Niccolo Machiavelli
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) is one of the most ambiguous political scientist of the history. Some used to qualify him as being immoral because of his promotion of force and deception to protect a State. However, according to the researchers that have analyzed his works, he is “the...
Risk Society thesis - publié le 30/03/2007
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
By offering a radical reorientation of mainstream sociology, modern social theories illuminate 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...
The European North: Historical Geopolitics and International Institutional Dynamics
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
A “brave political experiment” calling for “unconventional decisions” promoting sub-regional cooperation that ultimately might develop into “a common European social and economic space” : this is how the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Viktor Khristenko, identified in...
The European citizenship: A transnational challenge
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
A citizen is “by definition a citizen among citizens of a country among countries. His rights and duties must be defined and limited, not only by those of his fellow citizens, but also by the boundaries of a territory [...]”. Hannah Arendt asserted thus, in 1968, that the concept of...
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...
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...
Nationalism and communism in North-East Asia: History, application and perspectives
Thesis - 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 way...
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...
Influence of Jerusalem's religious symbolic in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
The author 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 (ignoring the Palestinian Christian minority) and that it should be put under exclusive Jewish...
The Swedish model and the European integration
Thesis - 8 pages - Political science
Sweden officially joined the European Union on January 1st, 1995. Since that time Sweden is 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? It is 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...
Western-style Democracy and non-Western religions - the case of Islam - publié le 12/03/2007
Thesis - 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 were more suitable for democracy came under increasing attack from the early 1980s onwards, scholars as...
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...
