Côte d'Ivoire and the ONUCI
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Located in the western part of Africa, notably surrounded by Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire constitutes an isolated case in the African History of the twentieth century. Indeed, considered as a model of African success from its decolonisation in 1960 until the...
Effects of the end of quotas for textiles on the French industry
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
On the 11th of December 2001, China embarked into a new journey in its history by becoming an official member of the World Trade Organization. This was the first step towards free trade however, it was not the last. China's sharp economic growth and the end of quotas in January 2005 predicted...
Reading note on Kant's perpetual peace
Book review - 6 pages - Political science
Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg, Prussia in 1724. He studied philosophy, mathematics and physics at the University of Königsberg, and became a renowned teacher and scholar thanks to his works on reason, knowledge and judgment. Indeed, he intended to explain rationalism, and therefore...
Conservative welfare states and the challenge of universal citizenship
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
When the newly unified Germany implemented in 1883 the first health insurance system, it paved the way for further moves towards extensive provision of public welfare for workers, but it also introduced a substantive change concerning the relationship between the state and the citizens. Basically...
The democratic deficit and the role of the EU Parliament
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Since the beginning of the 90's and the end of the “permissive consensus”, the democratic deficit of the European Union has increasingly become high on the agenda of scholars and decision-makers. Defined as “the growing dissonance between the essential requirements of modern...
Europeanization of politics and society: Domestic change and the question of a European Social Model
Essay - 6 pages - European union
Europeanization is an elusive concept because of the variety of meanings it refers to. Scholars such as Featherstone (2003, 6-12) often distinguish several usages according to various outcomes of European change, for instance the emergence of new forms of governance or the process of national...
The prospects and limitations of a global governance of finance
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
In our modern societies, market mechanisms shape the modes of production and distribution of goods and services, particularly more and more through the financial sphere, “that part of an economy that links savings with investments through different instruments denominated in monetary...
The characteristics of traditional French social movements
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The events of May-June 1968 in France broke out in the wake of an international wave of protest that occurred previously in many countries such as the United States, Germany and Italy (Duyvendak 1992, 137-138). The events of 1870, 1919 and 1936 provide also many examples of disruptive and short...
The car industry: A move to concentration
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
The motor industry is over 100 years old and has an interesting history and uncertain future. It provides an interesting example of an industry that had to quickly evaluate due to constant evolution of technologies employed. This evolution was so money-demanding that it caused a typical movement...
The tobacco industry
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
The origin of tobacco is quite old, and it became an industry when European discovered it. But the future of this particular industry is uncertain. Tobacco is not really an innocent product, since it has been proved to be addicting and to favour diseases such as cancer. Consequently, tobacco...
Atheism
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Atheism is a very unique non- belief system that rejects the existence of any deities or any other religious beliefs. As a result, atheists are commonly thought to be irreligious, and even some other religions such as Buddhism have been thought to be atheistic in nature because of their lack if...
Out of Africa vs. Multiregional
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
One of the biggest debates today in paleoanthropology concerns the origins of modern humans. Before humans evolved into modern form, Homo sapiens populated Africa and the Middle East, Homo erectus lived in Asia, and Neandertals populated Europe. As time went on, this diversity came to an end...
The Growth-damaging Channels of Corruption in the Developing World
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
If the word corruption needs to be defined with the hope that its meaning would gain common acceptance, then one must consider the words coined by Tanzi in 1998. The words read as ?the abuse of power for private benefit.' The point to be considered is that corruption still remains a concept...
Alternatives to fiscal competition in European Monetary Union (EMU): what stabilization mechanisms for the Eurozone?
Essay - 11 pages - European union
The picture presented about the European integration is that of a hybrid creation. In the words of Wolfgang Wessels (1997), ?it is a messy and ambiguous division of labour between national and EU levels.' The Economic and Monetary Union which is the most accomplished framework of European...
Alterglobalisation: "Another world is possible?"
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
In the mid-eighties there were huge criticisms caused by the liberal policy carried out both by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. There were, especially in the United Kingdom, a lot of strikes and manifestations against the neo-liberalism. However, Margaret Thatcher, answering to an interview...
Farmland Abandonment and the Farmland Market: Lessons from Japan
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
A major concern in Japan is the farmland market which is inefficient and which is reaching a state of illiquidity. If one could go by a hypothesis the reason for this inefficiency could be related to the remarkable increase in area of abandoned farmland. In this paper, a model which is commonly...
Decentralization as a constraint to Leviathan: a panel cointegration analysis
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
Basing fiscal federalism on the government is indeed a study to be reconsidered. This paper reflects on the effects of fiscal federalism. The Leviathan hypothesis (twisted speculation), suggests a negative relationship between fiscal decentralization and government growth. This relationship has...
Elites in the United States
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
One of the arguments that have been laid down to explain the defeat of John F. Kerry on the US-Presidential elections in 2004 was his elitist side. Being a White Anglo-Saxon from the North-East, Kerry really corresponded to the image of a politician who would run the country in a technocratic...
The paradox of American democracy (Chap. 1), by John B. Judis - publié le 10/09/2007
Book review - 3 pages - Political science
John B. Judis is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he is working since 1982. He graduated at the University of California at Berkeley in 1965 and taught philosophy there later on. He was an active leftist activist during the 60es and founded the leftwing journal The Socialist Revolution...
Democracy for the few (chap. 15), Michael Parenti
Book review - 4 pages - Political science
Michael Parenti is a professor of political science at several American universities. He has a PhD in political science from Yale University. He is known for being a progressive activist and a provocative thinker. As such, he wrote numerous books that focused on the American nation, the role of...
Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed"
Book review - 5 pages - Economy general
As a response to both Bill Clinton's introduction of the “Welfare Reform” putting an end to what he called “Welfare as we know it” and to the journalistic tendency of writing articles on the people far from the ground, Barbara Ehrenreich - of course a bit forced by her editor...
Thomas Frank's "What's the matter with Kansas?"
Book review - 5 pages - Political science
Introduction Thomas Frank has been deeply astonished and revolted with the myth of the “two-nation” America which has been cultivated by various opinion makers - especially popular journalists. This observation motivated him to look for this true America that so many op-eds and public...
Free Trade Agreements and Equity Market Integration: A Case of U.S. and Jordan
Essay - 13 pages - Economy general
Considering the degree of openness in trade and investment, it is a well accepted fact that the international financial markets have increased their mutual dependency on each other. When laying out plans and taking decisions, traders are cautious. Therefore, traders incorporate information...
"Britain for and against Europe", by David Baker & David Seawright
Book review - 5 pages - International relations
This study, by a group of important political thinkers, provides an analysis of the often problematic relationship between Britain and the European Union. The book opens with a general review of the history of this relationship since 1950. This is followed by ten chapters by other researchers,...
Analyzing the capital budgeting and real options in different countries
Essay - 14 pages - Economy general
Our case study will focus on the comparison between the Capital Budgeting techniques that is being employed across different countries. We also aim to explore the differences (if they are prevalent) in the existence of the so-called theory-practice gap of capital budgeting. In order to conduct a...
Stock market return and time-varying volatility in an emerging market: evidence from sub-saharan Africa (ssa)
Essay - 13 pages - Economy general
This paper offers a comprehensive view of four time properties that emerge from the empirical time series literature on asset returns. It examines: (1) the predictability of returns from past observations; (2) the auto-regressive behavior of conditional volatility; (3) the asymmetric response of...
Tensions over foreign direct investment (readings summary)
Book review - 2 pages - Economy general
Foreign Direct Investment or FDI appears as a complex mechanism in which numerous and evolving issues are at stake. The first source of complexity lies in the numerous interests that may be pursued by the different actors involved. As the authors underline, the convergence of these interests is...
How does trade globalization affect women working conditions in South America?
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
The international trade agreements have important impact on people living in poverty. But these impacts operate at different levels. In some cases, trade can stimulate the development of these countries, help the economic growth, help employment, give access to local population to variated goods...
The Relationship between Corruption and Economic Development
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Through the quantitative comparison of corruption and economic development, it can be found that GDP per Capita is partially dependent on the amount of corruption within the governing body of a given nation. The independent variable (x) is the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) as made available...
What kind of leader is Condoleezza Rice?
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Political science
Dr. Condoleezza Rice was sworn in as Secretary of State on January 25, 2005. She is a clear example of a leader, which possesses certain traits that have led her to where she is today. In order to evaluate her as a leader, it is necessary to look at different aspects of her leadership. It is...
