Diplomacy

destruction of Europe. Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points covered a wide variety of issues. It covered seven political issues. The seven political issues it covers are, open diplomacy, freedom of navigation, free trade, multilateral disarmament, colonies, national self determination, and the League of Nations. Open diplomacy banished secret treaties. Freedom of navigation allows

The Middle Ages saw a diversion from ideals in its reality that agrees with historian Barbara Tuchman’s quote, “when the gap between ideal and the real in a society becomes too wide, the system breaks down.” State and Church were forever changed after extreme test such as the One Hundred Years War and the Great Schism. These events led to the loss of authority and prestige in the Church and a crisis between the working classing in countries. Ideally, Church and Religion in the Middle Ages should

Hosting the Olympic Games is thought of as one of the great honor that a country can receive in the eyes of the world. By hosting the Olympic Games, this can provide a host country the opportunity to represent their nation-states with a universally legitimate way to present and promote their national identities and culture. The 2008 Beijing Olympics played a significant role in the social life of China and efficiently influence not only the history and grand socioeconomics transformation and modernization

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea (NK), was founded on 9 September 1948 and has been able to survive as a communist country while many other states with similar political ideologies have failed and transitioned to some other political philosophy. The recent increase of tensions on the Korean peninsula stemming from the multiple nuclear tests and aggressive long-range missile launches has brought NK, under the leadership of Kim Jong-Un (KJU), onto

On January 13, 2017, with full military honors, the body of Corporal Luis P. Torres, who went missing in the Korean War and presumed dead in early 1954, was finally laid to reset at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. The belated funeral was a relief to his family. Until last year, Luis’ brother had prayed for his miraculous return. Their mother firmly believed that Luis would return alive as his body was not found. His nephew has contacted with authorities and POW (prisoner of war)/MIA(missing

million military and civilian casualties, with Germany suffering the most military deaths (2.1 million.)1 When the trenches cleared, Germany was left in ruins by the Treaty of Versailles. In 2017, I undertook the mission to change Germany’s fate in “Diplomacy”, the 1954 game by Allan Calhamer. I began the game with the similar pride and nationalistic spirit that

The paradigm shift of Australian foreign policy from reliance on security through ‘‘great and powerful friends’’ towards the formation and strengthening of diplomatic and cultural relations with the Asia-Pacific region began arguably under the Whitlam government and has since become the predominant focus of foreign policy for both major parties. As a result, there exists a latent similarity in the foreign policy of successive Australian governments across the last 40 years that becomes more pronounced

As America approached the 20th century it had achieved great prestige in the world for having a prosperous economy built on free market system. The facets of an American identity mostly revolved around corporate power and stability. The corporations grew at a national scale effortlessly, and within years, international; the United States was following similar footsteps of the British East India Company as an emulation to the western hemisphere. Contracted railroads, lands, and farms were the crux

Understanding Hamas: Violent Terrorism as Political Strategy Introduction Kydd and Walter (2006:50) assert that violent terrorism is effective as a political strategy "because it causes governments and individuals to respond in ways that aid the terrorists' cause." For Hamas, violence against civilians for political aims does play a role in its political strategy. However, violence in and of itself is not the ultimate aim of the organization. Formed in 1987 during the Palestinian uprising (the

received the post primarily to protect U.S. economic interests there: oil, mining, and the railroads. Taft had limited experience in foreign policy and made little effort to understand his neighbors to the South. His idea of diplomacy was what his administration called dollar diplomacy (based on the economic benefits the U.S. could gain). Early on in his presidency, Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz had sold most of Mexico’s resources, especially those below the soil, such as copper and oil, off to the highest