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'Ndrangheta
The 'Ndràngheta is an organized crime group centered in Calabria, Italy.
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A Few Words on Non-Intervention
"A Few Words on Non-Intervention" is a short essay by the philosopher, politician and economist, John Stuart Mill.
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A. Wahab
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Aftermath of the September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks transformed the first term of President George W. Bush and led to what he has called the Global War on Terrorism.
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Anne Boquet
Anne Boquet (born March 19, 1952 in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France) was the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia (Le Haut-Commissaire de la République en Polynésie française) (high commissioner of French Polynesia) from 10 September 2005, when she replaced Jacques Michaut, to 7 July 2008, when she was replaced by Adolphe Colrat.
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Anwar Ibrahim
Dato' Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (Jawi: انور إبراهيم; born 10 August 1947) is a Malaysian politician who is currently the Leader of the Pakatan Harapan coalition.
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Apatzingán
Apatzingán (in full, Apatzingán de la Constitución) is a city and its surrounding municipality, in the west-central region of the Mexican state of Michoacán.
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Arms industry
The arms industry, also known as the defense industry or the arms trade, is a global industry responsible for the manufacturing and sales of weapons and military technology.
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August 2013 Rabaa massacre
On 14 August 2013, Egyptian security forces and army under the command of general Abdel Fattah el-Sisi raided two camps of protesters in Cairo: one at al-Nahda Square and a larger one at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Banana republic
In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the exportation of a limited-resource product, e.g. bananas, minerals, etc.
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Bellum omnium contra omnes
Bellum omnium contra omnes, a Latin phrase meaning "the war of all against all", is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state of nature thought experiment that he conducts in De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651).
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Business jet
A business jet, private jet, or bizjet, or simply B.J., is a jet aircraft designed for transporting small groups of people.
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Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars
Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars is a non-fiction book about the Mexican Drug War written by Sylvia Longmire, an independent consultant, freelance writer, and former Air Force captain.
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Center on Contemporary Conflict
The Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC) is the primary research wing of the Naval Postgraduate School's Department of National Security Affairs.
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Chad
Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
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Changchub Dorje, 12th Karmapa Lama
Changchub Dorje (1703–1732), also Chanchub Dorje, was the twelfth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Civilian Response Corps
The Civilian Response Corps (sometimes referred to as CRC) is a program of the United States Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS).
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Climate security
Climate security describes serious threats to the security and prosperity of countries, due to climate warming, and climate actions to adapt and mitigate impacts.
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Climate Vulnerability Monitor
The Climate Vulnerability Monitor (CVM) is an independent global assessment of the effect of climate change on the world’s populations brought together by panels of key international authorities.
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Cliodynamics
Cliodynamics is a transdisciplinary area of research integrating cultural evolution, economic history/cliometrics, macrosociology, the mathematical modeling of historical processes during the longue durée, and the construction and analysis of historical databases.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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Collapse (film)
Collapse, directed by Chris Smith, is an American documentary film exploring the theories, writings and life story of controversial author Michael Ruppert.
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Congo Crisis
The Congo Crisis (Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between 1960 and 1965.
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Corruption in South Sudan
Corruption in South Sudan is among the worst in the world.
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Crisis States Research Centre
The Crisis States Research Centre is based within the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) of the London School of Economics and is funded by a grant from the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
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Cultural policy in Abu Dhabi
The concept of cultural policy in Abu Dhabi within the United Arab Emirates refers to any initiative undertaken by the Emirate's government aimed at achieving goals of certain cultural content and ascribable within a coherent strategic framework.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, sociologist, and diplomat.
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Democracy and economic growth
Democracy and economic growth and development have had a strong correlative and interactive relationship throughout history.
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Democracy promotion
Democracy promotion, which can also be referred to as democracy assistance, democracy support, or democracy building, is a strand of foreign policy adopted by governments and international organizations that seek to support the spread of democracy as a political system around the world.
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Demographic trap
According to the Encyclopedia of International Development, the term demographic trap is used by demographers "to describe the combination of high fertility (birth rates) and declining mortality (death rates) in developing countries, resulting in a period of high population growth rate (PGR)."Forsyth, Tim.
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Developing country
A developing country (or a low and middle income country (LMIC), less developed country, less economically developed country (LEDC), underdeveloped country) is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Drone strikes in Pakistan
Since 2004, the United States government has attacked thousands of targets in Northwest Pakistan using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) operated by the United States Air Force under the operational control of the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division.
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Dumbing down
Dumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, and cinema, news, video games and culture.
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Economic liberalisation in India
The economic liberalisation in India refers to the economic liberalisation, initiated in 1991, of the country's economic policies, with the goal of making the economy more market and service-oriented and expanding the role of private and foreign investment.
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Economy of Paraguay
Paraguay has a market economy highly dependent on agriculture products.
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Effects of global warming on human health
The effects of global warming include its effects on human health.
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Effects of the Cold War
The Cold War had many effects on society, both today and in the past.
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Empire lite
Empire lite is a form of imperialism in which major powers shape world affairs using diplomacy and short-term military intervention rather than conquest, colonialism or direct governance of other countries.
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European migrant crisis
The European migrant crisis, or the European refugee crisis, is a term given to a period beginning in 2015 when rising numbers of people arrived in the European Union (EU), travelling across the Mediterranean Sea or overland through Southeast Europe.
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Failed state (disambiguation)
A failed state is a state perceived as having failed at some of the basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government.
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 2006, in which Chomsky argues that the United States is becoming a "failed state", and thus a danger to its own people and the world.
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Fall of the Western Roman Empire
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire (also called Fall of the Roman Empire or Fall of Rome) was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which it failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities.
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Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies.
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Fourth-generation warfare
Fourth-generation warfare (4GW) is conflict characterized by a blurring of the lines between war and politics, combatants and civilians.
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Fragile state
A fragile state is a low-income country characterized by weak state capacity and/or weak state legitimacy leaving citizens vulnerable to a range of shocks.
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Fund for Peace
The Fund for Peace is a US non-profit, non-governmental research and educational institution.
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Fusion of powers
Fusion of powers is a feature of some parliamentary forms of government, especially those following the Westminster system, where the executive and legislative branches of government are intermingled.
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Future Character of Conflict
The Future Character of Conflict was a study produced by the UK Ministry of Defence's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC).
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General Debate of the seventy-second session of the United Nations General Assembly
The General Debate of the seventy-second session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) commenced on 19 September 2017 and ended on 25 September 2017.
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George Fulton
George Fulton (born 10 November 1977 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, United Kingdom) is a British-Pakistani television journalist and producer.
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Ghost Fleet (novel)
Ghost Fleet is a 2015 techno-thriller by P. W. Singer and August Cole.
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Global financial system
The global financial system is the worldwide framework of legal agreements, institutions, and both formal and informal economic actors that together facilitate international flows of financial capital for purposes of investment and trade financing.
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Greg Urwin
Gregory Lawrence Urwin PSM CSI (21 August 1946 – 9 August 2008) was an Australian career diplomat and top Pacific specialist.
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Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.
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Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.
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Helvetic Republic
In Swiss history, the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803) represented an early attempt to impose a central authority over Switzerland, which until then had consisted of self-governing cantons united by a loose military alliance (and ruling over subject territories such as Vaud).
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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
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Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton served as the 67th United States Secretary of State, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013, overseeing the department that conducted the Foreign policy of Barack Obama.
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History of China
The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC,William G. Boltz, Early Chinese Writing, World Archaeology, Vol.
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History of El Salvador (1931–79)
Araujo assumed the presidency at a time of severe economic crisis.
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History of Guinea
The modern state of Guinea did not come into existence until 1958, but the history of the area stretches back well before European colonization.
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History of political thought
The history of political thought dates back to antiquity while the political history of the world and thus the history of political thinking by man stretches up through the Medieval period and the Renaissance.
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History of Zimbabwe
Following the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979 there was a transition to internationally recognized majority rule in 1980; the United Kingdom ceremonially granted Zimbabwe independence on 18 April that year.
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Home
A home, or domicile, is a dwelling-place used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for an individual, family, household or several families in a tribe.
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Human population planning
Human population planning is the practice of intentionally managing the rate of growth of a human population.
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Humanitarian intervention
Humanitarian Intervention has been defined as a state's use of "military force (publicly stated that its use is for ending the violation of human rights) against another state."Marjanovic, Marko (2011-04-04), Mises Institute This definition may be too narrow as it precludes non-military forms of intervention such as humanitarian aid and international sanctions.
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Ian Bremmer
Ian Arthur Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American political scientist specializing in U.S. foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk.
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India and the United Nations
India was among the original members of the United Nations that signed the Declaration by United Nations at Washington, D.C. on 1944 October and also participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco from 25 April to 26 June 1945.
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Infrastructural power
Infrastructural power is the capacity of the state to enforce policy throughout its entire territory.
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International Forum for Rights and Security
The International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS) is a non-profit international think tank with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and offices in Brussels, Geneva, Ottawa and Washington.
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International rankings of Azerbaijan
International rankings of the Azerbaijan.
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International rankings of Serbia
The following is a list of international rankings of Serbia.
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International reactions to the Euromaidan
Below are the foreign reactions to the Euromaidan.
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Interregnum
An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order.
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John Yoo
John Choon Yoo (born July 10, 1967) is a Korean-American attorney, law professor, and author.
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Kleptocracy
Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία -kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule") is a government with corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) that use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political powers.
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Latin America–United States relations
Historically speaking, bilateral relations between the United States and the various countries of Latin America have been multifaceted and complex, at times defined by strong regional cooperation and at others filled with economic and political tension and rivalry.
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Law
Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.
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Least Developed Countries
The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is a list of developing countries that, according to the United Nations, exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world.
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Legal vacuum
Legal vacuum may refer to.
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Level of analysis
The term "level of analysis" is used in the social sciences to point to the location, size, or scale of a research target.
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Libyan Popular National Movement
The Libyan Popular National Movement (الحركة الوطنية الشعبية الليبية) is a political movement established by former Libyan officials on 15 February 2012.
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List of African Union member states by political system
African Union (AU) member states have various forms of government.
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List of armed conflicts in 2014
The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2014.
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List of armed conflicts in 2015
The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2015.
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List of armed conflicts in 2016
The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2016.
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List of armed conflicts in 2017
The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2017.
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List of ongoing armed conflicts
The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world and continue to result in violence.
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List of orders of battle
This is a list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign.
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List of Uzbek theatre groups
Uzbek Theatre Groups refer to established and new theatre companies in Uzbekistan, as well as those specializing in Uzbek and Central Asian theatre overseas.
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List of wars 2011–present
This is a list of wars launched from 2011 onwards. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
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Little Russia
Little Russia, sometimes Little Rus' (Малая Русь, Malaya Rus', Малая Россия, Malaya Rossiya, Малороссия, Malorossiya; Мала Русь, Mala Rus'; or Rus' Minor from Μικρὰ Ῥωσία, Mikrá Rosía), is a geographical and historical term first used by Galician ruler Bolesław-Jerzy II who in 1335 signed his decrees as Dux totius Russiæ minoris.
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Los Zetas
Los Zetas (Spanish for "The Zs") is a Mexican criminal syndicate, regarded as the most dangerous of the country's drug cartels.
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Mafia state
The term mafia state is a political buzzword to describe a state system where the government is tied with organized crime, including when government officials, police, and/or military take part in illicit enterprises.
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Mahoran status referendum, 2009
A referendum on becoming an overseas department of France was held in Mayotte on 29 March 2009.
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Mário Crespo
Mário Crespo (born April 13, 1947) is a Portuguese retired journalist and reporter.
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Media portrayal of the Ukrainian crisis
Media portrayals of the Ukrainian crisis, including 2014 unrest and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution following the Euromaidan movement, differed widely between Ukrainian, western and Russian media.
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Medical torture
Medical torture describes the involvement of, or sometimes instigation by, medical personnel in acts of torture, either to judge what victims can endure, to apply treatments which will enhance torture, or as torturers in their own right.
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Mexican Drug War
The Mexican Drug War (also known as the Mexican War on Drugs) is an ongoing, low-intensity asymmetric war between the Mexican Government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
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Mexican peso crisis
The Mexican peso crisis was a currency crisis sparked by the Mexican government's sudden devaluation of the peso against the U.S. dollar in December 1994, which became one of the first international financial crises ignited by capital flight.
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Microstate
A microstate or ministate is a sovereign state having a very small population or very small land area, and usually both.
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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.
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Mohammed Ali al-Houthi
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi (محمد علي الحوثي) (born 1979) is a Yemeni political figure who is former President of the Revolutionary Committee or Revolutionary Council, a body formed by Houthi militants.
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Molvanîa
Molvanîa (subtitled A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry) is a book parodying travel guidebooks.
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Monopoly on violence
The monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force, also known as the monopoly on violence (Gewaltmonopol des Staates), is a core concept of modern public law, which goes back to Jean Bodin's 1576 work Les Six livres de la République and Thomas Hobbes' 1651 book Leviathan.
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Muhammad bin Nayef
Muhammad bin Nayef Al Saud (محمد بن نايف بن عبد العزيز آل سعود; born 30 August 1959) is a prominent member of the House of Saud.
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Narco-state
Narco-state (also narco-capitalism or narco-economy) is a political and economic term applied to states where all legitimate institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of the illegal drug trade.
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Natural gas and petroleum in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is the ninetenth-largest producer of natural gas in Asia.
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Nepalese Civil War
The Nepalese Civil War was an armed conflict between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) and the government of Nepal, fought from 1996 to 2006.
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Organized crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.
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Outline of war
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to war: War – organised and often prolonged armed conflict that is carried out by states and/or non-state actors – is characterised by extreme violence, social disruption, and economic destruction.
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Outposts of tyranny
"Outposts of tyranny" was a term used in 2005 by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and subsequently by others in the U.S. government to characterize the governments of certain countries as being totalitarian regimes or dictatorships.
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Pariah state
A pariah state (also called an international pariah or a global pariah) is a nation considered to be an outcast in the international community.
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Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding is an intervention technique or method that is designed to prevent the start or resumption of violent conflict by creating a sustainable peace.
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Peren–Clement index
The Peren–Clement index is a method of country-specific risk analysis for businesses engaged in international trade and direct investment.
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Political Instability Task Force
The Political Instability Task Force (PITF), formerly known as State Failure Task Force, is a U.S. government-sponsored research project to build a database on major domestic political conflicts leading to state failures.
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Political psychology
Political psychology is an interdisciplinary academic field dedicated to understanding politics, politicians and political behavior from a psychological perspective.
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Political status of Western Sahara
Western Sahara, formerly the Spanish colony of Spanish Sahara, is a disputed territory claimed by both the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front.
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Politics of Libya
The Politics of Libya is in an uncertain state due to the collapse of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 2011 and an ongoing civil war between the Council of Deputies in Tobruk and its supporters, the New General National Congress in Tripoli and its supporters, and various jihadists and tribal elements controlling parts of the country.
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Post-80s
The Post-'80 (also the Post-1980) is a colloquial term which refers to the generation, especially in urban cities, whose members were born between 1980 and 1989 in Mainland China after the introduction of the One-child policy.
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Poverty in Nigeria
Nigeria has one of the world's highest economic growth rates, averaging 7.4% according to the Nigeria economic report released in July 2014 by the World Bank.
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Protection racket
A protection racket is a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law—in other words, a racket that sells security, traditionally physical security but now also computer security.
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Proto-state
A proto-state, also known as a quasi-state, is a political entity that does not represent a fully institutionalized or autonomous sovereign state.
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Psycho-Pass: The Movie
is a 2015 Japanese anime science fiction crime film by Production I.G and ran in over 100 theatres.
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Queue (hairstyle)
The queue or cue is a Qing dynasty hairstyle most often worn by Chinese men.
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Ralph Peters
Ralph Peters (born April 19, 1952) is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and author.
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Regime change
Regime change is the replacement of one government regime with another.
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Richard Bessel
Richard Bessel is professor of twentieth century history at the University of York and a member of the editorial boards of German History and History Today.
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Robert Cooper (strategist)
Sir Robert Francis Cooper (born 1947 in Essex, United Kingdom) is a British diplomat and adviser currently serving as a Special Advisor at the European Commission with regard to Myanmar.
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Rogue state
Rogue state or outlaw state is a term applied by some international theorists to states they consider threatening to the world's peace.
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Roosevelt Corollary
The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.
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Rosa Brooks
Rosa Brooks is an American law professor and the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at Georgetown University Law Center, a columnist and contributing editor for Foreign Policy, an adjunct scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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Rose Revolution
The Revolution of Roses, often translated into English as the Rose Revolution (ვარდების რევოლუცია vardebis revolutsia), describes a pro-Western peaceful change of power in Georgia in November 2003.
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Rouba
Rouba a.k.a. Roobz, is a soul singer/songwriter born in Lebanon and raised in the United Arab Emirates.
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RT (TV network)
RT (formerly Russia Today) is a Russian international television network funded by the Russian government.
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Russian oligarch
The Russian oligarchs (see the related term "New Russians") are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth during the era of Russian privatization in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
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Scholar Rescue Fund
The Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) provides fellowships for established scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries.
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Societal collapse
Societal collapse is the fall of a complex human society.
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Sociology of peace, war, and social conflict
The sociological study of peace, war, and social conflict entails the use of sociological theory and methods to analyze group conflicts, especially collective violence and alternative constructive nonviolent forms of conflict transformation.
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Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is a sovereign country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of.
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Somali Civil War
The Somali Civil War (Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Soomaaliya, الحرب الأهلية الصومالية) is an ongoing civil war taking place in Somalia.
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Somalia
Somalia (Soomaaliya; aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe Federal Republic of Somalia is the country's name per Article 1 of the.
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South Kasai
South Kasai (Sud-Kasaï) was an unrecognised secessionist state within the Republic of the Congo (the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) which was semi-independent between 1960 and 1962.
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South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, Việt Nam Cộng Hòa), was a country that existed from 1955 to 1975 and comprised the southern half of what is now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is, in international law, a nonphysical juridical entity that is represented by one centralized government that has sovereignty over a geographic area.
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Stabilization of fragile states
Promoting recovery from conflict is not limited to simply a humanitarian, security or development issue and often involves a combination of all three.
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Starvation
Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life.
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State (polity)
A state is a compulsory political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a certain geographical territory.
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State collapse
State collapse, breakdown, or downfall is the complete failure of a mode of government within a sovereign state.
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State of Denial
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III is a book by Bob Woodward, originally due to be published October 2, 2006 (but unexpectedly released two days early by the publisher due to demand), that examines how the George W. Bush administration managed the Iraq War after the 2003 invasion.
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State responsibility
The laws of state responsibility are the principles governing when and how a state is held responsible for a breach of an international obligation.
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State-building
Over the past two decades, state-building has developed into becoming an integral part and even a specific approach to peacebuilding by the international community.
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Stateless society
A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a state, or, especially in common American English, has no government.
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Structural violence in Haiti
Haiti is impacted by structural violence, a form of dysfunction where social structures prevent certain groups of people from having access to basic human rights, like education and healthcare.
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Susan Rice
Susan Elizabeth Rice (born November 17, 1964) is an American public official who served as the 24th United States National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2017.
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Switzerland in the Napoleonic era
During the French Revolutionary Wars, the revolutionary armies marched eastward, enveloping Switzerland in their battles against Austria.
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Tarfaya Basin
The Tarfaya Basin is a structural basin located in southern Morocco that extends westward into the Moroccan territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Third World
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc.
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Thomas Risse
Thomas Risse (formerly Risse-Kappen) is a Berlin-based international relations scholar.
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Ticking time bomb scenario
The ticking time bomb scenario is a thought experiment that has been used in the ethics debate over whether torture can ever be justified.
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Time of Troubles
The Time of Troubles (Смутное время, Smutnoe vremya) was a period of Russian history comprising the years of interregnum between the death of the last Russian Tsar of the Rurik Dynasty, Feodor Ivanovich, in 1598, and the establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613.
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Tormod Lunde
Tormod Karsten Lunde (born 29 November 1954), also known as Tormod K. Lunde, is a Norwegian-American sociologist.
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Torture
Torture (from the Latin tortus, "twisted") is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim.
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Ulrich Schiefer
Ulrich Schiefer (* September 10, 1952, in Lauffen am Neckar) is a German rural and development sociologist and anthropologist.
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United Nations Convention against Torture
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (commonly known as the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT)) is an international human rights treaty, under the review of the United Nations, that aims to prevent torture and other acts of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment around the world.
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United States Army Special Forces selection and training
The Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC) or, informally, the Q Course is the initial formal training program for entry into the United States Army Special Forces.
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War elephant
A war elephant is an elephant that is trained and guided by humans for combat.
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War on Terror
The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the United States government after the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
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Warlord
A warlord is a leader able to exercise military, economic, and political control over a subnational territory within a sovereign state due to their ability to mobilize loyal armed forces.
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Waterboarding
Waterboarding is a form of water torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning.
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Western European colonialism and colonization
European colonialism and colonization was the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
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Westphalian sovereignty
Westphalian sovereignty, or state sovereignty, is the principle of international law that each nation-state has exclusive sovereignty over its territory.
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Withering away of the state
"Withering away of the state" is a Marxist concept coined by Friedrich Engels referring to the idea that, with realization of the ideals of socialism, the social institution of a state will eventually become obsolete and disappear, as the society will be able to govern itself without the state and its coercive enforcement of the law.
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2000s in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe began experiencing a period of considerable political and economic upheaval in 1999.
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2006 in Afghanistan
The following lists events that happened during 2006 in Afghanistan.
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2006 Riga summit
The 2006 Riga summit or the 19th NATO Summit was a NATO summit held in the Olympic Sports Centre, Riga, Latvia from 28 to 29 November 2006.
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2007–11 Belgian political crisis
The 2007–2011 Belgian political crisis was a period of tense communal relations and political instability in Belgium rooted in the differing opinions on state reform, and in the continued existence of the controversial electoral district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (BHV).
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2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak
The 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak was an epidemic of cholera affecting much of Zimbabwe from August 2008 until June 2009.
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2011 in Afghanistan
Events from the year 2011 in Afghanistan.
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2011 San Fernando massacre
The 2011 San Fernando massacre, also known as the second massacre of San Fernando, was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel at La Joya ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico in March 2011.
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2017 Somalian drought
As of February 2017 a drought ravages Somalia that has left more than 6 million people, or half the country's population, facing food shortages with several water supplies becoming undrinkable due to the possibility of infection.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_state
