Pinochet's Case - Evolution in International Law On the fateful morning of October 16, 1998 General Augusto Pinochet was arrested by London's Metropolitan Police based on a preliminary extradition request from the Spanish government. The extradition request from Spain began from anger due to the Chilean Supreme Court's refusal to punish DINA officials who had tortured and killed a Spanish diplomat. Human rights groups in Spain had forcefully and successfully created a powerful complaint against Pinochet and top DINA officials in the Spanish courts. ... Various Chilean hum...

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This political stability increased the prosperity and pride of the ruling classes as well as the military, and helped reinforce the general belief in Augustus as a symbol of the Roman peoples" favor in the eyes of the gods. ... Julius Caesar's seeming disregard for Roman tradition, as well as its constitution, helped Augustus" cosmetic reinstitution of some of these constitutional boundaries appear more substantive than they really were. ... His largest road building projects seem to be in the provinces of Spain and Asia Minor which were important sources of grain, wine, lead, and g...

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At the beginning of the Renaissance, humanist educators revived the study of the classics and humanities to help students attain salvation. ... Despite this emphasis on the pagan classics, a Renaissance education was designed to help students acquire knowledge so that they could attain salvation. ... In his work Reflections, he wrote that acquiring more superficial or "decorative" skills such as good penmanship, dancing, singing, horse riding and dressing well would lend dignity to an educated man and help him to impress princes. ... A Spanish humanist educator, Juan Louis Vives, reflects t...

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They particularly point out the success stories of the cooperative culture in Spain and the social/solidarity economy movements in Quebec to highlight post-development theory in action. The success of the Mondragon cooperative in Spain has been based upon the ethical principles of open admission, democratic organization and inter-cooperation, to name a few. ... According to Gibson-Graham, through centuries of influence from development through, Spanish colonization, and, subsequently, American occupation, the Filipinos are much more reluctant to stray from the current structure of developmen...

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Rodriguez does miss his "private language,"" but his understanding of the greater good concept leads him to see that giving up Spanish for English was a good tradeoff for his situation in America. ... This change in thinking leads to positive changes in university students personal identities that helps broadens their horizons about the world and molds them into more enlightened adults. ...

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This can suggest that Napoleon planned to use the Empire as a method of gaining dynastic respectability as this links to the states of Naples, Westphalia and Spain where Napoleon's other brothers Jerome and Joseph ruled for periods of time. ...

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Liberals argue that trade benefits everyone because it helps people concentrate on what they are best at (the formal version of this argument is the theory of ˜comparative advantage'). ... Globalization has helped to reduce transport and transaction costs so the potential gains from specialization are increased. ... The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. ...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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