Firstly it is important to look at the varying definitions there are, in order to gauge its relevance. There are a couple of different approaches towards 're-integration' and 'rehabilitation each one focuses on a different aspect. The three obvious approaches are; economic, political and social. However the different organisations that DDR operations are based upon, often have over lapping views. For example the World Bank definition 'emphasises assisting economic recovery and...

With almost 500 million habitants, the European Union (EU) is the third largest population in the world after China and India. The EU holds a global important power, having a commercial, industrial and financial influence. In competition with the growing power of Chinese and American economy, it creates one quarter of global development. Historically, Europe always had an expansion strategy. Starting with Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands, the European...

There are many benefits or arguments that are for democracy; since the ample population is given rights and autonomy. A very important characteristic that leads to being a benefit of democracy is that it allows citizen from all walks of life to participate actively in the political proceedings of their homeland. However, there are arguments against (disadvantages of) democracy also. One of the main defects in the idea of democracy is that the authority given to the masses can also be distorted,...

Furthering democracy is often dismissed as moralism distinct from U.S. interests or mere lip service to build support for strategic policies. Yet there are tangible stakes for the United States and indeed the world in the spread of democracy-namely, greater peace, prosperity, and pluralism. Controversial means for promoting democracy and frequent mismatches between deeds and words have clouded appreciation of this truth. Democracies often have conflicting priorities, and democracy promotion is...

In order to understand why the Electoral College may need a replacement, people need to understand its history and the reasons as to why it came into existence. The main reason why the Electoral College started involves a political problem that people faced many years back. People the difficulty of how to elect the president in a nation, which comprised of thirteen large and small states suspicious of a central national government. The nation comprised of over four million people, widespread...

Like any large social movement, nationalism has its benefits but can also be a dangerous weapon. It can be a powerful tool with which to unite people under one banner, a people acting as one who can be wielded in any direction that is seen fit. Nationalism can be a good thing, as easily demonstrated by how Filipinos, fired by its ideals, succeeded in kicking out the Spanish, the Japanese, and the Americans. So necessary was nationalism that Rizal and his generation saw the need to invent it to...

In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world. Controversial to the white man, this statement made by Marcus Mosiah Garvey, truly embodied his doctrine on race first. This he preached all over the world through written or spoken word to the black masses much, at times to the chagrin of other black leaders and whites. But what was so wrong with Garvey's assertion of...

Market failure is a theory which arises when the distribution of goods and services by a free market is not Pareto efficient. Market failures are generally linked with failure of competition, public goods, externalities, incomplete markets, information asymmetries and other macroeconomic disequilibrium. (Jozeph Stiglitz, Economics of Public Sector, 3rd ed, p. 77-85) In economic terms externality stems from actions of subject which affect others in positive or negative way. In first case person...

Saddam Hussein was the 5th President of Iraq, serving in this office from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. He was also a primary member of the Revolutionary Ba'ath Party which supported a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. Saddam played a vital role in the 1968 revolution which brought the party to a long term power.BackgroundSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was from Al-Awja near the Iraqi town Tikriti in a tribal shepherd's family. He was born on 28th April 1937. His father,...

This investigation aims to assess the degree to which Gorbachev's policies were the catalyst to the fall of the USSR. In order to evaluate the outcome of Gorbachev's policies, the investigation is focused on examining the events of perestroika (restructuring), and glasnost (openness; transparency) policies, contrasting with the US foreign policy towards the USSR. The investigation will also analyze the years of the Regan government through the years of the Gorbachev government (1986-1989) in...