The function of democratic control of the European Parliament - Analysis of S. Veil's speech
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Since the origins of the building of the European Community, the idea of a direct election of the EP was present. In the Rome Treaty, the commitment to abolish the system of nominated members was settled, but no timetable was laid down. Thus, it occurred only in 1979, after the reluctance of the...
One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter/Today's terrorist is just tomorrow's state leader
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The famous example of the General De Gaulle can corroborate this claim. After his radio address in June 1940 exhorting the French people to resist Nazi occupation, he organized the Free French Forces with exiled French officers in England and led the interior resistance which used terrorism...
Discuss several aspects of the socio-economic cleavage in Israel
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
On July 5th, 1950, the Knesset unanimously passed the Law of Return which gives the Israeli citizenship to every Jews who want to immigrate to Israel. The Law of Return, criticized by some Human Right Organizations , symbolizes the legislative concretisation of the Zionist dream: the return and...
Women in contemporary Iran
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The history of women's situation in Iran is very ambiguous. As Keddie points out, "the situation of women shows all the contradictions of the revolution [?]. Despite the great limits on women's rights enforced in the first years of the revolution, several factors led to a partial...
The European neighborhood policy
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
In this essay I will deal with the European Neighborhood Policy, through a general overview of what this policy consists in. The most useful source that was used to elaborate on this subject is the website of the European Commission, which is one of the major players in the implementation of the...
Outlook for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Even though George W. Bush won the presidential elections in the year 2007, the Grand Old Party was already agitated by the 2008 Presidential nomination and the question of its probable candidates. The XXIInd Amendment prevented the President from running a third time and his Vice-President, Dick...
Riots in Los Angeles and Paris: A comparison through the perspective of different forms of government
Essay - 14 pages - Political science
A few months after the violent events that occurred in Paris suburbs, it was interesting to see how François Mitterrand, the former President of the French Republic (1981-1995) reacted to the Los Angeles civil unrest of May 1992. According to him, the riots were "above all a racial conflict and...
Fascism, communism and totalitarianism
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
“Fascism was the first mass-mobilizing development dictatorship that provided a frank, complete, and relatively coherent rationale for totalitarianism." Actually, Mussolini's doctrine of delayed industrialization was the first to openly affirm “the reality of production and the...
The integration of immigrant people
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Canada is the second multicultural country in the world after Australia. According to Statistics Canada (2001), 18.4% of the total population in Canada was born outside the country (Caidi, N., & Allard, D. 2005). Many cultures are therefore in contact under the roof of the Canadian nationality....
The Idea of Race in Cuba and Brazil from the 1880s to the 1940s
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The beginning of the twentieth century marked a time of modernization for the Latin American continent; however, only a minority of the population in Latin America benefited from social and economic aspects of this evolution. In Cuba and Brazil, the Creole mostly constituted this elite group....
Dance and National Identity in Latin America
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Dance and music represent a major part of the Latin American culture. The continent is indeed quite famous all over the world for the diverse dances it created such as tango, salsa or samba. Nowadays, events like the Carnival of Rio appeal people from very far countries in Brazil during one week....
The Cuban Revolution
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Cuba occupies an important position in the Latin American history. It is not only an exception since it achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire decades after the other Latin American nations, but also because its autonomy was highly and closely controlled by its powerful neighbor: the...
Ideal and Not Ideal Leaders
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
An ideal leader is an intellect, an analyzer, an interpreter. He will not bend to the demand of the public solely for their approval of him, nor will he drift down the path of corruption. An ideal leader has strong character, a crafty personality and an admirable demeanor. He is patient,...
Terrorism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Terrorism by definition is the systematic use of violence, terror and intimidation to achieve an end. However, this definition has translated into a horrid way of life that has inflicted pain, death and mourning to individuals all over the world. Largely influential countries such as the United...
Have we entered an age of religious extremism?
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
For many years, and especially since the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11th, public discussion has focused concern on religious extremism. Manifestation of extremism can be bigotry and intolerance, excessiveness, or transgression of defined limits by a particular group of...
The nature of present-day public administration theory
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation”. This quote from Edmond Burke can be applied not only to the state but also, to some extent, to the field of public administration. Indeed, a book such as The Public Administration Theory Primer (2003),...
The power of eminent domain in the United States of America
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Since its self-declared independence in 1776, the United States of America has always shown its will to become a grand nation. To fulfill this dream and set itself up as one of the greatest powers in a various domains on the international scale, it has gone through centuries of expansion. As a...
Fear of being black. The situation of black Haitian people in the Dominican Republic
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
I don't have personal fears but like many of you I'm deeply afraid of extreme human behaviours. I was in Haiti and several times I heard people talk about their neighbour state, the Dominican Republic. Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island, Hispaniola, but they seem to...
Politics and Power in Scotland and Wales from 1966 to 1999 ? The Devolution
Essay - 75 pages - Political science
Since 1997 and New Labour's landslide victory, there has been a flurry of legislation in the UK, eg with relation to the House of Lords, party funding and freedom of information, in an attempt to change and modernize the institutions of the country. What is known as devolution? Devolution...
China and the USSR in the 1950's: Has China been a satellite-State of the Soviet Union?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Stalin used to say: “Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron”: this quote can perfectly apply to the relations that the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union have fostered during the first years of the creation of the People's Republic of China....
Mao's reforms: A total failure? - publié le 06/12/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
“In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.” This quotation from the Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) could perfectly apply to his economic policy. When Mao came to power in October 1949, China was out of a decade of war and its economy was still very...
Compare and contrast the causes and nature of the two 1917 Russian Revolutions - publié le 05/12/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
“Every social group, every nationality, every region, every town, every village, had its own revolution”, wrote Christopher Read and indeed, 1917 proved to be for Russia a year of turmoil and change. Traditionally, however, 1917 is known as a year of two revolutions, February Revolution...
Judaism and Rechtsstaat
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The modern political philosophy, influenced by the Enlightenment and the ideal of individual liberty developed by Locke, considers that the political sphere must be independent from the religious sphere. In Israel, this separation between the State and the religion is not so clear. The...
Towards a democratisation of the Middle-East?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The Middle East has traditionally been a region where democracy has never really managed to break through. The times of the caliphs had been replaced by a more or less violent period of colonisation. When the time for decolonisation finally came, most of the states -some more or less artificially...
What's wrong with the elite theory of democracy? - publié le 27/11/2007
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The elite theory of democracy has emerged out of two major concerns of its precursors: no theory of democracy until now has given leadership the importance it ought to have, and none has really settled the issue of whether the common man is up to the task of governing a modern and large society....
The Democratic Deficit in the EU
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
For years, the European construction appeared to be legitimate through a 'permissive consensus' since no significant opposition to the integration process was to be noticed. Nevertheless, a major debate underlined a 'democratic deficit' in the 1980s, denouncing that the European...
Was there ever any realistic chance of an accommodation between the United States and the People's Republic of China in 1949/50?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
In early 1949, China was a nationalist country, ruled by Chiang Kai-shek and sustained by the United States. At the same time, the Chinese Communists were rebelling and ruling large parts of the country, and were constantly progressing. It was obvious that they were soon going to rule the...
To what extent does multiculturalism in developed liberal democracies adequately address the issue of religious diversity?
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In recent years diversity in developed liberal democracies has deeply increased. Indeed, in European countries, as in America or in Australia many migrants came to work. Whereas the first migration movements happened within Western countries (e.g. many Italians and Poles came to France to work in...
Did Thatcherism bring an end to the 'post-war consensus?'
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Since 1979 the so-called 'Thatcher experiment' or the 'Thatcherism' was at the centre of many debates, partly because Mrs Thatcher's government has broken with many features of the postwar consensus and partly because her government's record is contested (Kavanagh, 1987,...
The Welfare State in America after the Great Depression and World War II
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The U.S. government's response to the Great Depression and World War II represented a compromise between those who hoped to expand the powers of the state and American citizens' traditional distrust of the government. Evaluate the evidence for this statement. “Government, even in its best...
