The hidden side of counter-terrorist measures: a threat to the civil liberties
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
While watching the movie “in the name of the father”, I was like everyone else, I assume, was deeply moved and overwhelmed by the gravity of the miscarriage of justice and police force abuses of which the protagonists were victim. However, what chocked me the most was the fact that this...
Ethnic cleansing
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Mass violence and extreme problems have characterised the 20th Century. The ethnic cleansing in Rwanda and in Sudan only marks the most extreme recent cases. Unlike some types of warfare, genocide is always a state-organized crime. More precisely, ethnic cleansing has been defined as "the...
The suburbs in France: Drugs, violence & riots
Essay - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This paper gives the reader an introduction to a real French suburb. Recently, the suburbs of France are quite in the picture of the world's media, because of the several riots in November 2005 and even now at this moment. On October the 27th it will be precisely one year ago that the hype...
The Utopian communities of the United States
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
In The Communistic Societies of America (1875), Charles Nordhoff defined communism as "a mutiny against society". How far does this definition apply to the Utopian Communities of the United States? The Utopian communities were established with the idea that the world could be started anew....
Chinese healthcare system
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
China has recently changed its healthcare system. After the Chinese Communist Party took control of China in 1949, they created a health care system for its peasant population. For 50 years, the communist government took care of the health needs of the country. It dictated what was necessary and...
The Emergence and Strengthening of Chinese Nationalism and America's Influence
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
In a domestic level, China has undergone a change from atrocity, civil strife, and revolution, to an image of unification, modernization, and achievement in the last one hundred years. This is more than what some countries have endured in more than two hundred years in other parts of the world....
East Asia's global economy and policy: a private hunting area of US?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
In 1853, the American Commodore Perry and his warships forced Japan to open its market. In 1898, the Philippines became an American colony after the Spanish fleet was destroyed in Manila Bay. In 1900, the United States advocated China in an "open door policy" and Washington formally defended...
Drugs and globalization
Dissertation - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Relations between drugs and international trade are a long story, we could think of the 19th century and the important consumption of opium in Europe, as can be seen for example in the film From Hell. Opium was obviously not produced in Europe for climatic reasons and essentially came from Asia....
Global environmental politics: A study of the world heritage convention (1972)
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention has been established in 1972. It recognizes the way in which people interact with nature, and the fundamental need to preserve the balance between the two. Thus, that convention concerns both the cultural and natural properties, but I will focus in that essay...
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...
Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and energy security, is there a role for Europe?
Essay - 13 pages - European union
After a risk in the supply of energy from Russia again this winter, strong voices claimed the necessity of a European common foreign energy security policy. However, once the crisis resolved, and the cold weather wore off, the idea was left aside, at least by the Media. The EU energy policy is a...
Does the Constitutional Treaty provide an answer to the difficulties of EU governance ?
Essay - 12 pages - European union
Before studying the outcome of the EU government, we must analyze the concrete difficulties faced by it. A few of the main aspects of the difficulties in EU governance may be realized from the Commission's White Paper (2001) and the 2004 report. According to the Commission, the main problems...
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...
How should liberal democracies faced with a threat of terrorism deal with a ticking bomb situation?
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
Since the destruction of the World Trade Centre in 2001, the United States Government is involved in a "war against terrorism". After the scandals about torture, in Abu Ghraib or in the secret American prisons in Eastern Europe, the international community, especially the Council of Europe,...
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...
Israeli Politics
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
From a European point of view, the Israeli political system considers the Fourth Republic in France the worst period. It was unable to resolve the Algerian insurrection because of the change of the government and the recent setbacks suffered in the attempts to build a viable coalition government...
Women face greater challenges than men in their attempts to climb to the top of the corporate ladder
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women m?ke up close to ? h?lf p?rt of the U.K. workforce, ?nd this proportion is likely to grow. Working women ?re ? diverse group (e.g., White women, minorities, women with children, immigrants, older workers) with widely v?rying needs, v?lues, experiences, ?nd expect?tions. However, working...
The Darfur Crisis : Why has the World not acted ?
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
"The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security". Based...
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 student revenue
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This research paper deals with the following question: What is the main difference between the inputs provided by an international student and a local one? The aim is to help both other students and myself improve financial resources and manage costs better. There are two methods of research...
"I.O.U. The debt threat and why we must defuse it", Noreena Hertz
Book review - 5 pages - International relations
NOREENA HERTZ is a British economist who teaches political economy at the University Of Utrecht, Netherlands. Her last book is I.O.U. The debt threat. In this book, she talks about Bono, the lead singer of U2 (real name Paul Hewson), who will challenge the rich world to help eradicate Third World...
The Lisbon treaty
Essay - 3 pages - European union
The 27 European leaders reached a deal on the new “Reform Treaty” during a two-day summit at Lisbon on October 18th and 19th 2007, ending more than two years of political crisis after the French and Dutch referenda. This agreement comes after a long and complex process of elaboration...
To what extent can the Thatcher-type reforms be applied in France or adapted to France?
Essay - 3 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
During the past twelve years, three of Jacques Chirac's Prime ministers -Alain Juppé, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin- decided to reform but backed out in the face of protests. The election of a new President, who claimed that he was the candidate for change, during the whole...
The growing presence of China whithin the African continent
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
Africa is one of the richest continents in terms of natural resources, oil, gold, diamonds, wood and many other forms of treasure, but the continent also gathered the title of being the poorest country in the world. It is said that the 45 poorest countries in the world are African countries. In...
Burundi: Will the heart of Africa stay poor for ever?
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
Burundi is a landlocked country with an equatorial climate on the east of Africa. The country is called "The heart of Africa" and it is located in a hilly and mountainous place, dropping to a plateau in the east. There are some plains but no maritime claims. Concerning its area, the country is...
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...
Hegemony or Survival America's quest for global dominance, Noam Chomsky
Book review - 9 pages - International relations
In this book, Noam Chomsky presents a view of American foreign policy over the ages, developing a very widespread theory that is clearly presented in the first chapter's title “Imperial Grand Strategy”. In fact, he explains how the US, especially since the beginning of the 21st century...
Balance of payments: France
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
"The balance of payments is a measure of the payments that flow between two specific countries. It is used to analyze and summarize the international economic transactions of that country during a specific time period."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_payments). It is an important...
Occidentalism, the redefinition of a concept in the discourse of international culture
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Occidentalism can exist and develop only in relation to its pre-existing coefficient, orientalism” . Indeed, there exists a dichotomy between these two concepts. It refers to the description of the World and its organization. Therefore, an analysis of the meaningful concept of...
Robert Kagan, "Of Paradise and Power, America and Europe in the New World Order" - publié le 10/01/2008
Book review - 5 pages - International relations
Robert Kagan's Of Paradise and Power was published in January 2003. The book is in fact an extension of the author's article “Power and Weakness” which appeared in the Policy Review in June 2002. In his book, Kagan presents a very interesting point of view. He shows that, whether...
