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139353
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With no peace in sight in the general area held by ISIS, Iraq and Syria, I consider these areas as the most deadly conflict zones of the world. Afghanistan is also considered as a dangerous conflict zone but may not be as deadly as the previously mentioned areas. I consider Afghanistan more important as it affects India directly.
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ID:
134089
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2014.
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Is war in decline? Recent scholarship suggests that it is. The empirical basis for this argument is a decline in battle deaths over the past several centuries, a standard metric for counting wars and armed conflicts. Dramatic improvements in medical care in conflict zones-in preventive medicine, battlefield medicine, evacuation, and protective equipment-have raised the likelihood of surviving battle wounds today compared with past eras. Thus the fact that war has become less fatal does not necessarily mean that it has become less frequent. Original data on wounded-to-killed ratios, supplemented by medical research and interviews with physicians from the military and nongovernmental communities, is used to advance this claim. The results show that the decline in war is likely not as dramatic as some scholars have argued. These findings question the foundation of existing datasets on war and armed conflict. They also highlight the growing need for policy focused on the battle wounded.
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133276
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2014.
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Although some rebel groups work hard to foster collaborative ties with civilians, others engage in egregious abuses and war crimes. We argue that foreign state funding for rebel organizations greatly reduces incentives to "win the hearts and minds" of civilians because it diminishes the need to collect resources from the population. However, unlike other lucrative resources, foreign funding of rebel groups must be understood in principal-agent terms. Some external principals-namely, democracies and states with strong human rights lobbies-are more concerned with atrocities in the conflict zone than others. Multiple state principals also lead to abuse because no single state can effectively restrain the organization. We test these conjectures with new data on foreign support for rebel groups and data on one-sided violence against civilians. Most notably, we find strong evidence that principal characteristics help influence agent actions.
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ID:
139363
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Iran nuclear deal agreed in first week of April this year is a major breakthrough. After the long wait for almost 12 years, finally Iran agreed for accepting severely extensive inspection regime. No doubt, in bargain it got the promise from P5+1 i. e. U.S.A., U.K., Russia, France, China and Germany to lift all the sanctions imposed on it. On one hand deal is an initiative to end Iran’s isolation in world polity. On other, it marks an important step that world community has taken towards arms control in recent time. Of course all the details are yet to be finalized by the end of June. Nevertheless, it calls for an urgent need to enquire into the various aspects of this deal from the perspective of contemporary geo-politics.
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ID:
184637
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ID:
105597
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