ASSESSING UNITED NATIONS PEACE OPERATIONS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: ONUC AND MONUC IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ONUC and MONUC have not been able to bring about sustainable peace to the DRC in their respective periods of operation; nor have they succeeded in enabling the emergence of str...
"government of the people, by the people, and for the people" [Abraham LincolnGettysburg Address] "Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be" [Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America] ...
The dramatic global transition to democracy of the last decade reveals important systematic patterns. Using recent contributions to world-systems theory, this study examines the relationship between political regime changes and the position of nations in the world-economy over the last two decades, to...
an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 19,144,875; 25,332 sq. mi. (65,609 sq. km).Cap.:Colombo.Formerly,Ceylon. Sri` Lan′kan,adj.,n. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright...
Despite the increase in the number of countries holding multiparty elections, however, the United Nations issued a study in 2002 that stated that in more than half the world's nations the rights and freedoms of citizens are limited. Bibliography See H. Laski, Democracy in Crisis (1933, repr....
Towards that end, the founders of the U.S. produced what is now the longest-standing constitution of all nations in the world. As explained byEncyclopædia Britannica, it is “the oldest written national constitution in use,” and it “has served as a model for other countries, its ...
Japan, Norway, Russia, UK and US) in the deployment of armed forces under the UN and NATO, asking who has been and should be accountable to the citizens of these nations, and to the citizens of states who are the object of deployments, for the decisions made in such military actions. ...
Germany and Japan are now creditor nations; we are a debtor nation. Let them share more of the burden of their own defense. We can use some of the money to invest in prenatal care, Head Start and day care, to invest in education, to invest in our children that they might grow, and...
1. the belief in cooperation between nations for the common good.2. advocacy of this concept, — internationalist, n., adj. interpolity Rare. the holding of mutual citizenship. interventionism the doctrine supporting intervention, especially in international affairs and the politics of other countries...
After decades of spiralling conflict, rampant anarchy, and the collapse of the state, 2007 was a year of relative stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Key political events took place in 2006 and 2007: the presidential and parliamentar