Examples of state of emergency in the following topics:
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- The president of the United States, as head of the executive branch, has the authority to declare a federal state of emergency.
- A state governor or local mayor may declare a state of emergency within his or her jurisdiction.
- The president of the United States, as head of the executive branch, has the authority to declare a federal state of emergency.
- At least two constitutional rights are subject to revocation during a state of emergency:
- Explain how states of emergency apply to the Executive Branch of the U.S. government
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- The Warring States period saw technological and philosophical development and the emergence of the Qin Dynasty.
- The Rise of the Qin State and Resolution of the Warring States Period
- Though the military rivalries and alliances in the Warring States period were complex and constantly in flux, slowly over time the Qin state, under the leadership of King Zheng, emerged as the most powerful.
- Map showing the seven warring states of the Warring States period of the Zhou Dynasty, c. 260 BCE.
- Demonstrate understanding of the main characteristics of the Warring States period
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- A welfare state is a "concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well-being of its citizens.
- The United Kingdom, as a modern welfare state, started to emerge with the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906–1914 under Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith .
- Roosevelt's New Deal welfare state policies of the 1930s.
- The United Kingdom, as a modern welfare state, started to emerge with the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906–1914 under Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.
- Discuss the historical origins and principles of the welfare state as a concept of government and identify its features in the United States
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- Although
the definition, origins, and early history of nation state are disputed, nation state remains one of the central categories of the modern world.
- Anthony Smith, one of the most influential scholars of nation state and nationalism,
argued that a state is a nation state only if and when a single ethnic and cultural population inhabits the boundaries of a state, and the boundaries of that state are coextensive with the boundaries of that ethnic and cultural population.
- The concept of a nation state can be compared and contrasted with that of the multinational state, city state, empire, confederation, and other state formations with which it may overlap.
- Most commonly, the idea of a nation state was and is associated with the rise of the modern system of states, often called the "Westphalian system" in reference to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648).
- While some European nation states emerged throughout the 19th century, the end of World War I meant the end of empires on the continent.
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- The United States experienced a communication revolution in in the early 1800s, during which the penny press and the electrical telegraph emerged.
- Advances in forms of communications greatly expanded in the United States during the early 1800s.
- The penny press and the electrical telegraph were among the innovations that emerged during this communications revolution.
- In May of 1844, Morse made the first public demonstration of his telegraph, sending the famous message, "What hath God wrought?"
- Improved communication systems fostered the development of business, economics, and politics by allowing for dissemination of news at a speed previously unknown.
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- Inventions emerged in the 19th century that greatly impacted communications, transportation and commercial agriculture.
- Though the United States borrowed significantly from Europe's technological advancements during the Industrial Revolution, several great American inventions emerged at the turn of the 19th century greatly impacting manufacturing, communications, transportation, and commercial agriculture.
- Labor-saving technologies that relied on increased mechanization and automation were important features of the Industrial Revolution.
- With the proliferation of new canal routes in the 1820s and 1830s, steamboat technology was crucial to domestic freight shipments in the United States.
- Morse and Alfred Vail developed the American version of the electrical telegraph system, allowing messages to be transmitted through wires over long distances, via pulses of electric current.
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- Humanitarian intervention is a state's use of "military force against another state when the chief publicly declared aim of that military action is ending human-rights violations being perpetrated by the state against which it is directed. "
- Humanitarian aid or emergency aid is rapid assistance given to people in immediate distress to relieve suffering, during and after man-made emergencies (like wars) and natural disasters.
- Foreign assistance is a core component of the State Department's international affairs budget and is considered an essential instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
- The 2010 United States federal budget spent 37.7 billion on economic aid (of which USAID received 14.1 billion) out of the 3.55 trillion budget.
- Analyze the emergence and justification for humanitarian intervention in world politics
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- An emerging infectious disease is a disease with a rate of incidence that has increased in the past 20 years, and could increase in the near future.
- An emerging infectious disease (EID) is an infectious disease whose incidence has increased in the past 20 years, and could increase in the near future.
- Emerging infections account for at least 12% of all human pathogens.
- Of growing concern are adverse synergistic interactions between emerging diseases and other infectious and non-infectious conditions leading to the development of novel syndemics.
- WNV is now considered to be an endemic pathogen in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and in the United States, which in 2012 has experienced one of its worst epidemics.
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- Most agree that the earliest states emerged when agriculture and writing made it possible to centralize power in a durable way.
- Political sociologists continue to debate the origins of the state and the processes of state formation.
- In other words, instead of asking (like Wittfogel) where the very first states came from, Tilly asked where the types of states with which we're most familiar came from, and why they became so common.
- Yet another theory of state formation focuses on the long, slow, process of rationalization and bureaucratization that began with the invention of writing.
- Discuss the formation of states and centralization of authority in modern history
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- Italy during the 1200s was emerging from what is often described as the Dark Ages.
- In the period leading up to the 13th century, Italian city-states began to re-assert their own power and authority.
- In particular elites in many northern city-states such as Venice, Genoa and Pisa became wealthy through maritime trade.
- At the same time leaders of the city-states began to use their wealth to become patrons of the arts.
- In France, Gothic architecture emerged and was characterized by dramatic flying buttresses, lancet archways, an increased use of stain glass, and elevated heights for civic and religious buildings.