The Argentina Crisis - The IMF's Guinea Pig
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
In 2001, Argentina, the former model pupil of the International Monetary fund of the nineties, declared default in all its public debt. This is one of the most harrowing economic crises in the history of Argentina. Several crisis-fighting actions like the freezing of bank accounts or the...
Ukraine-EU Relationship : Is Ukraine ready for Europe?
Essay - 9 pages - European union
Ukraine faced a hard time in its orientation in the west and also in Europe. Since its independence from the Soviet Regime in 1991, the process of democratization and establishing a market economy stalled, under the semi-authoritarian and the corrupt President Kuchma. It lasted more than a decade...
Contrast and compare the political ideology, support base and political strategy of the Pakistani Jamaat-i-Islami and the Iranian Islamic Revolution - published: 12/07/2006
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
The events of the beginning of this century has shown the resistance and the diversity of Islamism. According to Bobby S. Sayyid, Islamism is a discourse that attempts to centre Islam within the political order. Islamism can range from the assertion of a Muslim subjectivity to full-blooded...
Contrast and compare the political ideology, support base and political strategy of the Pakistani Jamaat-i-Islami and the Iranian Islamic Revolution
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
The events of this beginning of century have shown the resistance and the diversity of an Islamism, which certain had already buried. According to Bobby S. Sayyid, ‘Islamism is a discourse that attempts to centre Islam within the political order. Islamism can range from the assertion of a...
Does social constructivism really add anything new to debates about security?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
During the late 1980s, when debates between neo-realists and neo-liberals seemed to exhaust them, so-called constructivist researches made their appearance. By asserting themselves as an alternative to realism, they reinterpret its main concepts (power, national interest, sovereignty). Moreover,...
Does social constructivism really add anything new to debates about security? - published: 12/07/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
During the late 1980s, when debates between neorealists and neoliberals seemed to exhaust themselves, so-called ‘constructivist' researches made their appearance. By asserting themselves as an alternative to realism, they reinterpret its main concepts (power, national interest,...
To what extent did the colonial state openly side with metropolitan capitalist interests and missionaries lobbies against indigenous interests? - published: 12/07/2006
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Ghana was a victim of the British Empire's colonialism, from the establishment of the South as a Crown's possession in1874 until the independence of the country in 1957. Basically, colonialism can be defined as a particular form of imperialism: the 'colonial imperialism', notion...
To what extent did the colonial state openly side with metropolitan capitalist interests and missionaries lobbies against indigenous interests?
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Ghana was a victim of the British Empire's colonialism, from the establishment of the South as a Crown's possession in1874 to the independence of the country in 1957. Basically, colonialism can be defined as a particular form of imperialism: the colonial imperialism, notion mainly developed by...
To what extent can the Spanish model of citizenship be used for the European Union? Examine the rights and duties of the citizen under the Spanish Constitution as well as the conciliation of various regional aspirations and feelings. In what way is this
Essay - 6 pages - European union
According to many commentators and journalists, the European Union would be challenged by some crisis, each of them having different natures: for instance, European regions, whereas they could be a good complement for European governance, are increasingly perceived as a threat for the European...
Is e.government still more a dream than a reality ?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Information Technology, especially the Internet, has definitely opened the political scene to the public. Its influence on politics relies on a new and widened visibility, mixed to a clearly new approach of communication. Indeed, it has become a common tool. And adding to the low cost of access,...
Describe the major differences in interests and perspectives of the member states of the European Union on Iraq and the US policy
Essay - 15 pages - International relations
The Iraq conflict uncovers difficulties for the member states of the European Union to find a common position in the context of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. This essay describes the major differences in the interest and perspectives of the member governments on Iraq, and the US policy....
Should illegal immigrants be legalised in the USA?
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
While the Spanish government legalised 600,000 undocumented workers in May 2005 and the French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy is currently trying to get his bill reinforcing control over illegal immigrants passed through the French National Assembly, the United States, traditionally...
Women's political role in the United States in the 1920's
Essay - 18 pages - Political science
72 years were necessary for women to enter the political world, the greatest men's sphere. To understand why it took so many years for women to get the right to vote, it appears necessary to deal with the origins of the movement and to analyze the consequences of some important historical...
Is heterosexuality "natural"?
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The most common definition of heterosexuality is that of a sexual identity of somebody who is sexually attracted to the opposite sex. According to Richardson, “[Heterosexuality] is constructed as a coherent, natural, fixed and stable category; as universal and monolithic.” But what does...
To what extent does the concept of civil society help in the explanation or justification of the process of democratization?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Renewed interest in civil society emerged in the late 1980s; it coincided with the resurgence of political democracy throughout the world. Indeed, it has been increased with the growing tendency towards democratization in Eastern Europe, and several Latin American countries, where authoritarian...
Environmental Economics: global warming
Essay - 14 pages - Economy general
This essay is about the climate change and the direct and indirect effect on our environment, not only caused by human activities. The increased concentration of the greenhouse gases which include carbon-di-oxide and others, over the last 150 years has dramatically progressed. This fact, caused...
Politics is just show-business for ugly people
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
On October 7, 2003, the 2003 California recall resulted in Governor Gray Davis being recalled with 55.4% of the Yes vote. Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California under the second question on the ballot. On this day, a large majority of the world population discovered,...
Are forgiveness and a search for the truth a better solution to heal the minds and bodies of the victims of wars than externally imposed tribunals?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Even after a settlement is reached and a peace agreement is signed, this is by no means the end of the conflict. For a conflict to really end, healing the minds and the bodies of the victims of wars are necessary. Indeed it is the necessary first step to reconciliation to appear and people who...
Is bureaucracy uncontrollable?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
More and more people are complaining about bureaucracy. Indeed, if we take the example of the current French debate about the European Constitution, we can see that a lot of politicians are ascribed to Brussels bureaucrats; the difficulties people are facing, such as unemployment, delocalization...
The Stephen Lawrence affair
Essay - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Stephen Lawrence was born in 1974; he was the first child of Doreen and Neville who emigrated from Jamaica in the 1960s. He had one brother Stuart and one sister Georgina. By the age of seven he had already resolved to become an architect. He lived at Plumstead, south-east London, which is a...
Why has there been no reform of the UN?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
“Reform is the purposeful act of modifying the structure, composition, decision-making procedures, working methods, funding or staffing of an institution in order to enhance its efficiency and/or effectiveness in advancing its core goals and principles.” Considering this definition, and...
The EU Foreign Policy - Myth or Reality?
Dissertation - 22 pages - European union
European Union (EU) critics are a very heterogenic group. Amongst them, there are people who think that this organization has too many responsibilities. Sometimes this disapproval is summarized in only one word: ‘Brussels', the city where several institutions of the EU and especially the...
The UN reform and the definition of terrorism
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
This paper has three aims. The first is to introduce the semantic and political implications of defining terrorism within the United Nations: what would a definition of terrorism in such an international organization mean? Is it even acceptable? What would such an agreement imply? The second aim...
The gay community in the USA: from marginal to mainstream?
Essay - 20 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Today, the concern of minorities' rights is crucial in the United States of America. The rights of the homosexual community represent a wedge issue. The homosexuals, indeed, acquire more and more rights in the United States and this acquirement causes a great debate in the entire country. It...
Operation "Althea" in Bosnia and Herzegovine: the European security and Defence policy (ESDP) coming of age?
Essay - 14 pages - International relations
Can the dramatic progresses in the late years be considered as a proof that ESDP has become a 'routine politic' with run in and tested mechanisms and procedures? In other words, does 'Althea' mean that ESDP is coming of age? The objectives of this operation reveals that its aims...
Abortion and the Supreme Court
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Abortion is one of the most controversial topics of the American society. Even after Roe v Wade, a 1973 ruling of the Supreme Court permitting abortion, the debate has always been of topical interest. In this feature of The Economist published on the 4th of March 2006, a South Dakota's bill that...
Comparative analysis of the political parties and the party systems: the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia - published: 28/04/2006
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Although sharing institutions for over seventy years, and the transition pathways from communism, the two successor states of the former Czechoslovakia have faced different challenges in the state-building process and adopted distinct economic policies over the past thirteen years since Slovakia...
Are there 'just wars'?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The notion of 'just war' can be considered as a moral philosophy of the War debating the legitimacy of wars and the way wars are made. The existence of just wars thus supposes that violence can be ethical. However, it has to be underlined that even for the just wars theoreticians, war is...
The balance of power
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
It was not until the beginning of the 17th century, when the science of international law took shape at the hands of Grotius and his successors, that the theory of the balance of power was formulated as a fundamental principle of diplomacy in the realist theory. According to Cobden, the first...
The European Union and organised crime
Worksheets - 8 pages - International relations
With the French and Dutch voters recent rejection of the proposed constitutional treaty for the European Union, a treaty with a number of proposals in the field of Justice and Home Affairs, has been postponed. However, both EU leaders and the general public continue to place high expectations on...
