International Relations

The nature of contemporary relations between two countries From the point of view of Lebanese authors, the relations between Lebanon and Israel is one sided which means that while the Lebanese government wanted both political and economic peace, the Israeli government maintains its interests in the Southern Lebanon which provokes conflict among the radical Lebanese armed movement, the Hezbollah. With the end of the 34 days conflict that started in July 1986 with the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers...

Survey of Emergency and Disaster Management Disaster Preparedness and Response

There are a number of security related challenges which are always related to the manner in which various organizational and urgency disasters, urgencies, and other  issues are managed. Fire, plane crashes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, accidents, and road accidents are some of the common disasters that could be suffered either by individual persons or by both large and small scale organizations (Alexander 2002). The four phases of disaster management implementation include the mitigation...

Disaster Management Winter Storm or Tornado

As all resources are scarce, in case two interests collide, we are always bound to make a technical, professional and even a political decision to settle the issue. In the specific community that we are investigating, we are first bound to choose which of the two types of disaster that we must choose to allot our resources on. Is it the high vulnerability in winter storm or the high risk of tornadoes From here we are recommending for the allocation of the resources in addressing the vulnerability...

Emergency and Disaster Management Introduction to Emergency and Disaster Management Types of Disasters

Disaster managements objective is to reduce or avoid the effects of hazards in disasters by acting promptly, giving the appropriate help to the victims of disaster and achieve quick and effective recovery. This happens in a cycle in which all involved parties plan for and reduce the impact of disaster, react during and immediately following a disaster, and Take steps to recover after the occurrence of a disaster. This happens in four phases which can be described as Mitigation  in this phase...

Conceptual Understanding of Macroeconomics Interrelationships

Conceptual Understanding of Macroeconomics Interrelationships Among Technology, Industry and National Economy Viewed from the Central Theme of 21st Century Human Civilization Chemical Engineering as an Example The subject is pertaining to the entirety of human history, past present and future where macroeconomics played a very important role in shaping the national economy. In all the field of economics, macroeconomics covers more than the other field of economics. Conceptual understanding is...

DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT

Democratic deficit can be considered as occurring when a democratic organization or institutions or even the government is deemed as falling short of fulfilling the principles of the parliamentary democracy in their day to day operations (Barry, 1991). European Union is the most developed international organization that provides a laboratory for observing the development of the democratic structures both within and without its member states. It is there for imperative to note that the democratic...

Performance Evaluation of Nonprofit Boards

The purpose of any organisation is derived from the intentions of the owners. However, the task of providing a definition of what a nonprofit or governmental organisation desires is a rather multifaceted endeavour in comparison to providing a definition for the intended monetary value for the equity corporation. As opposed to nonprofit or governmental organisation, it is imperative for an equity corporation to adequately manage the market even though its board is not compelled to speak for the...

Global Terrorism Affecting Governments

The paper explains how global terrorism has affected local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies and the necessary recommendations to improve these global challenges. The paper also suggests certain key issues related to provide adequate protection to the U.S. residents as well as measures to improve law enforcement agencies preparedness on a much larger scale. GLOBAL TERRORISM AFFECTING SECURITY Terrorism and its Implications By the end of the Cold War, the nature of foreign threats to...

Organizational Effectiveness

According to the US Department of Labor, Americas labor force will grow to 162 million persons by 2014. From this pool, the youth labor force aged 16 to 24 and the primary working group aged 25 to 54 will decline however, workers 55 years and older will increase from 15.6 to 21.2 percent of the entire labor force by 2014. By then, the percent change in total employment by major occupational group will be led by professional and related positions, followed by service then management, business, and...

LITERATURE REVIEW

The United States Foreign policy is that policy by which the nation interacts with foreign countries and guides its relationships and activities with these nations (WWSPIA, 2003).  Foreign policy development is determined by behavior or policies of other countries, plans to advance certain geopolitical designs or domestic considerations (Felton, 2002).  Since it broke free from British colonial control and after becoming an independent country, the US has continually practiced a wide variety...

International Business

The case study under discussion is related to the expansion of an already running business to a new location keeping in view the different variables involved with the success or failure of such an expansion. Changing the scope of a local business to that of an international arena requires many deliberations which will be discussed in the preceding paragraphs. Target Country for the Expansion in Europe Foreign relations of South Korea and European Union (EU) are boosting due to common interests...

Trying Terrorists in the Courts

A Rhetorical Analysis Michael B. Mukasey in his article  Civilian Courts Are No Place to Try Terrorists  lays out a rhetorical claim that terrorists should not be tried in United States civilian courts with an appeal to emotion and less of an appeal to logic.  The byline of the article catches the eye of the reader with an emotional flashback to the attacks of 911 and the impact on American lives.  As a former Attorney General, Mukasey does present himself as an authority on...

African Union

The organization of African union (OAU) was established on 25th May 1963, at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Then it followed that the charter of the organization was signed on that occasion by the head of state and government of the thirty two African states. This organization was established to promote the unity and the solidarity of the African states and to eradicate all forms of colonialism to coordinate and harmonize the member states economic, diplomatic, educational, health, welfare and the defense...