Human rights and regional order - Amitav Acharya
Text commentary - 4 pages - International relations
After the end of the Cold-War and the tolerance of human rights denial, these have become an issue in ASEAN agenda and the core of the new geopolitical framework between the West and Southeast Asia. This conflict reflects the lively debate between absolute and relative rights. If absolute and...
Women's rights in Tunisia Post-2011: Constitutional Reform and Party Politics
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
Tunisia, a small country, sixty times smaller than the United States, possesses little importance at the geostrategic level and does not have a lot of natural resources. Surprisingly, it is thanks to its women's rights policy that Tunisia can claim nowadays to be a country of capital...
The Sunshine Policy (1998-2008) on the Korean peninsula, a critical assessment questioning the dominant western paradigm
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
This article criticizes the dominant Western paradigm vis-à-vis North Korea, which is often critical towards it, while Pyongyang has sometimes been able to compromise. This paper seeks to highlight the reasons why North Korea and South Korea have not achieved reunification despite the...
The economy of tax havens - Pros and cons
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
Tax evasion and tax avoidance that are more easily achieved thanks to the internationalisation of the economy are also often considered as plagues against the creation of a fair international economic environment, preventing countries from accessing essential financial resources for their...
Governance and organized crime
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Organized crime has over the years developed into a global problem with law enforcement agencies and nongovernmental organizations taking the initiative to stop activities carried out by these organized crime groups. Nongovernmental have also intervened in reducing the involvement of society into...
Economic development since the Second World war - (Developed vs. Developing World)
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
After the Second World War, there have been significant changes in all aspects of life. The increasing concerns about the economic development caught much attention of economists. It is during this era that the European colonization ended and the world seemed to be divided into two parts whereby...
Summer 2016 review (United States and United Kingdom)
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
There was a mass shooting in Orlando that turned out to be a terrorist attack. It was an attack on gay community/LGBT community, in a nightclub by the group ISIS. The terrorist was working on his own / he was a lone wolf terrorist. He said he committed the terrorist attack on behalf to ISIS, he...
Economics assignment
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
There are many restaurants in the city providing significantly differentiated menus and are currently generating profits. Depict in a diagram showing the profit maximising equilibrium for such a typical restaurant. Will this typical restaurant maintain profits in the long-run? Depict this long...
Geopolitical implications of the Afghan conflict
Case study - 24 pages - International relations
Afghanistan was created in the late nineteenth century. At that time this area was the scene of a struggle between the Russian Empire and the British Empire. This is called the "Great Game". Today's Afghanistan was created to act as a buffer state bringing together multiple ethnicities...
Different methods of birth control and their history
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Modern birth control went through many obstacles before it was available to the public. In the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries, birth control and contraceptives were social issues that were fraught with controversy. This backlash led to legislation (e.g. Comstock Law) being...
A People's History of the United States, Chapter 24, Zinn Howard - The Clinton Presidency
Book review - 3 pages - Political science
It is no secret that most politicians make vows to the American people in order to get elected and oftentimes they will say certain things to please the public as well. It is one of the reasons politicians have a reputation as manipulators. It is this topic that Zinn starts the chapter off with...
Managerial economics - Macro assignment
Case study - 6 pages - Economy general
Describe the business cycle over 2001-2006 via the evolution of indicators like the Q-gap, inflation & growth. In 2001 and 2002, Portugal's real GDP was bigger than the potential GDP, resulting to a positive Q-gap. That meant that firms were operating above capacity, translating into growth,...
Description of Value-Based Purchasing (VBP)
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This is an initiative by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that is meant to reward or punish acute-care health centers through incentives payments depending on the care quality given to beneficiaries of Medicare. It was authorized by the Congress under the Affordable Care Act...
Global warming and climate change
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
These are terms used to describe increased earth's temperatures. Human activities and natural occurrences are said to be the major contributors to this increase. Increase in greenhouse gases for example carbon dioxide result to the temperatures increase. The U.S. have been a major contributor...
Should the United States consider increasing their use of renewable energy or not?
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
The United States (U.S) use both renewable and non-renewable energy. According to Gielen, Saygin & Wagner (2015), in 2015, United States Energy consumption were:Coal-33%, Natural Gas-33%, Nuclear-20%, Hydropower-6%, Other renewables-7%, Biomass-1.6%, Geothermal-0.4%, Solar-0.6%, Wind-4.7%,...
Globalization VS. culture: can we consider the Cultural Homogenization as a sustainable future for our society?
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
"The current era of globalization, with its unprecedented acceleration and intensification in the global flows of capital, labour, and information, is having a homogenizing influence on local culture." (UNESCO, s.d.) As previously said, our society has evolved at a tremendous speed since we...
Trump President of the United States, what should we expect?
Essay - 1 pages - Political science
In the last few months, businessman Donald Trump has made a spectacular and surprising entry in the political world after rising to the position of the Republican candidate for the 2016 election just after announcing his decision to run. Trump has promised many massive changes in almost every...
The Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and its impact on the American economy
Course material - 3 pages - Economy general
The nineteen sixties were a time of change in the world and especially in America, where Vietnam protests and demands for civil rights had taken off. In this time of change the sixties saw women in greater numbers demanding the same rights as men and one of those rights was the ability to join...
A marxist view of the 2008 banking crisis
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
In 2008, there was a major issue facing the American banking sector and the global financial world right now. A catastrophic loss of confidence stemming from a failure of the securities market has caused a number of banks to suddenly find themselves in danger of collapsing. In a sudden need of...
Death penalty: does the U.S. really need capital punishment?
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Capital punishment, which is the act of killing a criminal for a terrible crime, is a controversial subject in the United States. Over the course of history, public opinion has wavered on whether or not the death penalty should be administered. Decades ago in the 1970's, for example, public...
The Republic of Germany and the German political system after World War II
Course material - 5 pages - Political science
Our conception of the Federal Republic of Germany is very different from what it was only 15 years ago. Throughout much of its history, Germany was under the leadership of dictators and was never very comfortable with democracy. Germany's first experience with democracy occurred from...
Afghan women under the Taliban
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Living in the United States it is often easy to take for granted many of the liberties that we hold so dear and which were gotten so long ago. However, when thinking about equality, we must remember that great strides have been made to accommodate different people, but at often times people...
Cigarettes and taxation in USA
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
With a country that is plagued with many preventable illnesses and people that are leading seemingly unhealthier lifestyles by the day, it is no surprise that cigarettes contribute much of the nation's ills. Due to the damage caused by tobacco use; especially cigarettes, such as the increased...
Hidden Lessons, David Suzuki - Learning beyond the unintentional messages
Book review - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
The environment shapes humanity, yet humanity tries to shape the environment. This habit of manipulation has been passed on from generations to generations. According to "Hidden Lessons" by David Suzuki, parental involvement has led to the ignorance toward the environment. However, ignorance is...
Measuring the new prosperity, Jack Layton
Book review - 2 pages - Economy general
Prosperity always comes with a cost. If prosperity is to be questioned due to the existence of costs, there is no real prosperity. According to Jack Layton's essay, "Measuring the New Prosperity" (hereinafter referred to as "the Essay"), prosperity must consider the social costs that were...
Sustainable Development Goals - Goal 5: Empower women and girls and make things equal for them
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Ever since the society exists, the problem of equity between men and women is very present in the everyday life and very well known by all its members. Even though centuries passed, the situation is still alive and only in the past decades the difference started to be seen. Even if everybody is...
Refugee studies, humanitarian issues in International Politics
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
The concept of humanitarian protection encompasses the various activities that are aimed at achieving full respect for the rights of individuals in accordance with the letter and the spirit of the relevant law bodies. Moreover, the relevant bodies of humanitarian, human rights and refugee law...
Macro & micro economics: Disney-Pixar merger
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
A merger occurs when two or more organizations come together under common ownership. The benefits of mergers step from the concept of synergy which holds that when units are combined together greater value is achieved (Gaughan 2010, p. 132). The coming together of companies gives them the ability...
The dunning's eclectic paradigm in helping us understand why firms internationalise
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Understanding the phenomenon of multinational firms is not simple. Not only the number of variables that influence their behaviour is immense, but the firms are constantly evolving always finding new strategies. Why a firm gets multinational? In recent decades, the role of MNCs plays an...
How is social protection organized in France in the field of work?
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
For thirty years, the labor market has undergone profound transformations. The labor force has been increasing, mainly due to demographics. It is therefore important to frame at best the working conditions of all the active people who participate in the country's economy. Branch of social...
