´Special Relationship´ during the Presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and the Premiership of Tony Blair Contents Introduction 3 Bill Clinton and Tony Blair 3 Kosovo 5 George W. Bush and Tony Blair 8 Afghanistan 10 Iraq 11 Resources 14 Introduction The phenomenon of the ’Special Relationship’ between the United States of America (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) was first mentioned by Winston Churchill towards Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 and it has represented strong
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this vague undefined variable known as "religion" or "faith" is responsible for Man’s wars. Is it true? Well‚ I can think of a few recent conflicts or humanitarian cataclysms whose driving force was anything but religious. Hitler’s massacre of ethnic minorities‚ for instance: religions were often the victim of Nazi
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began to be performed openly. Gorbachev called for the creation of a new Soviet parliament. Legalized the formation of other political parties and struck article 6 from the Soviet constitution. Gorbachev became the Soviet Union’s forst president. Ethnic groups took advantage of the new openness to protest what they percieved as ethnically motivated slights. The Soviet army had difficulty controlling the situation. The End of the Soviet Union Gorbachev labored to cooperate more closely with Boris
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Committee: Middle School Disarmament Commission Topic: Justifying International Intervention in Civil Wars Country: Greece A. The issue of justifying international intervention in civil wars popped out most recently due to the various civil wars that have been happening after the 2000’s. The two major contemporary civil wars are the Libyan Civil war and the Syrian Civil war. The Libyan Civil war was a 2011 civil war in Libya that resulted in the change of government in Libya‚ resulting in
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Syria‚ like Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s‚ can be seen as a classic case of just war. As Michael Walzer argues in his work on ethical warfare‚ Just and Unjust Wars‚ humanitarian interventions can be just when the survival of populations and entire ethnic groups are seriously compromised. For that‚ it needs a just cause (jus ad bellum)‚ to be fought justly (jus in bello) and jus post bellum‚ a guarantee of just peace once fighting ceases. A military intervention in Syria may be justified‚ but not without
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elections for presidents individually. This sent an out break of war‚ each nation declaring it’s borders‚ but all the nationalities had been scattered so then each country started ethnic cleansing. All of the nations had become their own countries and left Serbia with no choice but to become one as well. Later in the province of Kosovo (located in Serbia) wanted to become its own country. They asked for help from NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) that authorized to let them become their own country
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INTERVENTION Essay Question: Humanitarian Intervention is one of the key features of post-Cold war international politics. What exactly is it? What are the arguments for and against it? Discuss your answers in the context of a recent case‚ such as Bosnia‚ Kosovo‚ Afghanistan or East Timor. Hypothesis: That despite the incidents where humanitarian interventions have proved seemingly unsuccessful‚ they are‚ nonetheless‚ a vital tool in alleviating the human suffering that so plagues contemporary society
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Since the beginning of the civil war in 1996 about 5.400.000 million people died. “The wars in that country have claimed nearly the same number of lives as having a 9/11 every single day for 360 days‚ the genocide that struck Rwanda in 1994‚ the ethnic cleansing that overwhelmed Bosnia in the mid-1990s‚ the genocide that took place in Darfur‚ the number of people killed in the great tsunami that struck Asia in 2004‚ and the number of people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaky- all combined and then doubled”
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Expressive vs. Instrumental Motivations Primordialism- Ethnic IDs are more fundamental than other types of ID. Ethnicity is not subject to rational cost/benefit calculations. It belongs to the realm of emotion. Ethnic mobilizations are motivated by expressive not instrumental needs. Participated is related to our search as human beings for security in an insecure world. Conflict based on ethnicity is inevitable‚ persistence is a given. Some would argue that‚ empirically‚ ID does appear to shift
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or to take action in fulfilling their own self interests. (SOURCE) In response to the underlying issues of humanitarian intervention‚ the principle of “responsibility to protect”‚ was introduced to protect population from genocide‚ war crimes‚ ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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