ DNS‚ BIND‚ firewall‚ file servers( Redhat‚ CenTOS‚ ...) •National Unviersity •Offered courses in Linux administration‚ web development; dns‚web‚ file‚ firewall‚ and etc •Programming in MySql‚ PHP‚ and etc •National Internet Gateway(NiG) •More 70% of servers is based on Open Source Private Sector
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