debated question however is the cause of the Great War; two major worldly forces grinding against each other or a single bullet fired by a rebellious Bosnian Serb? The 28th of June 1914‚ the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was going to make a speech in Sarajevo‚ a Bosnian city under Austria-Hungary’s rule‚ where the Black Hand (a group of nationalist Bosnian Serbs who wanted independence from the Austrian-Hungarian empire) were preparing to assassinate him. He survived the first assassination attempt‚ but
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As we move into chapter 3‚ Holbrooke goes further by giving the reader a distinct chain of events that precipitated the conflict that pitted the Serbs against the Croats and the Muslims. First came the Yugoslav-Slovene war that resulted in the independence of Slovenia‚ which was followed by fighting amongst Serbs and Croats across Croatia. Eventually the European Community recognized Croatia as an independent nation‚ which prompted Bosnia to follow the Croatian lead and declare its own independence
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The Impact of Religion on Ethno-Religious Conflicts: in Israel and Palestine‚ and Bosnia and Herzegovina Abstract Religion is supposed to be a positive factor in solving problems and disputes not only between individuals‚ but also between nations. Unfortunately‚ throughout history we have seen that religion was and still is used primarily by radicals to achieve their political‚ social‚ or religious agenda. This negative exploitation of religion by people of interest and radicals has distorted
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Global Television News and Foreign Policy: Debating the CNN Effect. Gilboa‚ E. (2005). The CNN Effect: The Search for a Communication Theory of International Relations Gowing‚ N. (1994). Real-time television coverage of armed conflicts and diplomatic crises: Does it pressure or distort foreign policy decisions? Cambridge‚ Shorenstein Center. Hess‚ S.‚ & Kalb‚ M. (2003). The Media and the War on Terrorism. The Brookings Institution (63-81). Jakobsen‚ P. (1996). National interest‚ humanitarianism
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Was Germany to Blame for World War One? One hundred years after the brutal bloodshed of World War One‚ the conflict which involved almost every country in the world‚ is still known as “The Great War". The number of casualties in World War I‚ both military and civilian‚ totals to around 37 million: 16 million deaths and 21 million wounded. Around 9.7 million military personnel and 6.8 million civilians were killed‚ not to mention those who went missing or were never found. A question that still lingers
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help and it ended badly was what happened in Bosnia in 1992. Many different ethnic and religious groups lived together under a repressive communist government in Yugoslavia. In April 1992‚ Serbia set out to ethnically cleanse the Bosnian territory by removing all Bosnian Muslims‚ the Bosniaks‚ after the president Tito died in 1980. In 1993‚ The UN learned about this cleanse and made Sarajevo and many other places safe areas for Bosniaks. Slobodan Milosevic responded to the UN by attacking Bosniaks
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Conceptual Frameworks : Human Security and Power For this paper‚ the author use the concept of human security and the concept of power in discussing this case. First‚ the concept of human security. Human security is protecting individual freedoms like protecting people’s aspirations from bad things‚ creating political‚ social‚ economi‚ millitary‚ and culture system which soon will be formed groups of survival‚ and Human security also protecting people from rough critics‚ threats‚ and emergency situations
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that warn prophetically of the dangers of deregulated markets‚ corporate greed‚ and inattention to the costs of our military power including the “THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE”. Galbraith always made economics relevant to the crises of the day. Galbraith was born on October 15‚ 1908 and was raised on a small Canadian farm. He began to teach at Harvard in his twenties. He was a long-time Harvard faculty member and as a professor of economics stayed with Harvard University for half a century since 1934
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likely to be much higher. The search of oil and gas in the area constituting Bangladesh began in the later part of the 19th century through some isolated geological mapping. The first serious attempt to find oil and gas was undertaken in Sitakund in 1908 by the Indian Petroleum Prospecting Company. During 1923-31 Burmah Oil Company (BOC) drilled two shallow wells in Patharia. The wells were abandoned though there was a reported occurrence of oil. A total of 6 exploratory wells were drilled‚ the deepest
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or killing of an enormous group of people particularly those of a specific group or country”. There are several other types of cases of genocides which have took place throughout the history. An other example of a genocide that has occurred is the Bosnian Herzegovina genocide. There are some similarities and some differences in these two totally unlike events. In both the circumstances of genocides here‚ they began with war. The holocaust began with the world war 2 and on the other hand the Bosnia-
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