Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) theories: An overview of the main FDI theories
Essay - 6 pages - Finance
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) acquired an important role in the international economy after the Second World War. The increase of the volume of foreign direct investment was so sharp that economists considered FDI as a new stage of Capitalism after the classic Marxist theories of...
Where would you place New Labour on the ideological spectrum?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Since its foundation in 1900, the British Labour Party has been in power eleven times, and has had five Prime Ministers. It was founded as a social-democratic party, close to the unions and advocating the rights of the working class. On June 2001, led by Tony Blair, it won its second General...
Jihad vs. McWorld: The new world disorder
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Jihad vs. McWorld was written by Rutgers University Political Science professor Benjamin R. Barber. The author is widely regarded one of the nation's foremost scholars on democracy. He has written Strong Democracy, in which he explains that economic liberalism is the basis for and cause of...
How can the "crisis" of the Welfare States affect the policy of fight against poverty?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Since the end of the XVIIIth century, the disastrous consequences due to the Industrial Revolution and to “savage capitalism” on working conditions has been underlined through the rising resentment of the working class. That is why, in order to avoid social implosion and to...
Explain Marx's conception of communist society and assess critically in comparison and contrast with the social ideals of Rousseau
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." This is the prophetic opening line of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, one of the major and most well-known work of Marx and Engels, dealing with their ideal of a communist society. However, The Communist Manifesto is not a...
Is Russian political culture a serious obstacle to democratization?
Essay - 7 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,...
Cultural Persistence: the Jews of New York
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
New York is probably one of the most famous cities in the world because of History but also from the fact that it is the symbol of USA, the country of Liberty, capitalism, the self-made-man... New York is a bit like a compendium of American values and a study of this town is very...
Alterglobalisation: "Another world is possible?"
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
In the mid-eighties there were huge criticisms caused by the liberal policy carried out both by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. There were, especially in the United Kingdom, a lot of strikes and manifestations against the neo-liberalism. However, Margaret Thatcher, answering to an interview...
Can the military be a-political? Should it be?
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...
What was 'Tito's way', and how successful was it?
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
Looking back at the time after the end of communism (Cuba and today's China being particular and Chavez not a communist), we basically find only three different ways of communism; the original one, the Lenino-Stalinism in the USSR, the latter one, China's Maoism, and finally the...
Tony Blair's third way
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...
Is the consumer always sovereign in the free market economy?
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
Theoretically, the free enterprise market economy produces a situation in which the law of supply and demand, in conjunction with a competitive economic environment and well-informed consumers guarantees consumer sovereignty. The consumer possesses a significant advantage over suppliers who must...
Why has class conflict not occurred in the form expected by Marxist thinkers and why has history not developed in the way Marx predicted?
Thesis - 4 pages - Philosophy
Karl Marx (1818 - 83) was responsible for one of the first and most influential theories of class within the sociological discipline. For Marx, classes can be seen as basic social groups divided by their specific position within the division of labor, and distributed within society according to...
Native education in Canada following the residential school era
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The history of Native-white relations in Canada is historically, colonial in nature and paternalistic in design, and racist.(Miller: 185) In addition, schooling may not be an idealistic location of growth and study but rather as Metis educator Fyre Graveline (1998) contends, “ideological...
Communist systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Thesis - 2 pages - International relations
During the XXth century, the communist system, an alternative political system to capitalism, emerged in Russia after the October Revolution. The features of this system are the important ideologies, the role of the communist party, the central planned economy and also the terror that took...
The Indian Ocean in Eurasian and African world-systems before the 16th century, Philippe Beaujard
Thesis - 7 pages - Medieval history
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...
Explain the historical specificity and contemporary relevance of culture
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Today, we can buy a book from a vending machine, like soft drinks and snacks. Germinal and an Ice-Tea have the same value. Culture, in a wider sense, has been taken over by the “spectacular-merchandizing-society”, for which everything, from a book to an iPod, has a trade value. The...
The American reality: Life in the working class
Thesis - 19 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In 1848, as the spread of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution were forever changing the social, political and economic landscape in Europe and America, early social theorist Karl Marx defined the working-class as those “laborers who must sell themselves piecemeal… a...
Corporate social responsibility: An overview
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept that has been around for a while, but it has become increasingly relevant as the forces of globalization have become fiercer, and as the issue of environmental sustainability become more recognized by businesses and the customers that support...
Ayn Rand's theory of rights as a serious theory
Thesis - 15 pages - Philosophy
Ayn Rand is a thinker who has attained notoriety for having a significant amount of influence on contemporary libertarians, especially when it comes to her theory of rights. She is unlike many other prominent theorists, in that she published much of her ideas in works of fiction, and this led her...
Terror in the Mind of God: A book review
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The world has become a more dangerous place to live in the past fifteen years or so. According to Mark Juergensmeyer's book, Terror in the Mind of God; the Global Rise of Religious Violence, this can be attributed to religious terrorists, or activists depending on one's perspective, reacting...
Modernistic theories of elevation and society
Thesis - 2 pages - Philosophy
To be remembered by history as a “thinker,” one must think some fairly formidable thoughts. Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Foucault, some of sociology's most seminal thinkers, tackled one of the most complicated human problems: what is modern society, and what makes it tick? In Manifesto...
The Celtic tiger and its impact on life in Ireland
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
While some may say the advancement and growth of technology in Ireland is a more recent development, say within the last decade, it can actually be traced back to the 1950's. Many people still think of Ireland as a group of country farmers and small town people, but it is quite the opposite. The...
Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil", from the 'Natural History of Morals'
Thesis - 3 pages - Philosophy
In the chapter "Beyond Good and Evil", Nietzsche criticizes the prevailing moral system of his time. Before I even begin to discuss Nietzsche's criticism, I would like to define "moral system". A moral system can be broken down into content, representation, and justification. The content...
US/Chinese foreign relations, from Sino-Soviet split to Nixon's visit to Beijing
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - International relations
China, the world's most populous nation, came under communist rule in 1949. In the previous decades, the Chinese Empire had been racked by political turmoil. In 1911, the collapse of the imperial Manchu dynasty instigated the rise of regional warlords and of revolutionary and reformist...
Enron: the story of a symbolic financial scandal
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
The death of Kenneth Lay last spring and the recent 24-year sentence of Jeffrey Skilling have put an end to the darkest story of modern finance: the Enron case. Actually, this firm turned from a success model into a paradigm of all the problems of finance capitalism. With the giving up of...
Why, according to Iversen, have the United States and Continental Europe adopted such different approaches to labor markets and social protection?
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
Published in 2005, Torben Iversen, tries in his book ?Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare', to build a general explanation on why within a group of countries labeled western type democracies there are such differences regarding economic equality and welfare protection. With an integrated...
International Business Environment assignment: an analysis of the national business system and cultural conditions in China and assessment of how this will affect SuperSam
Dissertation - 24 pages - Services marketing
Choosing China as a host country for an International Business Environment assignment offers three advantages: first, since 1979, China has faced major economic and political changes. Second, it has been very successful in attracting foreign direct investment, i.e., in 1995, China was the second...
The provision of welfare in the United Kingdom
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Among all the typologies, which exist within Welfare States, most authors classify the United Kingdom as a 'liberal state'. For example, Titmuss sees the United Kingdom as a 'residual model of social policy', where the needs are met by the state only when the private market and...
Three ideas of contractualism : the ones of Locke, Rousseau and Rawls
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
“The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including the classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State” , noted the American anarcho-capitalist Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995). Indeed, what...
