... in zones of low-intensity armed conflict (the new asymmetrical wars) where the armies are not fully deployed or in post conflict situations with a high level of insecurity; (ii) in armed conflicts when international organizations do not intervene; and (iii) in troubled areas in developing countries where there is no presence of the State and extractive transnational corporations ... of international armed conflicts), which was adopted on 8 June 1977 by the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and the International Humanitarian Development Applicable to Armed Conflicts. Additional Pr...

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... cannot revoke a medical physician's license solely on the physician's recommendation to prescribe Marijuana for a medical condition (ProCon.org, 2012); that Barack Obama, during a 2004 senatorial debate stated the war on drugs was ineffective and the country needed to decriminalize Marijuana laws (Abramsky, 2010); that President Obama in 2008 stated it seemed appropriate to treat medical Marijuana like any other ... " or continue to advocate against the legalization of Marijuana for recreational use, the federal government may want to propose their own legislation to reclassify Marijuana ...

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Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. Once they had begun ... reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism, and Cold War were meaningless," (Mecklin 4). Furthermore, Americans faced great difficulty in being able to communicate with the Vietnamese peasants, and believed that "[their] concept of [nationhood] ... , since the Americans "[projected] onto Asians their own values; [believi...

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... such as the Spaak committee suggested further integration of the European economy. In 1959, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community. As security interests evolved and the Cold War collapse brought on global instability, in 1991 in the Maastricht Treaty, European nations agreed to design the European Union, composed of three organizations: the European Community (economics and monetary), the ... organizations may change and develop in accordance with the world situation to achieve these end-results. Although during the Cold War, the United Nations was relatively po...

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... , seems to me dangerous and problematical in the extreme." I believe Kennan accurately points out the shortcomings in American attitudes towards Asia and how that carried over to World War I, World War II and the Cold War. He points out that the American feeling at the time was that the problems that eventually lead to the World Wars were silly "jealousies" and at times "were ... any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." He correctly indicates that waging war is not always the ...

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... the Japanese American community. In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "what has emerged from the collective experience of war and internment is a faith that is tied to no particular religious tradition, but that takes racial-ethnicity identity as its starting point. Japanese Americans have developed no less than their ... own brand of civil religion"" (939). In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese people left the community with a sense of ethnic identity ...

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... Perration, 1999; pp38). Colonialism was also a part of this movement. The European political structure was retained in some countries in Asia and Africa after the decolonisation. Since the Second World War, the sovereign state as a primary international political actor became the universal standard (Schreuer; 1999; p1). Today, many countries have an "Independence Day" or "National Day" to celebrate ... on the concept that all sovereign states are equal and independent in the world system. Thus two characteristics are established: (i) non-intervention in the internal affairs of another st...

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... conflict contiguous to the American and Japanese-American races. This conflict, though not visible to tourist mindsets, has been subliminally effervescent since the mistreatment of the Japanese Americans during World War II, and its dormancy beneath the everyday smiling faces of Japanese and American bystanders is awakened heightening tension in the small island community. This recently catalyzed restlessness in the community draws ... years earlier, as the white citizens looked the other way when their fellow townspeople, the Japanese-Americans, were relocated to Japanese concentration...

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... are more prevalent than they ever have been. Though it has been conceived that natural disasters are naturally occurring, and unpreventable, that notion is based on false premises. After World War II, real estate capitalism boomed due to its economic capability. Coveted land in the warm south drove land in this area to be economically valuable. While location seemed to be everything ... ...

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