Citizenship in the World

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Citizenship in the World
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German Citizenship

• Rights
• Property
• Freedom of speech, with footnote against denial
  of Nazi war crimes
• German Social Security System
• unemployment, health, pension, sickness, carer's
  insurance, maternity benefits, child allowances

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German Citizenship

• Duties
• Stay righteous
• Learn about the German Government and the
  European Union
• Vote

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German Citizenship

• Obligations
• Obey German laws
• Obey European Union laws
• Conscription
• Pay taxes

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Cuban Citizenship

• Communist Government
• Constitution of the Republic of Cuba
• 1992
• Openly embraces socialism, communism, Marxism,
  and Leninism

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Cuban Citizenship

• Rights
• No private property, except small farmers
• No private industry
• The state organizes, directs and controls the
  economic life of the nation
• Everyone has the right to health protection and
  care
• Citizens have freedom of speech and of the press
  in keeping with the objectives of socialist
  society. The law regulated the exercise of those
  freedoms.

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Cuban Citizenship

• Obligations
• Obey law
• The law regulates the military service which
  Cubans must do.
• Defense of the socialist homeland is the
  greatest honor and the supreme duty of every
  Cuban citizen.

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Cuban Citizenship

• Duties
• Work in a socialist society is a right and duty
  and a source of pride for every citizen.
• Every worker has the duty to faithfully carry
  tasks corresponding to him at his job.

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Contrast With U.S.

• Cuban Constitution of 1992
• Citizens have freedom of speech and of the press
  in keeping with the objectives of socialist
  society. The law regulated the exercise of those
  freedoms.
• US Constitution, Ammendment 1
• Congress shall make no law respecting an
  establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
  free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom
  of speech, or of the press or the right of the
  people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
  government for a redress of grievances.

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National Interest

• Security interests
• Economic interests
• Government philosophy
• Morals
• Religion
• Charity

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Current World Event
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US and the War on Terror

• Relationship with other countries
• Security interests
• Economic interests
• Government philosophy
• Morals
• Religion
• Charity

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Switzerland

• Founded in 1291
• Cold winters, cool summers
• Tourists, ski resorts
• Hydropower, timber, salt
• Military guns at home ( 1 in 3)
• History of neutrality
• Anonymous banking

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Jungfrau
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Pizbuin
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International Law

• Difficult to form
• Difficult to enforce
• Coordinates trade
• Solve problems and resolve disputes
• World Court
• United Nations

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International Law

• Thomas Jefferson
• Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all
  nations entangling alliances with none.

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United Nations

• save succeeding generations from the scourge of
  war
• promote fundamental human rights
• promote international law
• promote social progress

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The Scourge of War Since 1945

• 140 wars listed
• 32 wars in bold
• 44 civil wars not listed

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The Scourge of War Since 1945
1961-1974 Angolan War of Independence 1963-1974
Guinea-Bissauan War of Independence 1964-1974
Mozambican War of Independence 1961 Invasion of
Goa 1962 Sino-Indian War 1962 Indonesian
Annexation of Western New Guinea 1962-1966
Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation 1962-1975
Dhofar Rebellion 1963 Sand War 1963-1967 Shifta
War 1964-Present Colombian Armed Conflict 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 1965-1989 South
African Border War 1966-1988 Namibian War of
Independence 1966-1979 Second Chimurenga(Rhodesia
n Bush War) 1967 Chola Incident 1967 Six-Day
War (Third Arab-Israeli War) 1967-1989 Second
Malayan Emergency 1967-Present Communist
Insurgency in the Philippines 1968 Prague Spring
in Czechoslovakia
1945-1949 Indonesian National Revolution
1946-1954 First Indochina War 1947-1948
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 1947-1949 First
Arab-Israeli War 1950-1953 Korean War
1950-present (Ongoing)Chinese Invasion/
Occupation of Tibet 1952-1955 Tunisian War of
Independence 1952-1960 Mau Mau Uprising
1954-1975 Second Indochina War 1959-1975
Vietnam War 1954-1962 Algerian War of
Independence 1956-1957 Suez War (Second
Arab-Israeli War) 1956 Hungarian Uprising
1956-1959 Cuban Revolution 1957-1958 Ifni War
1958 Lebanon Crisis of 1958 1960-1965 "Congo
Crisis" 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-1991
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-1974
Portuguese Colonial War
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The Scourge of War Since 1945
1978-1979 Uganda-Tanzania War 1978-1987
Chadian-Libyan conflict 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
1979-1989 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War 1980-present (ongoing)
Internal Conflict in Peru 1981 Paquisha War
1981-1986 Ugandan Bush War 1982 Falklands War
1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon 1983 U.S.
Invasion of Grenada 1984-present (ongoing)
Kurdish insurgency in Turkey 1984-present
(ongoing) Free Papua Movement 1984 Siachin War
1985 Agacher Strip War 1987-1993 First Intifada
1988-present (ongoing) Casamance Conflict
1986-1992 Somalian Revolution 1992-1994
Operation Restore Hope 1994-2006 War between
Somali clans
1968-1970 War of Attrition 1969-Present Islamic
Insurgency in the Philippines 1969 Football War
1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict 1969-1994 The
Troubles in Northern Ireland 1971 Bangladesh
Liberation War 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
1972 Libya-Sudan conflict 1973 Yom Kippur War
(Fourth Arab-Israeli War) 1974 Turkish Invasion
of Cyprus 1975-1991 Western Sahara conflict
1975-1978 Indonesian invasion of East Timor
1975-1998 East Timorese War of Independence
1975-2006 Independence War in Cabinda 1975-1989
Cambodian-Vietnamese War 1976-1983 Argentina's
"Dirty War" 1977 Libyan-Egyptian War 1977-1978
Ogaden War 1978 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
1978-2005 The Aceh War
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The Scourge of War Since 1945
1992 War of Transnistria 1992-present (ongoing)
Conflict in the Niger Delta 1993-present
(ongoing) Ethnic conflict in Nagaland, India
1993-present (ongoing) Brazilian gang violence
1994-1996 First Chechen War 1995 Hanish Islands
Crisis 1995 1995 Iraqi Kurdistan War 1995 NATO
bombing of Republika Srpska 1995 Cenepa War
1996-1997 First Congo War 1997 Unrest in
Albania 1997 1997 Iraqi Kurdistan War 1998-2000
Ethiopia-Eritrea War 1998 U.S. bombings of
Afghanistan and Sudan 1998 U.S. bombing of Iraq
1998-2003 Second Congo War 1999-2006 Ituri
Conflict 1999 Kargil War 1999 Dagestan War
1999-present (ongoing) Second Chechen War
2006 Rise of the Islamic Courts Union 1988-1994
Nagorno-Karabakh war 1989-1991
Mauritania-Senegal Border War 1989-1990 U.S.
Invasion of Panama 1989 Romanian Revolution
1984-present (ongoing) Kashmir
conflict 2006-present War in Somalia
2007-present Islamist insurgency in Somalia
1990-1991 Gulf War 1990-1998 Tuareg Rebellion
1991-2001 Yugoslav Wars 1991 Slovenian War
1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992-1995 Bosnian War 1996-1999 Kosovo War
2000-2001 Preševo valley crisis 2001 Macedonia
conflict 1991-1992 South Ossetian War 1992-1993
War in Abkhazia 1991-1992 Ossetian-Ingush
conflict
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The Scourge of War Since 1945
2000-2006 Al-Aqsa Intifada 2000-present
(ongoing) Conflict in Laos involving the Hmong
2001 Macedonia conflict 2001 Indo-Bangladesh
Border Conflict of 2001 2001-present (ongoing)
War in Afghanistan (2001present) 2003-present
(ongoing) Balochistan conflict, Pakistan
2003-present (ongoing) Central African War
2003-present (ongoing) Darfur conflict, Sudan
2005-present (ongoing) Chad-Sudan conflict
2003-present (ongoing) Iraq War 2004-present
(ongoing) Waziristan War 2004 Haiti rebellion
2004-2007 Sa'dah conflict 2004-present
(ongoing) South Thailand insurgency 2006-2006
Lebanon War 2006-present (ongoing) War in
Somalia 2007-present Second Tuareg Rebellion
2007-present Ogaden conflict 2007
(ongoing) North Lebanon conflict 2008 Russia
invades South Ossetia, Georgia
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UN Human Rights Commission

• Successes
• Highlights human-rights abuses around the world.
• Applies pressure for reform.

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UN Human Rights Commission

• Failures
• Libya was elected to head the commission in 2003
• Sudan was elected to head the commission in 2004
• Some commission members have miserable
  human-rights records China, Cuba, Zimbabwe,
  Russia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Algeria, Syria,
  Libya, and Vietnam.

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UN Humanitarian Assistance

• Successes
• Works with other relief organizations, such as
  the Red Cross
• Provides food, water, shelter to missions
  displaced by war, famine, or natural disasters.
• World Food Program (serves 110 million people in
  80 countries)
• High Commissioner for Refugees (projects 116
  countries)

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UN Humanitarian Assistance

• Failures
• Oil-For-Food Program

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World Court

• International Court of Justice
• Primary judicial organ of the UN
• 15 judges elected to 9-year terms by the UN
• No common moral foundation among nations judges

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World Organization of theScout Movement

• World Scout Jamboree
• Promote scouting world wide
• BP "The roots of Scouting have grown among young
  people of all civilised countries and are
  developing more each day. It might be thought
  that if in years to come, a considerable
  proportion of the future citizens of each nation
  forms part of this brotherhood, they will be
  joined by a bond of personal friendship and
  mutual understanding such as has never existed
  before, which will help to find a solution to
  terrible international conflicts."

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International Committee of theRed Cross

• Impartial, neutral, and independent
• Exclusively humanitarian
• Provide assistance to victims of war

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Find US, England, Cuba, Libya, and Germany
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Passport Visa
US Passports
Visa
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