Basic knowledge on terrorism
Worksheets - 9 pages - Political science
This fact sheet summarizes the main concepts of terrorism and provides an overview of the various terrorist groups in existence.
Country Risk : Social and Political Dynamics
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
Despite their effects on growth and macroeconomic equilibria, social and political crises have been introduced only recently into country risk analysis. Recent crises (Syria, Arab springs, Sahel civil war) put forward those issues and highlighted the gaps in current methods. The analysis of...
How is social protection organized in France in the field of work?
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
For thirty years, the labor market has undergone profound transformations. The labor force has been increasing, mainly due to demographics. It is therefore important to frame at best the working conditions of all the active people who participate in the country's economy. Branch of social...
The Non-gouvernmental organizations
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a public interest organization that is neither a government or an international institution. An NGO is a private actor participating in an international school of thought supported by an international institution. Marcel Merle defines NGO as "Any group,...
Imagine the conversation between Nick Clegg and David Cameron when they negotiate the coalition government
Worksheets - 1 pages - Political science
Thursday, 6th May 2010, Britain voted. David Cameron, leader of the conservative party, is now the prime minister of United Kingdom. After the results of the elections and the breakthrough of Liberal Democrats party, David Cameron has called Nick Clegg, the leader of this party, in 10 Downing...
Two-party system in the United States
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
"We are moderate people, not extremist", declared Hillary Clinton at a meeting in Iowa during the race for the Democrats nomination in 2007. It is a statement which applies to the American people as much as to the political parties. Indeed, the United States, the country which is often upheld as...
Evolution of the concept of the Rule of Law in Europe
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
The concept of the Rule of Law as set down in the Treaty of the European Union or in certain constitutions of the countries in Europe is closely linked to the issues and concerns that are specific to the second half of the twentieth century. It highlighted the fundamental rights, social rights,...
Race and gender as structuring factors of election: A typically American reality?
Worksheets - 1 pages - Political science
Does racism still prevail in the US? The last election in the United States was a forceful reminder that race and gender have always played a role in the American elections and, more generally, in the American society. It is only in 1920 that American women were allowed to vote and much later in...
American Schools and school system in USA
Worksheets - 1 pages - Political science
Each state defines its own educational system, there are no national decisions or laws determining the syllabuses, the contents of the High School Diploma (HSS), or even the length of compulsory education. Some Americans argue that this lack of cohesion partly accounts for the very poor standarts...
Do the U.S. really constitute a united country?
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
The people who wrote the Constitution and those who voted it had a goal to create that is “a more perfect union”. Still what is the measure of the perfection? Two hundred years of independent history, of steady and reputed democracy? What does “a union” mean? Finally, does USA...
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...
Multiculturalism - An essay
Worksheets - 1 pages - Political science
Multiculturalism is often associated to the Anglo-Saxon social model and way of integrating foreign people. Although some analysts might think that multiculturalism should stay forever the best way to deal with the globalization and its challenges, it seems that the liberal opinion wants to push...
Warning of food riots : time to change - publié le 24/06/2008
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
"A little conversation, a little more action please": Both people and the environment need action more than ever. Yet, what should our priorities be? Should we aim to protect the environment or feed more people? This dilemma is increasingly facing developing and emerging countries. In Asia, more...
Country sheet: Belgium
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
The territory of Belgium has always been subject to the influence of both the German and Latin world. So when Belgium separated from the Northern Netherlands in 1830, a cultural pluralism was already there. It is those differences in language, culture and so on between the different parts of the...
Genetically Modified Organism
Worksheets - 5 pages - Political science
A Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is a plant, or an animal whose genetic code has been altered, subtracted, or added in order to give it characteristics that it does not have naturally.
U.S. policies towards the United Nations and the development of international law over the next two years
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
Two years before the presidential elections of 2008, the context of the relations between the United States (U.S.) and the United Nations (U.N) is at a turning point. The new Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, will enter into office on January 1, 2007, and it is likely that he will bring a new...
Nuclear proliferation (March 2007)
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
With the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, a wind of hope blew across the world. Nuclear proliferation was thought to be a thing of the past, and the building of a peaceful world was believed to be possible. Unfortunately, this season of optimism was short-lived, and soon realised...
Pro-israeli lobbies in the United States
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
The Jewish community in the USA is often criticized because of the belief that it is responsible for the USA's foreign policy in the Middle East. There's a strong belief that the Jewish community is represented by very powerful and organized organizations, that exert a great influence in...
How should liberal democracies faced with a threat of terrorism deal with a ticking bomb situation?
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
Since the destruction of the World Trade Centre in 2001, the United States Government is involved in a "war against terrorism". After the scandals about torture, in Abu Ghraib or in the secret American prisons in Eastern Europe, the international community, especially the Council of Europe,...
Israeli Politics
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
From a European point of view, the Israeli political system considers the Fourth Republic in France the worst period. It was unable to resolve the Algerian insurrection because of the change of the government and the recent setbacks suffered in the attempts to build a viable coalition government...
Are liberty and security inconciliable?
Worksheets - 2 pages - Political science
The striking and massive waves of harms that are threatening the society explain and justify a radical change in our scheme of civil liberties. Generally speaking, people are ready to sacrify a part of their rights and liberties in order to improve their physical security. The main issue is that...
Violation of Human Rights at Guantanamo Bay
Worksheets - 4 pages - Political science
After 09/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration declared war to Al Qaeda. As Commander in chief of the Armed Forces, President Bush authorized the detention of non-American citizens considered as "enemy combatants" (Fogarty 2005, 54). A classified report prepared by Defence Department...
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...
Nationalism and Communism in North-East Asia: history, application and perspectives - publié le 21/03/2007
Worksheets - 13 pages - Political science
From many perspectives, North-East Asia seems to be the area of paradoxes. The astonishing economic development of the region in the second part of the twentieth century, despite a troubled geopolitical context, is a great example of the peculiar ability of these countries to invent their own...
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 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...
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...
