With population over a billion people, Republic India is the worlds largest Democracy. And for all obvious reasons it is a cumbersome task to govern a Country like India. India, the packet of Diversified cultures, ethnicities, languages and mindsets has always been a mysterious country when it comes to its integrity. It has been 56 … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Growing up, the commercials of starving children in Africa in need of food because of rampant starvation and the pervasive threat of death have been streaming on various media. World Hunger is one of the main problems that a large portion of the global population faces today. Hunger varies with severity but in … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp With the nations throughout the world vast becoming ethnically and culturally diverse, the perspectives at every rung of the corporate ladder have dramatically changed. The last few years have seen significant alterations in the needs, ideals and priorities of both the employees and employers. A diversified workforce once considered a social responsibility in … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Although it has been argued that the Electoral College is outdated and we should revise the system I feel it has not been abandoned for several reasons. If the United States were to abolish the Electoral College it would mean trying to elect our President strictly through a popular vote system which would … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She is currently a professor of Political Economy in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Condoleezza Rice is the first black woman to serve as the United States’ national security adviser, as well as the first black woman to serve as U.S. … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp In this essay I am going to attempt to answer the question enclosed in the title of this paper. First I will define the term conservatism; secondly I will present conservatism seen from different perspectives, such as traditional and modern conservatives. My investigation will then focus on attempting to answer the title question. … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The polarization of the economic development of developing countries is growing. One group may be the states successfully demonstrating growth. Another group may which are not. While some countries, such as China, India and Brazil, are showing rapid economic growth, there is any ‘fragile state’ which is predicted to achieve any one of … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp This paper will look at the theories of Mary Wollstonecraft toward the rights of females and equality. Wollstonecraft is considered a pioneer for both feminist thought and an advocate for equality. As such her writings are a critique on most writings of the ‘Enlightenment era’, however, this essay will take a look at … Read More
Multiparty system is a system where two or more political parties dominate voting process in almost all elections at every stage of government. This results in almost all elected offices being members of one of the two or more major political parties. In a multi party system, one party typically holds the majority of the … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp This essay aims to explore the meaning and importance of nationalism. Firstly, it will briefly outline the meanings of both the nation and nationalism and then it will give a working definition of both. Secondly, it will discuss how nations form and develop and then go onto explore some of those forms in … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The atrocities committed against individuals in events such as slavery, the two World Wars, the Holocaust, and the apartheid in South Africa caused the issue of human rights to become a major concern for all nations across the globe, particularly for the western nations. The issue of human rights, however, has its roots … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp There are different types of political identities. These identities include adscripted, free choice, group, and individual identities. Courtney Young explains group identity as universal. It is universal because people are in different types of groups, which includes groups of people with the same race, religion, and culture. With group identity, people will be … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp State refers to the rule tool of economically dominant class. Class nature is the fundamental properties. State includes three elements, namely political power, territory and the unity of people. State power is the embodiment of the country. It is a society institution with power governance and has external and internal sovereignty in a … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp In 1960s, Africa’s futures looked bright, especially that the continent was gradually disengaging from the bondage of the colonial imperialism .On the basis of Madison’s (1995) estimates of per capital gross domestic product (GDP) for a sample of countries during the first half of the century, Africa had grown considerably more rapidly than … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Different countries in the world have got their own political system in order to have their countries run and organized and most of them belong to two major systems, namely presidential and parliamentary system and with their own unique characteristics. The presidential and parliamentary systems have lots of different characteristics in their nature … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp During the 1950’s Mossadeq was the leader of the National Front. (Moaddel 1993) He was democratically elected by the Iranian people. (Moaddel 1993) Around 1953 Mossadeq nationalised the oil companies in order to benefit the country’s economy. (Moaddel 1993) The oil companies and Iranian bourgeoisie were appalled by this move. (Moaddel 1993) Therefore … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The news that people hear coming from Mexico, especially in recent times have not been very positive. The continuing violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated even more dramatically within the past few years, mainly because of the Mexican government’s constant efforts to cut off Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTO). The violence associated … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Voting back in the 1800s was limited to white men. In the late 1900s voting rights slowly began to garner attention and people started to protest. African Americans and women protested for their right to vote and eventually won the right. Now in 21st century, voting doesn’t seem that important to us anymore. … Read More
India, the word which invokes awe and mystique, is an idea of a nation that runs contrary to all established concepts of a nation-state. It neither has a common language nor a single religion. It’s mind-boggling cultural, religious, linguistic and geographic diversity is virtually impossible to fathom, so much so that India is often referred … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Economic sanctions can be and are a valuable tool for enforcing international norms and protecting our national interests. The U.S. Policy of applying economic pressure in Cuba originated soon after Fidel Castro came into power in 1959. The United States first imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba on February 3, 1962, after … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Sustainable development has been defined in many ways, but the most frequently quoted definition is from Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report:[1] “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The aim of this chapter is to bring out the elements behind Russia’s quest to maintain a sphere of influence around itself. In doing this, one should not just look at present Russian politics and recent attempts by Russia to restore its former sphere of influence. One has to look briefly into the … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp There were fundamental changes in the world of politics in 1989 and 1990 with the collapse of “evil empires” that had ruled since the end of the Second World War. The hegemony of the Soviet Union came to an end in Eastern Europe and at the same time the apartheid regime of the … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp In this essay I make an attempt to differentiate the terms political theory and ideology. I shall also attempt to clarify the meanings used by political theorists. Whilst all theories and ideologies are salient they also possess elements that are contentious or misleading and in turn no matter what political reasoning is developed … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The second half of the 1980s was marked as the fundamental change in the Soviet era. The era of reconstruction, “Perestroika” had gone into history, with the main purpose of introducing the new Soviet Union, which was the creation of the legal social state and democratisation of a new country. It is considered … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The question here is not whether Athens was a democracy but to what extent is was democratic. Let us imagine that there exists a gradient by which to measure degrees of democracy- it is not categorical. If we briefly compare what we today understand as democratic (e.g. contemporary parliamentary democracy) and its ancient … Read More
George Orwell’s 1984 is about a man Winston Smith in a country called Oceania with a government called IngSoc. Winston lives in constant fear as he is arrested and tortured by members of the Party, people participating in IngSoc. Orwell shows how IngSoc is a controlling government. Also, he discusses the dangers of a government … Read More
To understand democratization and its effect on the third world countries let us first understand the meaning of democracy. Democracy originates from two Greek words; demos which mean people and kratos which mean rule. In Greece, it meant some form of government, a government by the people. In modern world, the definition of democracy has … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp One of the introductory sources used to introduce the Life Orientation Research Task Umbrella Topic uses the idea that all human beings originated from Africa, due to anthropological DNA profiling proof, and the idea that we are all originally African. While it is all very well that Americans and Europeans etc. want to … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The unique position of government officials is that of both respect and trust. A nation will elect men and women from themselves that they respect or value their opinions. Once in office many decisions will be made that will have a profound effect on the citizens of the nation. That is why trust … Read More
The civil war like situation in Syria has been the focus of much of the worlds attention for the past year. What began as a peaceful ‘Arab spring’ revolution against an authoritarian regime has deteriorated into a brutal conflict leaving over 20,000 people dead. The recent surge in violence after the holy month of Ramadan … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Modern Political thinkers like Lasswell, Robert Dahl have defined politics in terms different relations of power, influence, and authority. According to the view of these thinkers Power is the central idea in Politics – who gets what when and how. The entire neo-liberal political activity is directed towards capturing and maintaining power. Power … Read More
The Apartheid system, characterized by racism and segregation of black people, began in 1948 when the National Party came to power. According to the Constitutional court(hereinafter CC) the Apartheid system in South Africa reflected ‘a deeply divided society characterized by strife, conflict, untold suffering and injustice which generated gross violations of human rights, the transgression … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The dichotomy of politics and administration is a model representing the idea that a division is required between the political realm and the field of public administration. As explained by Waldo (1984), there are two early public administration scholars that are credited with the dichotomy: Woodrow Wilson and Frank Goodnow. Although Wilson and … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp “Providing incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future – because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. And America must be that nation.” (Obama) This was the endorsement made by the President of the … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Political regime is emphasizes for foreign direct investment for foreign governments to either induce or promote consolidation(Toke, S.2011) regime is set of structure as a form of government or state system that make up a state which create a specific rule within a political system(wisegeek.com). A regimes is made by the country to … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The Political power in India is shared by three vertical units of governments- The Central government, the state government, and the local government. The local government includes the Panchayati Raj Institutions in the villages and the Municipal and Metropolitan Councils in the cities. These are the known as the institution of Local Self … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp A business organization is surrounded by various factors that help in the development and growth of the business. These factors constitute the environment of a business. Environment refers to all those factors or forces that can have a strong impact on the functioning of the business and its operations. A business is been … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The country of Bhutan, or also known by the Land of the Thunder Dragon is in southern Asia and it is found in the middle of China and India (Central Intelligency Agency, 2012). Their two major religions are Buddhist and Hinduism, Buddhist being their major one (Central Intelligency Agency, 2012). As of July, … Read More
Many theories on European integration have emerged after the terrible events of World War II. They tried to explain how political actors in distinct national settings will shift their loyalties, expectations and political activities in order to unify and create a stable political and economic alliance throughout the Europe. (Haas, Ernst B., 1968: The Uniting … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp For arms control to be an effective instrument of national security, its objectives “must be determined by, and be in close harmony with, the broader objectives of national security strategy” (Larsen, 2002) Traditional arms control theory was based on ” the premise that the super- powers inherently shared an area of common ground” … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was ceremonially signed by the leaders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico on December 17st, 1992. After deliberations in each country’s democratic hall of power, it officially came into effect on January 1st, 1994. Get Help With Your Essay If you need assistance with writing … Read More
Globalization is a buzz word today. The concept of globalization is one that has become widely used in debates in politics, business and the media over the past few years. A decade ago, the term GLOBALIZATION was relatively unknown but today it seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Get Help With Your … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The main idea behind human security is to provide peace and security for the citizens both with nation-state and to ensure their protection against threats from the outside. A key source of military battle that gives focus for the Western world’s insight of the risk to human security was detached when the Cold … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Shiite is a sect in the Islamic religion. It is considered to be the second major sect after the Sunni sect of Islam. Shiite is an ancient Arabic word that has the meaning of followers. Muslim Shiites are called the followers because they claim to follow “Imam Ali” who they consider the second … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Since the creation of modern state in Ethiopia, in the late 19th century, ethnic minorities have been facing major difficulties to their survival. While unknown number of minorities are believed to have already disappeared, some others considered to be the verge of disappearing [1] . Ensuring minority protection is a major political goal for the … Read More
There are many reasons behind Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Some of the most basic causes thought to be behind this invasion is: Iraq had always considered Kuwait as a natural part of Iraq which was carved out of it due to British imperialism. After signing the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, the United Kingdom split Kuwait from the Ottoman … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp On 6 April 1994, the plane of the Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda was shot down and the president was killed. A full-scale war of the government against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu civilian population of Rwanda began (//www.pcr.uu.se/database/CustomizedReport/subset.php, on Rwanda, Conflict Database from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Pakistan’s interaction with Afghanistan has been influenced and fashioned by the historical legacy of pre-1947 Afghan-British Indian relations. This legacy laid the basis for the development of an acrimonious bilateral relationship between the two states after 1947, which was complicated by the Cold War power politics. The nineteenth century geo-strategic rivalry between the … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp This research paper explorer the effects of religious belief and religious involvement of communities on political participation especially in the United States. It takes a closer look into variations among different ethnic communities in relation to political participation. This is because ethnicity is a significant factor in determining the religious affiliations of different … Read More
