In the latter half of the twentieth century, in a world dependent on energy, the Indian Ocean, with a significant amount of the world's natural resources and its unique geography, has rightfully assumed centre stage. Home to critical energy transportation routes, the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), has seen extra regional powers fight two energy wars in the last couple of decades. Security concerns including piracy, rising fundamentalism and various forms of illicit trafficking have led to continu...
The Colosseum was built as a gift to the Roman citizens. The city needed an amphitheater because the only one that they had, was too small for them and for the city. So, when the emperor Caligula had started the works for the new amphitheater ,Claudious , who was the Roman Emperor that season, stopped him. But, when Vespasian came to power he gave back to the Romans most of the land that Nero had occupied and the Colosseum was placed in the place where before was an artificial lake. It took a...
On this day, two bombs exploded in the Moscow subway. Not long after this attack, it was announced that two women carried out the attack: Shahidkas or Black Widows called. These are terms that the media have given to North-Caucasian women, mostly from Chechnya, who carry out attacks in Russia and Chechnya. The term Shahidka is related to the term Shahid: a religious term that literally means "witness", but in Islam often means "martyrs". In total, since 2000, there were over thirty attacks by...
In the middle of the XIX century, women, who were considered inferior beings throughout the history, began to win from men their legal rights and opportunities. Europeans, who immigrated to North America in XVII and XVIII centuries, believed that women are less intellectually developed, than men, and, accordingly, they can not participate in many aspects of social life equally with men. This opinion was particularly clearly expressed in matters of religion, in women's limited access to educat...
The East India Company was founded around 1591 to trade mainly with the East Indies, but ended up trading with the Indian Subcontinent and China instead. Martin states that the Company was given free rein in the beginning to do trade as it pleased, without any fear of interference from the British Parliament. As time passed by, the British Government grew more sensitive to the importance of having an international footing on trade and thus began to influence a few decisions that would initial...
1. The Look East policy was a strategic shift on Indian foreign policy. With the change in balance of power after the down fall of her strategic ally Soviet Union, India was desperately searching for new economic and strategic support base. This coincides with rapidly growing economies of Asia-Pacific. The growing interest of India towards Asia-Pacific gave birth to Look East policy as one of the prominent Indian foreign policy initiative. It was adopted in the early 1990s by then Narasimha R...
The Overseas Chinese residing in Canada may cause heated discussions amongst individuals where views and opinions are generally split down the middle without a clear consensus. Some believe that immigration is a way to open the worldwide market towards less developed countries. By doing so, it can spread prosperity, helping individuals escape poverty, idleness, and coercion within their own countries. Others believe that the cons, which appear from immigration, usually overshadow the pros. Th...
21. For anybody to formalise a concrete strategy to counter the Naxal issue, it becomes essential to understand the threat caused by the Naxal movement in the present scenario. Having seen the history behind the escalation of conflict it is now pertinent to study its characteristic evolution over the past decade. Timeline of the Emerging Violence Fuelled By Naxalite-Maoist insurgency 22. Having started in May 1967 in Naxalbari village in North Bengal, the Naxalite movement has come a long w...
The first recorded presence of Chinese in Australia was of a few domestic servants and labourers that began to arrive in 1827 to satisfy labour shortages during the second quarter of the 19th century (Australia Censuses). The Gold Rush Migration The first group of migration in the 19th century that to Australia after white settlement were the Chinese. Many of the Chinese people came to Australia during the gold rush in the 1850s. The White Australians were unfriendly towards them and sometim...
Aceh, with the official name of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD), is a province on the extreme west of Indonesia's island of Sumatra. The province is entitled the status of special autonomy (Daerah Otonomi Khusus) together with the province of Papua in Irian Jaya. [1] In the last four decades, Aceh has been one of Indonesia's provinces that has had a large number of grievances that emerge in the form of growing separatist movements against Jakarta. The Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, ...
