Truman Doctrine In February of 1947‚ Britain informed the United States that it could no longer provide financial aid to Greece and Turkey. The U S had been monitoring Greece economically and their political problems‚ paying close attention to the rise of the Communist-led insurgency known as the National Liberation Front‚ or the ( Trumanlibrary2011). They were also monitoring events taking in Turkey. Turkey ’s government was week and they were being pressured by the Soviets to
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In the famous Monroe Doctrine‚ from December 2‚ 1823 during the period in which James Monroe took the presidency‚ John Quincy Adams advised Monroe to lay out an independent course for the United States of America‚ declaring four major points to address to congress. He made four basic statements: the U.S. shall not interfere with European affairs‚ shall not interfere with existing European colonies in the western hemisphere‚ other nations shall not form new colonies in the western hemisphere‚ and
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine Law and Ethics in the Business Environment The concept of employment-at-will holds that both employer and employee have the mutual right to terminate an employment relationship anytime for any reason and with or without advance notice to the other. Specifically‚ it holds that an organization employs an individual at its own will and can‚ therefore‚ terminate that employee at any time “for a good cause‚ for no cause‚ or even for cause morally wrong‚ without being
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The Kennedy Doctrine refers to foreign policy initiatives of the 35th President of the United States‚ John Fitzgerald Kennedy‚ towards Latin America during his term in office between 1961 and 1963. Kennedy voiced support for the containment of Communism and the reversal of Communist progress in the Western Hemisphere. The Kennedy Doctrine was essentially an expansion of the foreign policy prerogatives of the previous administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman. The foreign policies
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Doctrine of Competence-competence The proper allocation of responsibilities between courts and arbitral tribunals for resolving disputes concerning arbitral jurisdiction – disputes about whether the plaintiff’s claim ought to be decided by an arbitral tribunal or a court – has been one of the most complex and controversial question of modern arbitration law. Although there is broad agreement on one general proposition that arbitrators are empowered to rule on their own jurisdiction and then proceed
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Renshon‚ Stanley Allen‚ and Peter Suedfeld. 2007. Understanding The Bush Doctrine. New York: Routledge. Renshon and Suedfeld (2007) provide American poll data on the powerful effect of the Bush Doctrine that exploited the attacks of 9/11 to act unilaterally in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. These findings suggest that many Americans were extremely supportive of going to war with Iraq‚ even though Saddam Hussein had not direct connection with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. This method of research provides
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Kennedy’s presidency the United States was seriously concerned with stopping the spread of communism throughout the world and there where hot spots that sparked the Kennedy administrations attention. Containment was the United States foreign policy doctrine that proclaimed that the Soviet Union needed to be contained to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world. This containment policy meant that the United States needed to fight communism abroad and promote democracy worldwide. During President
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What is the role played in contract law by the doctrine of consideration 1. Controversies and challenges of consideration. For a contract promise to be enforceable‚ that promise must normally be supported by consideration. Any contractual promise must be supported by consideration unless an exception applies. A promise will be supported by consideration if it’s given as part of a bargain or exchange rather than a gift. Second‚ the promiser or 3rd party should receive some act forbearance
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as it imposes a personal obligation on the person who knows the information not to disclose it. This has been unanimously approved in the High Court Case Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd. President Kirby further developed this doctrine by listing factors which helps in determining whether information is confidential in Wright v Gasweld Pty Ltd. Factors which suggest that information is confidential are if it required skill and effort to acquire‚ whether the employer had guarded
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The Doctrine of God What I learned about the Doctrine of God is God’s existence‚ first of all. God existence is definitely taken for granted in the Bible. The writers of the Old and New Testament knew God existed so they thought it pointless to put it in there. Jacobi said‚ “A God capable of proof is no God at all.” So if God had to prove He existed‚ then that would take all of the power out of God Being God. So‚ in the Bible God existing is an understood matter. The arguments for the existence
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