To what extent is the clausewitzian account of war a political instrument relevant in the twenty-first century ? - published: 28/01/2005
Dissertation - 5 pages - Political science
Clausewitz's description of war as a means to an end or, to use his own formulation, “the continuation of politics by other means”, must be interpreted against the contemporary intellectual background: the majority of enlightenment writers had regarded war as an aberration, an...
What is representative democracy? Is it aim to restrict or to promote popular rule? - published: 16/11/2004
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
One may accept, as Dahl did, that representative democracy is a means to democratise a government. Yet, representative democracy is far from being a true democracy, both restricting and promoting popular rule. The concept of representative democracy derived from the criticism of absolutism, held...
What is representative democracy? Is it aim to restrict or to promote popular rule?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Political science
One may accept, as Dahl did, that representative democracy is a means to democratize a government. Yet, representative democracy is far from being a true democracy, both restricting and promoting popular rule. The concept of representative democracy derived from the criticism of absolutism, held...
What are the common points and contrasts between national identity and European identity
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The national identity and the European identity - National identity is well-established and no one would try to challenge it; the European identity is still a theoritical concept which the European institutions are still working on. According to Shore, ?national identity derives from a...
'In Europe, extreme right-wing parties only do well when they are headed by a charismatic party leader'. Discuss with reference to extreme right-wing parties in two or more countries.
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
In this essay, I will be referring to extreme right-wing parties and will widen my analysis to populist right-wing parties which often share similar aspects with the former ones (except they don't relate to an ideology for example). I will focus on three countries (France, Austria and The...
Globalization and culture
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The term globalization describes the increase in mobility of goods, services, labor, technology and capital throughout the world. It is widely acknowledged that globalization, however defined, has penetrated, albeit to varying depths, into all major facets of social, economic, political and...
Efficiency and Public Administration
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Our reflection will be based primarily on the works of both Janice Stein and Christopher Dunn. Further, other scholarly sources and personal considerations will also be accounted for our reflection on global and international relations. The first part of the reflection will focus around the...
The role of religious actors in the democratization process
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The purpose of this paper will be to study the role of different religious sectors in the democratization process in post-communist Europe, that is to say the role of religious faith, and of religious institutions in the overturning of communism and in the downfall of the Soviet Union. Many...
Outline some of the key difficulties we encounter in comparative politics and discuss some of the means we might use to overcome them
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Comparative politics is essential as it helps political scientist to avoid ethnocentrism in analysis and it leads to the developments and creations of theories and subsequently their related concepts and hypotheses about the relationships between political phenomena. However as all the different...
Elitism and participation
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The document analyzes the question of who actually governs and should govern a State, and by the means through which a political system should be governed. Jean-Jacques Rousseau has described in The Social Contract, the model of what he thought to be the ideal political system: in a small,...
The enemy : the condition of the political or a political construction ?
Course material - 4 pages - Political science
According to Schmitt's theory, a political notion is centered on the state, not as an institution, but as the result of an interaction between various components of society. Men constitute a governmental association where the state becomes the factor of unity in this association. However,...
