Another serious complication with the prevention of human rights abuses on the large scale is that they are almost always perpetrated with the complicity of large numbers of those who may not participate directly but whose inaction and indirect con Continue Reading...
Animal Farm starts with Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, drunkenly heading to bed. The animals gather for a meeting to hear Old Major, the prize boar, who tells them about how the humans exploit the farm animals and how they can get rid of their o Continue Reading...
Also, although not as skillfully manipulated by a totalitarian state, the media has a frightening amount of power in setting -- or not setting -- a national agenda in terms of 'what is important.' Until recently, genocide in Africa was hardly report Continue Reading...
A Critique of Democracy: the Latin American Left Introduction The Latin American Left was mainly inspired by the idealism of Marx. Marx (1873) believed that “the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind and tran Continue Reading...
Communism, at first glance, seems to be the exact opposite of fascism. Its supporters often describe it as a paradise, where each person does what they can and gets what they need. Efficiency is not the consciously stated goal, but it is the "natur Continue Reading...
A Description of the UN s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Economic Development The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of case of an existing social enterprise, the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, as well as an e Continue Reading...
1. Why is the state considered a central institution in comparative politics? What does state power look like, and where does it come from? Towards what ends do states use their power? Give detailed examples from three country-cases. The state Continue Reading...
Liberal States Values When curtains fell to mark the end of the cold war, countries like the United States who were the protagonists in the cold war era resorted to promoting international spread of democracy. This became guiding principle in the fo Continue Reading...
Orwell Social control is the cornerstone of both 1984 and Animal Farm. However, the methods of persuasion and propaganda used in these two Orwell novels differ from one another. Animal Farm exemplifies overt forms of persuasion, intimidation, and vi Continue Reading...
Democracy in Iran As pro-democracy movements spread across a huge segment of the Muslim world in the spring and early summer of 2011, there was a tremendous amount of speculation that Iran would be the next totalitarian regime to join the world's de Continue Reading...
Former Soviet Satellites and the European Union Recent decades have been decades of great change for the nations and peoples of Europe. The West has witnessed the gradual demise of interstate rivalries, the former system of wholly independent states Continue Reading...
POLITICAL ACTION & HOW DO ARENDT AND NIBUHR RECOMMEND GOING ABOUT POLITICAL ACTION? The objective of this work is to answer the question of what is political action and how do Arendt and Nibuhr recommend going about political action. Merriam-W Continue Reading...
ORWELL George Orwell 1984 Eerie parallels with today's online economy of words and knowledge George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 functions as a satire of many of the excesses of 20th century communism, such as everyday citizens' communal, monoton Continue Reading...
While the system is not exactly the same as that described in We, the result is much more dramatic, since a far greater number of Americans are disenfranchised. As I mentioned above, We was not the first dystopian work that I encountered. However, Continue Reading...
Features of Modern / Post-Modern Period Most historians term the era after the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, i.e., after the mid-18th century as the Modern Period in history; a period that has seen tremendous changes in politics, science Continue Reading...
liberal democracy? Who are/Were its competitors? This article by Francis Fukuyama was written 15 years ago, in 1989, so when reviewing his points, it is important to keep in mind that the views he makes are dated. Though his views are taken 15 year Continue Reading...
There are also the occurrences where rapid expansion has also led to an exceptionally high level of conflict and turmoil as well. The culture clash in India between American and Indian outsourcing companies is a case in point. And whole the Indian Continue Reading...
On 15 March 2000, for instance, public rallies, demonstration and strikes were banned precisely at the moment when the 18-party opposition Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) demanded national non-rigged elections. Some opposition leader Continue Reading...
Despite the high costs the Four Modernizations implied, China succeeded to enter "into the milieu of international bank loans, joint ventures, and whole panoply of once-abhorred capitalist economic practices." As it might be inferred from above, th Continue Reading...
Meeting the Objectives of the EU: What They Are, What They Entail for Member Nations, and Why They Are Difficult to Attain Without Absolute Supremacy That it would be difficult for the European Union (EU) to meet its objectives effectively without t Continue Reading...
Benito Cereno A New Deception: Comparing Benito Cereno to the Modern World Although Benito Cereno is presented as the captain of the ship, it is actually Babo, the slave, who is in control of the situation. Babo represents in Melville's Benito Cere Continue Reading...
The goals at which this process is aimed can concentrate on creating benefits primarily for one party or on creating benefits for both parties.' (van der Pluijm and Melissen, 2007, p.1) Multiple-sided city diplomacy is a "diplomatic process in whic Continue Reading...
S. foreign policy. Under this new approach, Carter would directly meet with only government officials that had favorable human rights records. The problem was that the United States' relationship with the Shah was the key for maintaining control in t Continue Reading...
Where, he would portray himself as a staunch anti-communist that supported the ideas of liberty. Yet, when he had taken control of the country he immediately began to rule with an iron fist. This authoritarian rule and the way that Diem was able to Continue Reading...
Many different types of governments have operated with this goal in mind, with varying degrees of success. Often, the most stable regimes are also the most repressive ones. Until the modern age, when our perspective if not the facts themselves have Continue Reading...
S. President George W. Bush. Thus, when the blast in Bali, at the southern point of Indonesia, directed the fury of 9/11 at a popular attraction to Australian holiday-makers, Australia became a nation motivated in foreign policy by the apparent threa Continue Reading...
This means that those providing the bulk of the revenue to the State are not the same as those receiving it. Those receiving (without paying) would naturally prefer more government hand-outs; if they are in the majority, the danger is that governmen Continue Reading...
Thus, these authors warn that the abuse of authority must be consistently checked and fought in order to keep it from expanding. This is currently being evidenced in our society. The Bush administration has repeated thwarted the power of Congress an Continue Reading...
This has been the basic rationale for every totalitarian state during the Twentieth Century. It is the idea that if the people relinquish their rights -- especially their rights to keep anything hidden from the government -- then the government will Continue Reading...
Political events in Ukraine in November and December of 2004 attracted attention of the world community to this country as the wind of democratic changes came to this former republic of the Soviet Union. Even though the Soviet Union collapsed 13 year Continue Reading...
For example, in the early days of the Russian Revolution there was a very high standard of democracy which those fighting the revolution created. In the early days soviet democracy prevailed, land and factories were turned over to peasant and worke Continue Reading...
Judicial Review The most important American political institution is the U.S. Constitution. Of course, this is only a document, but it is also an institution in its own way, for it is the basis of all American political institutions and practices. I Continue Reading...
Political Science The Republican Party triumphed a majority in both houses of the Congress in the fall of 1994. This was the first time since the 1952 landslide of Eisenhower. It was believed by many that the Republicans had achieved the partisan re Continue Reading...
Social Credit Score for Public Administration in the US?Research Topic and QuestionThe topic for this research would be the potential implications of introducing a social credit score system in the US.The research question would be: What are the pote Continue Reading...
Right and Left Wing Terror Groups in America 1 Extremism in the U.S. is on the rise, based on the rise in polarization throughout the country as the Left and the Right become more and more opposed to one another ideologically, politically, socially, Continue Reading...
Civil Order Control Civil order control has become a necessary aspect of modern day law enforcement. Inherent in civil order control, however, are a number of problems that have to be addressed in order for it to be effectively implemented, such as s Continue Reading...
Electronic Privacy Control Act of 1986 address? The ECPA addressed a variety of issues regarding the collection of information by government agencies using electronic devices. For instance, it placed more restrictions on wire tapping, such as the t Continue Reading...
