Che Guevara: the end of a modern myth?
Text analysis - 1 pages - Political science
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's fortieth death anniversary was celebrated in October in various ways around the planet. This mythic twentieth century revolutionary figure is increasingly criticized, as the Cuban regime which protected its memory is weakening. Most newspapers notice this evolution but...
Efficiency and efficacy of Tricare
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The US Department of Defense's health care program is perhaps one of the most complex in the country. With 91 hospitals and 374 clinics facilities spread over the entire country and overseas for the uniformed service individuals in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guards, Marine Corps, Public...
The history of Modern China since the 1890's and the question of the nature of Hong Kong's society in the 1960's
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Whether the history of Modern China since the 1890's is a history of the radicalization process is difficult to say. The obvious question is radicalization of what? Does this so-called radicalization have to be understood in terms of ideological values, involvement of the state in the...
The trial of the leaders of General Pinochet's dictatorship: more for memory than for justice?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
From 19 May 2008 onwards, the assizes of Paris were supposed to try in absentia fifteen leaders of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, for illegal detention and torture of four French or Franco-Chilean nationals between 1973 and 1975. However, on 6 May the next year, the trial was...
Politics essay: Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, known as the "Pacifist Constitution"
Text analysis - 4 pages - Political science
The 9th Article was added to the Constitution of Japan, known as the "Pacifist Constitution" (Heiwa-Kenp during) during the occupation following World War II. It has been written by the Americans, and is aimed at delegating or limiting Japan's military power in favor of collective security....
The 19th amendment the right to vote for women 1920
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
What does a phallus give you? Constant pleasure or a convenient way to be in harmony with your deep physical needs wherever you are? These advantages must of course be taken into account but, the real issue of having a phallus is that you are likely to have an easier life than non-phallus wearing...
The Iraq war: an International Relations Theory Analysis
Case study - 16 pages - Political science
On the nineteenth of March 2003 America and its allies started their invasion of Iraq. This intervention had the official goal of the struggle against a terrorism-friendly country, to avoid the expansion of mass destruction weapons and establish a democratic breakthrough in the Middle East. This...
How can "the democratic deficit" of the Swedish representative democracy be bridged over ?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The opening article of the Swedish constitution states that "All public power in Sweden derives from the population". However, in a representative democracy, who ends up holding the power? Actually, direct democracy can't be implemented in a large country. This form of democracy was used in...
Iraq: Failure and victory
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
In this paper I will point out a few of the failures the Bush administration made prior to and during the current war in Iraq. I will also make recommendations for how things should have been done and how things need to be done in the current state of the war. I will also explain how past...
Jawbreaker: The US return to Afghanistan
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
But the physical wear on the nation was only a symbol of the complex divisions that cut through Afghanistan. After the Soviet invasion was repelled - by Mujahedin fighters equipped with American weaponry and advised by CIA contacts - the communist government stood only for a few years, faltering...
The British monarchy as of 2008
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The British monarchy is a shared monarchy which can trace its ancestral lineage back to the Anglo-Saxon period. The British monarch or Sovereign is the Head of state of the United Kingdom and in the British overseas territories. So the British monarch is also head of state of sixteen other...
John Rawls and the Republicanism
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
1989 was an outstanding year for the spread of liberty. In an article published during the summer, Francis Fukuyama comments on this new, remarkable victory of liberal democracy, and predicts “the End of History” as its consequence. Not only has his thesis been abruptly challenged in...
How can corruption occur in a democracy as France? Analysis through the ELF scandal
Case study - 9 pages - Political science
The Elf scandal started in 1994 with an ordinary trial of the dubious conditions in which Elf oil company and the Crédit Lyonais funded Bidermann's textile firm. This financial bail-out turned out to be a tremendous embezzlement scandal. ELF's executive officers misused their company assets for...
"Does the United Kingdom Still Have a Constitution?" by Anthony King
Book review - 5 pages - Political science
"Does the United Kingdom Still Have a Constitution?" is a book written by Anthony King. It is composed of four chapters based on the Hamly Lectures delivered at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in 2000. The book also contains a short chapter written by John Bridge about the Hamlyn Trust...
Reagan's containment strategy
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Containment policy originates from a foreign policy strategy pursued by the United States during the post World War era introduced by George F. Kennan. Kennan had been a diplomat and a US State Department advisor who worked on Soviet affairs. He introduced the concept of containment of expansion...
Bulgaria: Transition towards democracy - publié le 21/01/2009
Essay - 22 pages - Political science
Bulgaria is due for accession to the European Union in 2007. According to most international reporting mechanisms the country has reached the final stages of democracy, and is ready to proceed with accession. While on many levels, such as economically and politically, Bulgaria may have achieved...
"Post-parliamentary strategies need, therefore, to be recast as complements, rather than substitute, for parliamentarism at Union level" (Lord and Beetham). Discuss
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The rejection of the Constitutional Treaty by the French and Dutch citizens in the referendum of spring 2005 has caused a revival of the EU's legitimacy issue. It was also evidence for the fact that both the continuous strengthening of the European Parliament's powers one the one hand and the...
Tony Blair's third way - publié le 21/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
When Tony Blair decided, in 1997, to challenge the electoral power of four consecutive Conservative governments, he pertinently chose to call his draft for Labor's electoral platform New Labor, New Life for Britain. Indeed, Labor or shall we say New Labor manifesto flaunted an unprecedented...
The response of the Republican administrations of the 1950s and the Democrat administrations of the 1960s to the domestic problems they faced - publié le 21/01/2009
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
Burning bras, rebel “teenagers”, rioting black Americans, burning cities, angry students and happy hippies are only a few amidst a veritable panoply of symbols of an exploding and ebullient young America struggling to find itself throughout the vibrant fifties and sixties, an era of...
The 2004 European elections - publié le 20/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
On the 13th of June 2004, except in a few countries (Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Czech Republic and United Kingdom where it occurred one or two days before), more than 338 millions European citizens went to the polls to choose their representatives at the European Parliament, namely the...
Humanitarian intervention is merely a pretext for states national interests - publié le 20/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
After the Second World War in 1945, the notion of ‘crime against humanity' emerged to condemn the killing of the Jews by the Nazis. In reaction to this shock, several countries stood in favour of conveying a new way of thinking about international relations, and tried to set up a new kind of...
Assess the claim that Thatcherism decisively recast political and economic relationships in the 1980s - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Thatcherism is a political thought applied by the 3 successive governments led by Margaret Thatcher, from 1979 to 1990. It quickly evolved as a doctrine. Thatcherism came at a time when the post-war consensus was collapsing, and aimed at checking the decline of the British economy, suffering...
Democratic transitions in the Arab world - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
At the end of the Cold war, the political models of modernization different from democracy were totally discredited. Democracy, defined by Ghassan Salamé as an ‘arrangement institutionnnel qui permet de garantir la participation des citoyens au choix de leurs dirigeants par la voie...
The American way of life in the fifties - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Between 1947 and 1960, the average real income for American workers increased by as much as it had in the previous half-century. Over the same period, the GDP soared 220%. Consumption of personal services increased by 3 times. In 1960, per capita income was 35% higher than even the boom year...
The far-right in Europe
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The far-right in Europe has been a permanent feature in the European countries since the fifties. But for some years the far-right movement, most of the time a mix of populism and nationalism, has an increasing audience among the European population. Earlier it was indeed seen as a marginalized...
Can the military be a-political? Should it be? - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The world has been stunned since 1989 by the speed with which the countries of Eastern Europe abandoned four decades of Marxist-Leninist rule and moved into Western-style democracy and capitalism. Although the process of transition was, of course, delicate, it seems that very often economic and...
Critical summary and reflective analysis of Gerard Alexander's essay, "Making Democracy Stick." - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
Published in the issue of December 2005 & January 2006, the article “Making Democracy Stick” written by Gerard Alexander is part of a wider movement distancing itself from the American muscled intervention in Iraq and its lack of preparation for democratic consolidation. The initiators...
The United States: A "theodemocracy"? The ambiguous relationship between religion and politics - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
As Julia Gronnevet said, “comparing the United States to the Roman Empire is a popular pastime” . For instance, in his book entitled Are we Rome?: the Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America (2007), Cullen Murphy established some parallels between these two political entities both...
Is Fair Trade a tool to appease the conscience or a political lever? - published: 16/01/2009
Dissertation - 9 pages - Political science
Fair Trade is an approach based on precise criterion of sustainable development; relations of exchanges of long duration and direct relations removing the intermediaries. According to these criterions, the Fair Trade organizations of North thus begin to buy these products at a just price which...
Did government policy influence the development of large local firms and/or business groups in South Korea? What have been some of the long run benefits and problematic legacies of such policies?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The South-Korean state's industrialization programs achieved national economic ob-jectives through the use of government economic policies, defined as “measures by which a government attempts to influence the economy” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008). This paper focus on three government...
