Is Darfur Old News For International Community?

Tens of delegates gathered in Doha on last Sunday to seek financial aid to Sudan’s ravaged region, Darfur. The Strategy presented in the Conference claimed that the region needs 4.6 billion USD from international donors to realize meaningful progress on development efforts for the next 5 years. Dissappointingly, pledges made by donors remained limited to some 1 billion USD. So what does this mean for Darfur and Sudan as a whole?

Serious men in suits sit in the lobby of Ritz Carlton Doha, enjoying the luxury and hospitality of Qatari Government when a government official in his dishash polietly informs them that the meeting is about the start.

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What's Wrong With Realism?

Realism which shall be regarded as one of most influential paradigm among the IR approaches is problematic in many respects. However three shortcomings of this paradigm are particularly significant; core misconceptions on power, state and state behavior; problematic precept of realists on the nature of the international system (based on some core concepts; anarchy, balance of power, self-help and survival) and primitiveness in explaining fundamental change in international politics.

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Operation Anthropoid: The Assasination of Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the Gestapo and Kripo) and Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia and one of the architects of the Final Solution, was assassinated by the Czech resistance- with the help of the British Special Operations Executive in 1942.

The code name, Operation Anthropoid, was created by the resistance for the purpose of assassination. Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis were the two team members of the Operation. They selected SS- Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich as the target. To force the car to slow down, a sharp turn was selected as the location for the attack.

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