Todd Purdum - A Time of our choosing
Book review - 3 pages - International relations
?A Time of Our Choosing: America's War in Iraq', written by political correspondent Todd Purdum, was first published in 2003. As it title indicates, it deals with the American military intervention in Iraq, and covers all its aspects such as its causes, its conduct and, eventually, its...
The general oil market and the American oil policy
Essay - 18 pages - International relations
Since the Industrial Revolution, energy is an international concern: one fifth of international trade of goods is the supply in energy of the companies. At the beginning of the century, oil became the most important energy source. Today, oil represents the most important share of the energy...
How does Fox News cover Africa?
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
Fox News is the top rated channel in the United States (U.S.) but it is also broadcasted internationally in 40 countries. It can stand for an American point of view about news but also for a more global one. Fox News has an obvious impact on Americans. That is why, in order to monitor the way...
Terrorism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Terrorism by definition is the systematic use of violence, terror and intimidation to achieve an end. However, this definition has translated into a horrid way of life that has inflicted pain, death and mourning to individuals all over the world. Largely influential countries such as the United...
Bandits
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The myth of Robin Hood has not only created a long lasting fairy tale for our youth it has also created the definition of what Eric Hobsbawm calls a social bandit: one who gives to the poor by taking from the rich. Hobsbawm uses the myth of Robin Hood to identify bandits who have reached a...
US policy towards the Taliban since the end of the cold war - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 2 pages - International relations
The withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989 did not provoke the fall of Najibullah's communist regime, but rather the beginning of Civil war between the different factions and ethnics. The US was officially not interested anymore in that part of the world and focused primarily in Europe. However, the...
(Re)Constructing Afghanistan: After the Bonn agreement - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 17 pages - International relations
The 5th of December 2001, the Bonn agreement was the first text attempting to build a basis for a new start of the Afghan nation after the American invasion. It was set by international actors as different as the UN, who supervised the conference, the US, the EU, Saudi Arabia and the World Bank....
John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt - Can Saddam be contained? History says yes
Book review - 1 pages - International relations
This text was written in November 2002 by John J. Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University. It takes part in the aftermath of 9/11, and the debate over the necessity of a war in Iraq,...
The conflict between China and the Uighurs
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
For many decades, Xinjiang, an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, has been a focal point of ethnic tensions. Currently, the main tensions revolve around the Uighur plurality and the people's deep-seated frustration with Chinese authorities; the region has witnessed...
Operational framework for the DRNC Convention
Essay - 5 pages - Management
The threats that political party meetings entail requires the planning for a proper operational framework for emergency management. The emergency response framework should consider the potential sources of threat, particularly the risk of attack arising from the crowds of protestors who always...
John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt - Can Saddam be contained? History says yes - publié le 28/10/2009
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
This text was written in November 2002 by John J. Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University. It takes part in the aftermath of 9/11, and the debate over the necessity of a war in Iraq,...
US policy towards the Taliban since the end of the cold war
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
The withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989 did not provoke the fall of Najibullah's communist regime, but rather the beginning of Civil war between the different factions and ethnics. The US was officially not interested anymore in that part of the world and focused primarily in Europe. However, the...
Strategy of Air France: Analysis and recommendations (2009)
Case study - 38 pages - Business strategy
Born on August 30, 1933 by the consolidation of major French airlines ‘Societe Generale Air Transport,' Air Union, the International Company for Air Navigation, Air East and ‘Compagnie Generale Aeropostale', Air France formed the largest French airline company. In January 2000, the...
Can the war on terrorism justify an Empire politics?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism - The terrorist attacks of Sept 11 were acts of war against the USA and its allies, and against the very idea of civilized society. No cause justifies terrorism. The world must respond and fight this evil that is intent on threatening and destroying our...
Where is the "rebuilding" of Iraq?
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by the United States was launched on the basis of motivation. However, one of the major motivations which animated the United States and its allies of the “coalition” was the creation of a “stable and democratic” Iraq by hoping for an effect...
The uncertainties in the fight against terrorism and the United Nations (UN)
Dissertation - 26 pages - International relations
The United Nations has mobilized all the means necessary to make the fight against terrorism a major concern of all States. The media coverage of the September 11 attacks on U.S. soil with Security Council resolution- 1373 has raised awareness that terrorism can strike at any time. However, at...
Terrorism and internalisation of conflicts : how to explain the rise of terrorism ?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Terrorism can be divided in several types among which two have always prevailed: state terrorism and dissident terrorism. The first one also called as ?terror from above' or ?state-sponsored terrorism' is the political violence used by the state. It is the most organized and potentially...
The political system of Saudi Arabia
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
The genesis of the modern Saudi state: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formed recently after their warriors struggled against the Ottoman hegemony. But to took three attempts to actually impose their authority. The history of the modern Saudi state is based on the theological-political alliance...
Language and violence: An analysis of President Bush's recent rhetoric
Case study - 7 pages - Political science
His words have influenced the way we see our roles as Americans and the way we see and respond to the violence that was perpetrated against us. To what extent are the President's speeches the persuasive rhetoric of a good leader, and to what extent are they distortions of reality? Political...
Afghanistan as a Just War
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 which left American devastated, United States of America President declared that these actions needed to be viewed as an act of war. This concept of an attack on American soil was, prior to September 11th, something completely foreign to the...
Evaluation of the decision to go to war in Iraq
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
When President Bush instigated a preemptive strike against the country of Iraq, voices of protests erupted from all sides of the globe. A preemptive strike against a sovereign nation had never been undertaken since the inception of the United Nations after World War II. Despite this, however,...
Broadcasting Board of Governors in 2008
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Broadcasting Board of Governors has been in operation for just under a decade. Formerly a Cold War-era media arm of the US government tasked with spreading American media, news, and propaganda messages behind the Iron Curtain, the BBG was repurposed to deal with the new international...
Globalisation and peace in the twenty-first century: a structuralist approach - publié le 13/01/2009
Thesis - 15 pages - Philosophy
In his Glance at today's world (1931), French poet Paul Valéry wrote "Le temps du monde fini commence" (1). By "monde fini", he meant that the world now had well-established geographical limits, implying there was no more Terra incognita or utopia where to transpose our dreams, either in...
The city of Aden - Yemen
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
The Yemeni port of Aden has long been one of the major entrepôts of the Middle East. With its starkly beautiful natural harbor nestled within an extinct volcano and its access to the highlands of Yemen and its products, the city called the “Eye to Yemen” would already have been...
The USA patriot act: The un-American way
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
On September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked by a foreign terrorist Muslim group called Al-Queda directed by Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, as well as, others. President George W. Bush appeared on television screens at the Oval office to address the American public after the...
Bush's preventive war: Doctrine of mass confusion (Broadening or contortion of the concept of pre-emptive self-defense?) - publié le 16/05/2009
Thesis - 23 pages - Political science
The debate triggered by the new Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive action lies in the amalgamation between pre-emptive (i.e. anticipatory) and preventive self-defense. While the former finds legal and political basis, the latter is, so far, hardly distinguished from outright aggression. The Bush...
Newsweek's coverage of the news in Africa: (November 2006 - January 2007) - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Newsweek is an American weekly magazine of news and commentary, published in New York City. In 2005, the magazine reported a national audience of more than 20 million; worldwide, its audience numbered almost 26 million in more than 190 countries. The magazine was founded in 1933. In 1937, Malcolm...
Islam in Morocco
Thesis - 8 pages - Philosophy
This religion arose in Arabia in the seventh century. They say that God revealed himself to Muhammad and inspired him to begin a new religion. His followers are called Muslims, that is to say "those who are obedient to God". Islam is also a community of believers who have tapped into this...
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 - publié le 29/09/2010
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...
Boko Haram's report
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
For several months, armed groups in Boko Haram seem engaged in a scorched earth policy in Borno State (in the north-eastern Nigeria), the heart of their settlement area. They attack villages, engage in destruction, looting, burning crops and killing, seemingly at random. The use of violence by...
