Is Kurdistan a state? Kurdistan is a defined geographical area‚ where the Kurds are in majority. The area is located in Northern Iraq‚ south of Turkey‚ east of Syria and west of Iran. The Kurdish people derived from the “Indo-Europeans”‚ which are believed to have lived in the area for more than 4000 years (Yildiz 2005). There are two main branches of language in Kurdistan‚ “Northern Kurmanji” and “Sorani” (Benard & Schnapper-Casteras 2010). After World War 1‚ and the peace agreement in 1920‚
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Weak and failing states need the international communities’ attention because it acts as an important problem for international order. These failing states create danger for the international community because they can breed terrorism‚ create regional chaos‚ increase crime‚ diseases and environmental catastrophe (Mazarr 2014‚ 113). Successful conflict management can allow failing states to change for the good. To reconstruct weak states many different diplomatic components of conflict management
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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 national states constitute
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Topic: The United States Home Front During World War II Essential Question: “How important was the home front to the United States’ victory in World War II? National Standard for United States History: Era 8‚ Standard 3 The origins and course of World War II‚ the character of the war at home and abroad
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State Formation A Historical Systems Approach Note: This page is part of the archives of the Phrontistery‚ but is no longer being updated. This is a revised version of a paper originally written in 1995 as part of an honours degree project. It is somewhat academic in nature‚ so be warned. While my opinions on some of the issues discussed herein have changed somewhat‚ my theoretical interests are substantially similar to those in this paper. Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Illusory Dichotomy:
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World War I was a significant historical military war started on 1914 and ended on 1918.Looking for the major cause of the war‚ we can find the first world war began as the war between Austria-Hungary .At first the USA was constant and was not directly involved in the war‚ at first stood as a neutral and isolated part but after German tried to attack the allies of the United States‚ so in the fear of losing the benefits that The united States was getting from its allies‚ it caused the United States
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What forms of surveillance and data collection by the state fundamentally altered the way it relates to its citizens? (Question 2 paragraph 6 from Surveillance: Citizens and the State Volume 1: Report House of Lords select committee on the Constitution 2nd report of Session 2008-09). Introduction The UK is increasingly sleep walking into a surveillance society[1] to the extent that it has become an inescapable part of life.[2] Every time we make a telephone call‚ send an email‚ browse the
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Elements of State 1. People - the population living in a state. 2. Territory - includes the land‚ the rivers‚ the sea‚ and the air space which the jurisdiction of the sate extends. 3. Government - the agency through which the will of the state is formulated‚ expressed and carried out. 4. Sovereignty or independence - the power to command and enforce obedience free from foreign control. Types of Governments Governments can be classified into several types. Some of the more common types of governments
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States of consciousness Consciousness ▪ Collective term for an individual’s perceptions‚ thoughts‚ feelings‚ and memories that are active at a given moment. Preconsciousness ▪ This is between consciousness and unconsciousness. It refers to memories that are not at the surface or at the top of the mind of a person but can be retrieved at any given time or needed. Unconsciousness ▪ It serves as a store room of these psychological feelings that are no longer accessible. Waking
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Essay on the topic Terrorism The term "terrorism" was first used to describe the state terrorism practiced by the French revolutionaries of 1789–1795. And now terrorism means a political tactic that uses threat or violence‚ usually against civilians‚ to frighten a target group into conceding to certain political demands. Terrorism is the systematic use of terror‚ especially as a means of coercion. In the international community‚ however‚ terrorism has no universally agreed‚ legally binding‚ criminal
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