Political Geography of War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts Philippe Le Billion Summary: Throughout the 1990s‚ many armed groups have relied on revenues from natural resources such as oil‚ timber‚ or gems to substitute for dwindling Cold War sponsorship. Resources not only financed‚ but in some cases motivated conflicts‚ and shaped strategies of power based on the commercialization of armed conflict and the territoriality of sovereignty around valuable resource areas and trading networks
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American Studies Unit Test Study Guide 8 Cold War Conflicts * Communism: state controlled all property and economic activity; totalitarian government with no opposing parties * Capitalism: private citizens controlled all economic activity; people vote * Distrust: (USSR) Stalin resented the Western Allies’ delay in attacking the Germans in Europe and US’s secret development of Atomic bomb; (US) Stalin’s 1939 non-aggression pact with Hitler‚ and he prevented free elections in Poland
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terms 6 Part III Main Discussion Drug Addiction 45 Drug Problems in the Philippines 46 Drug Withdrawal 52 Drug Rehabilitation 53 Role of affect dysregulation in Addiction 57 Addiction recovery groups‚ Alcoholics Anonymous‚ and Drug Rehabilitation Drug Abuse Addiction 69 Chemical Dependency 71 Chemical Addiction 71 Factors influencing Drug abuse and Dependence 74 Genetic Factors 75 Drugs Effect and Mechanisms of Action 76
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Among the bustling port cities of the early American eastern seaboard‚ Baltimore was the only one that was firmly in the Democratic-Republican camp at the onset of the War of 1812. The young and dynamic boomtown stood antithetical to the aged‚ ordered‚ and settled civilization of southern Maryland whose economy was founded in the eighteenth century on the backs of African slaves and tobacco production; a crop which remained during the grain transition of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania
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Conflict Theory and Social Action Theory. Abstract This essay aims to discuss the theories of Social action as well as the Conflict Theory. I am going to go deep into each of the theories as well as put some focus on the key figures them being Max Gluckman and Lewis A. Coser of the Conflict Theory and Also Max Weber and Victor Turner of The Social Action Theory. I am also going to go into comparison of these two theories and also what makes them so different from each other. According to my understanding
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What would happen if we lived in a place with no problems or conflicts? There would be almost no harm or controversy‚ but their would also be no ideas or turn of events. However‚ in the world we live in there are conflicts that present ideas and common solutions. In The Looking Glass Wars‚ Beddor uses conflicts and descriptive details to reveal how Alyss changes throughout the novel. (title) Alyss in the beginning of the novel is characterized as troublesome‚ powerful‚ and arrogant. As the narrator
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The Vietnam War and the Domino Theory The Americanization of the war in Vietnam was inevitable because of the prevailing belief of the “domino theory” that could take effect. The Domino Theory‚ which President Harry Truman first articulated in the1940’s‚ is the belief that the fall of one noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of other neighboring noncommunist states (Shabecoff). This theory is the identical strategy that Communist China planned to achieve‚ with Vietnam
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will evaluate literature on the topic‚ identify the different justifications for killing in time of war and decide if they legitimize our actions. After describing some compelling arguments‚ I will defend my own position that pacifism is the only ideal which mankind should embrace. According to traditional just war theory‚ a just cause must serve peace and not simply protect an unjust status quo. War must be used as a last resort and all pacifistic approaches must be undertaken. So‚ if your country
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Mexican/Latin American “War” on Drugs and Trafficking The international drug trade from Latin American states is having an impact on a global scale. The trafficking of drugs along with corruptness and murder is an international conflict that is being fought daily. There are many aspects of the drug war from Mexico and other Latin American states which have effects on United States policy as well as policies from other countries that participate in the global suppression of illegal drugs. It can be hard
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF ILLEGAL GOODS: THE CASE OF DRUGS Gary S. Becker Kevin M. Murphy Michael Grossman Working Paper 10976 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10976 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 December 2004 The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. © 2004 by Gary S. Becker‚ Kevin M. Murphy‚ and Michael Grossman
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