Political Science

APEC Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation is a trade agreement aimed at the promotion of trade in the region as well as the initiation of global economic growth.  This corporation is comprised of Brunei, Peru, Australia, Russia, Singapore, Korea, China, Mexico, Vietnam, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippians, Papua New Guinea, Chile, Indonesia, Thailand, New Zealand, Mexico, and Japan. The APEC formed in 1989, has since then demonstrated powerful development, growth of individual nations...

Mention the term globalization to an average American and youre more likely to see a frown than a smile.  Understandably, in this harsh economic climate in which the U.S. is seeing unemployment figures in record numbers, globalization is associated with concepts like outsourcing and down-sizing, with major corporations taking jobs overseas in an effort to find cheaper labor.  However, there are some positive implications for globalization, in addition to these negative connotations. ...

Morgenthaus Realism Why is Morgenthaus realism identified so closely with American views of the international system and international politics Referring to Professor Wights talk, Morgenthaus realism focused mainly on concepts like power, interests and the state. Morgenthaus realism tends to be pessimistic with efforts and foreign policies aiming to achieve ideal world order. The US for example pushed for liberal democracy ideologies in the Middle East but somehow faced resistance. For Morgenthaus,...

Understanding the meaning of the term terrorism is the key to fight it with a clear eye and unprejudiced mindset. But looking at the history of the past sixty years, it seems like this task is very difficult to define terrorism from a single point of view. As Eqbal Ahmed puts it in his article Straight talk on terrorism, To begin with, terrorists change. The terrorist of yesterday is the hero of today, and the hero of yesterday becomes the terrorist of today or as Keeley, Robert V says in his article...

Sweden is a nation that has a distinctive political structure with twenty-one counties. Dating back as a nation, Sweden conjured the images of mainly the settlers and raiders but today it stands out as one of the most advanced nations globally. This nature is revealed in her through gender equality, politics, living standards, social welfare, arts, technology and the role she plays in both global and regional expansions. These will be considered in this paper in addition to the political parties...

Italys constitution provides that powers are vested in a parliament, democratic republic and a multi-party system. This system recognizes individual freedom and advocates liberalism in all aspects of human life. Its republican character permits popular rule within the country for a better government. Different parties serve as advisors of the Prime Minister on measures for handling issues while ruling the country and for effective administration of the political and government activities. There...

Security is a need that should be provided to every individual after the provision of all basic needs.  In fact, once one has acquired sufficient basic need satisfaction, they tend to be advanced in term of economic status and life styles.  It is worth noting that at this level the individuals are wealthy or relatively rich as compared to the common citizen and their basic requirement at this level is security to guard their personal security and property security.  Security can...

South Korea (hereafter Korea) is a prime example of one of the resilient economies that grew from poverty to riches and continues to face challenges in its ways. It has witnessed various cycles and incidents, yet, still remains a strong economy.  Korea developed with strong, fundamental policies that led to its being counted as one of the countries of East Asia that saw Miracle Growth.  By 2005, it had become the fourth largest economy in Asia with GDP per capita of US 16,000 (Harvie and...

Study on Nigeria IT Industry Introduction Information technology has showed tremendous growth within the past three decades when computer technology provides many innovations, which lead to reduced costs of manufacturing desktop computers. This condition immediately speeds up the number of home users worldwide as operating systems microprocessors, etc are available in many models and price. Moreover, computer technology development continues finding new tools that help human to do their work...

Crash, the 2005-released film directed by Paul Haggis and depicting of the human struggles leaning on racism that is prevailing in the Los Angeles area, is a moving saga on the sad realities that human nature seemed to be incapable of eradicating.  Here, each character is given an extensive background, not only for their respective notions on racism, but primarily for the reasons behind their beliefs.  The substance of the messages of the said film makes it as an essential case for review...

Higher Education Act The Higher Education Act which was first legislated in 1965 is the culminating legislation designed for the improvement of the higher education system in the United States. With the help of the Higher Education Act, the relationship  between universities and colleges and the United States government increased dramatically. The state and the federal governments now provide a substantial amount of resources to universities and colleges enabling it to create scholarships...

In political science Europeanisation has generally been regarded as becoming more European like. More specifically than this the term has been defined in several ways According to Bulmer (2006), the term Europeanisation has five different uses. First, Europeanization is connected with the external boundary changes. The most open examples of such rules extensions institutional requirements and values are the alterations associated with the EU membership preparation for the recent member states that...

In the short poem  Soup  by Carl Sandburg, the poet uses the simple and universal image of a sole man enjoying bowl of soup to convey the basic and inherent quality of all men. Though famous, the man is vulnerable to the same desires and necessities of a poor man. While Sandburg purposely identifies the man as famous and therefore separate from the ordinary man, there is nothing in his actions to distinguish the level of social inequality between this man and the impoverished and unemployed...

The sun that rose on September 11th 2001 brought with it self tremendous amount of issues. Several questions were raised, the answer of whom the world would find later on. What is said and widely believed is that four passenger jets were hijacked by the terrorist out of whom three flew towards Washington DC and New York and the fourth one was subsequently heading towards White House but crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania. Out of the other three one each hit the twin tower of the World Trade Centre...

The term  disarmament  usually refers to nuclear disarmament. This refers to the reduction and final elimination of nuclear weapons from the earth. In his 1961 inaugural speech John F. Kennedy talked about nuclear weapons. He cautioned against allowing the  dark powers of destruction unleashed by science to engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.  He then talked about a need for the two superpowers powers (US and The USSR) to move towards a multilateral...

Q1. Collective bargaining and labor relations are quite important in building a strong and reliable employer-employee relationship for the good of the organization. Through collective bargaining, employees stand a higher chance of having their grievances addressed by their employer (Katz. et al, 2008). Quality labor relations serve to improve the morale and work satisfaction among workers in an organization as it makes them feel part of the organization. For the organization, collective bargaining...

President Hugo Chavez, a strong Venezuelan leader was born on the July 28th, 1954 in Sabaneta, Venezuela. Chavez is known for his reforms as well as his strong opinions. Chavez had attended the military school where he graduated with a degree in military sciences and arts in 1975. Chavez continued to serve his nation as an officer in a paratrooper army unit. This essay shall be a prompt into the characteristic model of leadership exercised by him in his right wing versus the left wing in Latin America ...