At a time when debate on this critical issue is often driven by politics and based on unexamined assumptions about the ability of military action to achieve U.S. objectives, this paper seeks to provide a foundation for clear thinking about the potential use of force against Iran.
The American religious landscape is marked by significant diversity and fluidity. While Catholics and white mainline Protestants remain two of the largest religious groups in the United States, they have each experienced significant declines in membership.
Als eine Konsequenz aus der Reaktorkatastrophe am 11. März 2011 in der japanischen Anlage Fukushima Daiichi sind auf verschiedenen nationalen und internationalen Ebenen Überprüfungsprozesse in Gang gesetzt worden. Dabei wurden jeweils eigene Methoden und Bewertungsmaßstäbe zugrunde gelegt.
The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentages ever in Pew Research Center polling.
When protests against the rule of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi broke out in Libya in February 2011, the government’s security forces responded by opening fire on the protesters.
Gegenstand der Studie ist die Analyse der gegenwärtigen Beschäftigungssituation im Bereich der geringfügigen Beschäftigung („Minijobs“) sowie die Abschätzung der Wirkung verschiedener Reformoptionen, die auch Varianten zum derzeitigen Ehegattensplitting in der Einkommensteuer beinhalten.
Da sich die Kuba-Krise von 1962 im Herbst dieses Jahres zum fünfzigsten Male jährt, widmet sich der Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) in der vorliegenden Veröffentlichung dieser weltpolitischen Krisensituation und zeichnet das Meldungsbild des BND darüber skizzenhaft nach.
Mit dem Beginn des Streikes in Würzburg ist seit dem 19. März 2012 die Bewegung für die Verteidigung der Flüchtlingsrechte in eine neue Phase eingetreten. Diese Bewegung fügt ein weiteres Blatt in die Historie der Flüchtlingsbewegung. Wir, die kämpfenden und protestierenden Flüchtlinge sind von Würzburg eine 600km lange Strecke nach Berlin gelaufen.
Herr Präsident! Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen! Meine Damen und Herren!
Around one in six of the world’s population are aged between 15 and 24. These young people are disproportionately concentrated in some of the poorest countries, where their numbers are still rising. Sub-Saharan Africa alone will have over three and half times more young people in 2030 than it had in 1980.
Late in 2011, the village of Wukan, in China’s southern province of Guangdong, made international headlines. For months, villagers there had been protesting what they said was the local government’s latest attempt to secretly sell off their farmland to developers, as well as what they said was a village committee instated after unfair elections.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 is to be awarded to the European Union (EU). The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
As of 2012, nearly a third of the world’s population has used the internet, and an even greater portion possesses a mobile phone. The internet has transformed the way in which people obtain news, conduct business, communicate with one another, socialize, and interact with public officials.
In the United States, the dominant narrative about the use of drones in Pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the US safer by enabling “targeted killing” of terrorists, with minimal downsides or collateral impacts.
This narrative is false.
Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin today by telling you about an American named Chris Stevens. Chris was born in a town called Grass Valley, California, the son of a lawyer and a musician.
Die Rentenreformen von 2001 und 2004 mit dem Verzicht auf die Lebensstandardsicherung, der schrittweisen Senkung des Rentenniveaus und der gleichzeitigen Einführung der freiwilligen Riester-Rente erweisen sich als problematisch: Es droht zunehmende Altersarmut.
Thank you so much, Elaine...we are so grateful for your family's service and sacrifice...and we will always have your back.
Over the past few years as First Lady, I have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this country.
And everywhere I've gone, in the people I've met, and the stories I've heard, I have seen the very best of the American spirit.
[...] das Bundesverfassungsgericht - Zweiter Senat – [hat] [...] aufgrund der mündlichen Verhandlung vom 10. Juli 2012 durch Urteil für Recht erkannt:
For some time now, the global education and economic landscapes have been in a state of rapid transformation, spurred in significant part by two key changes. The first is the continued ascent of the knowledge economy, which has created powerful new incentives for people to build their skills through education – and for countries to help them do so.