WWII

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At the end of World War II the political and economical ideas that initiated leaders to unify and integrate nation-state’s was based on fear, fear of a history filled with “rivers of blood”, as Winston Churchill once proclaimed. The European unification was created as an attempt to change geopolitics within Europe. The two main plans in the creation of the European Community were the Schuman Plan (1950) and the Marshall Plan (1948-1951).
On May 9, 1950 French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed the Schuman Plan, a creation for an international organization to collectively coordinate the activity in the coal and steal industries to ensure reconciliation between France and Germany, to be known as the ECSC. The idea was designed by Jean Monnet in attempt to use prosperity as a peace keeper between the feuding countries. This represented “a first step in the federation of Europe”.
The Marshall Plan was the American influence on European integration in the 1950’s. The United States used the Marshall plan to break down trade barriers, protectionism, and imperial preferences by linking the states through an international economic regime. The U.S. insisted that Europe coordinated the request for the Marshall Plan aid, this in turn assisting the process of integration.



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#4) It has been over ten years since the fall of the Soviet Union and the birth of a Russian state. Throughout this period Russia, the largest and most populous portion of states born from the ex-global power, has been idling in what analysts termed a “transitional” period, it is this stalemate between democracy and dictatorship that has the country and the world scratching their heads wondering what form of government will withstand the transition.
Analysts and political scientists all have their own opinion of what will come of the Russian government, but each opinion can be separated into three groups: first, democracy...