How convincing do you find Weber's analysis of the relationship between Protestantism and the rise of modern capitalism?
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
Many sociologists have raised the issue of religion and economic behavior but it is Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, published in 1904 which has had the biggest impact on the history of sociological thought. The imminent German philosopher of the beginning of the 20th...
Sample resume: Comoros mission to the United Nations
Resume - 2 pages - Political science
The United Nations Third Committee is the committee dealing with Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs, as well as Human Rights issues. The main focus of these Human Rights Issues being the Advancement of Women, the Protection of Children and the treatment of Refugees addressing a variety of...
Radical persuasion: How cults gain members
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
It is easy to hear about a thousand people killing themselves at the suggestion of one man and dismisses them as being crazy. It is natural to hear of people committing suicide to board a spaceship and write them off as being gullible sheep. When one hears about a group of people living in a...
A war for identity: Vladimir Putin's image as a product of the war in the Northern Caucuses
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
Voloyda Putin stood atop a staircase looking down at the toilet that was fixated against the bottom stair of the communal apartment. He gripped the freezing metal handrail with his left hand and shifted the large wooden stick in his right. He had spotted another one. With his eye on the target...
Language and violence: An analysis of President Bush's recent rhetoric
Case study - 7 pages - Political science
His words have influenced the way we see our roles as Americans and the way we see and respond to the violence that was perpetrated against us. To what extent are the President's speeches the persuasive rhetoric of a good leader, and to what extent are they distortions of reality? Political...
Early Capitalism and the Rise of a Protestant Work Ethic: A Love Story
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
The time is 16th-century England; our topic at hand, examining the rise of Protestant values in terms of the socio-economic struggle faced by England's bourgeoisie. There has been much debate about this topic, especially in relation to the events it spurred and the blows it dealt for the course...
Cold War essay: Why did the Cold War begin in Europe (1945-1949)?
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
Following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Vladimir Lenin caused the West to mistrust Russia: he abandoned WWI with the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, reneged on all debts of the Tsar, privatized industry, and established the Cominterm. Communism, the guiding principle of the USSR, was incompatible with...
Negritude: Genesis and terms of a cultural and political movement - publié le 21/11/2012
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
As Jean-Paul Sartre's famous quote was explaining, The concept of Negritude is based in response to a condition, a context. "The denial of the black man" is thus the expression of the conditioning that was subjecting populations of colonies, particularly in France, ie moral subjugation of...
Negritude: Genesis and terms of a cultural and political movement
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
As Jean-Paul Sartre's famous quote was explaining, The concept of Negritude is based in response to a condition, a context. "The denial of the black man" is thus the expression of the conditioning that was subjecting populations of colonies, particularly in France, ie moral subjugation of...
Should America continue sanctions on Cuba?
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
Personally, I understand the situation to be too complicated for someone in my position to have an opinion on. There is no doubt in my mind that removing sanctions with Cuba would align with America's economic and political interests. Cuba's unsteady Communist Government offers ripe conditions...
Building up a nationalistic identity, the propaganda in Japan during World War II
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
The Meiji Revolution brought to Japan, a country relatively unknown and isolated from the outside world for about 270 years, a dynamic wave of restructuration and modernization. Unwilling to suffer from the same fate as many Asian countries, who lost their territorial integrity but also their...
The invasion of Iraq: An example of liberal imperialism
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
On March 19, 2003, the United States, under the leadership of former President George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq1. For many people, this was a vital strategy in the United States' “war against terror.” The terrorist attack in New York City on the morning of September 11,...
International business and industrial politics in South Africa (1967-2008)
Case study - 15 pages - Political science
As we have previously seen in the synthesis of literature, the Republic of South Africa is the 28th richest country in the World and is the most advanced in the African continent, contributing around 40% to the total continent GDP. However, the country also known under the name of “The...
Basic concepts in global environmental politics
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Bringing a variety of perspectives to the table, there are three very influential actors involved in global environmental governance: Nation States, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Corporations. Scientists have been excluded from the category of “actor” because any of these three...
"Hiring spies": Privatization of intelligence activities
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
This quotation, which introduces Dana Priest and William M. Arkin's article in The Washington Post "A hidden world growing beyond control" - the first in a series of several articles investigating on the United States' intelligence community - seems to underline a very important and somewhat...
Rethinking democracy today
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
In this small essay, I will concentrate on the notion of democracy as a universal value according to two authors, Amartya Sen in one of his major works headed “The democracy of the others” and David Graeber in his book headed “Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire” . The...
Why does ethnic conflict often accompany decolonization?
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
The use of ethnicity concept over last decades has been linked to the multiplication of conflicts between ethnic groups in the wake of decolonization process. The existence of ethnic conflicts in many new independent states is a contemporary issue which underlines the complexity of former...
Why did Britain hand over power to China in Hong-Kong in 1997?
Case study - 7 pages - Political science
The question of the future of Hong Kong had remained an outstanding question in the relations between People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom during the second part of the 20th C. The territory became a British colony in 1898 with a lease of 99 years in the wake of the opium wars...
On what did Grotius base his conception of international law? Is he correct?
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
The idea of “international law” is highly linked to the thought of Hugo Grotius, a Dutch lawyer from the first part of the 17th century and leading thinker of the concept of “international society”. Grotius was a major theorist of the Renaissance in Europe and his reflection...
How convincing and appealing is Schumpeter's theory of democracy?
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Joseph Schumpeter is an American economist and political scientist from the first part of the 20th C, well-known for his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy written in 1942 during the Second World War. In this eminent work, Schumpeter has elaborated a New Theory of Democracy, much influenced...
How convincing and appealing is Schumpeter's theory of democracy? - publié le 10/10/2012
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Joseph Schumpeter is an American economist and political scientist from the first part of the 20th C, well-known for his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy written in 1942 during the Second World War. In this eminent work, Schumpeter has elaborated a New Theory of Democracy, much influenced...
How does Rousseau seek to reconcile freedom and authority in the Social Contract? Is his attempt successful?
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
Rousseau has been very influential for many contemporary political thinkers and his work is considered as core in the Enlightenment thinking; his famous work on the Social Contract is widely seen as one of the basis for the establishment of French state after the revolution of 1789. This work,...
Why has the US witnessed greater levels of online campaigning than the UK?
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
Obama's recent success in the 2008 US presidential election owns much to his ability and the one of his followers to use the internet as a core political tool in his campaign. Over the last years in the US online campaigning has become a key tool in one's attempt to win an election; and the trend...
Federated Arab nation - from Iraq to Morocco. Movements and schemes to forge a unified Arab state in the region
Case study - 9 pages - Political science
Studying any political, cultural or ideological tendency in the Middle East is vain if one decides to look at it at the domestic scale. Indeed, the area must rather be regarded as a regional political entity in itself. Such approach is necessary for anyone who desires to understand correctly the...
Iranian revolution - Islamic revolution and catalyst for the resurgence of political Islam throughout the Middle East.
Case study - 9 pages - Political science
With the Ottoman Empire's downfall in 1919 and the 1991 first Gulf War, the 1979 Iranian revolution is widely considered as a landmark in Middle East's history. Its impact over the political dynamics of the region, especially Islamic ones, was notable and has led some to conclude that such an...
To what extent do the characteristics of the "Comprehensive Peace Agreement" represent an efficient model of mediation for the Sudanese conflict?
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
Since its independence in 1956, Sudan has only enjoyed 15 years of peace and almost 40 of civil wars. Always opposing Khartoum, the South, the Darfur region and even Northern parts managed to oppose an armed resistance to the central power (UNMIS Website). Hence, from 1983 to 2005, Sudan was...
To what extent can Islamic terrorism be considered as One Unified Movement?
Case study - 27 pages - Political science
The collapse of the USSR in 1991 marked the end of the Cold War era and generated much optimism among scholars and thinkers. This hope was notably illustrated by Francis Fukuyama's article “The End of History” in which he proclaimed “the end point of Mankind's ideological evolution...
Keller and the Three Regimes
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
In Americas Three Regimes, Morton Keller posits a theory of realignment in United States elections that argues that American politics have been defined by periodic political revolutions that reshaped a U.S. electoral landscape every 32 to 36 years that was still remarkable for its continuity. He...
The institutionalisation of propaganda in the 21st century
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
Every year, the American Government spends 400 million dollars to produce propagandistic materials (including magazines, movies, and radio broadcasts for Voice of America), the average American viewer watches 37,822 TV commercials, and the “top ten marketing research firms have combined...
The Beijing Spring of 1989- What was the political significance of the events in Tiananmen Square from April-June 1989 and what are the present day repercussions?
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
1989 was a historical landmark, being the starting date for a wave of revolutions in the Communist block during which most of the soviet governments around the world, especially in East-Europe, were overthrown by popular protests. China has not been spared this “smokeless war” 1 : from...
