Why does Rawls believe that decent, non liberal peoples should be tolerated? How is this toleration realized at the level of the Society of Peoples?
Text commentary - 4 pages - Political science
In The Law of Peoples, John Rawls explains how his theory of justice can be extended to the international level. The Society of Peoples, he describes allows two kinds of bona fide members: liberal democratic societies and what he calls decent non-liberal people. Even though these 'decent'...
French Revolution and religions: How has French Revolution structured the history and the debate about religions? From the cult of the Supreme Being to the separation between Church and State
Course material - 10 pages - Political science
Cuius regio, eius religio', here is the idea that has lead French politics for more than a thousand years. Indeed, before the Revolution in 1789, catholic religion was deeply involved in the political systems, whether it was at the level of royal power or at the level of high local powers....
The American constitution
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
First and foremost, the Constitution gives a clear definition of the three main powers described by Montesquieu in Spirit of Laws. Let's remember that the United States of America is a country where a presidential regime predominates. To put it differently, it's customary to say that...
Statistical Discrimination: Towards a new conception of the French Nation
Essay - 13 pages - Political science
Yazid Sabeg, Commissioner on Diversity has announced that Nicolas Sarkozy will propose to submit to Parliament a bill 'to make a lawful measure of diversity' on the team at IFG actively working on the issue of segregation which is linked to that of the usefulness and legitimacy of such...
Comparison of American, French and Russian presidencies
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Presidential regimes are not the same through the world. People give their presidents certain powers but also enable other body to control or remove the president in case of need through a constitution and by the way of elections. We discuss about three presidential regimes in this document:...
The Grand Paris: an adequate framework for Ile de France's new stakes?
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Ile de France, the richest region of France and Europe, faces both advantages and drawbacks related to its 'metropolitanization'. While this expansion is the result of the region's attractiveness and dynamism, urban sprawl raises many difficulties for Ile de France. There is a major...
The relationship between religion and politics in Europe: Perspectives of Johann Baptist Metz and Benedict XVI
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
I will illustrate how Metz and Benedict treat the relationship between religion and politics by focusing on how each views the economy in terms of economic justice, a principle inherent in Christian social teaching, and the solutions they offer as a means to fashion an economy in which Christian...
Western and Indigenous conceptions of intellectual property: similarities, differences and convergences
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Anthropological discussions of intellectual property developed in the beginning of the 20th century, mainly as part of a debate that is more generally oriented towards the understanding of human creatitivy, and the value attributed to those creations. But observing those different forms of...
State Sovereignty - Has the Role of the State Under Global Governance, Increased, Changed, Diminished or Stayed the Same?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Depending on the theoretical frame used by scholars, the perception of a state, at the time of increased globalization is really different. Its role, its place in international society, its obligations and what jeopardizes it, gets completely antagonist answers. Between those who believe that the...
Contemporary political mass movements and ideologies, PO 336 Dr. Tamir Bar-On, Term paper "El Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional"
Text commentary - 10 pages - Political science
Beyond the political fight, the choice of the date was surely not innocent since it marked the effectiveness of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, United States and Mexico, and as a consequence the triumph of neoliberalism in the country. Among the 10 millions...
Disability: Whose rights are right?
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
The Fourteenth Amendment to The Constitution of the United States guarantees all citizens equal rights and our nation's song talks about a land where we are free. Yet, unless equal means having no access into most public buildings and activities, or even worse left, by fearful relatives, to rot...
The African American as minority group
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
An Inter-American Convention against Racial Discrimination would significantly increase the value of existing standards and international efforts to fight against discrimination. A regional agreement would help counteract the powerful legacy of exploitation, discrimination and marginalization...
Laws of forgiveness
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
The factors that drive immigration control policy outcomes are plentiful as numerous scholars have attempted to explain why. Each of these offerings explain more sufficiently than others depending on the context of the outcome, whether it be countries, political systems, or types of immigration....
Minority Political Incorporation in San Diego
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
As San Diego's first Latino mayor, succeeding a White Republican, the key issue of your mandate will be the political incorporation of minorities that mobilized to elect you. Your election is a beginning: minority groups legitimately expect a change in city politics: they want a true...
The Proliferation of Local Governments
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
According to John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, "individual liberty is individual power". Applied to local governments, this motto seems to be a good general explanation for their recent proliferation: it is a quest for independence and liberty that seems to have led...
Burmese migrants in Malaysia: from one hell to another
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Burma got its independence from Great Britain in 1948 and became a democratic republic for only fourteen years. Since 1962, a military junta rules over Burma. That is to say, the democratic republic ended with the military coup d'Etat of General Ne Win. He founded the Burma Socialist Program...
Prevention in healthcare
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Most developed countries have implemented healthcare systems. As reminded by Bruno Palier in The Healthcare Policy Quadrilemna, these policies were led with common objectives: "to help the sick on low incomes, then to guarantee a substitute income for salaried workers suffering from illness and,...
Post communist transition - Paper 3
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
After the collapse of the Soviet system, corruption in post-communist countries surged. Some of the post-communist nations were more successful in dealing with corruption than others. Do you believe that corruption was and still is a big obstacle to the development of these nations? Please...
Racism exists
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Racism exists everywhere you go. During the last fifty years, since the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of human rights, the international community has made some important advances in the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. A treaty to...
The return of History and the end of dreams
Book review - 5 pages - Political science
In the early 1990s, Fukuyama predicted the End of History. One is witnessing a shift in geopolitics, moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar one, or even bipolar according to Chinese scholars like Jin Carong, special advisor in foreign policy for the Government . As Kagan wrote in his book,...
In your view could the collapse of socialism/ communism have been avoided or postponed in Central and Eastern Europe?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The main issue is indeed to know whether the system of the Soviet Union could have been reformed in order to last longer. Some reforms could have been conceivable but they were so deep, so huge that it would have led to a complete transformation of the whole system with, for example, redefining...
News media : is the "fourth estate a power?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Today, the permanent and instantaneous flow of information pass through a wide range of channels, called 'the media'. There are two types of channels: print media (e.g. newspapers) and broadcast media (e.g. television, radio). It is precisely the capacity to create information, that is at...
Democracy: the Swedish Way
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
For years, Sweden has been considered as a well being country, with a high quality of living, safe, environmentalist, peaceful and very democratic where citizens take part in the development of their society. Swedish society, however seems to be in mutation for some decades, due to globalization,...
Religion and politics in the American society in the second half of the 20th century
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Several fundamental changes took place at the core of the American society in the second half of the 20th century, especially in terms of the relation between religion and politics. Whilst the notion of 'Fourth Great Awakening' is controversial, the fact remains that America has been...
The role of religion in American politics and society
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Whilst some philosophers, like Nietzsche for example, argue that "God is dead" in European societies, religion still plays a fundamental role in the definition of today's American politics and society. This difference can be explained by the fact that, since its constitutional creation,...
The theory of nonviolence and its religious and political implications
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Mohandas Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader and major actor of the Indian independence movement against British occupation, was the first to theorize nonviolence in the 1920's. His pioneering and successful use of Satyagraha, promoting resistance to despotism through civil...
Cultural politics in modern China
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
In 1966, 72 year old Mao Tse-tung staged a revolutionary drama, stimulating a cataclysmic upheaval that he termed “The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”. Decades after the fact and controversies over the nature and results of the Cultural Revolution continue to rage today....
National Security as an ambiguous symbol, by Arnold Wolfers - publié le 29/10/2009
Book review - 2 pages - Political science
In this text written in 1952, Arnold Wolfers tries to point out the scope of the concept of national security, its meaning and its various implications as well as the way the states deal, and should deal, with it. We will first clarify the evolution of the notion of national interest, which...
Film Review : Hamas : Behind the Mask
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
As indicated in the title of the movie, this documentary strives to unveil to us the depths of the Islamic Resistance Movement, the Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization by the European Union, the United States, Israel and the Canada. It has been shot during the years 2004-2005 and...
The politics of regional economics (Halliday chapter 9, Owen chapter 7)
Text commentary - 1 pages - Political science
In Halliday's text I distinguished three main points of interest, with respect to the interactions between politics and economy. His approach underlines that the Middle East crisis lies in the political economy is all the more interesting, since in France the mainstream popular view considers...
