What is the importance of the public/private distinction in feminist theories?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
“Liberalism has only one overriding aim: to secure the political conditions that are necessary for the exercise of personal freedom” . This is why liberal theory has been constructed around a dichotomy between the public and the private sphere: securing individual freedom. Freedom is...
"Nixon and the prisoners of war", 7th January 1971, New York Review of Books, by Jon M. Van Dyke
Book review - 2 pages - Political science
This is an article published in 1971, on January the 7th, in The New York Review of Books. Written by Jon M. Van Dyke, this article deals with the Nixon administration policies about the prisoners of war during the time of Vietnam War. According to Jon M. Van Dyke, the US government uses the...
How the media, through their coverage of 9/11, legitimized the future US military attack on Afghanistan, in the United States
Thesis - 89 pages - Political science
Here we will study the media and more particularly the press. Their role will be crucial since they will be the link between the government and the population. The attacks on New York and Washington triggered an overflow of articles for weeks on end, with the press mainly displaying an...
Try and identify Jonathan Swift's political stands
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
To put it simply, party politics in England during the 18th century were practiced in two different camps - Tory and Whig. Globally, the differences of opinion between the two were based on three key topics - (1) the origin of government, (2) the position of the Church in society and (3) the role...
Describe what you would want to tell the white community about how the legacy of our history helps to explain racial divisions and disparities that persist today
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
America has a long history of racism and discrimination against its Black community. One has to keep in mind the centuries long history of slavery which came to an end only over one century ago in the South. It is also necessary to remind of how close to us is the end of segregation, as its...
Monroe Doctrine, Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty, and Spanish-American war
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
The Monroe Doctrine was setout in 1823 by the president Monroe under the influence of John Quincy Adams. It expressly advocates the US to intervene in Latin America if any European power was to interfere in internal affairs of the Latin American countries. The purpose was limit the European...
What was the nature of the power of the precolonial Southeast Asian state and the power of the peasantry? Was there a shift in the balance of power between the state and the peasantry with the advent of colonialism? Did it become less or more 'rational'
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Southeast Asia is not an homogeneous region. That is why it can hardly been analysed as a whole and therefore must be divided into several groups. Concerning the issues related to the relations between the state and the peasantry, South East Asia countries belong mainly to two groups. According...
Justice depends on the identification of the individuals with their community
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Seyla Benhabib in The Claims of Culture reported the case of a young Laotian American woman abducted from her work at Fresno State University and then raped. Her assailant, a Hmong/Laotian immigrant, argued that among his tribe this behaviour is the customary way to choose a bride. He uses...
British Politics and Society since 1940: From Blitz to Blair
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
"Let's be frank about it, most of our people have never had it so good? (Harold Macmillan, 1957). To What extent did the dominance of the Conservatives between 1951 and 1964 rely on affluence and social change rather than politics? Following the 1945's General Elections defeat, no one...
Politics of the European Union
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
Since its foundation in the late 1950's, the European Union has seen its membership growing from 6 to 27 countries in 2007, with the accession of Bulgaria and Romania. The process might not stop at this point, as other countries such as West Balkans, Turkey, and eastern countries (former parts of...
Pluralism, democracy, and citizenship
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
‘Most people think that democratic decisions have special moral force - which we have good reasons to obey laws that are democratically chosen. If this is true, why is it true? If it's not true, why is it not?' Democracy is commonly regarded as the best, or the least bad, political system...
The Politics of Development
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
"What are the diverse meanings of ?development'? How do they reflect the different interests that are involved? The idea of development was first evoked by former US President Truman in 1949, in the context of dawning cold war opposing western economies to communism, in order to justify the...
Liberal feminism, a white, racist bourgeois movement?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Women have always been considered as the ‘weak sex', in opposition to the ‘strong sex' represented by men. Hence, they have always suffered from being oppressed and subordinated to men. Yet in order to be no longer discriminated against a condition which they did not chose, women...
What to call the genocides of the Second World War and why?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
“Historians are not always trustful guides when we have to reconstitute past”. Those words, of Lucy DAWIDOWICZ -an American historian who wrote quite a lot of books about the historiography of genocides- directly aimed at criticizing historians of genocides, who treated the murder by...
How and why has the adoption of free market economic policies affected the consolidation of democracy?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
“Economic factors have significant impact on democratization but they are not determinative.” (Huntington 1991: 59). To Huntington, there is a clear link between economy and democracy as a form of regime, bond that few people could deny nowadays. Actually, this bond can be shown by the...
Parties and party systems in contemporary democracies
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Laver and Schofield wonder what makes length of a government's life through the examples of Italy and Germany, but also of other countries. Firstly, is the number of parties of the political system related to cabinet stability? This is right in Italy, Belgium and Finland. They have a higher...
Assess the claim that Thatcherism decisively recast political and economic relationships in the 1980s
Essay - 11 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...
Devolution
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Devolution is “a form of subsidiary passing power back to the people “ ; “ it is the transfer to a subordinate elected body , on a geographical basis, of functions at present being exercised by Ministers and Parliament.“ (“Definitely British, Absolutely American!”,...
Is Russian political culture a serious obstacle to democratization?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
From the end of the Cold War to nowadays, Russia has endeavored to reform itself so as to exit from a situation of crises. Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to give a new start to the economy of the Soviet Union, to reform its plethoric administration and take steps towards a more democratic,...
How has the nature of war changed? Has it changed the way of making peace?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
“War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention” . This quotation of Sir Henry Maine seems obvious: wars have been a common feature of mankind history. On the other hand, implementation of durable peace, and not only end of the war, is a more intricate notion. The...
Putin's Russia
Thesis - 7 pages - Political science
As a way of introducing our subject, and in an effort to make it more dynamic, I chose to start writing an article which is essential to provide views of Putin's Russia as I interpret it from local and foreign press. After the fall of communism in the early 1990's, Russia was...
Milestones in the emergence of the Palestinian problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
In Critique of the Gotha Programme, written in 1875, Marx distinguishes different stages of communism from "crude communism? to a "higher phase of communism?. He defines crude communism as "a communist society [which has not] developed on its own foundations, but on the contrary, [has] just...
Is the Common Agricultural Policy indispensable for the future of Europe ?
Essay - 22 pages - Political science
The CAP has long been a stumbling block among EU members. Last year, Jacques Chirac strongly opposed Tony Blair's proposal about the CAP. Indeed, France is the country which receives more agricultural subsidies while the United Kingdom does not get any concern in the agricultural policies. The...
Cook's resignation from the English government due to his rejection of the policy lead by downing street on the subject of the war on Iraq
Essay - 1 pages - Political science
On March 18th 2003, Robin Cook resigned from government because he did want to go to war in Iraq without a strong international coalition and a UN resolution backing it. To him, the British government went to war not because of British reasons but for the reasons that US had along with...
The relationship between the different types of suffrage and the creation (or construction) of democratic institutions in France from 1789 to 1870
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
From 1789 to 1870 in France, not less than eight constitutions and twelve regimes followed one after another. France also experienced all types of suffrages, from the most restricted one of the Ancient Regime, to the universal manhood suffrage. This period is undeniably crucial to one who aims to...
The French policy in sub-Saharan Africa since 1960 - publié le 12/04/2007
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
The French military presence in Africa has been a major determinant of African political issues since 1960. The French army has stayed in Africa to accomplish several missions. Those missions were all aimed at maintaining stability. Some were intended to defend countries against foreign and...
Is there a French Affirmative Action Policy?
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
Affirmative action was born in the United States. It was originally designed to favour Black people, whose ancestors where slaves. Then, such programs extended to other underprivileged categories of the population: the disabled, the women, the Latinos. The first to use the phrase...
The French policy in sub-Saharan Africa since 1960
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
The French policy in Africa is frequently deemed neo-colonialist. France would enduringly attempt to keep its former colonies within its sphere of influence for economic and political reasons. Cases in point are the lyrics of the song “Françafrique” by the Ivorian descent artist Tiken...
Reflection on a discourse by Tony Blair to the American Congress
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Tony Blair addressed a discourse to the congress of the United States of America (USA) on July, 17th, 2003. It is a political text strongly related to the political context at that point of time, which I will discuss later on. The discourse can be explained by looking at each of the sentences and...
Le concept universel des droits de l'Homme a pris racine dans les pensées de la politique occidentale, peut-on donc dire qu'il peut s'appliquer pour tous les êtres humains ?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters sans frontières… voici quelques-unes des organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) présentes dans le monde, qui oeuvrent pour la protection des droits de l'Homme. Il s'agit d'organisations internationales, mais cela veut-il dire que les...
