Is cooperation possible ? - publié le 03/03/2008
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
2001 saw the world united in indignation, and the emergence of a tacit promise to cooperate in the war to annihilate the flaw of terrorism. 2002 saw the same world divided and torn in the debate over a war carried out by those considering it as vital, and opposed as inconsiderate and unwise by...
Did the League of Nation fail?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The idea of an international organization find its roots in the early 18th Century, carried out through Kant's nib. As the world changes and goes towards a globalization of political, economical and social factors, the will of a new form of a society appears to be one of the major concepts of...
In which way can the Esping-Andersen theory help us into doing a comparative analysis of the European social systems? - publié le 29/02/2008
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Europe is facing major changes at the beginning of the 21st century. Many consider the 19th century as savage industrialization's one. Liberalism largely evolved in the 20th century as evidenced by the fantastic pace of growth of welfare state in many countries in the 1960s and the 1970s. Indeed,...
Lebanon's fragility: The case of the Civil War 1975-1990 - publié le 28/02/2008
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The states of the Arab East have always experienced challenging political and social issues mainly inherited from their creation by Great Powers after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Indeed, the Western organizational model of the time, i.e. nation-state, poorly fitted the regional realities....
Discuss the methods by which Britain became a great power
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The very notion of power and by extension the one of great power, have always been elaborate concepts to grasp. Should one study the strength of a nation from a historical perspective, then it appears that the notion of great power could only be defined comparatively. Indeed, it is only in its...
Democratic transitions in the Arab world
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
At the end of the Cold war, the political models of modernization different from democracy were totally discredited. Democracy, defined by Ghassan Salamé as an ‘arrangement institutionnnel qui permet de garantir la participation des citoyens au choix de leurs dirigeants par la voie...
The African Union and the Darfur crisis: Stakes, results and prospects
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Since the independence of Sudan in 1956, Darfur, situated in the western part of the country, has been confronted with numerous and violent conflicts. The actual crisis in the region began in February 2003 and opposed originally the non-Arab rebels of Darfur against the forces of the Sudanese...
What were the origins of the French Revolution? Economically, politically, culturally, intellectually
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Since the beginning of the Revolution, the contemporaries have looked for explaining the events that occurred during the French Revolution. They suggested several arguments about the causes of the revolution. Some argue that the Revolution is the consequence of a plot, an intellectual conspiracy....
Torture and Confession: History over Time and Space
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Torture must be humane, that is, it should cease immediately when the person confesses', wrote a French officer during the Algerian war, to regulate the practise of torture. This sentence reveals an interesting point, concerning the link between torture and confession. By being the only...
New Rome
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
French Minister Hubert Vedrine has admitted that since the fall of the Soviet Union's America is the only “superpower”. The United States is no longer in competition with other countries. America seems to be invulnerable and rules over international relationships because of which...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) law and the environment
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In 1979 the Brandt Commission recommended that an international trade organization incorporating both GATT and UNCTAD was the objective towards which the international community should work. This dream came true in January 1995 when the World Trade Organization (WTO) became the successor to GATT,...
Remembering Veronica Guerin
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Had Hamlet been Irish, he would certainly have said that 'there is something rotten in the State of Ireland'. So would Veronica Guerin, an investigative journalist who believed in exposing the truth about 'drug barons' and crime in Ireland. She confronted ruthless gang members,...
The American Declaration of Independence
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
On the 4th of July 1776, was adopted by the Second Continental Congress, the American Declaration of Independence, completing the Lee Resolution, that asserted the independence of the Thirteen Colonies. This Declaration proclaimed that the Thirteen British Colonies in North America were 'Free...
Can the military be a-political? Should it be?
Essay - 4 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 economic and...
Despite the state sovereignty principle, why have some states improve their human rights practices in response to international pressures?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
For World War II, a large majority of states had been involved in international organisations, like the UN, and they have been linked by international conventions and treaties. Obviously, because of the increase in international relationships, states always have an eye on anothers politics, which...
Review of Mearsheimer-Walt, "The Israel Lobby"
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The last few decades has witnessed what is perceived to be unconditional support for the state of Israel. This support, which began after the 1967 War, is not wavering and according to two international scholars, sometimes contradicts the best interests of the United States of America. At the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
