Notes on the Renaissance (and useful hyperlinks) Vocabulary: A polymath (Greek polymathēs‚ "having learned much") is a person with encyclopedic‚ broad‚ or varied knowledge or learning….Renaissance Man and Homo Universalis are related terms to describe a person who is well educated‚ or who excels‚ in a wide variety of subjects or fields. (wikidepia) The Renaissance – An Overview (from http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/renaissance/index.html) Between 1300 and 1600 the Western world was
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Introduction The Israeli-Palestinian struggle‚ “the world’s most intractable conflict”‚ is complex to interpret and analyze in the field of international relations. The conflict began in 1948 after Israel’s establishment and massive Jewish immigration from Europe to the Middle East. Since then‚ the conflict has escalated into intense hostilities between the Arab community and Israel‚ the huge displacement of Palestinians‚ the involvement of the international community‚ particularly the United States
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the same time. The Austrian Empire took over the German confederation; however‚ Prussia was prepared to unify them. Prussia had a mainly German empire. Therefore‚ nationalism truly unified Prussia. When Bismarck took control‚ he was a master of realpolitik. Bismarck’s method for uniting Germany was through blood and iron (Doc 5). He believed that the power of Germany should be allocated over all German People. In his eyes‚ war was the only option to achieving success. When nationalism emerged in
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Nationalism: loyal to your country Political ideologies Conservatism- does not want change Liberalism- wants change Moderates- wants some changes Congress of Vienna Metternich: Foreign minister of Austria. He distrusted the democratic ideals of the French Revolution. Metternich wanted to keep things as they were. He had three goals for the congress of Vienna. 1. He wanted to prevent future French aggression by surrounding it with strong countries. 2 restore a balance of power. 3 restore
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Published in response to the 2009 banking and public debt crisis in the Eurozone‚ Jürgen Habermas makes an argument to salvage the project of European unification in his 2013 book The Lure of Technocracy. In order to prevent the European Union from slipping into a technocracy tailored to the financial markets‚ Habermas suggests the EU’s transformation from a pre-dominantly monetary to a truly political union. While the nation-states will maintain their independence‚ their national citizens must also
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In The Post-American World‚ Fareed Zakaria addresses a new era in the international system where power is being diffused from the central superpower‚ the United States‚ to rising developing nations. This is caused by what Zakaria calls “rise of the rest”‚ which includes new actors whom have made influential impact on the international system like China and India. The American society’s anxiety of the U.S. decline as the single-superpower has been growing with economic issues and the rise of anti-American
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POLT 4600: RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE AND PERSECUTION Spring 1‚ 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. DEFINITIONS OF KEY CONCEPTS a.Religion b.Persecution and Intolerance c.Humanitarian space II. RISE OF EXTREMISM a.Why? b.The response and role of the international community III. HOW TO CREATE HUMANITARIAN SPACE FOR THE VICTIM OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION? a.Mobilization of the international community as a whole b.Fight the
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particular government was deemed unfit to rule itself. The American government now held the power to both criticize and occupy these nations if they were deemed to be unstable. Stuart Creighton Miller says that the public’s sense of innocence about Realpolitik impairs popular recognition of U.S. imperial conduct (“American Imperialism”). The resistance to actively occupying foreign territory has led to policies of exerting influence via other means‚ including governing other countries via surrogates or
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The 19th century was marked by the uprising of the middle class and the spread of revolutionary ideas caused by the French Revolution‚ which ultimately led to the outbreak of war all across Europe. Once France was defeated‚ the Vienna Congress met to discuss the future and fate of Europe. The purpose of the Vienna Congress was to establish an international framework for continental cooperation and the maintenance of the balance of power. This aided the emperors of Russia‚ Austria as well as Prussia
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Focus Preventive Diplomacy‚ Defence Cooperation & the Pursuit of Cooperative Security: The Indian Experience Swapna Kona Nayudu* This article is an exploration of the effectiveness of defence cooperation as a means of preventive diplomacy. The paper begins by suggesting that both defence cooperation and preventive diplomacy are concepts rooted in cooperative security. For the purposes of this paper‚ cooperative security is understood as an overarching concept that comprises alliances
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