Politics Essays

The term “culture wars” has become increasingly descriptive of the driving forces in American political life since the 1960s. The clash between what is broadly labeled conservative and progressive values energized events such as the struggle over civil rights in the 1960s American South and the controversy over the Vietnam War.

The history of the relationships amongst the various peoples and nations of the world has always been turbulent and full of conflict. Countless Wars have been fought between nations and many atrocities have been committed. Empires have come and gone and boundaries and borders have continuously shifted and changed.   

There had been a few differences between the speeches of Obama and Kennedy. First, there is the matter of the definition of global citizenship. For Obama, global citizenship is described as the unity of people, races, and nations whereas Kennedy defines it as the right to freedom of each individual, nation, and race. 

Local heads of government throughout the country in Indonesia are elected directly. In the local elections the issues based on social and economical grounds relating to the regions take up the centre stage, and the intensity of the various factors in deciding the outcome of the elections vary from region to region. 

The collection and use of funds in each region are governed by the local governments. This gives the governments the autonomy to carry out fund allocation and management that sees the Self-development of the specific areas. A borough is a town smaller than a city though has its own municipal level operation. 

Palestine has attracted support from various factions. It has received increasing support financially, militarily, and politically. Many countries showed support in Palestine’s bid to earn recognition in the United Nations. Wars are very expensive; any country participating in war may require support. 

The Turkey-US ties have deteriorated adversely in recent times, as a result of several diplomatic constraints and difficulties; these have put Turkey’s allegiance to the US in constant doubt. Turkey-US diplomatic ties started experiencing a downturn in the wake of the Cyprus crisis, and the later Turkish attack on Cyprus.

RAMSI has really made a commendable difference to the general security and stability of the Solomon Islands. This has been happening over the past few years. Research shows that the Regional Assistance Mission in the Solomon Islands started to operate there in the year 2003. This was after it was requested by the Solomon Islands government to restore law and order therein.

The author of the paper outlines that President Woodrow Wilson moved to support the anti-Huerta movement led by Venustiano Carranza because Carranza promised his followers to support the reforms instituted by Madero and to do so through a new constitutional government. The Carranza party called itself the Constitutionalists.

J.C. Watts was born in a family of six, him being the fifth child in Eufaula, Oklahoma in the year 1957.  Eufaula is reported to be a small town in east-central Oklahoma and currently, he and his family reside in Norman. During his active time, he became a spokesperson for many bodies that comprise Big Sisters- Big Brothers and YMCA.

This proposal seeks to investigate the activities in foreign affairs by Oman and the role of the nation’s leader, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, in shaping this effective course. The research shall catalog and analyze the foreign relations issues, related events, and actions and initiatives pursued by Oman from 1970 to the present time.

Whereas broadly speaking private policy is the area of law in an association that impacts the relations between individuals or groups without the interference of the state or government. In most cases, the public/private policy distinction is bemused by laws that govern private relations while having been passed by legislative passage.

Data will be collected through group surveys although its effectiveness will depend on the fact that the respondents who will be chosen will be in a position to give relevant information in groups. A sample of the correspondents from private and public sectors will be selected to fill the structured questionnaires or respond to the interview questions.

The international community faces a resurgence in the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Since nuclear weapon was used by the United States on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 -- during World War II -- leading to the Japanese surrender, the international community has endeavored to prevent any future use of the weapon.

Therefore, Americans take into consideration that they are not alone in the fight against the terror menace and confront the related threats for their foreseeable future. In the United States and the world at large, it has become a great concern to continue taking aggressive steps to uncover individuals or groups involved in terrorist activities (National Strategy for Combating Terrorism 5).

The Gulf Cooperation Council as consolidated power originates from the observable fact that GCC countries depend heavily on oil and gas reserves to generate significant financial benefits in all sectors. As such, the current power in terms of the wealth of GCC countries poses a peculiar question to the scholars and organizations interested in the future prospects of GCC.

The objective of this study is to examine Oman’s mediation role in regional conflicts through the case of the Iranian nuclear deal. The methodology of the study involves the use of content analysis. A critical area of investigation will be to scrutinize the country’s foreign policy and its influence on Oman’s mediatory role in the Iranian nuclear deal.

The importance of Australia being a food bowl of Asia should not be understated. However, the major question running in everyone’s mind is the feasibility of this government objective. Comprehending the way in which Australia can end up in this scenario is the most essential part of its implementation.

The federal and the state government continue to acknowledge that there are substantial benefits both the government and its citizens can gain from these changes, particularly in pursuing a more citizen-oriented approach to service delivery through the integration of interactive processes that ensure information sharing.

There are a number of similarities as well as differences between analysis for policy and analysis of policy. One of the similarities is that the two fields of analysis look at the issue of policy, how policies are formulated and their implementation. Another similarity between analysis for policy and analysis of policy is that both involve the processes involved in analyzing policies.

Policies just like law give the order in the way things are carried out and especially help the stakeholders interrelate without conflicts and also help them have their rights obeyed and followed. A country with good policies is able to develop the sports industry and especially is able to produce high-profile sportsmen and women.

The case study will enable the researcher to rise above the statistical results of the quantitative research and find out the behavioral conditions through the perspective of the actors. The case study will integrate both qualitative and quantitative data so as to explain the process of the Arab Spring as well as the outcome. 

Liberalism is guided by hope. They advocate for peaceful relationships between states and view the welfare and security of all people as a compassionate ethical concern (Jones 2012). Realism theories can be used in nuclear proliferation in Iran, North Korea, and other affected countries (Hymans 2006).

Bacchi (2009) has remarked that commonplace view to policy analysis needs to be challenged. This is because governments while devising policies, seem to be going by the conventional method of identifying a fixed problem and providing policies in reaction to these problems. Normally these problems do not fall within the purview of the policy process.

The world faces insecurity from various challenges of security, including both the traditional and non-traditional challenges, which have and continue to manifest themselves in the global community in a myriad of ways. The purpose of this paper shall be to design research that will tackle the issue of security in contemporary global politics.

Democracy is a political system of government where the government is for, by, and of the people. In other words, the masses elect to accord power to individuals that form the government. Although democracy is a founding belief in the globe today, the discrepancies in definition have been key propellants for the evolution of democracies to complex and diverse dimensions.

Geopolitical communities are formed by either natural or human-made boundaries.” A river, mountain range, or a valley may create natural boundaries.

Undoubtedly, Tony Blair was instrumental in keeping world peace. Clearly, Tony Blair infused money for educating the youth. Conclusively, the people who felt attacking Iraq was Tony Blair's waterloo are wrong. In addition, Tony Blair was very instrumental in converting the British international currency from the London Pound to the European dollar.

Existing domestic policies should be evaluated. For instance, there is the focus in the US on its border law enforcement that is proven to be not that effective. The border problem has plagued the border zone for several decades already. Policymakers should know by now that there must be some mistakes in the existing policies.

In its widest and scholarly term, security is defined in the modern world by Buzan and Weaver as being a special kind of politics in which particular developments are threats constructed socially as they have an existential characteristic of covering values as well as the property of human groups whereby they call for urgent measures.

It has gained publicity in the last five years. In this paper, I have presented some of the characteristics of ISIS which draws it apart from other terrorist organizations. For instance, its use of technology to spread propaganda, its use of women as a propaganda tool, the strong stance against allowing journalists into its territories among others.

The authority of the national government is to be exercised over the entire territory of a country.

While it could be argued that this is the reason for the economic problems in Latin America, since China’s economy has improved considerably since the informal sector began to shrink, a more valid argument is that the informal sector is still flourishing in Latin America because of other economic factors. The informal sector is defined as “all income-earning activities that are not regulated by the state in social environments where similar activities are regulated“. 

Capitalist enterprises are driven by the laws οf the competitive market to maximize profit while leaving the social and environmental ravages οf market economics to the state. It is a government that is left with the task οf regulating or coping with environmental destruction, corporate monopolies, consumer exploitation, deserted cities, unemployment, cycles οf inflation and recession, speculation, corporate debt, and maldistributed wealth. 

The US strategy in Iraq has been the subject of much debate. From its own citizens to the international community, there have been questions concerning the validity of the actions performed by the US in the name of its own security. With so many questions, it is the duty of the government to answer any and all of these concerns, which in the opinion of many has not been satisfactorily done.

The organization of political parties is unique to the particular party, where some of them are being managed by a small elite group while in others the management is shared among various party departments and spread out components. The political party system is a fundamental component in the functioning of the British constitution. The contemporary political system in Britain is principally reliant on the parties. 

In spite of the views of various spectators, justification of the US-Iraq war in the light of international law must meet at least one of these minimum requirements. Since the UN Security Council did not explicitly justify the war through its numerous resolutions concerning Iraq, one of the two conditions is ultimately disqualified.  

Actually Bangladesh has enormous reserves for gas and oil. According to the United States Geological survey the potential of gas reserves in Bangladesh is of about 33.5 trillion cubic feet (TCF), while according to the survey of the National Energy Policy of Bangladesh the country’s total coal potential is about 2527 million tones.

The research will include several chapters: introduction, literature review, aims and methodology, results, discussion, limitations, and future recommendations, and conclusion. The researcher expects that the proposed research will become the first step in a more profound analysis of takfir in Saudi Arabia. 

The author states that it was different from Irish nationalism which advocated a nonviolent approach towards independence. The ideology grew in the late eighteenth century as a response to British rule and an end to discrimination against Catholics. The Irish rebellion of 1798 saw the rise of Irish republicanism.

The manufacturing industry in China currently produces high-end technology through low-wage labour. According to Evans, “in the course of a generation, it has emerged as the shop floor of the world by crafting a production system that fuses high-end technology with low-wage, labour-intensive activity, cutthroat domestic competition. 

Generally, the European Union’s engagement with its immediate neighborhood over the past decade can justifiably be considered a highly distinctive and dynamic feature of Europe’s foreign and security policy. This also most clearly differentiates EU foreign and security policy from the Cold War period.

The more power a particular state wields, the more likely it is of achieving its goals, the primary goal being that of basic survival. This arrangement of the international system cannot change unless the very nature of the system ceases to be anarchic. Despite the recent emergence of transnational organizations and such, the international system continues to be anarchic and there is a very little movement against state autonomy.

The United Nations (UN), long crippled by the superpower divide of the Cold War, finally began to find its feet in international politics, a fact reflected by the number of peacekeeping operations it involved itself in. Of the 63 UN peacekeeping operations till date, more than two-thirds were initiated since 1991 (UN Peacekeeping 2008).

The legality of same-sex marriage is a complicated issue. With states divided internally and externally on the issue, it is clear that the United States is not ready to reach a consensus. Despite the fact that the United States Constitution does not try to define marriage in any way, states are now trying to do so with increasing regularity.

Any attempt to determine the extent of the shift of the UK government from centralization (government) to decentralization (governance) will consistently encourage the chance of appearing biased. The governance description opposes a perspective of the British government that views Britain as a unified state with a core executive.

It became more apparent when the South African government implemented the apartheid system. The series of events demonstrating the evil effects of the brutal policy had caught the attention of powerful and rich countries like the United States and Canada. 

Considering that the World Bank and the IMF are serious about implementing the qualification standards when regards to the decision-making power over the international policies, there is a greater chance that the United States will lose its political power to govern the Asia-pacific part of the world.

Southeast Asian countries have been the object of economic discussions over the past decade. This began in the nineties where experts called these countries ‘economic miracles’. However, in the late nineties, these countries begun underperforming after the vulnerabilities of their economical and political reforms were exposed.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was conceived and inaugurated on the 14th of December 1950, through a consensus in the UN General Assembly.  Its core responsibilities include “leading and coordinating international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide and to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees”.