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The Central American country of Guatemala has benefited from its relationship with the United States through U.S. contributions to the development of its farming communities and transportation facilities, its dependency on U.S. markets for its exports, and U.S. investments and aid. It has also suffered from CIA involvement in a 1954 Guatemalan coup that preceded decades of military rule and human rights atrocities. This paper traces the relationship of the U.S. and Guatemala, specifically, the economic contributions of the United Fruit Company and how its land interests in Guatemala helped trigger U.S. involvement in the overthrow of the government.

Tags: guatemala, relationship, usa

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The primary question that this paper will address is 'why did the US go to war against Iraq?'. As will be shown, different perspectives offer clearly different answers. In the final analysis, consistent with tradition, realism seems to hold the most solid answer. However, unlike previous instances of armed aggression, pluralism and globalism played surprisingly important roles. In particular, the international media contributed significantly to the outcome of the war. Given this finding, the secondary question that will be approached is whether or not we can expect pluralism and globalism to play more important roles in international relations in the future.

Tags: POLITICAL SCIENCE / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, globalism international relations

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This paper focuses on the relinquishing of sovereignty that nations comply with when they become members of the European Union. This paper explains the EU and some of the issues it deals with currently. The author stresses reasons other nations have decided not to join.

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This paper discusses the Cold War - a period of approximately 45 years, from 1945 to 1990 - in which the United States and Soviet Union waged an intense ideological conflict that at times threatened to escalate into all-out nuclear war. Discussed will be the start of the Cold War and events it contained between the years 1945 and 1962.

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This paper discusses American nuclear strategy during the Cold War; compares the strengths and weaknesses of the massive retaliation strategy and the flexible response, counterforce strategy; analyzes the reasons for these approaches, and provides historical examples to support the contentions made.

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This paper discusses the necessary elements for an effective U.S. policy stance on nuclear arms and nuclear proliferation control. It examines both political policy and military options necessary to counter nuclear program advancements in hostile countries.

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The topic of this paper is the ill-fated Bay of Pigs Invasion during the Kennedy administration. The author discusses how America's foreign policy of the 1950s and 60s dictated that it prevent Cuba from falling into Soviet hands. The author also discusses how the invasion plan was rushed and put together by the secretive CIA with very little intelligence gathering. The CIA was also able to deceive the President by into thinking the invasion was necessary.

Tags: bay, of, pigs

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A paper on the modern day conflict between India and Pakistan and its historical background with a tentative solution suggested.

Tags: conflict, india, pakistan

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In Hong Kong ethics are predicated on a Confucian belief in social order and organization and acceptance of a social hierarchy that determines one's responsibilities and rights. In the United States ethics are based largely on concepts of individual freedom and free will, coupled with a Lockean respect for private property.

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This paper explores the desire on the part of Turkey to join the European Union (EU), the costs and benefits and the possibility of this happening.

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This paper will argue that the United States should not participate in U.N. peacekeeping efforts. This stems from two basic realities: First, that the U.S. has not fully supported the U.N. as a whole and often takes lead action itself in conflict resolution; and second, that peacekeeping itself is a questionable and highly controversial pursuit. Unless the U.S. makes a far deeper commitment to the U.N. and a full spectrum of its activities, there is no rational justification for participating in peacekeeping efforts.

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This paper will develop these ideas further. As indicated in the description, it will account for the formation of the United Nations. What were its objectives? Why was it formed? Who were the masterminds behind the plan? And so on. More importantly, it will critically analyze whether or not the U.N. has made a successful go of its objectives. Has it fulfilled its objectives? Is the world a better place because of the U.N.? Can the U.N. help to keep world peace? In the final analysis, the overriding conclusion is that the U.N. has been a succes, and will continue to be. We must bear in mind that the international community operates in a state of constant anarchy. The U.N., along with the numerous regional trade/economic/political blocs that have formed in its wake, are the only actors on the international scene that can police the behaviour of states. Considering the complexity, if not impossibility of this task, it must be said that the U.N. has probably exceeded its original expectations.

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This sixteen-page postgraduate research paper discusses the validity of the Independent International Commission's statement that NATO's action in Kosovo was "illegal but legitimate." It also deals with NATO's action as "humanitarian intervention." It is discovered through critical analysis that NATO's action was perhaps humanitarian, illegal and legitimate. And new international laws are needed to discard the "illegal" element in such actions.

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This ten-page graduate-level paper discusses whether the U.S.-South Korea Alliance is changing and concludes that it will survive. In the process, the author analyzes the current crisis in South Korea, the South Korean view of Americans, the North's nuclear threat, and the impact of the death of two Korean teenagers on the relationship.

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This paper focuses on the general history and elements of the Cold War. It discusses the US and Soviet points of view, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the concept of Containment, peace talks, arms control, and the collapse of the Soviet Union which heralded the end of the Cold War.