Abkhazia North American Analysis

The structure and power of the UN Security Council is a major factor regarding how some states are able to exert power over the UN. For example, any permanent member of the UNSC (China, Russia, the US, Britain or France) can veto any resolution proposed as they please. As a result of this we have seen much needed resolutions been dropped due to permanent members vetoing due to national interests. In the case of the conflict in Syria, both resolutions proposed by the UNSC were vetoed by Russia and China as they went against their national interests. In this way, the permanent five members are certainly more powerful than the UN. Furthermore, states sovereignty imposes limits on the extent to which the UN can protect human rights. States sovereignty can also mean that states can refuse to sign international agreements that are seen as against their national interests. For example, the US’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Nevertheless, the UN does exhibit some power over states. It can authorise the use of force or peacekeepers or economic sanctions against states where internal conflict has occurred. For example, in 2006 the UNSC authorised the use of peacekeeping troops in Sudan in response to the conflict in Darfur. Similarly in 2011, the UNSC authorised the use of force to protect civilians against the attacks of the Gaddafi regime. Conclusively, although the UN has the ability to authorise various

1. ISSUE. Provide the USEUCOM Commander an overview of Azerbaijan’s approach to the situation in the Caucasus Region.

While whites claimed their superiority as an identification of their freedom from underneath British rule, it has evolved; but has maintained a strong entity to defining the society and boundaries of freedom that abounds today. This is especially in correlation to the African American people who were subject to the backward course of what whites were, and lost their initial freedom of abiding in their own land; yet to come and fight, to this day, for justice. So what does it mean to be a Georgian, a southern person who can take pride in themselves, but only when you’re the one with the good and privileged history? What does it mean to be Georgian, if the definitions or connotations cannot align without there being any hostility because of a sensitive past? What does it mean to be Georgian if the meanings and boundaries of freedom shape two different groups within the state to have an underlying history between them that is tentative because of historical events? What does it mean to be

Ahurastan seceded from Iran in 2018-2019. The Ahurastan objective in supporting SAPP creates conflicts in the region.

• Georgia is the fastest growing economy in the Caucasus region. Objectives include increasing defense capabilities, improving infrastructure, and establishing energy security.

This does not mean to exclude those economic and other related institutions, but focuses this dissatisfaction on the political institutions as key to this process. This dissatisfaction is only exacerbated by the government’s inability or unwillingness to engage with this segment of the population in order to resolve the emerging conflict early in its development. Instead, the government ignores or even attempts to repress this expression of dissatisfaction, resulting in allegations of human rights abuses, among other symptoms. This only fuels a greater desire for secession in this marginalized and underrepresented segment(s) of society, as secessionism is seen as the only option available for the group to alleviate the injustices it feels is levied against it. This results in a “balkanization” of ethnic and religious groups as the

Their interrelation was overlapping rather than sequential although the whole book was written chronologically. The 1912-13 Balkan Wars challenged the imperial rule of Russia, together with other empires, by revealing diverse social dynamics there and Russian Empire’s weakness in controlling its peripheries. Therefore, the Empire applied violence to deal with its borderlands’ unrest and later with the social disorder in metropole. The year of 1917 but only witnessed the culmination of state failure culminated, but also the expanded forms and scope of the social disaster. Although the social disaster dominated the post-1917 Russian Civil War, it initiated in the pre-war period, as the reinforcement of the state rule after the 1905 Revolution showed. Moreover, nationalism did not play that much significant role in the process of decolonization, as many scholars anticipated. The long history of the Russian Empire and its long-term civic relationship with the peripheries in prewar period showed that nationalism did not dominate imperial subjects. While the subsequent fact, the trend toward “state-strengthening” rather than the collapse of the empire after the 1905-1907 crisis, further confirmed that decolonization was not necessarily caused by

One of the most dangerous global issues today is the growth of separatism. There are variety causes of separatism in many countries.

America has changed throughout the years and so has the meaning of the American dream, the American dream in not what it used to be. Michelle Obama once stated that ex-president Barack Obama had lived the American dream, Michelle said ‘Barack knows the American dream because he's lived it and he wants everyone in this country to have the same opportunity, no matter who we are, or were where from, or what we look like, or who we love’. The land of opportunities and hope no longer let’s people accomplish their dreams, but it only lets its own people to do so.

South Ossetia has truly changed because of the war between Russia and Georgia. South Ossetia became crime ridden with many weapons and contraband on the streets (Bonner). This shows how this war impacted the people of South Ossetia more than Russia and Georgia were impacted. South Ossetia never was the cause of the conflict they were just in the crossfire. Russia starts to get more aggressive. Russia came over and killed many people to capture South Ossetia (Russia-Georgia Conflict). Russia can easily take over any of these countries if they want. This conflict could have ended fast, Russia just needed Georgia’s help and resources. Russia has proven that they are stronger than Georgia they are just trying to weaken them. Russia

In this day and age, we find ourselves at odds with our “identity” as we find that not only are we representing ourselves, but we also have ties to religion, sect, tribe, and family (Angrist). This shows that despite the cohesiveness and threads that attach us, it has the power to pull people, families, and in some cases countries apart. This conflict comes to a head when religion and ethnicity are interwoven. Hence when divisions occur, this can lead to violent wars that destroy trust between individuals. This can ingrain a sense of uneasiness and distrust that plagues people’s ideas and leaves a country divided. This is particularly evident in Lebanon. Ethnic and religious division led to the festering of feelings of marginalization and discrimination, which boiled over into the Lebanese civil war, a war that claimed the lives of 150,000 people (Szekely). The anger and frustration birthed from this to chaos, and conflict has in turn increased the division between ethnic and religious factions and led to the crumbling of Lebanese nationalism. This essay is specifically aimed at assessing the relationships between ethnic and religious divisions in Lebanon and explores how it contributed to the civil war. This is done by identifying and analyzing the main actors and makes an explanation of the historical divisions stemming from the National Pact, branching out to include the consequences of the civil war on the political structures and the identities of the

Ethiopia is one of the oldest surviving countries in the world. While its current economic, societal, and political conditions are considered povertous from the viewpoint of a first world nation, the country has been a relative powerhouse in the Horn of Africa. It has a large military, gross domestic product growth, and a relatively stable international position compared to its neighbors. In the last 60 years, however, it has been continually embroiled in a border dispute with its neighbor Eritrea. Eritrea, a former province of Ethiopia, has fought against the larger nation’s control for decades, resulting in war in the 1990s and massive tension in the area since. This border conflict has the potential to flare once again and throw the

The goal of the research is to explore what are the semiotic structures inherent in the discourses of secession and recognition of 4 contested states: Abkhazia, Crimea, Kosovo and South Ossetia. A compative discourse analysis of these cases allows to mark out a number of rhetorical invariants of secessionist discourses and to expose some crucial differences between them. For example, even though the South Ossetian and Abkhazian secessions are colligated in the Russian discourse of their recognition, in the discourses of their declarations of independence they are found to differ significantly even on the level of very basic discursive features. In general, it is possible to conclude that the discursive means of rhetoric legitimization of secessions

The crisis in Ukraine and Crimea’s recent accession to Russia are events that clearly highlight the underlying sources of conflict in global politics. While Russia sees its actions in Crimea as a “reunification” and the respect for the right of self-determination, the West views it as a threat to European security and a violation of territorial integrity. Crimea has been a debatable topic from the time it came under the control of the Russian Empire in 1783 during the reign of Catherine the Great. The justification then was similar to the reasoning being used by Vladimir Putin today. Catherine declared that she was protecting ethnic Russians in the region from the Ottoman Empire, much as Putin is claiming to protect Russians from Ukrainian

The dynamic of secessionist movements can be attributed to four general elements: the identity of the seceding community, the territorial claims of the seceding community, the leadership of the seceding community and the discontent of the seceding community. For any given secessionist movement these elements are often common attributes however the degree in which they are relevant is specific to the territory in question. Let us begin our analysis with issues of identity. It is obvious that if the entirety of a population within a country or territory identifies themselves as sharing a common ancestry, culture or heritage than the idea of secession wouldn’t exist. Therefore the opposite holds true; that