The European Union's Policy in African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries: Towards an Effective Democratisation?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
“Since 1992, the European Community has included in all its agreements with third countries a clause defining respect for human rights and democracy as ‘essential elements' in the EU's relationship. This clause is unique in bilateral agreements. This approach has been further...
Linguistic diversity in Europe: Strength or weakness?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
In 1919, after many debates, the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George concluded that the Versailles treaty would be written both in French and English. Since then, English has imposed itself in diplomacy, economic exchanges, Medias and so on. Nowadays, it seems that this language has gained...
Risk Society thesis
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
By offering a radical reorientation of mainstream sociology, modern social theory illuminates theoretical themes in environmental sociology. Indeed, it has recently begun to contest the honoured epistemological assumption of the environment as an independent, objective reality. New environmental...
Communatarism" in Great Britain and the "French Republican model" of integration: With which method should the public policies be controlled while dealing with a multicultural society
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The issues of national identity, citizenship and multiculturalism are definitely in the middle of nowadays debates. In his work, John Rex develops the approach that the development of multiculturalism policies might diminish tensions between dominant and minority groups within a contemporary...
Influence of Jerusalem's religious symbolic in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - publié le 14/03/2007
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The author, Wiezel takes position against a Palestinian-controlled Old Jerusalem, where all the holy and historical sites of Judaism stand. He states that Jerusalem is 'holier' to Jews than to Muslims, and that it should be put under exclusive Jewish jurisdiction for that very reason....
The Swedish model and the European integration - publié le 14/03/2007
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Sweden officially joined the European Union on January 1st, 1995. Since then, Sweden has been a part of the European Union, but it is said to be one of the most Euro-sceptical members of the Union. What are the causes for this strong Swedish Euro-scepticism? Is it linked to the special social...
Western-style Democracy and non-Western religions - the case of Islam
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Is Western-style democracy compatible with non-Western religions? Discuss primarily the question of the Islamic religion. Although the suggestion that certain religious traditions are more suitable for democracy, came under increasing debates from the early 1980s onwards, scholars, like...
The political role of the judges in law and politics
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
My presentation is concerned with the relationship between law/the judiciary and politics. The laws relating to civil and criminal wrongs are indeed made either by Parliament in the form of Acts of Parliament (also called statutes) or by the judges themselves (then called the common law). The...
The office of Minority Affairs (The Multicultural Resource Center) of the University of Kansas or The office of multicultural affairs
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Located on the KU campus, 145 Strong Hall, in the Multicultural building, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) has the main function of enhancing the educational opportunities of students. A certain interest is shown towards the African American, Asian American, Hispanic American and Native...
The structure of the social welfare - The welfare mix - publié le 02/03/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Over the past century, the provision of social welfare has changed dramatically, in both the recipients of welfare care and the scale of the social protection services. This evolution is mainly due to the development of welfare states. In the 1910s and 20s the growing movements, like the trade...
The structure of the social welfare - The welfare mix
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Over the past century, the provision of social welfare has changed drastically in both the recipients of this welfare care and the scale of social protection services. This evolution is mainly due to the development of welfare states. In the 1910s and ‘20s the growing of movements as trade...
American Civilization and World History: an essay on American Exceptionalism
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Alexis de Tocqueville was the first author to write that 'the position of the Americans' was 'quite exceptional.' But the modern notion of American Exceptionalism emerged in the 50s and 60s, and has been particularly challenged since then. This concept refers to the...
Critically discuss the legal theory of Austin - published: 28/02/2007
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The existence of law is one thing, its merit or demerit is another. John Austin (1790-1859) defines the essence of positivism in this one sentence, which is generally cited as the standard exposition of the imperative theory of law, from his book ?The Province of Jurisprudence Determined'...
Is civil disobedience ever justified?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
“Man is bound to obey secular princes in so far as this is required by order of justice. Wherefore if the prince's authority is not just but usurped, or if he commands what is unjust, his subjects are not bound to obey him, except perhaps accidentally, in order to avoid scandal or...
Describe and explain the varying significance of the Far Right in the French Fifth Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy - publié le 28/02/2007
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The first round of the French Presidential elections on April 21st, 2002, was a clap of thunder in the political landscape. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the candidate of "National Front", the Far Right leading party, won a staggering 16.86 % of the votes, eliminating from the run-off, the outgoing...
Multiculturalism in the UK or the end of a Utopia?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Have you ever tried to fill in a job application form in the UK? If so, you may have been surprised, as a foreigner, to be asked the colour of your skin (white British, white West European, white East European, black, etc.). In France such a thing has long been unfeasible, even if today, the...
Critically discuss the legal theory of Austin - published in 2007
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
"The existence of law is one thing, its merit or demerit is another." John Austin (1790-1859) defines the essence of positivism in this one sentence, generally cited as the standard exposition of the imperative theory of law, from his book: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832). A...
Describe and explain the varying significance of the Far Right in the French Fifth Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
April 21st, 2002, the first round of the French Presidential election, was a clap of thunder in the political landscape. Jean-Marie Le Pen, candidate of “National Front”, the Far Right leading party, won a staggering 16.86 % of the votes, eliminating from the run-off the outgoing...
Democracy in Nigeria at the dawn of the 21st century
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
“« Democracy is good, » says Godwin Eweye, a video-store owner, « but Nigeria is not yet fully democratic. »” A few days only after Nigeria's 2003 parliamentary elections, this local comment illustrates the enduring difficulties that the country faces in its attempt to consolidate its...
Cultural relativism or universalism ? An essay in political ethics
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
This is an essay on cultural relativism in the field of political ethics. Yesterday confined to anthropological studies, the idea infiltrated the domain of international morality after the Second World War. It developed from its original virtues of tolerance and understanding to more defensive...
Nation-state and globalization
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
This essay deals with one of the most controversial questions in today's social science debates: the relationship between the nation-state and globalization. Globalization, is understood quite loosely here as a series of contemporary and unprecedented developments in the economic, social and...
Nation-state and globalization - publié le 20/02/2007
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
This essay deals with one of the most controversial questions in today's social science debates: the relationship between the nation-state and globalisation. Globalisation, understood quite loosely here as a series of contemporary and unprecedented developments in the economic, social and...
Who governs in modern liberal democracies?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
"Imagination governs the world? said Napoleon Bonaparte three centuries ago. It may however, be difficult in today's world, to affirm who governs the world. Mankind has always been governed by numerous models. Thus, the Greeks invented democracy and were governed by the "demos", the Middle...
Public policies and globalization: classic liberalism, economic nationalism or embedded liberalism?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The last World Trade Organization summit illustrated the inability of governments to reach complete free trade agreements. The increasing number of cases of conflict presented to the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO, shows that there is still a lot to do in the field of cooperation, and a...
Civil - military relations in Israel
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Israel is a democratic republic and operates under the parliamentary system. Executive power is exercised by the prime minister and the government. It was founded in 1948.The Israeli defence forces, Tsahal, were also created in 1948, with the professionalisation of several paramilitary...
Can any theory fully explain the process of European integration? If not, why not?
Essay - 12 pages - Political science
European integration is a process which began with the birth of the European Coal and Steel Community the 18th of April 1952. This process was at first essentially economical, but the necessary structures needed for an economic integration led also to a political integration. This process has...
"The major parties of the Federal Republic of Germany provide better models of the 'catch-all party' (Kirchheimer) than do those of the French Fifth Republic and post-war Italy." Discuss - publié le 30/01/2007
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The Post war period was characterized by move towards spreading secular and mass consumer-goods societies. This note is valid in the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Fifth Republic, and post-war Italy. This major turn in societies had to be understood by political parties and translated in...
France under the Fifth Republic
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The French Fourth Republic collapsed following the rise of the civil war in Algeria. Its lack of stability, which was a consequence of its parliamentary structure and the weaknesses of its parties, did not manage to survive this major crisis, and pointed out the need for a stronger executive...
Extreme right in Belgium - publié le 22/01/2007
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
In September 2006, seventeen people have been arrested in Belgium for allegedly planning attacks aimed at "destabilising" the country's institutions, 10 of these 17 people where soldiers and the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement that they are people with an extreme-right...
New public management, which way?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Through a metaphorical use of language, this statement highlights the shift from the traditional model of public administration's model of bureaucracy (an organization typified by formal processes, standardization, and hierarchic procedures and written communication) to the New Public Management,...
