... in the winter of 1991 a U.N.-approved U.S.-led coalition drove Iraq out but did not eliminate Saddam Hussein from power (ibid.). Subsequent to the Gulf War the U.S. tried containment, but after the containment regime - sanctions, weapons inspections, and no-fly zones - remained in place longer than expected Saddam found ... Cause, the Right Intentions, it must be a Last Resort, in Proportion, and there must be a Probability of Success (Hirshberg, . ). In this war it is fair to say that the first criteria has been met because both President Bush and Saddam Hussein are a legitimate authorit...

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... equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. Roosevelt, fascist Germany under Adolf Hitler, and Italy under Benito Mussolini. Schivelbusch examines the rise of three separate political systems, all with different goals, ... used propaganda as a device for mobilizing the psychic energies of the people. The German leaders wanted war and used the economy to make war possible. In the words of ...

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... to acquire an industrial base. Its people, still largely illiterate, had no experience in political participation. In 1917, after a series of halfhearted reform measures and disastrous mismanagement of the war effort, the antiquated mechanism of czarist rule simply disintegrated and was swept away. It was succeeded, after a lengthy period of political upheaval, by the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism- ... and a first-rate military power (Pious 154). The task was ambitious, the obstacles were formidable, and there was no time to waste-particularly after the disastrous interruption of W...

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... the States whole reason for being was to serve the citizens and not vice versa. Machiavelli believed the only purpose for a ruler was to make war, and protect its citizens from attacks by other states. The ruler, therefore, is justified in doing whatever is necessary to maintain the country, even ... protection of his subjects. "A prince, therefore should have no care or thought but for war, and the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself exclusively to this as his peculiar province; for war is the sole art looked for in one who rules" . This is not far from ... thi...

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... the United States, both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have considerable strength. In other states, one of those two parties has traditionally controlled politics. From the American Civil War (1861-1865) until the 1960's, for example, Democrats strongly controlled most of the Southern States. During that same period, the Republicans controlled "though less strongly "some of the ... having been disloyal to the Union. The situation changed after 1929. Just as the Republicans had blamed the Democrats for the Civil War, so the Democrats blamed the Republicans for the stock ma...

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... Mongol conquest. During the 19th century China finally saw fall towards the West through unfair trade impositions and regulations, and after World War II the Chinese Communist Party took control of the China that is known today. Shortly after World War II there was a power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT), the nationalist party, shortly after the ... Treaty of Versailles in 1920. The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. During the Rule of Mao the government enforced many polici...

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... West. The list goes on, and with two world wars, the division of Europe, a world warped with ideological conflict during the cold war and political and economical pressures of the late 60's and 70's which had previously shattered complacency about stability and progress in the democratic world ... government now, it is hard not to associate it with the human costs of despotic rule rival to those of disease, famine and war, also immediately associating the thought with such leaders such as Stalin and Hitler who were responsible for the deaths of millions. It is ... essential to countrie...

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... if arguments were finished after one side makes a bold declaration on a piece of paper that would be quite a different history but the war waged on until 1783. Since the Declaration many of the states adopted their own "constitutions", other maintained reliance on their colonial charters. But ... white male adults, with few exceptions involving property requirements in New Jersey and N. Carolina but those requirements were abolished before the Civil war. African Americans could not vote in many states, women, and many Chinese Americans were not allowed to vote either though other aliens ...

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... of arts and the exercise of the intellect. Having studied philosophy, this ruler would know the true virtues and, therefore, he would be able to lead people towards wellness and prosperity. Since the ruler would be virtuous, he would not want to deceive and abuse the citizens. In scrutiny of his aristocratic government, one would come to the point of saying ... would not want to rule in order to obtain status, power or accumulate wealth, but because he would know that the people need him to lead them towards growth and prosperity as Plato believed that the role of the philosophers is to...

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... offer. In a democracy, citizens are protected from dictatorial leaders and enjoy more political and personal freedom. Moreover, democracy is based on political equality, which is fundamental to establishing peace and prosperity (Dahl, 1998: 45). The appointment of Boris Yeltsin in 1991 as the first president of the Russian Federation only brought little change, as he turned Russia into a chaotic state with ... ...

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... to divide the nation. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich said that the "secession of successful America" so that it has little interaction with the less fortunate majority "threatens our nation's prosperity and stability" (Boroughs). In the United States, the richest ten percent of the population have incomes almost six times the income of the poor at the tenth percentile. In Germany ... ...

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... that the situations are not seen as being comparable is that both Japan and Germany were democratic nations before they became involved in World War II. Japan had been governed by Constitutional Monarchy for several decades, and after the fall of the German monarchy Germany was governed by ... truly been a democratic society so in creating a democratic government one is truly starting from the ground up. This was not the case after World War II in either Germany or Japan. The Allies simply took previously existing laws, and governmental procedures, and re-instituted the prior democratic...

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... (Smith, et al., 2008: 54-56). This section showed that democratic countries are not be more peaceful than other political systems, but however empirical researches have demonstrated that war between democracies is seldom if ever. If consequently liberal countries have a security interest in seeing democratization spread to authoritarian countries will be discussed in the following section. 3 Democratization Process ... priorities on economics and not on ethical questions. Conclusion The contemporary history of international relations gave the proof of Kant's 1795 claim that democratic c...

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... hemisphere. The battle lines would be drawn around the question of democracy versus communism (the fact that communists had been the most effective campaigners against fascism in Italy during the war being ignored), and as United States intervention effectively campaigned it; it was a matter of "communist dictatorship- versus the idea of "freedom for all-. The United States intervention in Italy ... began with their influence over the allocation of funds for the war the worn torn country. The Truman administration's stance became clear quite quickly: vote democratically and receive mill...

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... 's many lakes and rivers. As well, in practically all regions, farmers made up a significant portion of the population, and horses were still used for most field work. Once the war commenced, aerodromes transformed much of Canada's quiet landscape. A DANGEROUS AERODROME While operational units of the RCAF were mainly concentrated in the eastern and western parts of the country for the ... were slightly more than 300 fatal accidents during this period. There was, however, a tendency to underestimate these losses, as well as those that occurred in Canada in general during the war. This unde...

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... they were forced to pay heavy taxes to the French regime (Franchini 1988). This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently led to the independence of Cambodia in 1953. The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating ... land (Cambodia Tribunal Monitor). This horrific time period came to an end during the late 1970s thanks to a war started with Vietnam. The war resulted in a Vietnamese invasion in 1978 and Pol Pot fleeing the ...

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... made to turn the Soviet Union into and industrial and military power (Pious, 154). This task would be especially difficult with the interruption presented by World War II. The Soviet leaders had to powerful and austere in ruling as to control and hint of dissent in the nation. The result of this austere ... had made significant advances in education. Standard of living was nowhere near the quality of the in Western nations, but it had risen appreciably since World War II. Even with all the changes and the considerable power that the Soviet union had acquired, it was clear by the end of t...

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... to acquire an industrial base. Its people, still largely illiterate, had no experience in political participation. In 1917, after a series of halfhearted reform measures and disastrous mismanagement of the war effort, the antiquated mechanism of czarist rule simply disintegrated and was swept away. It was succeeded, after a lengthy period of political upheaval, by the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism ... first-rate military power (Pious 154). The task was ambitious, the obstacles were formidable, and there was no time to waste "particularly after the disastrous interruption of World ...

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... these stable governments protecting the interests of the public that it serves, society would revert to the condition that Hobbes describes as "War."(Hobbes: Para 12). War as described by Hobbes means not combat and destruction, but, "the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting but in the known disposition thereto during all of the time there is no assurance to the ... man coercion, "Hereby it is manifest that, during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every m...

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... , Ralph, who is later undermined by Jack who wants to be in control and have power. The chaos that occurs on the island from desire for power represents the nuclear war the adults are occupied with, due to desire for power as well. As the society they formed from scratch begins to collapse, in relation to the collapse of the adult ... control of the others. This relates to some people in the world's history who have the ambition to control everyone. Especially when the author was involved in the Second World War, Jack's character may be cognate to someone like Adolf Hitler who also wante...

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... put into internment camps. The risk of such legislation being passed is especially great in wartime and other emergency situations. President Roosevelt signed the "Executive Order No. 9102, establishing the War Relocation Authority-and " without a murmur of dissent," (Institute for Historical Review) Japanese-Canadians were shipped away to internment camps that resembled the Nazi-concentrations camps. " The 23 000 Japanese living ... , were also rounded up, they were not permitted back into British Columbia until March 1949, seven years after the evacuation and three and a half years aft...

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... Libya, such a change only occurred after months of armed conflict between regime supporters and opponents, and ended in the killing of the country's leader during the fight. In Syria, a civil war is still ongoing and has caused a grave humanitarian crisis with hundreds of thousands of internal and external refugees, and increasing social tensions in neighboring countries, especially Lebanon. In Morocco, Algeria ... stable democratic outcome is not in the cards. But such violent and tragic events as the French Revolution, the collapse of interwar Italian and German democracy, and the Ame...

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... they date and the phrasing/ meaning of the law becomes open to interpretation. For example, the American constitution was written over 200 years ago just after the end of the war of independence and the written constitution was a response, so there could not be a autocratic form of government. However it does not allow for the evolution and development of the initial ... been neither overtaken by nor relegated to routine functions by the forces of the free world market. On the contrary, the organization of relations between states in the post-cold war era provides it with the means to a...

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... the submission of double slates of electors in three states. On election night, it had appeared as if Samuel Tilden had achieved the first Democratic Presidential victory since the Civil War ended in 1865. However, the decisive votes of South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana remained in limbo for each of them had delivered two sets of electoral votes, one for each ... ...

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... reputation of his subjects. For no King can be rich, nor glorious, nor secure; whose Subjects are either poor, or contemptible, or too weak through want or dissention, to maintain a war against their enemies:".(Hobbes p.98) The second reason is because a King can receive information and advice whenever he pleases without having to have to wait for red tape and such ... ...

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