The European Union and organized crime
Essay - 8 pages - European union
With French and Dutch voters' recent rejection of the proposed constitutional treaty for the European Union, a number of proposals in the field of Justice and Home Affairs have been watered down or considerably postponed. However, both EU leaders and the general public continue to place high...
The European Union and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Worksheets - 9 pages - International relations
With the recent election of Mahmud Abbas as chairman of the Palestinian Authority and Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw Israeli troops and settlers from the Gaza strip, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians appears to be at a crossroads, after years of severe strain on the so-called...
Iran's nuclear programme
Worksheets - 9 pages - International relations
Diplomats, from 190 signatory countries, gather in New York this week for the five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran will surely be present. Although some warning signs had been issued by various intelligence services during the previous decade, concern over...
Iran's nuclear program
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
As diplomats from the 190 signatory countries gather in New York this week for the five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran will surely be present in many minds. Although some warning signs had been issued by various intelligence services during the previous decade,...
To what extent is US national security policy determined by "bureaucratic tribal warfare"?
Worksheets - 7 pages - Political science
In his book, 'The Power Game', Hedrick Smith speaks of the foreign policy game in the United States as a 'bureaucratic tribal warfare', using tribal as a metaphor to describe the fierce fights which take place in Washington DC. The notion of the bureaucracy emerged in the early...
The American bureaucracy on national security
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
In his book The Power Game, Hedrick Smith speaks of the foreign policy game in the United States as a “bureaucratic tribal warfare”, using a tribal metaphor to describe the fierce fights which take place in Washington, DC. The notion of bureaucracy emerged in the early 20th century,...
The third way
Worksheets - 10 pages - Political science
In 1999, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder issued a joint statement entitled The Third Way, Die neue Mitte. The statement committed itself to a “newly defined role for the active state” and stated that “the essential function of markets must...
Where would you place New Labour on the ideological spectrum?
Worksheets - 5 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...
Multi-level governance in the European Union
Worksheets - 6 pages - European union
The former French President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, once stated that the European Union was an “unidentified political object”. This phrase highlights the complexity of the EU polity, which various theories have tried to capture and which has sparked controversy...
European Union and national sovereignty
Worksheets - 3 pages - European union
The birth of the modern sovereign state is usually associated with the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, after which modern nation-states began to constitute in Europe. Today, some scholars argue that state sovereignty has been challenged by trends such as globalization and European integration. In Neil...
The European Union and national sovereignty
Essay - 3 pages - European union
The birth of the modern sovereign state is usually associated with the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, after which modern nation-states began to constitute in Europe. Today, some scholars argue that state sovereignty has been challenged by trends such as globalization and European integration not...
The UK and the Euro - published: 24/03/2006
Essay - 3 pages - European union
In Maastricht, in 1992, the then 12 members of the European Community decided to move towards an Economic and Monetary Union, with the aim of launching a single currency. But when the European single currency was launched in January 1999 by 11 of the 15 EU member states, Blair decided to exercise...
The UK and the Euro
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Exposé en Anglais sur le Royaume-Uni et un passage éventuel à l'euro, qui examine les différents arguments favorables et opposés à l'adoption de la monnaie européenne. Soon after election, in 1997, the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, said that four of the five tests had not been met (only the...
The Baltic States: a golden opportunity for French food exporters?
Market study - 17 pages - Economy general
The 1st of May 2004, ten new countries came into the European Union. These states have seen their economy dramatically change in many aspects of international trade since this date. From the custom point of view to the currencies issues, it significantly facilitates the goods exchanges of food...
Cradle-to-cradle design - published: 11/02/2006
Dissertation - 45 pages - Economy general
Faced with the increasing damage inflicted on the planet by industrial development, environmentalists have traditionally argued that we need to put a halt on economic growth. This approach has neither been realistic nor efficient. Fortunately, a new way of thinking has emerged with respect to the...
Tsunamis of Sumatra Island
Presentation - 18 pages - Ecology & environment
Tsunami: appearance of a wave (wavefront).Propagation velocity: depth of the sea. The loss of energy is inversely proportional to the size. A tsunami travels quickly but also on long distances without losing consequent energy. With the approach of the coasts Tsunami slows down since its flow of...
The Third Way by Anthony Giddens
Book review - 7 pages - Political science
Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science published The Third Way in 1998. What does “Third Way” mean? For The author, the goal is a renewal of the social-democracy. Through this phrase he refers to a framework of thinking and policy-making that...
Venezuelian Foreign Policy
Essay - 25 pages - International relations
Articles on the subject of Venezuelan foreign policy are abundant, and easily available. Every political action, speech, or voyage of President Chavez is diligently covered by the media. It is because of the availability of such detailed information, that I decided to study a diversity of...
The floods and the Cevenol phenomenon
Presentation - 24 pages - Ecology & environment
Floods = natural disaster. Floods = hazard for human and several animals. The Mediterranean supplies water. The Cevennes block everything. Climatic situation between 8h and 15h. Formation of cloudy cells, break up in point of V, V cells aspirate everything. Most of impacts are centered in south...
Lone parent families in the UK
Dissertation - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In Britain, one child in four now lives in a single parent family, it is estimated that about one half to one third of the remaining children will find themselves a part of a single parent family at some time in their lives. In the UK alone, there are 1.7 million lone parents caring for 2.9...
France's view on the US President Bush
Worksheets - 8 pages - Political science
He is known as an execrable communicator, with a crippled syntax, reputed for his multiple blunders which the French media are only too eager to report: At the time of his visit to Europe in June 2001, the press thus awaited Bush resolutely, attentive even to the minutest blunder that the...
The integration of the European Union
Thesis - 6 pages - European union
On the 16th April, 2003, ten new members were signing the adhesion treaty to the European Union, in front of the Parthenon in Athens. The adhesion of these ten new countries, among which eight were ex-communist countries, represented a historic moment : the European unification eastwards, so much...
Landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
The conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina began shortly after the republic declared its independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in March 1992 and lasted nearly four years. A cease-fire was called in September 1995. A general framework agreement (the “Dayton...
Landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina - published: 27/12/2005
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina began shortly after the republic declared its independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in March 1992 and lasted nearly four years. A cease-fire was called in September 1995. A general framework agreement (the "Dayton Agreement")...
Manifesto of the Communist Party - a mediation between man and nature
Book review - 3 pages - Political science
Among the numerous works presented in The Marx and Engels reader, edited by Robert C. Tucker, I've decided to focus my study on that which seems to me to be the most influential text in Marx's work, the Manifesto of the Communist Party. The Manifesto was first published in 1848 in London upon...
In EU policy making, does the influence of private interest groups dwarfs those of publice interest groups - A discussion
Worksheets - 9 pages - European union
The European Commission recently counted that there were over 900 organizations interested to operate in Brussels. Most interested groups emerged after the post-war in Europe. The construction of organizations developed in the early 1990s which is the prime growth period in the European terrain....
To what extent does it make sense to consider the EU foreign policy as distinctive from the American one ?
Worksheets - 11 pages - European union
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the literature on American and European international policy has been exuberant. However, the policies continue to remain blurred. Indeed numerous scholars have emphasized overall and increasing divergence. Contradicting this divergence are others who are...
How and to what extent do domestic factors affect the nature of U.S. relations with other democratic states?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The manifestation of the American hegemony since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 has created a new pattern for international relations in which the United States is the ‘hyper power' everyone has to take into consideration before acting. France, once one...
Liberalizing the Services in the European Union: the Controversial Method of the Draft Services Directive
Worksheets - 13 pages - European union
Five years ago, the Lisbon European Council was a significant venture for the European internal market, with the hope of making the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world. This objective was to be achieved by 2010. During this summit, EU leaders requested that a...
The Cold War, an exception in the historical Russian-American relationship ?
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
Will the Cold War, in future be seen as an exception in the history of Russian-American relationship including the contemporary period (1992-2004) ? The Cold War lasted for nearly fifty years and has contributed to shape the whole world to the same extent that the two world wars have done, except...
