CHAPTER 2 Why the Balkans? Abstract After trying to ignore the Balkans after the Cold War, the United States led NATO military interventions there at the height of the unipolar moment in 1995 (Bosnia) and 1999 (Kosovo) to stop wars that Washington feared would taint the post-Cold ...
CIAmembers who've undergone water boarding as part of their training have lasted an average of 14 seconds before begging to be released. TheNavy SEALsonce used the technique in their counter-interrogation training, but they stopped because the trainees could not survive it without breaking, which ...
Why didn't the Kingdom of France conquer German minor states? Why did Poland betray the Teutonic Order? Why did the Ottoman Empire not engage in industrialization? Why did the Croatians and the Bosnians start fighting each other after they initially joined forces against the Serbs?
My object was to obtain a new coalition of all the Balkan States, including Roumania. Had I succeeded in this the situation would be much better. No reasonable man will deny that the Balkan States are neutralizing each other at the present time, which in itself makes the whole situation ...
states involved in the war developed and used chemical weapons as well, in the form of phosgene and mustard gas. U-boats were used heavily during the war in part to try to defeat the British blockade on Germany. Although combat aircraft had been used in prior conflicts, they were never ...
Even in the liberal democratic Nordic countries in Europe, 2 WHY WE NEED EPISTEMIC RIGHTS 13 known as social welfare states, the elites do this by complying with some of the populist parties' demands, such as introducing anti-immigration policies (Denmark), blocking populists' path to ...
In short, Estonia isa little country way up in the north of Europe where people are historically mostly blonde with blue eyes, love cross country skiing, don’t say much, go to sauna, drink mulled wines at the Yule time, make bonfires on summer solstice, and they used to go on viking...
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The grammatical form of φιλόσοφος is a (second declension) masculine, but compounds like this retain second declension endings even when they are used in the feminine gender. So a Greek woman who was a philosopher was still a φιλόσοφος. But a "friend" who ...
By examining the role of genre and form in expres- sions of refugeedom, we call attention to the conventions by which refugee experiences are represented, as well as the emergence of new and experi- mental forms. How do particular genres and forms, with their distinct con- ventions and ...