On two August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait: the entire world was astonished and what was feared in the previous months came true. In the following days the United Nations (UN) Security Council promulgated resolutions 660 and 661. The former condemned the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait demanding an immediate withdrawal of Iraqi’s forces to the same […]
Germany has its socia market economy that is characterized by a highly qualified labour force, a developed infrastructure, large capital stock, low level of corruption and a high level of innovation . It has the largest national economy in Europe, the fourth largest by nominal GDP in the world, and ranked fifth by GDP (PPP) […]
On February 13, 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australia’s tortured relations with its indigenous peoples with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs. This was “Government business, motion No. 1,” the first act of Rudd’s Labor government, which was sworn in after a convincing electoral win over the 11-year […]
This statement has been adapted from ‘Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology – Reducing Direct and Structural Violence: the Human Needs Theory’ by Daniel J Christie. Prof. Daniel J Christie is a Professor of Psychology at the Ohio State University. He is the former head and President of the Division of Peace Psychology of […]
For decades now, the concept of sovereignty has become the subject of major discussion within the international law and international relations faculty. Rather than debating about the timeless universal meaning of sovereignty, the contemporary scholars have focused on the new meanings of sovereignty across various political and historical contexts. Much of the subsequent historical exploration […]
Between the years 1933 and 1939 the Nazi regime in Germany grew incredibly fast. Hitler entered the National Socialists cabinet in January 1933, and two months after this, Hitler had strengthen his political power by supposedly, entirely legal means. In order to consolidate their power as a strong political party, the Nazis were determined to […]
Population: Afrikaners constitute nearly three million out of approximately 49 million inhabitants of the Republic of South Africa, plus as many as half a million in diaspora. The Afrikaners are descendents from European explorers who started to settle in South Africa during the seventeenth century. They speak their own language, Afrikaans, which is derived from […]
The United States of America, the biggest democracy in the world, was born as such in 1787, when 55 representatives of each state gathered in Philadelphia in order to achieve a compromise, a union within states. When we talk about America, what crosses our mind is the idea of greatness, strength and power, an enormous […]