An Ideological Threat
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four examines a society plagued by war, hunger, and ever-present government surveillance. Lack of resources and the prospect of death face all citizens everyday, and yet their ruling body is in no danger of losing its power. This body, the Party, employs bizarre and...
Cosmopolitanism according to Kant, Negri, and Hardt
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
What is cosmopolitanism? The etymology of the word goes back to Ancient Greek, and is composed of the words kosmos, world, and polites, citizen. Cosmopolitanism should therefore be a theory of world politics, of a world in which a single shared political order would rule and of which every...
Calhoun, Tocqueville, and Lincoln on the tyranny of the majority
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
As the virtues and advantages of democracy were rediscovered at the end of the eighteenth century, so were its defects and drawbacks. Most authors, including Tocqueville, were faced with an empirical and theoretical vacuum in describing this new regime which began to rise in America and in France...
Rewriting the Future
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The passage of Exodus 20:5 discusses the inheritance of “the sins of the father laid upon the children,” illustrating the idea that one generation's legacy is often placed on the shoulders of its offspring. Children must learn the ways of the world, that is, become prepared to exist in...
The 2004-2007 enlargement and its impacts on the New Entrants
Essay - 17 pages - Economy general
The fifth enlargement of the European Union on May 1, 2004 has led to the accession of ten countries of Eastern Europe. It has been an ambitious decision as these countries had experienced very diverse economic, social and political developments compared to the EU-15. These enlargements directly...
The integration of Turkey in the EU
Essay - 11 pages - European union
Turkey has been an official candidate at the Helsinki summit of the European Council since December 10, 1999, in order to obtain the membership in the European Union. Negotiations began on October 3, 2005, and are expected to continue for at least several years. During the same time, the debate...
The protected designation of origin
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
The concepts of free movement of goods and competition are enshrined in European Union law. However, it is possible to seek to obtain a “protected designation of origin” (PDO) for certain goods. Once obtained the PDO does indeed protect the specified goods from elements of competition....
The completion of the WTO free trade agenda will produce both winners and losers in the EU - To what extend do you agree? - publié le 06/05/2008
Essay - 11 pages - International economy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international body, the purpose of which is to promote free trade by persuading countries to abolish import tariffs and other barriers. It has little by little become closely associated with globalisation. The WTO is the only international institution...
Foreign Direct Investments
Essay - 17 pages - Economy general
Within a few years, since the early 1990s, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) has become one of the main vectors of globalization. They represent an accelerator of economic integration and financial concentration at the world level. In this global context, enterprises have to be very competitive...
THE JUDAS CODE: A Revelation of Moral and Ethical Dilemmas in New Testament Scripture
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In The Divine Comedy, author Dante Alighieri illustrates “Inferno,” his interpretation of Hell, which is divided into nine distinct “circles,” each designated for a particular severity of sinner. Within the ninth and innermost circle resides Satan, forever trapped inside a...
Clash of the Christians: Why Rome's Religious and Social Practices Catalyzed the Christian Explosion in the First Century
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails,” once penned poet Henry David Thoreau. Such was a belief of the earliest followers of Christianity, most of whom were disrespected lower-class citizens of the Roman Empire. Christians proclaimed the existence of utopian life after death...
Saint-Malo and the birth of common european security and defense policy
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
The European defense department has a long history, and has been through many ups and downs. The Western European Union's (WEU) the first attempt at a common European alliance was superseded by NATO. The EDC (European defense Community) was another attempt at a unified European Defense which...
"Almost all nations observe almost all principles of international law and almost all their obligations almost all of the time": Discuss
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
"Almost all nations observe almost all principles of international law and almost all their obligations almost all of the time". This is the statement made by Louis Henkin, a prominent international lawyer and an influential scholar in the field of the international law, in his book entitled How...
The completion of the WTO free trade agenda will produce both winners and losers in the EU ' To what extend do you agree? - publié le 05/05/2008
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
The World Trade Organization (WTO) was set up in 1995, replacing the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) that was set up in 1947. The organization was based in Geneva and is presently located in 149 countries. It is allocated with a budget of 125 million dollars and its main...
Should Turkey join tne european union ?
Essay - 21 pages - International relations
In the 1960s, a community of nations like France, Germany, Italy, and the Benelux covered almost all economic sectors, introduced the future common market framework, and established common policies for agriculture, transports, international relations, and regional cohesion. The integrating...
The completion of the WTO free trade agenda will produce both winners and losers in the EU: To what extend do you agree?
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international body whose purpose is to promote free trade by persuading countries to abolish import tariffs and other barriers. As such, it has become closely associated with globalization. The WTO is the only international agency overseeing the rules of...
How do different Marxists understand the issues of social cohesion and consent?
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Although highly criticized, and sometimes even demonized, the Marxist thought represented one of the most serious challenges to the cultural hegemony of capitalism and parliamentary democracy. Marx and his followers attempted to understand and deconstruct this complex system of economic...
What is state terrorism? How would it be possible to differ it from authoritarian policies of states to enforce law and order?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The term state terrorism is of topical interest since the 1970s. Originally, it was used by the USSR during the Cold War era to describe the Operation Condor in South America. This strategy of massive repression of left-winged insurrectionary movements, led by the most authoritarian regimes of...
What is governmentality? Is it a useful concept?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Although the concept of governmentality was elaborated in Foucault's last years, its philosophical premises are to be found in many of his earlier publications. From 1961 (Madness and Civilization) to 1984 (The History of Sexuality) , he explored various forms of powers and constraints, in...
Deconstructing the Traditional View of Judas the Betrayer: An Exploration of the Gospel of Judas
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“My god, I'm sick. I've been used and you knew all the time. God I'll never know why you chose me.” The rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar features a torn, confused Judas Iscariot contemplating his suicide shortly after betraying Jesus Christ. These lyrics make it seem like Judas played...
Homosexuality in China
Case study - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Despite being the most populous and regulated nation in Asia, China still does not have any official statistics on the number of homosexuals in the country. However, unofficial estimates indicate that there may be 20-40 million homosexuals currently living in China. Yet until recently, there was...
Political Image and the Public Trust: A Look At Today's Media
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
These days the general population has a plethora of choices as to where they get their news from. With media outlets owned by big business conglomerates, it can be hard to decide what the truth is and what stories have been tweaked to meet the audience's interest. Rupert Murdoch's Fox News...
Citizenship & Democracy: Civil Society and the Democratization of Kosovo
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
The emergence of Kosovo as a modern nation-state is a recent development, tracing its immediate roots to the 1990s. At this time Kosovo was still a province of Serbia and under the authority of Serbia's leader, Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic went to extreme measures to put down the insurgency...
Judaism, Christianity and Anti-Semitism
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout the histories of two of the world's major religions, there has been immense effort to keep separate from one another by focusing on differences rather than similarities. In time Christianity became the oppressor of the religion that gave it life, merely because it could not or refused...
The Political Rhetoric of Same-Sex Marriage
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Same-sex marriage, the notion that two members of the same gender can be joined in a legally recognized union that is the civic basis of marriage, is a hot topic in the United States. The dispute over same-sex marriage has raged for years; the debate reached a fevered pitch after the 2004...
Regional Economic Integration and the European Union
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Regional Economic Integration is the act of cooperating countries entering into agreements with each other to remove all barriers to importing goods into their respective countries. One of the biggest walls to exporting to foreign markets has been tariffs and taxes levied against foreign nations...
Co-economic climate in Japan
Essay - 13 pages - Economy general
For this economic coursework we have chosen to speak about Japan. We think that Japan is a really interesting country to speak about because of its economy which is one of the greatest in the world nowadays. The economy experienced a major slowdown starting in the 1990s following three decades of...
International crime: Evolutions in wildlife trafficking
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
Environmental crimes are by their very nature a transnational issue. The threat of species extinction for instance is not confined to a single country. However, the protection of the environment often comes against the global development process or increased standards of living worldwide...
Genetically Modified Organism
Worksheets - 5 pages - Political science
A Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is a plant, or an animal whose genetic code has been altered, subtracted, or added in order to give it characteristics that it does not have naturally.
A Race to the Finish : A struggle for equal rights
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The United States, despite its libertarian ideals and emphasis on equality, has more than once turned its back on its own citizens. Slavery, the most bruising, shameful mark in the history of this democracy, divided the American culture even after the Civil War ended and the slaves were freed....
