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"Water wars"
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Water Wars
<p>This is a fictional novel.</p>
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Secret Wars
<p><em>Secret Wars</em> is a novella that takes place from 1803-1805. From 1802-1803 England and France gained a brief peace under the Treaty of Amiens. But tensions escalated quickly, and combat renewed in mid-1803, not to be resolved until Napoleon had been deposed. The politicians and radicals …
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The buffalo wars
The wandering buffalo of Yellowstone National Park are the subject of a heated debate in the western United States. The animals carry a disease called brucellosis, which infects both buffalo and cattle and has economic consequences for ranchers. Some ranchers fear that buffalo, as they migrate out …
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<em>Star Wars: The Clone Wars</em> and Popular Culture in America
<p><em>The Clone Wars</em> animated series is part of the <em>Star Wars</em> storyline taking place before the original <em>Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope</em>. The central premise of <em>The Clone Wars</em> is that of war, one being waged by a biologically manufactured clone army. George …
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Between The Wars: An Activist Novel
The first part of this thesis, Between The Wars, is a novel based on the life and work of pacifist and social reformer Muriel Lester. It is an interrogation of the beliefs that inspired her, the christian pacifist movement she was a part of, and the challenge of living out the values of peace …
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Writing US identities in the wars without frontlines: literary perspectives on the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars
For many cultural commentators, the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) signalled a new era in which technological advances transformed warfare into what Jean Baudrillard refers to as a virtual experience epitomised by “surgical strikes” and “smart-bombs”. In contrast, the Iraq War (2003-2009) was hailed …
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Nixon's Wars: Secrecy, Watergate, and the CIA
<p>Watergate is considered the most infamous political scandal in American history. It resulted in the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, and it had a profound, lasting, and damaging impact on the American people’s trust in government. The story of Watergate is often intertwined with that …
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Intervention in Civil Wars: Intervention and Consent
In modern international law, it is a near consensus that no state can use force against another - the main exceptions being self-defense and actions mandated by a U.N. Security Council resolution. However, one more potential exception exists: forcible intervention undertaken upon the invitation or …
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Sweden and the Yugoslav Wars, 1991-2001
… project examines the impact of the Yugoslav Wars on Sweden and how the country responded to the conflicts. The project is divided into three broad subcategories(diplomacy, military, and migration) over six chapters. The dissertation argues that Sweden’s post-Cold War foreign policy, military …
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Competitive intervention and its consequences for civil wars
… average duration and global prevalence of civil wars. A central finding that emerges concerns the critical role of competitive intervention-two sided, simultaneous military assistance from different third party states to both government and rebel combatants-in the dynamics and intractability of …
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Modeling Trade Wars: Applying Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations
… inputs and outputs of several historical trade wars and proceed forward by developing two models utilizing systems of differential equations that incorporate these inputs and outputs into their terms. Following this, we analyze both systems by finding specific solutions to each, by developing a …
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Pietro Bembo’s Bias: Patronage, History, and the Italic Wars
<p>During the Italic Wars, the Italian peninsula experienced foreign invasions and internal discord between rivaling duchies and city-states. Florence and Venice both faced internal and external discord due to the constant wars and political in fighting. Venetian Pietro Bembo wrote historical …
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Samuel de Champlain and the French Wars of Religion
… Military experience, gained during the Wars of Religion, prepared Champlain for violent encounters with Native Americans. Ties of patronage, which he began building during the wars, secured future support for his North American endeavor. Finally, his religious convictions elucidate the …
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Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars
… Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars" begins the process of recuperating the lost history of Spanish Civil War pacifism. It studies the ways in which writers and artists employ the aesthetic techniques of modernism, so often ensconced in violence and militarism, to articulate a …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
Outcomes of civil wars differ greatly across countries, even among states with comparable risks to conflict, such as poverty, ethnic cleavages, political instability, and state weakness. Understanding why some civil conflicts terminate through peace agreements and military victories while others …
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