Posts Tagged ‘ international relations ’

How to deal with a nuclear Iran: Military action vs. deterrence

October 9, 2009
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Much of the West argue the best way to deter Iran from gaining the capability of building a nuclear weapon. The fact that Iran’s President, Mahmūd Ahmadinejâd, denies the Holocaust ever happened and wants Israel taken off the map only complicates the matter. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claims the country may already...
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Using Wikipedia as a foreign language dictionary for subject-specific vocabulary

September 10, 2009
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Using Wikipedia as a foreign language dictionary for subject-specific vocabulary

When I studied at a Brazilian university in São Paulo back in 2007, I many times found myself having to lookup very subject-specific vocabulary over the Internet. Many times I had an English word that I wanted to express in Portuguese. Other times I learned a new Portuguese word at school that I wanted...
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Gaining influence through use of foreign languages

September 10, 2009
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The study of power and influence is a core element in both international relations and political science. In my travels around the world I’ve always been able to get people to open up to me in ways that they normally wouldn’t most Americans or people who only speak English. I’ve studied several languages but...
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Why Brazil?

September 10, 2009
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I’ve recently released two of my research projects to the public. While studying international relations and Latin American studies in college, I largely concentrated much on Brazil instead of Latin America as a whole. I received a bit of ridicule about that at my university. So I ask the question: Why focus so much...
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