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New Sovereigns by Ananthu Ssajeev on Scribd THE NEW SOVEREIGNS Ananthu SS MA International Relations Every political theory professes certain kinds of leaders and leaderships. Since current political scenario is not fixed to any special kind of “isms”, no leader can be called as a pure liberalist, communist, fascist or any ist. As all the characters and actions of a leader nowadays are formulated by different areas of national interests which are coined by the “#hold on” politics. Still as per the present time let’s classify some of the promisors of the era. THE LIKE A BOSS TYPE –VLADMIR PUTIN This category enjoys the power and wants the acceptance of the people. They like the slave masters wants the people to admire them and to see them a step forward than the common man. In preaching it will be quoted that “I am one of you and see me as a fellow of yours”. In the inner conscience of the leader it will be said like, “yes it’s me and only me I am the saviour of the wor...

The entire Greek political thought revolves around the important concept of justice. This is an abstract concept and is difficult to define it in fixed terms, as it is viewed differently by different thinkers. But for Aristotle, justice is of two types, universal justice and particular justice. The former refers to obedience to laws that one should be virtuous. As far as particular justice is concerned, it is again of two types, distributive justice and remedial or corrective justice. Distributive justice implies that the state should divide or distribute goods and wealth among citizens according to the merit. Again remedial justice is divided into two, dealing with voluntary transactions (civil law) and the dealing with involuntary transaction (criminal law).   Further, Aristotle added commercial and cumulative justice to the above-mentioned types of justice. The term "just," as used by Aristotle,' has two separate meanings .In its first meaning it is principally us...

The Indian mythology has a unique concept of Ardhanareeswara (a half women and half men concept). It represents the futility of sex based variation.  Although some Hindu dharmic texts contain injunctions against homosexuality, a number of Hindu mythic stories have portrayed homosexual experience as natural and joyful. Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community is a minority in the whole world and thus being one of them is considered a sin. Having the British implemented illogical article 377 still in our penal code shows how conservative and rigid our judiciary is .Marriage is not about gender it’s about love and care the couples can share each other. If the LGBT were the majority then the so called,"being straight” people could have been already suppressed. If someone has a freedom to be straight (which won't affect others) then some also should have a freedom to be an LGBT. Right to Privacy is to be a fundamental right. The irony is that we are much more comfortable ...

In February 1998 the Maastricht Treaty (officially - The Treaty on European Union) is signed by the 12 member countries of the European Community. It includes provisions for an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). According to the treaty at 1st January 2002 the Eurozone was formed. Thus began a new era of economic cooperation and promised financial stability all over Europe. The Eurozone is an economic and Monetary Union which works for the financial Integration of Europe. The Eurozone is an off shoot of the European Union aka, the Eurozone comprises of those countries who accepted and uses Euro as their currency. The countries in the Eurozone as of 2017 are: Austria , Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. Countries like United Kingdom and Denmark do not use the euro, and are not required to be a part of the Eurozone. Sweden does not belong to the Euro...

India Brazil ppt by Ananthu Ssajeev on Scribd

"Third World" is a phrase commonly used to describe a developing nation, but actually started as term used to describe a country's allegiance. A Third World country is a country whose views are not aligned with NATO and capitalism or the Soviet Union and communism. The use of the term "Third World" started during the Cold War and was used to identify which of three categories the countries of the world aligned with. The original definition for a Third World country, which referred to a country's allegiance, was straightforward, but now that definition is archaic. Third World countries were labelled during the Cold War to reference those nations that were not aligned with either the United States or the Soviet Union. Now that the Soviet Union no longer exists, the term Third World is still used, but the definition is not as precise and is open to some interpretation.  The New Explanation of Third World Country is  Third World countries are for the mo...

THE NORTHERN DRUG ROUTE AND HIV IN CENTRAL ASIA Commentary Ananthu S S,  MA INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, University of Madras Afghanistan holds 90% of world’s opium production. The afghan opium finds its ways to Russian Federation-the largest opium consumer in the world- and Europe through northern route, which crosses the Central Asian republics and the Balkan route which includes Iran and the east European countries respectively. As per the estimates of World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2012, 190 000 people in this 5 Central Asian countries practices Injecting drug use. Among the Injecting Drug Users (IDU) 17.6% in Tajikistan, 8.48% in Uzbekistan, 3.77% in Kazakhstan and 14.62% in Kyrgyzstan are HIV positive. All though the numbers are comparatively negligible but the rate of HIV spreading is high in the region. Injecting Drug trend which is an outcome of the illicit drug trade is the major factor behind the HIV rate in Central Asia. Central Asia and East...

DRUG TRAFFICKING IN CENTRAL ASIA, ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN ROUTES ANANTHU  S S MA INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS , University of Madras Central Asia is one of the primary transit regions of the international drug trade acting as the staging area for opiate exports out of Afghanistan. This region mostly feeds the northern route through Russia and very peripherally the southern route through Iran and the Balkans. While 4 of the five countries here seem to follow a set and well known pattern in the drug trade - one country Turkmenistan seems to buck the trend. The Northern Route Tajikistan is the main hub of the northern drug route which runs from Afghanistan through Russia. The Afghan-Tajik border due to its extremely challenging topography & climate is very difficult to police and therefore easy for traffickers to access.  UNODC estimated in 2011 around 105 tons of opiates transited through Tajikistan annually. Of this only 1.64% was seized....