Global structure convocation 1994 - Bolton
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
The text is the transcript of a debate which occurred in 1994, between American eminent personalities who have the legitimacy to speak about American foreign policies. The debate is about the role of the US in the Global Structure, after the end of the Cold War. As the United Nations are...
Postcolonial Europe or understanding Europe in times of the postcolonial
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
The text we have is a chapter written by Gurminder K. Bhambra, extracted from a book talking about European Studies. In this chapter, the author wants to deconstruct the idea we have of modern Europe and its history in order to reconstruct our understandings of Europe in a postcolonial context....
In 1987 the Moroccan request for membership of the European Communities (EC) was rejected on the basis that Morocco was not a European country. Where are the boundaries of Europe?
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
The Moroccan request was rejected because Morocco was not considered as a European country. This claim was based on geographical and cultural dimensions. Morocco could not be part of the political boundaries because it did not match geographical ones and because it did not share the so-called...
Social foundations of post-industrial economies - Esping Andersen
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
The text we have is a chapter extracted from a book written by Esping-Andersen. In this chapter, the author talks about different kinds of Welfare regimes and states the previous typologies he has already elaborated. He then tries to have a critical perspective on his work and interrogates about...
Was Italian Fascism a "weak" totalitarianism?
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Italian fascism, because it appeared at the same period as German national-socialism and Stalinist communism and presented some similarities with those regimes, is often categorized as a totalitarianism. However, this assertion has been refuted by many scholars, including the French political...
Authoritarianism is a form of government
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
Authoritarianism is a form of government in which concentrated and highly concentrated in a small group of politicians. A political condition of authoritarianism exists when those in power leave little or no freedom of choice to those over whom they govern, either because they believe that the...
Only by knowing the internal, domestic politics of States one can understand how they behave in International Politics
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
International relations have always been characterized by wars, peace and alliances. The question that theorists wonder is why interactions between States sometimes degenerated into conflicts which change relations between them. There are three main theories in international relations which...
Was the Dreyfus affair a victory or a defeat for the Third Republic?
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
In the late 19th century, France was affected by an affair which changed its history: the Dreyfus affair. Dreyfus was a captain in French army who was suspected of betraying military secrets. From an Alsatian Jewish background, he was accused of being a traitor and was jailed without real proof....
Explain the theoretical basis of Locke's theory of the limitations on legitimate government
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
Political science has been considerably changed by the English Revolution of the 17th century. Indeed, this revolution happened because of the contestation of the British king legitimacy by a certain number of political thinkers. First, Sir Edward Coke, jurist and member of the Parliament, stood...
The conspiracy of Cinadon: A threat to the Spartan society - publié le 21/02/2013
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
The Conspiracy of Cinadon is an attempted coup d'état which took place in Sparta in the 4th century BCE, (during the first years of Agesilaus II's reign). Led by Cinadon, it aimed to break the power of the elite of the oligarchic Spartan system. This event was reported by Xenophon in the third...
The conspiracy of Cinadon: A threat to the Spartan society
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
The Conspiracy of Cinadon is an attempted coup d'état which took place in Sparta in the 4th century BCE, (during the first years of Agesilaus II's reign). Led by Cinadon, it aimed to break the power of the elite of the oligarchic Spartan system. This event was reported by Xenophon in the third...
The suffragette movement
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
We commonly assume that the first feminist demands and protests appeared in the 19th century in Great Britain. However, this feminist spirit of rebellion already existed at that time, with for instance Olympe de Gouges who wrote La Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne in 18th...
What is the difference between "liberalization" and "democratization"?
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
In his 1997 article, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy, published in Foreign Affairs, Fareed Zakaria pointed out a phenomenon which had been growing among the newer states emerged from what Samuel Huntington named the Third Wave of Democracy (1990); newly elected powers regularly failing to...
What role does civil society play in democratization?
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
With the progressive end of the Cold War in the 1980's and the fall of the Eastern Block coincided the multiplication of the number of countries adopting a democratic form of government, an event described as the “third wave” of democratization by Samuel Huntington in his eponymous 1991...
Analyze the principal characteristics of liberalism with reference to current developments in the 'Arab spring' critically examine the view that liberalism's objectives and values are a form of western imperialism
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
The current international context is very complex. The 21st century is characterized by an entanglement of complex relations and inter-dependence between States. In the international studies, we often say that the 21st century began when the Soviet Union disappeared. Indeed, during the Cold War...
Analyze the principal characteristics of liberalism with reference to current developments in the 'Arab spring' critically examine the view that liberalism's objectives and values are a form of western imperialism - publié le 14/02/2013
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
The current international context is very complex. The 21st century is characterized by an entanglement of complex relations and inter-dependence between States. In the international studies, we often say that the 21st century began when the Soviet Union disappeared. Indeed, during the Cold War...
Ireland in the 20th century: Commentaries on a selection of pro-treat and anti-treaty handbills
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
I decided to examine four documents which are both pro and anti-treaty handbills and pamphlets, in order to understand the arguments put forward by those who supported the treaty in 1921 and those who rejected it. This Anglo-Irish treaty, signed by the British and Irish delegations in December...
Ernest Lavisse on the current situation of France (1894)
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
This document was written by Ernest Lavisse, a French historian. His work had a lot of influence in France, and he is considered being the founding father of the positivist conception of history. In this text, he provides us some interesting thoughts on two elements of the French history: the...
Was the Dreyfus affair a victory or a defeat for the Third Republic? - publié le 08/02/2013
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
On the 15 October 1894, the French Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus was arrested and accused of giving capital secret intelligence to the Germans. He was unanimously declared guilty of treason by the senior Paris court martial the 22 December 1894, and sentenced to deportation for life in the famous...
State power and world markets - Joseph M. Grieco and G. John Ikenberry - publié le 08/02/2013
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
In this text, Joseph M. Grieco and G. John Ikenberry are explaining one of the main economic theories, the comparative advantages theory of Ricardo. This theory is actually very simple. Ricardo showed that countries would gain to specify themselves in the production of one good and to use trade...
What is the concept of 'Total War' and how useful is it in understanding the conduct of the First World War?
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
The concept of total war describes a war that has implications not only on the battlefield, but for the whole society of the belligerent country. The war is not only fought on the front anymore, but also within the State. It leads to the setup of a war economy: the people are rationed for the war...
23 things they don't tell you about capitalism (Thing 9) - Ha-Joon Chang, 2010
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
In this text, Ha-Joon Chang strongly contests the idea according from which we are currently in a post-industrial age. Such statement derives from the current disappearance of the manufactory industry in the developed countries in favor of the tertiary sector and thus of a service economy. This...
Introduction to the major tools and concepts of the geopolitical approach
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
Western countries used to fix the rules, but today other countries are contesting the rules. After the end of the Cold war, the US was considered a hyper power: it was the only country able to rule the world in terms of economy, policy, culture… The US was so strong it could impose...
The new politics of the welfare state
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
The New Politics of the Welfare State gathers a selection of key texts and thinkers in order to analyse the question of welfare state transformation in our current ‘post-industrial society'. By using Esping-Andersen's division of the three ‘worlds' of welfare system, the scholars...
Europe and the far-right movements
Case study - 9 pages - Political science
On Friday, July 22, 2011, two terrorist attacks occurred in Oslo, Norway. The first one was an explosion which happened at Regjeringskvartalet, government district of the city of Oslo, killing eight people and injuring several others. The second attack occurred two hours later in a youth camp...
What can the study of EU environmental policy tell us about EU governance?
Case study - 10 pages - Political science
Although it was not at the core of the EU integration, the environmental policy is nowadays at the heart of the EU policy-making and governance. This regulatory policy relies on the statement that all human actions have an impact (positive or negative) on the environment. Recognized as useful and...
Special relationship between England and America
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
Louis XVI, who detested the English, protested " Americans feel a fatadic predilection to Britain". This quote was the first use the expression a "special relationship", that Churchill later went on to use in 1946. Indeed these two countries have shared a common language and similar cultures,...
Critically assess the significance of the principle of subsidiary within the EU's legal framework
Case study - 14 pages - Political science
Central concept in the ‘European language', the principle of subsidiarity is at the core of the European Union (EU) legal order, at the heart its politics and policies. With the principles of conferral, of proportionality, the direct effect of the supremacy of EU law, the principle of the...
The Great Scramble: European Anxiety and the Division of Africa
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
In the high Victorian era, the Great Powers of Europe were suddenly struck with what initially seemed a inexplicable fever to divide among themselves an entire continent about which they knew remarkably little. Although some of the colonies subsequently formed became very profitable, the initial...
Mass media and the war in Iraq
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
The song entitled "Boom!", by the band System of a Down (S.O.A.D), appears off their third studio album Steal This Album! Released in 2002, the album failed to meet the success of S.O.A.D's previous album Toxicity. The album was created mainly because unfinished songs were leaked onto the...
