Introduction The Northeast region of India comprising of eight states – Assam‚ Nagaland‚ Manipur‚ Arunachal Pradesh‚ Mizoram‚ Tripura and Sikkim[1]– a region poorly connected to the Indian mainland by a small corridor‚[2] and surrounded by many countries such as Bhutan‚ Myanmar‚ Bangladesh and China‚ is the setting for a multitude of conflict that undermines the idea of India as a prosperous and functioning democracy. For instance‚ the Naga insurgence‚ which started in the 1950s‚ known as the
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ANTI-AMERICANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST April 28‚ 2012 ANTI-AMERICANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST The roots of anti-American perceptions and views cannot be described through an overall assumption of Middle Eastern perceptions. It is far more complicated than a simple assumption that negative feelings towards the United States exist throughout the entire Arab World. To define anti-Americanism is difficult in that the term allows
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Problems of National Integration between East and West Pakistan Purpose of this section This section covers the problems of national integration between East and West Pakistan. It introduces candidates to the: Language Movement Emerging disparities between the two wings of Pakistan‚ in terms of economic development‚ deface and other sectors. Summary Between 1947 and 1956‚ the language issue created tension between the people of East and West Pakistan. But it was only one example of the
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SWAHILI COAST AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAST AFRICAN CITY-STATES IntroductionIntroductionThe eastern coast of Africa changed profoundly around the beginning of Christian era‚ first‚ Bantu speaking population from the interior migrated and settled along the coast from Kenya to South Africa. Second‚ merchants and traders from Europe (Greeks and Romans) and Asia realized the strategic importance of the east coast of Africa for commercial purposes. These commercial links are mentioned by the Greek
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During the post-classical era‚ East Asian trade experienced many changes through their innovations and means of trade-both maritime and overland. However‚ the spread of religion through these trade routes remained constant. One innovation that changeed East Asian trade was the introduction of the grand canal by the Sui dynasty. It was a system of artificial waterways that went from Hangshou to Bejing and Chang’an. The grand canal served as East Asia’s principal mean of internal trade. When it
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Was the Middle East really in decline in the eighteenth century‚ like the "paradigm of decline" claims it? And if this is the case‚ what did actually decline and what happened to other aspects of society and the economy? I will first discuss the two approaches regarding the "paradigm of decline" and their critics‚ and I will then explain why the Middle East was indeed in decline before the modern era. To begin with‚ the "paradigm of decline" is composed of two different approaches. First the meta-narrative
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East Germany in Wolfgang Becker film «Goodbye Lenin!»: Does the movie paint a positive or negative picture of life in communist East Germany? East Germany‚ its demise relayed through the mass media of recent history‚ has in popular consciousness been posited as negative‚ a corrupt bulwark of the last dying days of Communism in Eastern Europe‚ barren and silent. The other Germany to its West‚ it’s citizens free‚ was striding confidently ahead into the millennium. Recent cinema has sought to examine
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’ INTRODUCTION This article under review is taken from the outlook section of The EastAfrican newspaper as for the dates between 19th to the 25th September 2011. It is a Q&A article with Western union’s present regional director southern and East Africa‚ Karen Jordaan. It was chosen in line with other online articles published two weeks prior that informed of the change in strategy being adopted by the global money transfer company in terms of their operations within the African continent.
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Did China follow the East Asian development model? Andrea Boltho1 Maria Weber 2 3 Abstract China is located in East Asia and‚ just as Japan‚ Taiwan or (South) Korea at earlier stages of their development‚ has now grown very rapidly for some three decades. That is not enough‚ however‚ for it to qualify for membership of the club. The East Asian development model has a number of additional and important characteristics. Four are selected for discussion: the almost constant encouragement given to
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Telecoms and fixed-line Developing regulatory systems in the telecoms sector of the Middle East have improved conditions for competitors although in almost all markets the main competitors to fixed-line incumbents are mobile network operators. Cross-border co-operation is becoming increasingly evident with regulators working together to improve services for end users and operators working together to deploy two regional terrestrial cables. Broadband continues to be the focus of incumbent operators
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