Monroe Doctrine, Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty, and Spanish-American war
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
The Monroe Doctrine was setout in 1823 by the president Monroe under the influence of John Quincy Adams. It expressly advocates the US to intervene in Latin America if any European power was to interfere in internal affairs of the Latin American countries. The purpose was limit the European...
What was the nature of the power of the precolonial Southeast Asian state and the power of the peasantry? Was there a shift in the balance of power between the state and the peasantry with the advent of colonialism? Did it become less or more 'rational'
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Southeast Asia is not an homogeneous region. That is why it can hardly been analysed as a whole and therefore must be divided into several groups. Concerning the issues related to the relations between the state and the peasantry, South East Asia countries belong mainly to two groups. According...
Justice depends on the identification of the individuals with their community
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Seyla Benhabib in The Claims of Culture reported the case of a young Laotian American woman abducted from her work at Fresno State University and then raped. Her assailant, a Hmong/Laotian immigrant, argued that among his tribe this behaviour is the customary way to choose a bride. He uses...
British Politics and Society since 1940: From Blitz to Blair
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
"Let's be frank about it, most of our people have never had it so good? (Harold Macmillan, 1957). To What extent did the dominance of the Conservatives between 1951 and 1964 rely on affluence and social change rather than politics? Following the 1945's General Elections defeat, no one...
Politics of the European Union
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
Since its foundation in the late 1950's, the European Union has seen its membership growing from 6 to 27 countries in 2007, with the accession of Bulgaria and Romania. The process might not stop at this point, as other countries such as West Balkans, Turkey, and eastern countries (former parts of...
Pluralism, democracy, and citizenship
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
‘Most people think that democratic decisions have special moral force - which we have good reasons to obey laws that are democratically chosen. If this is true, why is it true? If it's not true, why is it not?' Democracy is commonly regarded as the best, or the least bad, political system...
The Politics of Development
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
"What are the diverse meanings of ?development'? How do they reflect the different interests that are involved? The idea of development was first evoked by former US President Truman in 1949, in the context of dawning cold war opposing western economies to communism, in order to justify the...
Liberal feminism, a white, racist bourgeois movement?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Women have always been considered as the ‘weak sex', in opposition to the ‘strong sex' represented by men. Hence, they have always suffered from being oppressed and subordinated to men. Yet in order to be no longer discriminated against a condition which they did not chose, women...
What to call the genocides of the Second World War and why?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
“Historians are not always trustful guides when we have to reconstitute past”. Those words, of Lucy DAWIDOWICZ -an American historian who wrote quite a lot of books about the historiography of genocides- directly aimed at criticizing historians of genocides, who treated the murder by...
How and why has the adoption of free market economic policies affected the consolidation of democracy?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
“Economic factors have significant impact on democratization but they are not determinative.” (Huntington 1991: 59). To Huntington, there is a clear link between economy and democracy as a form of regime, bond that few people could deny nowadays. Actually, this bond can be shown by the...
Parties and party systems in contemporary democracies
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Laver and Schofield wonder what makes length of a government's life through the examples of Italy and Germany, but also of other countries. Firstly, is the number of parties of the political system related to cabinet stability? This is right in Italy, Belgium and Finland. They have a higher...
Assess the claim that Thatcherism decisively recast political and economic relationships in the 1980s
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
Thatcherism is a political thought applied by the 3 successive governments led by Margaret Thatcher, from 1979 to 1990. It quickly evolved as a doctrine. Thatcherism came at a time when the post-war consensus was collapsing, and aimed at checking the decline of the British economy, suffering...
Devolution
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Devolution is “a form of subsidiary passing power back to the people “ ; “ it is the transfer to a subordinate elected body , on a geographical basis, of functions at present being exercised by Ministers and Parliament.“ (“Definitely British, Absolutely American!”,...
Is Russian political culture a serious obstacle to democratization?
Essay - 6 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,...
How has the nature of war changed? Has it changed the way of making peace?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
“War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention” . This quotation of Sir Henry Maine seems obvious: wars have been a common feature of mankind history. On the other hand, implementation of durable peace, and not only end of the war, is a more intricate notion. The...
Putin's Russia
Dissertation - 7 pages - Political science
As a way of introducing our subject, and in an effort to make it more dynamic, I chose to start writing an article which is essential to provide views of Putin's Russia as I interpret it from local and foreign press. After the fall of communism in the early 1990's, Russia was...
Milestones in the emergence of the Palestinian problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
In Critique of the Gotha Programme, written in 1875, Marx distinguishes different stages of communism from "crude communism? to a "higher phase of communism?. He defines crude communism as "a communist society [which has not] developed on its own foundations, but on the contrary, [has] just...
Is the Common Agricultural Policy indispensable for the future of Europe ?
Essay - 22 pages - Political science
The CAP has long been a stumbling block among EU members. Last year, Jacques Chirac strongly opposed Tony Blair's proposal about the CAP. Indeed, France is the country which receives more agricultural subsidies while the United Kingdom does not get any concern in the agricultural policies. The...
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
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...
The relationship between the different types of suffrage and the creation (or construction) of democratic institutions in France from 1789 to 1870
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
From 1789 to 1870 in France, not less than eight constitutions and twelve regimes followed one after another. France also experienced all types of suffrages, from the most restricted one of the Ancient Regime, to the universal manhood suffrage. This period is undeniably crucial to one who aims to...
The French policy in sub-Saharan Africa since 1960 - publié le 12/04/2007
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
The French military presence in Africa has been a major determinant of African political issues since 1960. The French army has stayed in Africa to accomplish several missions. Those missions were all aimed at maintaining stability. Some were intended to defend countries against foreign and...
Is there a French Affirmative Action Policy?
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
Affirmative action was born in the United States. It was originally designed to favour Black people, whose ancestors where slaves. Then, such programs extended to other underprivileged categories of the population: the disabled, the women, the Latinos. The first to use the phrase...
The French policy in sub-Saharan Africa since 1960
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
The French policy in Africa is frequently deemed neo-colonialist. France would enduringly attempt to keep its former colonies within its sphere of influence for economic and political reasons. Cases in point are the lyrics of the song “Françafrique” by the Ivorian descent artist Tiken...
Reflection on a discourse by Tony Blair to the American Congress
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Tony Blair addressed a discourse to the congress of the United States of America (USA) on July, 17th, 2003. It is a political text strongly related to the political context at that point of time, which I will discuss later on. The discourse can be explained by looking at each of the sentences and...
Le concept universel des droits de l'Homme a pris racine dans les pensées de la politique occidentale, peut-on donc dire qu'il peut s'appliquer pour tous les êtres humains ?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters sans frontières… voici quelques-unes des organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) présentes dans le monde, qui oeuvrent pour la protection des droits de l'Homme. Il s'agit d'organisations internationales, mais cela veut-il dire que les...
The "Memorial Laws"
Essay - 12 pages - Political science
In the first part of this paper, I give an account of a recent controversy that arose in France and in which historians played a significant role. This controversy involves a number of actors: the French government, which passed the so-called “memorial laws”; the interest groups that...
The Committee of the Regions
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The construction of the European Union is, and has always been done by states. Since the Maastricht treaty however, sub national authorities have an official advisory body from which they can influence the making of the European policy: the Committee of the regions. This committee is made of 317...
To what extent is Belgium a sui generis federation?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Only 25 countries out of the 193 world-wide existing operate with a federal political system . If we look at the ones situated in Europe, there are very few: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain , and Switzerland. I am here interested in the newest one: Belgium. The reforms starting the...
How were the 2006 labour protests seen in France and abroad? - publié le 05/04/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
On 9 December 1905, a law was passed in France separating the church and the state. However, today in the United States of America, the President takes an oath on the Bible to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic. To the French, it may sound...
What was 'Tito's way', and how successful was it?
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
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...
