The United States took military action against the Taliban due to the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 by al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden was determined to have had connections to the movement (however tenuous or extremist they may have been) and the movement itself oftentimes encouraged hostilities against Western states due to their century-long period of interference in Middle Eastern affairs.
It's the foreign policy Theodore Roosevelt used, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick"
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Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) wrote On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which was influential against the idea that punishment serves retribution. He reasoned that the purpose of imprisonment was the protection of society and the reform of criminals. Beccaria’s book is believed to have been influential in the abolition of torture and maiming as routine criminal punishments by the mid-nineteenth century.
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He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the Classical School of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice.
Occupation: Jurist, philosopher, economist, politician, and lawyer.
Treaty of Westphalia that ended the thirty years war
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"He created a strong navy, reorganized his army according to Western standards, secularized schools, administered greater control over the reactionary Orthodox Church and introduced new administrative and territorial divisions of the country."
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