Croatia+Militarization+of+Space

Allison Walters Period 0 DISC Militarization of Space 

Country Profile: (20 points, minus one point for each sub-point missing) A. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 1. Republic of Croatia 2Mediterranean and continental; predominant with hot summer and cold winters, along coast mild winters and dry summers. 3. Map
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a. 45 10 N, 15 30 E. Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic sea, between Herzegovina and Bosnia and Solvenia. b. Diverse, has flat plains, low mountains and highlands near coastline. c. 56,542sq km; Land: 56,414sq km; Water:128sq km B. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 4. Croatian Democratic Congress of Slavonia and Baranja or HDSSB, Vladimir Sisljagic; Croatian Democratic Union, Ivo Sander; Croatian Party of the Right, Anto Djapic; Croatian Peasant Party, Josip Friscic; Croatian Pensioner Party, Silvano Hrelfa; Croatian People’s Party, Radimir Cacic; Croatian Social Liberal Party, Djurdja Adlesic; Independent Democratic Serb Party, Vojislav Stanimirovic; Istrian Democratic Assembly, Ivan Jakovcic; Social Democratic Party of Croatia, Zoran Milanovic. 5. Capital: Zagreb 6. ACCT (observer) Australia Group, BIS, BSEC(observer), CE CEI,EAPC,ABRD, FAO, IIADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol,IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM(observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OIF(observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, SECI, UN, UN Security Council(temporary), UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMOGIP, UNOCI, UNOMIG, UNWTO, UPU WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC. 7. 1,081,135, but 856,946 are technically fit for military service .  C. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY 8.Croatian, Serbian, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German. Croat, Serb, Bosniak, Hugarian, Slovene, Czek, and Roma. 9. 4,491,543; -0.043%, uneven population distribution. 10. Rijeka, Pula, Omisalj, Sisak, Osijec, Vukovar, Zadar, Dinara, Sibenik, Split, Ploce, Dubrovnik, Zagreb. 11. infant mortality rate and average life expectancy Infant: 6.49 deaths/1,000 live births. Avrage life expectancy Total: 75.13 years. 12. About 15 % D. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 13.$16,900. 14. 25.82% 15. Oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, mica, clays hydropower, salt, silica 17. Export:Transport equipment, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels Imports: Machinery, transport and electrical equipment, chemicals, fuels and lubricants, foodstuffs. 18. currency (include current exchange rate)Kuna, $63.95 Billion 19. 6.61 billion. 20. April 22 was Croatia's first free election since World War II. World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/hr.html
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Space, the final fronteir. Since the dawn of time we have been curious but now space travel is a reality. Militarization of space however, goes beyond that to suggest the movement of war and military purposes to outer space. Begining in 1967 when the UN Outer Space Treaty stated the basics of the international law. Currently, many countries are on board but some continue to disagree on whether or not space can be used in such a way. The country with control of space controls the world in a sense, because they get a bird's eye view of the planet.   The United Nations is determined that Outer Space is used for peaceful purposes only and UN-SPIDER is one of the many outer space protection teams. Not many countries have goined so far, however this concern is relatively new. The UN is doing all it an to draw in countries so strengthen the movement. The United Nations Inter-Agency Meeting on Outer Space Activities has made progress to better define the laws that will govern outer space.

Croatia has not expressed any interest in outer space affairs and is neutral in the endeavors, leaning toward the peacefull side. We will support the UN in any way we can, however it may be. We are one of the more wealthy nations of the Yugoslav republics. Croatia's military power is growing as well and we have reached macroeconomic stabilization. We currently are not in any serious disputes and remain a liable neutral allie of th UN to peacekeep.

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