Earth global warming, any solutions?
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
One of the most important ecological problems of the last decade is the global warming of the earth, in fact most scientists agree that the earth has gained about one half to one degree Fahrenheit. The consequences will be dramatic: floods, enormous storms, catastrophic ecological changes. For...
The future of financial centres in the European Union
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
The working of European Union was expected to be similar to the United States of America. Theorists believed that Europe will have a financial hub similiar to the Wall Street in the United Sates and questioned the future of the European Union. Establishing inter-market deals among the European...
Communism in the USA - published: 29/01/2002
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
To establish a real picture of communism in the USA and to understand its actual situation, I will first talk about the reasons why the USA cannot be seen as the best place to be a communist and then I will ask myself whether we can say there is an agony of communism in the country since 1990.
Communism in the USA
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
To establish a real picture of communism in the USA and to understand its actual situation, I will first talk about the reasons why the USA cannot be seen as the best place to be a communist and then I will ask myself whether we can say there is an agony of communism in the country since 1990.
The Zapatistas movement
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
When the Zapatista army emerged from the mountains and jungle of the previously forgotten Mexican state of Chiapas in the early hours of the 1st January 1994, (the ones without faces, the ones without voices) they stepped directly into the media spotlight, making front page news around the world....
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,...
A European model poised to expand?
Essay - 7 pages - European union
The European model of integration is highly developed when compared to other countries. European regionalism is the only regionalism in the international system where there is an attempt to democratize politics above the level of the state to enhance a decisive shift from diplomacy to politics....
The impact of e-commerce
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
What exactly is e-commerce ? It's an example of one of the many buzzwords that are used concerning the internet that no one really knows the definition. E-commerce refers to selling, advertising and marketing products, all done over the internet. In other words, the e-commerce allows to...
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,...
The drug trade
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
In the shuffle of the post Cold War geopolitics of transnational threats, drug trafficking suddenly appeared as one of the new major threats to the world order. Yet the drug trade has undergone a long time-span evolution over several centuries. This challenge to regional security is all the more...
China : a power in transition
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Deng Xiaoping's death on February , 1997, left China without the " father " of the evolution it had been following since 1978. . Though he was a survivor of the Long March, he repelled a lot of Mao Zedong's inheritance and introduced his country to what is certainly the single most...
How to prevent another desert war?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
My purpose here is not to draw the historical background of the Western Sahara conflict (as it has already been done) but to give some insights on how to prevent another war in the unstable area of Maghreb. The Western Sahara is known to be the last colony of the world that has existed in spite...
The new Labour government stance on the Economic and Monetary Union (1997)
Essay - 23 pages - Economy general
In this dissertation we will focus on how the government mustered the largest possible support on a very risky issue. This was done by examining the political, economic and European background of Britain, which had a definitive influence on the government's decision. In the second half of...
Garten (Jeffrey E.), the Big Ten
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Jeffrey E. Garten is a Washington executive who entered the Clinton administration in the summer of 1993 as the ?Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade'. During his tenure, he decided to launch the Big Emerging Markets' project ('BEMs' project). This project flagged...
The Enlargement issue in the European Union
Essay - 8 pages - European union
The European Union (EU) has been confronted to the enlargement issue since its very creation. It constitutes now one of the main questions to be discussed at the Inter Governmental Conference (IGC). This negociation, started in March 1996, enabled the European Union to face the new demands of...
US-Japan and US-China Relations
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
The development of the Asian economy (China and Japan in particular), has had a great impact on the US-Japan and US-China relationship. Fears of a trade war between the world's two largest economies have worsened since the implementation of the GATT (1988-1993). The relations with the China...
The "Arab World"
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
The feeling of being a part of the Arab nation is hindered by the diversity of territories and nations, by the divisions determined by historical backgrounds and an unequal access offered by the territories of the different states. These disparities led to national egoism. Nevertheless, the...
