Summary. The aim of the study is to investigate peculiarities modern local wars and armed conflicts, their influence on structure sanitary non-return losses among population basis scientific publications analysis. It also aims define principal problems organization rendering medical aid wounded, sick injured under these conditions outline possible ways solution. Materials research methods — dom...

In this paper, a new indicator WARS (Weighted Accumulated Reconstruction Series) at classifying the state of financial market, either trending state or mean-reverting state, was presented. Originated from the computation of Entropy, this new indicator was found to be able to reflect the market behavior accurately and easily. The algorithm of generating WARS and its meaning related to Entropy we...

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– In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995, by S. Striffler. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2002. – Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas, edited by S. Striffler and M. Moberg. Durham: Duke U.P., 2003. – Banana Wars: The Anatomy of a Trade Dispute, edited by T.E. Josling and T...

A booming quantitative literature on large-scale political violence has identified important economic and political determinants of civil war. That literature has treated civil war as an aggregate category and has not considered if identity (ethnic/religious) wars have different causes than nonidentity wars. The author argues that this is an important distinction and that identity wars are due ...

«Memory wars» are an integral part of relations between Ukraine and Russia. The modern Russian-Ukrainian war is not only a for Ukrainian territory, which the Russian Federation seeks to capture, but also confrontation world, as organic Europe, so-called "Russian world", based on idea imperial revenge. author believes that real essence Ukrainian-Russian opposition world plans Russia (Muscovy) ab...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a philosophical defense for targeted killings in the wars against terror. The paper argues that if one accepts the moral legitimacy of the large-scale killing of combatants in conventional (what are soon to be called "old-fashioned") wars, one cannot object — on moral grounds — to the targeted killing of terrorists in wars against terror. If one rejects t...

As history demonstrates, the challenge of leading a multinational coalition force or military alliance is not new (Plante, 1998). In fact, it may be as old as war itself. From the time of Troy to the Crusades to the Thirty Years Wars, from the Napoleonic Wars to the alliances of World Wars I and II, and from the Korean conflict to the “war against terrorism” in Afghanistan, nations have associa...