NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND WEAPONS OS MASS DESTRUCTION.
There are five permanent members of the Security Council that have the power of veto any resolution.
1. China
2. France
3. Russia
4. United States
5. United Kingdom.
Iran has been told to stop its uranium enrichment plant, because the United States and United Kingdom are suspecting Iran of using the nuclear reactor for bad intensions.
Countries like India, Pakistan, and Israel has nuclear weapons and Iran should it as well like these three countries to protect it self for attack from any of these countries.
These three countries shared border with Iran, in order words pose as a big threat to Iran.
I am saying that Iran should have the nuclear weapon because for self defense.
The nuclear program of Iran was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States.
It was called Atom for Peace program.
This program was continued until 1979 Iranian Revolution that toppled the shah of Iran.
Iran has successfully tested there missile couple of times and that provokes the United State and United Kingdom.
On the 06 April 1998 Pakistan was successfully tested flight of the surface-to-surface Hatf-V (Ghauri) missile with a range of 1,500 kilometers (937 miles) and a payload capacity of 700 kg. This was 1979, by now who knows what Pakistan is capable of doing in terms of nuclear weapons.
The Indian Test of the Agni II IRBM was conducted 11 April 1999. Which Pakistan responded on 14 April 1999 with a test firing of its Ghauri II missile from the Jhelum region in northeast Pakistan. The vehicle reportedly struck a target in the Baluchistan desert about 1,100 km. away. These two countries shared borders with Iran, so in order words telling them that some thing is coming.
Who suppose to have nuclear weapon?
Russia have before threaten to blow the west if attack Yugoslavia.
America have used it in the second world war against Japan Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This was the impact of the nuclear weapon.
The world should abolished the idea of nuclear weapon if the are not keeping it with bad intensions
Friday 26 February 2010
Thursday 25 February 2010
killing of the Civillians in Afghanistan
kill of civillians in Afghanistan.The US military has admitted killing 33 civilians in an air strike on a village in Afghanistan in August, far more than it has previously acknowledged.Following the August 22 attack on Azizabad, in Heart province, the Afghan government claimed that 90 civilians, mainly women and children, were killed. This figure was backed by the UN.Until now the US has estimated that that no more than seven civilians died in the attack. It launched an inquiry after it emerged that film recorded on mobile phones showed rows of bodies of children and babies in a makeshift morgue.we are not there but recently Nato airtsike killed 27 civillian in afghanistan, why the civillians. President Obama promised to withdraw the American troops if he voted in, but instead of that he sent 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.if another country or third world country did that, the Britain and America will be the first to condem it or even give sanctions to that country.i think this is human right abuse and breach of trust and confident on the Nato troops.
Where lies Falklands Sovereignity?
Argentina and the UK went to war over the islands in 1982 and now with the discovery of oil in the islands the conflict have resurrected again. The Argentine government has ruled out any military action over the island by trying to use diplomatic means to pressure the UK government into negotiations. I think some things will be different this time around. For one thing, no-one expects another bloody war. However, there's a lot more to this new oil, with Latin American countries solidarity this time, the UK government might find themselves facing the contempt of a whole continent rather than just one nation. Is diplomacy going to be use this time or not and who really owns the Falklands?
Tuesday 23 February 2010
International order has seen constant changes through the time of history. There are several factors that contributed to those changes. Together with those changes the evolution of diplomacy took place. The most significant one was the technological innovations which led to faster communication. What in its own term led to transparency and multilateral relations. The other important change is the performance of diplomacy. If before it was only the educated elite and the nobility, people of high classes of societies like in the times of Renaissance and French diplomacy today there is a notion of public diplomacy involving more International organisations and non-governmental organisations.
The world becoming more and more interdependent and it does not involve only the trading issues as it was during the times of colonisation. Hence that broadens the spectrum of diplomacy from purely state interest to tackling the issues as the global pollution, global war on terror , spread of diseases and etc. There are issues that need to be tackled and where states fail to reach as a sovereign but the international organisations has the ability to do so as for instance humanitarian organisations like Medicines Sans Fronteriers (Doctors without borders ), IMF and World Bank.
The involvement of those actors in international relations transforms the nature of old exclusive and secretive diplomacy as in the times of the Cold War to a more open and inclusive as during the United Nations summits' today. However it does not mean that the features of old diplomacy are not any more in practice. Public diplomacy has become a new feature as a consequence of industrial and developed societies.
The world becoming more and more interdependent and it does not involve only the trading issues as it was during the times of colonisation. Hence that broadens the spectrum of diplomacy from purely state interest to tackling the issues as the global pollution, global war on terror , spread of diseases and etc. There are issues that need to be tackled and where states fail to reach as a sovereign but the international organisations has the ability to do so as for instance humanitarian organisations like Medicines Sans Fronteriers (Doctors without borders ), IMF and World Bank.
The involvement of those actors in international relations transforms the nature of old exclusive and secretive diplomacy as in the times of the Cold War to a more open and inclusive as during the United Nations summits' today. However it does not mean that the features of old diplomacy are not any more in practice. Public diplomacy has become a new feature as a consequence of industrial and developed societies.
Internet changes everything
What I consider to be the most significant change in the nature of diplomacy is the use of modern technology such as the Internet. The heavily increased use of the internet in politics has caused the speed of communication between two parties to heavily increase, this has the knock on effect meaning although politicians can now communicate themselves more quickly it also means negative information can be released and spread about them at a faster rate meaning they have to spend a lot more time on their image using more media outlets including the internet.
e.g. www.number10.gov.uk uses facebook, twitter and youtube to communicate with people .
The official Barack Obama website www.barackobama.com has 16 different outlets of information including facebook, blackplanet, myspace, youtube, flickr, twitter to name 6 of them This new way of using diplomacy aims to commiunicate with vast amounts of people cheaply and quickly meaning that should a problem occur such as footage of american soldiers abusing afghan prisoners being released to the worlds press. American leaders can cool the situation far quicker than ever before. The internet also means political negotians can be more efficient as it is clearer to find out how many people believe a certain situation is right and how many believe it is wrong through tghe use of Polls, blogs etc, check http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm
THE EVOLUTION OF DIPLOMACY.
The manner of Diplomacy has meaningfully over the past eighty years.
Coming before to World War II, diplomacy was importantly to government relationship.
Since the Second World War, the international diplomacy it became larger than
before and the foreign peoples connection became broadened to include the
governments, now it called public diplomacy.
The word diplomacy has originally came from Greek and was later used by the
French to refer to the work of a negotiator on behalf of a sovereign. There was a
long history of diplomacy activity going back at two centuries. Sovereigns sent
envoys or political delegations to other sovereigns for different reasons: to prevent
War, to ease hostilities, or only to continue peaceful relations and further economic
exchanges. We remembered the first foreign ministries was created in Paris (France)
by Cardinal Richelieu in 1626. Other European Countries followed the French system.
In now days, the government are gave way to constitutional sovereigns and republics,
Embassies and legations became institutionalized all over Europe, as well as, the end
of the nineteenth century the new European-style diplomacy had been adopted through-
out the World.
The changing nature of diplomacy is concerned with the management of relations
between states and between states and other actors. The diplomacy is concerned
with advising, shaping, and implementing foreign policy. As like it is means by which
states through their formal and other representative, in addition with other actors,
articulate, co-ordinate and secure particular or wider interests, using correspondence,
private talks, exchanges of view , lobbing, visits, threats, media and other related
activities.
The development of diplomacy took as a follow such as ‘oil diplomacy, resources
diplomacy, knowledge diplomacy, global governance and transition diplomacy, we can
say that the international organization mostly takes the development of international
diplomacy as a lion shares, such like UN, IMF, NGO’s and so.on.
Coming before to World War II, diplomacy was importantly to government relationship.
Since the Second World War, the international diplomacy it became larger than
before and the foreign peoples connection became broadened to include the
governments, now it called public diplomacy.
The word diplomacy has originally came from Greek and was later used by the
French to refer to the work of a negotiator on behalf of a sovereign. There was a
long history of diplomacy activity going back at two centuries. Sovereigns sent
envoys or political delegations to other sovereigns for different reasons: to prevent
War, to ease hostilities, or only to continue peaceful relations and further economic
exchanges. We remembered the first foreign ministries was created in Paris (France)
by Cardinal Richelieu in 1626. Other European Countries followed the French system.
In now days, the government are gave way to constitutional sovereigns and republics,
Embassies and legations became institutionalized all over Europe, as well as, the end
of the nineteenth century the new European-style diplomacy had been adopted through-
out the World.
The changing nature of diplomacy is concerned with the management of relations
between states and between states and other actors. The diplomacy is concerned
with advising, shaping, and implementing foreign policy. As like it is means by which
states through their formal and other representative, in addition with other actors,
articulate, co-ordinate and secure particular or wider interests, using correspondence,
private talks, exchanges of view , lobbing, visits, threats, media and other related
activities.
The development of diplomacy took as a follow such as ‘oil diplomacy, resources
diplomacy, knowledge diplomacy, global governance and transition diplomacy, we can
say that the international organization mostly takes the development of international
diplomacy as a lion shares, such like UN, IMF, NGO’s and so.on.
Monday 22 February 2010
DIPLOMACY: YESTERDAY AND TODAY
Hello everyone!
This is my first time blogging and I find it less stressful than talking in a seminar discussions since I prefer to write not talk. As English is not my first language, I sometimes do not prefer to talk because I get scared to make an error or say something that is not well articulated or irrelevant but in this blog I feel like free, that I can say whatever I think, so please feel free to comment, agree/disagree with me at any time as we are all here to learn!!! So let‘s begin!!!!
To start with, I would say that diplomacy is all about charisma, communication, approach and negotiation between two or more people or state. The diplomacy that was one based on secrecy and the use of power to obtain something has now revolutionized its nature by being more open and create more interaction between two or more state. Even though, diplomacy has today changed in several aspects, it is considerable to mention that they do share the same traditional base with distinct process. Thus changed started to take place at the end of the World War 2, most notably when the soviet bloc’s collapse.
Many changes occurred starting with the emergence of nongovernmental organization, the creation of the United Nations, the World trade Organization, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or even some organization that have recently emerged such as the Organization of African Unity, the International Organization of the Arab league or the Global Group of the 77. However, when I looked at the roots of diplomacy, two significant changes that I found remarkable are Globalization and the way developing countries have integrated themselves in diplomacy.
When we talk about the significant change in the nature of diplomacy, one of the development that touch me most is Globalization in a sense that things have speed up in a incredible way from the immense growing amount of nongovernmental actors and internet to the speed integration of the developing countries into the process. I would like to looked at these changes closely especially in the developing countries sectors for the reason that the number of countries representatives in each countries (embassies) have dramatically increased. Yes it existed before, where most of the countries of the world were representing their country abroad but not at a point that even the poorest country of (let me say) Africa is representing its country. Also the fact that these countries now have an amicable relationship with each other, the fact that they have learn how to negotiate in the best interest of their countries by engaging themselves into a contract such as an aid plan or a contract that would help build road in the developing countries in question for example is one important change even though there must be a beneficiary interest but the initiative in the first place is important.
Globalization also plays an important role in diplomacy due to the rapid spread of information and communication between diplomats; they no longer need to send a messenger that need to walk miles just to transmit a message like they used to do in the ancient time. Now days, we have all means of communication such as the internet/ telephone which help diplomats to save time and at the same time resolve many things at one time. Globalization have created a new world where now days diplomats compared to the old fashion, have knowledge of what they are doing and the way they should behave without the means of force. In short they have now access to all the skills needed to conduct their job in a civilized manner. The new diplomacy is more open today than it was before which makes the media a very important part of diplomacy as they are now obliged to conduct themselves and be more charismatic.
The UN as I mentioned earlier is one of the important change in a sense that it is an agency that plays different role such as promoting human rights in a sense that most diplomats now representing their countries have increased the way they look after their citizen that live in the country they are representing, they communicate more with the citizens, assist them when they have problems and even organise parties where each can meet, eat, dance and have a laugh. I mention this because I find it important in a sense where a student for example come to study abroad where he/she doesn’t know anyone, he/she can be integrated in the new life through their embassies, this because the UN is playing an important role by promoting human rights.
As I have mentioned the significant changes in the nature of diplomacy, I would like to invite anyone who is interested, agree or disagree with me and tell me what they think as mentioned above.
Thank you
This is my first time blogging and I find it less stressful than talking in a seminar discussions since I prefer to write not talk. As English is not my first language, I sometimes do not prefer to talk because I get scared to make an error or say something that is not well articulated or irrelevant but in this blog I feel like free, that I can say whatever I think, so please feel free to comment, agree/disagree with me at any time as we are all here to learn!!! So let‘s begin!!!!
To start with, I would say that diplomacy is all about charisma, communication, approach and negotiation between two or more people or state. The diplomacy that was one based on secrecy and the use of power to obtain something has now revolutionized its nature by being more open and create more interaction between two or more state. Even though, diplomacy has today changed in several aspects, it is considerable to mention that they do share the same traditional base with distinct process. Thus changed started to take place at the end of the World War 2, most notably when the soviet bloc’s collapse.
Many changes occurred starting with the emergence of nongovernmental organization, the creation of the United Nations, the World trade Organization, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or even some organization that have recently emerged such as the Organization of African Unity, the International Organization of the Arab league or the Global Group of the 77. However, when I looked at the roots of diplomacy, two significant changes that I found remarkable are Globalization and the way developing countries have integrated themselves in diplomacy.
When we talk about the significant change in the nature of diplomacy, one of the development that touch me most is Globalization in a sense that things have speed up in a incredible way from the immense growing amount of nongovernmental actors and internet to the speed integration of the developing countries into the process. I would like to looked at these changes closely especially in the developing countries sectors for the reason that the number of countries representatives in each countries (embassies) have dramatically increased. Yes it existed before, where most of the countries of the world were representing their country abroad but not at a point that even the poorest country of (let me say) Africa is representing its country. Also the fact that these countries now have an amicable relationship with each other, the fact that they have learn how to negotiate in the best interest of their countries by engaging themselves into a contract such as an aid plan or a contract that would help build road in the developing countries in question for example is one important change even though there must be a beneficiary interest but the initiative in the first place is important.
Globalization also plays an important role in diplomacy due to the rapid spread of information and communication between diplomats; they no longer need to send a messenger that need to walk miles just to transmit a message like they used to do in the ancient time. Now days, we have all means of communication such as the internet/ telephone which help diplomats to save time and at the same time resolve many things at one time. Globalization have created a new world where now days diplomats compared to the old fashion, have knowledge of what they are doing and the way they should behave without the means of force. In short they have now access to all the skills needed to conduct their job in a civilized manner. The new diplomacy is more open today than it was before which makes the media a very important part of diplomacy as they are now obliged to conduct themselves and be more charismatic.
The UN as I mentioned earlier is one of the important change in a sense that it is an agency that plays different role such as promoting human rights in a sense that most diplomats now representing their countries have increased the way they look after their citizen that live in the country they are representing, they communicate more with the citizens, assist them when they have problems and even organise parties where each can meet, eat, dance and have a laugh. I mention this because I find it important in a sense where a student for example come to study abroad where he/she doesn’t know anyone, he/she can be integrated in the new life through their embassies, this because the UN is playing an important role by promoting human rights.
As I have mentioned the significant changes in the nature of diplomacy, I would like to invite anyone who is interested, agree or disagree with me and tell me what they think as mentioned above.
Thank you
Diplomacy and Passage of Time
In international affairs diplomacy has adapted to so many significant changes with the passage of time. Diplomacy allows a country to advance their interest in the global international presence. Since the beginning of international diplomacy, its main aims have always been to foster friendship and peace in the international scene.
· The old diplomacy of wars, ‘secrecy and high politics ' have given way to more transparent and open diplomacy whereby countries use communication and negotiation to resolve any difference.
· Now many countries seek assertive role from the past bullying and interference tactics they were constantly subjected to by the world great powers, for example USA, Britain, France etc. Although countries have been independent in their diplomatic decision making, the emergence of non government organisations also influence the negotiation and decision making of countries.
· In the past diplomacy was regarded as a job for men to intervene and promote their countries. Today there are many women in the foreign affairs of their respective countries.
· Recent advancement in multimedia technology especially internet, radio and satellite television have all helped in the projecting either a positive or negative image of ones country, for example Voice of America, CNN, BBC, Russia TV, Aljazeera News.
Below is a link to BBC4 on how diplomacy has changed over the years in Britian
· The old diplomacy of wars, ‘secrecy and high politics ' have given way to more transparent and open diplomacy whereby countries use communication and negotiation to resolve any difference.
· Now many countries seek assertive role from the past bullying and interference tactics they were constantly subjected to by the world great powers, for example USA, Britain, France etc. Although countries have been independent in their diplomatic decision making, the emergence of non government organisations also influence the negotiation and decision making of countries.
· In the past diplomacy was regarded as a job for men to intervene and promote their countries. Today there are many women in the foreign affairs of their respective countries.
· Recent advancement in multimedia technology especially internet, radio and satellite television have all helped in the projecting either a positive or negative image of ones country, for example Voice of America, CNN, BBC, Russia TV, Aljazeera News.
Below is a link to BBC4 on how diplomacy has changed over the years in Britian
Thursday 18 February 2010
killing of Hamas leader Mahmoud
I am surprise at the way the UK foreign office is treating those who masterminded this evil act after using fake British passports to commit this murder. I think the will have been serious diplomatic tensions between Uk and Israel . The Israeli High commissioner spend only 15 minutes at foreign office on thursday 18/02. Is the British government serious about this case or what?
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