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Sept. `07

Navy Expanding Fleet:New Enemies in Mind

• Reversing years of decline in naval shipbuilding, from 2005 to 2020, Navy wants to increase the 281-ship fleet by 32 vessels– Cost $13 billion per year– Focus on destroyers and cruisers– Less emphasis on submarines

Boxer Rebellion

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Nobel Peace Prize

• According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who– “ ...shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity

between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”

• The awards given to Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Mother Teresa, and Barack Obama have been much-debated

• Foreign Policy magazine lists Mohandas Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vaclav Havel, Pope John Paul II and Corazon Aquino as people who "never won the prize, but should have”

Nobel Peace Prize

• 3 sitting U.S. presidents won: TR, WW, Obama (Carter received for post-presidency work in ‘02)

• TR in 1906: for negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War

• WW in 1919: for pushing for a League on Nations as part of Treaty of Versailles

• Carter in 2002: for decades of untiring efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights

• Obama in 2009: for extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between nations– 3rd A-A: Ralph Bunche for Middle East peace efforts in 1950, MLK,

Jr., in 1964

Taft and Wilson

• Taft– Dollar Diplomacy

• Wilson– Missionary Diplomacy

U.S. Navy Fleets

Dunkin Donuts in Moscowhttp://dunkindonutsmoscow.ru/gallery/2