REMARKS BY LARRY SAMPLER‚ ASSISTANT TO THE ADMINISTRATOR FOR AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN‚ AT THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Monday‚ February 10‚ 2014 Afghanistan Development Goals 2014 and Beyond [As Delivered] Good afternoon and thank you for allowing me to speak today here at the New America Foundation. I would again like to thank Anne-Marie Slaughter and Peter Bergen for having us here today. I am thrilled that Ambassador Samad was chosen to moderate what I hope will be an interesting and lively
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US Overwhelmed at Home At the end of the second world war in 1945‚ only two dominant forces had prevailed; the United States and the Soviet Union. While both suffered major casualties‚ none of which compared to those in Europe or Japan‚ they still retained the facilities to establish a new world order and fill the void of such power vacuum. However‚ tensions ensued due to the conflicting nature of their perspectives on the new world order‚ which were backed by their own national interest. The US
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The Soviet Union strategic decision was to expand communism not only on the European continent but as well as across the international system. This was apparent following the West intervention in the Russian Civil War that the Soviet Union would support communist revolutionary groups advocated for an overthrow of Western liberal capitalist regimes and established a communist state. In phase I (1917-1941) and phase III (1945-1985)‚ the Soviet Union would attempt to undermine Western regimes‚ through
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Drug Abuse and Treatment Centers in Afghanistan Feb 5‚ 2013 Drug Abuse and Treatment Centers in Afghanistan The issue of narcotic drugs production and consumption is worsening in Afghanistan which threatens the security and hinders the development. Afghanistan as the largest opium-producing country in the world produces 94% of the world’s opiates and thus has 920‚000 illicit drug users. Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and many other major organizations such as International Narcotics and
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RUSSIA & THE SOVIET UNION 1917-1941 TIMELINE 1917 -‐ Bolshevik or ‘October’ Revolution 1917 -‐ Treaty of Brest-‐Litovsk signed 1918 -‐ Start of the Civil War. ‘War Communism’ introduced 1919 -‐ Formation of ‘Comintern’ 1921 -‐ End of Civil War. Kronstadt uprising. Introduction of the ‘NEP’.
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Assess the economic and social costs to the soviet people of the great patriotic war of 1941 to 1945‚ in the years to Stalin’s death in 1953 Introduction Social costs during the war Social costs after the war Economic costs during the war Economic costs after the war The patriotic war caused great destruction in the USSR in terms of social and economic. Many people were killed and many more left in a poor state‚ much of the industry was destroyed and the USSR would take years to recover fully
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United States Interventions Issue #1 United States Troops in afghanistan Source: Greg Bruno‚ The War in Afghanistan Just after the September 11th‚ 2001‚ attacks on American soil that took down the World Trade Center‚ America was already planning how to take down the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden‚ the one who planned the attacks. We discovered his location in Afghanistan only months later‚ and the thought of an invasion was on everyone’s minds. The United States led multiple offensives
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)‚ which was established in 1922‚ was the first communist state in the world. Run by the general secretary‚ the equivalent of the position of the president in the United States‚ the communist party controlled the government‚ and the government controlled all of the industry and agriculture. Yet‚ under such strict government control‚ the Soviet Union ended in collapse in the year 1991. The main contributing factor towards the downfall of the USSR was the
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ better known as the Soviet Union‚ is created. First lead by Vladimir Lenin‚ the Soviet Union was found to be the first country to be considered socialist with plans to become a communist party in the future. The Soviet Union was made up of 15 republics and at the time was the largest country in the world. After Lenin’s death in 1924‚ Joseph Stalin came to power that had control throughout World War II until his death in 1953. After the war the Soviet Union became
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Communism in the Soviet Union and Why it Failed Communism is defined as "a system of political and economic organization in which property is owned by the community and all citizens share in the enjoyment of the common wealth‚ more or less according to their need." In 1917 the rise of power in the Marxist-inspired Bolsheviks in Russia along with the consolidation of power by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin‚ the word communism came to mean a totalitarian system controlled by a single political
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