Current domestic and global security threats: The impact on The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed to cope with the challenges of a bipolar world. However‚ today’s global environment faces multi-polar challenges from non-state actors such as terrorists. Threats once considered domestic concerns now affect the world‚ like global warming and the need to rebuild the infrastructure of unstable states such as Afghanistan and Bosnia. The
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Coalitions can be avoided by adopting a majoritarian or alternative voting system. In majoritarian electoral systems candidates are elected based on either a plurality or absolute majority. In a plurality system (first past the post)‚ the candidate with the most votes will win the election. For an absolute majority‚ the winning candidate must achieve more than half of the votes to win. If no one achieves this threshold of at least 51%‚ there is a runoff election between the top two candidates of
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ICT footprint Pilot testing on methodologies for energy consumption and carbon footprint of the ICT-sector FINAL REPORT A study prepared for the European Commission DG Communications Networks‚ Content & Technology Digital Agenda for Europe This study was carried out for the European Commission by Internal identification SMART-Nr 2011/0078 LEGAL NOTICE The information and views set out in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the
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A multi-party system is a system in which three or more political parties have the capacity to gain control of government separately or in coalition. Unlike a single-party system (or a non-partisan democracy)‚ it encourages the general constituency to form multiple distinct‚ officially recognized groups‚ generally called political parties. Each party competes for votes from the enfranchised constituents (those allowed to vote). A multi-partysystem is essential for representative democracies‚ because
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controversy in college football since it was created in 1998. This system was set in order for the top two BCS college football teams to meet in the national championship and there are 8 other teams that play in four other BCS bowl games. There was much debate for several years whether there should be a playoff system‚ which will allow many teams to qualify for the National championship‚ as opposed to just two teams. Now that the playoff system has been established the question arises regarding the overall
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political party system has been around over 200 years; a foundation of our current political system was created during the election of 1796. America’s was founded on the concept that people have power of the government’s decisions. The first parties that were established were the Federalist party and the Democratic-Republican party. There are multiple advantages and disadvantages of having a multi party system and a two party system in our country. Changing the way that our political system works would
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On a cold winter night we would have snuggled under a blanket to keep ourselfs comfortably warm. imagine if one would cover us with a dozen blankets it would get very hot !if we have experience this ‚then we will understand global warming better.? Global warming is the name given by scientists for the gradual increase in temperature that is from 15 Celsius to 22 Celsius of the Earth’s surface that has worsened since the industrial revolution Over the past two decades the effect has become more
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These ultra thin images not only lowered young girls’ body esteem but also decreased their satisfaction with their actual body size‚ making them desire a thinner body. This detrimental effect was evident already for girls from age 5 ½ to age 6 ½ but was more pronounced among 6 ½- to 7 ½- year-olds. At such a young age girls should not be worrying about what they look like
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The Criminal Justice System Is Biased To begin with‚ in today’s society‚ the Criminal Justice system is broken. A person’s trial can have a different outcome depending on their ethnicity. Statistics prove that all races are not treated equally‚ whites always have an advantage for being the dominant group in the U.S. At this period in time‚ there has been a lot of shootings involving African Americans the most. In various incidents‚ law enforcement officers state that they felt that their life was
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there are two fundamentally different perspectives for analysis of financial systems. The institutional perspective takes the institutional structure of the financial system as given‚ and looks to define what can be done to make those institutions perform their particular financial functions more efficiently. In contrast to the institutional perspective‚ a functional approach to designing and managing financial system‚ as proposed by Professor Robert Merton (Harvard Business School) and Professor
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