Critical summary and reflective analysis of Gerard Alexander's essay, "Making Democracy Stick."
Essay - 3 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 McCarthyism
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
McCarthyism is a short period of the American History profoundly marked by the fight against communism and everything that could be linked to the Soviet government. This movement was named in 1950 after the appearance of Senator Joseph McCarthy on the media scene. During this real period of...
Sir William Beveridge - social insurance and allied services, 1942
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
This text is the introduction of the Beveridge Report, called Social Insurance and Allied Services. This report was presented to the British Parliament in November 1942 and was published the on 1st of December 1942. He was commissioned by Arthur Greenwood, in June 1941. William Beveridge...
The Clash Of Civilization Samuel Phillips Huntington
Book review - 6 pages - Political science
Sixteen years ago Gorbatchev announced on television that he resigned as the President of the USSR, the Soviet flag was lowered over the Kremlin and on December 26th 1991, the Supreme Soviet Court recognized the extinction of the Soviet Union: the USSR was no more. After more than fifty years of...
Arms trade, a global watch
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
?No war without weapons, and no weapons without "death traders"'. This job is indeed a golden one. We have to simply glance at the moving maps of geopolitics to figure out the whole issue. Globalization proves that this peculiar trader is rational: Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the...
Britain and the euro: not for yesterday, not for today, not for ever...?
Essay - 13 pages - Political science
The EMS's Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) has long been a source of political controversy, playing for instance a relevant part in the final drama of Margaret Thatcher's resignation as a serving Prime Minister. Britain entered the ERM in 1990 to exit from it in 1992 and afterward, the new...
Thoughts and Understanding on the Decline of Voter Participation
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Political science
It is a common knowledge that the most general type of political behavior is voting. Voting fundamentally represent the idea of Government being enacted by the people for the people. This is the time when a regular John Doe has a power to decide on whom, he thinks is the best to represent him and...
Politics of Global Warming
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Political science
In the modernized lifestyles we live today, the consequences of this lifestyle seems to have finally caught up with us. Since 1994, the world's mean temperature has risen almost 1 degree Fahrenheit, and it is only increasing. This is believed to have been caused by excess gas and smoke emissions...
The Indian Ocean in Eurasian and African world-systems before the 16th century, Philippe Beaujard
Book review - 7 pages - Political science
Philippe Soller used to say that the beauty of conciseness is that it allows us to transmit, guiltlessly, only commonly accepted truths. I am afraid I will have to show, very concisely, how innovating and dissenter is the study of Philippe Beaujard on The Indian Ocean in Eurasian and African...
Fighting against AIDS: Acting for human rights and development
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
If developing countries have to cope with many handicaps setbacks as well as in terms of political development, then one of the main plagues that seriously affects these countries is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Indeed, 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. Among them, 95% live in...
"It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round"
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
"Where does the German begin? Where does it end? May a German smoke? The majority says no. May a German wear gloves? Yes, but only of buffalo hide... but a German may drink beer, indeed as a true son of Germania he should drink beer..." wrote in 1840 Heinrich Heine, who was quite critical of...
The contribution of the Salon and the Masonic Lodge to the circulation of enlightened ideas in eighteenth-century Europe - publié le 03/02/2008
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The Masonic Lodge embodied the new type of private societies with public effects that developed remarkably over the eighteenth century in Europe. On the contrary, the Salon, as an official exhibition of paintings, was the representation of the influence of the monarchy on artistic matters during...
Ernest Gellner: Nations and nationalism
Book review - 4 pages - Political science
Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism , which was published in 1983, is a core reading for the study of eighteenth and nineteenth-century European history for it cleverly conceptualizes notions -namely nationalism and nation-state- that are essential components of that period. The course...
The strategy behind energy-related aspects of European neighborhood policy
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The paper notes that the EU will increasingly rely on energy supplies from neighboring countries. Needless to say that among the principles and motives of the ENP, energy has a major role since it is obvious neighboring countries have resources (oil and gas) the EU needs to secure. For instance...
The hidden side of counter-terrorist measures: a threat to the civil liberties
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
While watching the movie “in the name of the father”, I was like everyone else, I assume, was deeply moved and overwhelmed by the gravity of the miscarriage of justice and police force abuses of which the protagonists were victim. However, what chocked me the most was the fact that this...
Ethnic cleansing
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Mass violence and extreme problems have characterised the 20th Century. The ethnic cleansing in Rwanda and in Sudan only marks the most extreme recent cases. Unlike some types of warfare, genocide is always a state-organized crime. More precisely, ethnic cleansing has been defined as "the...
The Utopian communities of the United States
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
In The Communistic Societies of America (1875), Charles Nordhoff defined communism as "a mutiny against society". How far does this definition apply to the Utopian Communities of the United States? The Utopian communities were established with the idea that the world could be started anew....
Global environmental politics: A study of the world heritage convention (1972)
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention has been established in 1972. It recognizes the way in which people interact with nature, and the fundamental need to preserve the balance between the two. Thus, that convention concerns both the cultural and natural properties, but I will focus in that essay...
The function of democratic control of the European Parliament - Analysis of S. Veil's speech
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Since the origins of the building of the European Community, the idea of a direct election of the EP was present. In the Rome Treaty, the commitment to abolish the system of nominated members was settled, but no timetable was laid down. Thus, it occurred only in 1979, after the reluctance of the...
One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter/Today's terrorist is just tomorrow's state leader
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The famous example of the General De Gaulle can corroborate this claim. After his radio address in June 1940 exhorting the French people to resist Nazi occupation, he organized the Free French Forces with exiled French officers in England and led the interior resistance which used terrorism...
How should liberal democracies faced with a threat of terrorism deal with a ticking bomb situation?
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
Since the destruction of the World Trade Centre in 2001, the United States Government is involved in a "war against terrorism". After the scandals about torture, in Abu Ghraib or in the secret American prisons in Eastern Europe, the international community, especially the Council of Europe,...
Discuss several aspects of the socio-economic cleavage in Israel
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
On July 5th, 1950, the Knesset unanimously passed the Law of Return which gives the Israeli citizenship to every Jews who want to immigrate to Israel. The Law of Return, criticized by some Human Right Organizations , symbolizes the legislative concretisation of the Zionist dream: the return and...
Israeli Politics
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
From a European point of view, the Israeli political system considers the Fourth Republic in France the worst period. It was unable to resolve the Algerian insurrection because of the change of the government and the recent setbacks suffered in the attempts to build a viable coalition government...
Women in contemporary Iran
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The history of women's situation in Iran is very ambiguous. As Keddie points out, "the situation of women shows all the contradictions of the revolution [?]. Despite the great limits on women's rights enforced in the first years of the revolution, several factors led to a partial...
The European neighborhood policy
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
In this essay I will deal with the European Neighborhood Policy, through a general overview of what this policy consists in. The most useful source that was used to elaborate on this subject is the website of the European Commission, which is one of the major players in the implementation of the...
Outlook for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Even though George W. Bush won the presidential elections in the year 2007, the Grand Old Party was already agitated by the 2008 Presidential nomination and the question of its probable candidates. The XXIInd Amendment prevented the President from running a third time and his Vice-President, Dick...
Riots in Los Angeles and Paris: A comparison through the perspective of different forms of government
Essay - 14 pages - Political science
A few months after the violent events that occurred in Paris suburbs, it was interesting to see how François Mitterrand, the former President of the French Republic (1981-1995) reacted to the Los Angeles civil unrest of May 1992. According to him, the riots were "above all a racial conflict and...
Fascism, communism and totalitarianism
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
“Fascism was the first mass-mobilizing development dictatorship that provided a frank, complete, and relatively coherent rationale for totalitarianism." Actually, Mussolini's doctrine of delayed industrialization was the first to openly affirm “the reality of production and the...
The integration of immigrant people
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Canada is the second multicultural country in the world after Australia. According to Statistics Canada (2001), 18.4% of the total population in Canada was born outside the country (Caidi, N., & Allard, D. 2005). Many cultures are therefore in contact under the roof of the Canadian nationality....
The Idea of Race in Cuba and Brazil from the 1880s to the 1940s
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The beginning of the twentieth century marked a time of modernization for the Latin American continent; however, only a minority of the population in Latin America benefited from social and economic aspects of this evolution. In Cuba and Brazil, the Creole mostly constituted this elite group....
