Politics Essays

The initial problem with Article 2 as an absolute preventative measure against unilateral force is the inherent uncertainty in its wording. The reference to “purpose of the United Nations” clearly grants an element of discretion to member states to interpret and justify their actions as being in accordance with the purpose of the United Nations.  

The fact is, that public policy is purposive meaning that it is deliberately put in place to achieve certain objectives. It is therefore not the result of a random act, but something that has been thought through and discussed with an aim of addressing issues or changing people’s behavior in a particular way.

The author states that the five challenges vis-à-vis Challenging the process; Shared vision; empowering others; setting an example; and motivating others through acknowledgment of their talent and good work are also critical ingredients in the educational leadership. They greatly enhance the performance outcome of the various stakeholders.

The Aryans basically believed in Christianity and used to practice the teachings and addresses delivered by Wesley Swift. Between the epochs of 1950 to 1960, he used to conduct a radio broadcast in order to deliver his beliefs for all his believers. By the year 1957, the name of Swift’s church was changed to the Church of Jesus Christ-Christian.

The author states that many European countries are facing the risk of economic recovery with GDP growth measures showing improvement in emerging markets but Spain and the Greek crisis is a major source of risk. Both countries share their problems of rising public debt and loss of competitiveness with other Euro member states.

The researcher states that homeland security takes care of the factors to reduce the vulnerability of terrorism in the US and minimizes the overall damages that are caused due to such terrorist attacks on the nation. The term was mainly formulated on the incident of many US government agencies reorganization in the year 2003 after the well-known attack of September 11.

Ambassador Stevens' journal, which was later found at the unsecured site of the assault, recorded his worry about the developing al-Qaeda presence in the range and his stress on being on an al-Qaeda hit list. A security officer from the department of defense, Eric Nordstrom, asked for extra security personnel in charge of the mission in Benghazi.

From this paper, it is clear that both Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson served the United States in multiple ways and are both well known for the many capacities in which they served. Thomas Jefferson served as Secretary of State under the first president, George Washington. He was also governor of Virginia and the U.S. Minister to France.

The ‘Arab Spring’ refers to the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests which have taken place in the Arab World, lately. This pro-democracy movement began in Tunisia with the suicide of a young man Muhammad Bouazizi. The aim of the protest was to force President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to resign. 

Hegemony was attached to the US during the Cold War’s bipolar conditions with regards to its major allies in NATO and Asia. Currently, this hegemony still seems to persist with an enlarged NATO. Conversely, imperialism can be defined as the implementation of policies in addition to the influence and capabilities under hegemony.

This essay stresses that the attacks that Al-Qaida has executed are assumed as revenge by them. Security and risk assessment professionals must always adopt proactive measures to anticipate, defend against, and preempt new types of terrorist threats. One should not expect past trends to necessarily reveal future attack patterns because of terrorists.

The reason people no longer know feel secure within their homes and communities is because of terrorism rages within – Americans killing Americans on U.S. soil.  Such is the act of domestic terrorism and mostly, it stems from extreme ideology and perpetrated mostly by right-wingers, pro-segregationists, white supremacist, and their ilk.

The people of Iran, mostly Shiite Muslims said Shah was corrupting the Muslims of Iran by promoting Western Culture. The populace of Iran was of the opinion that the Shah and his government were corrupt, vicious, and excessively wasteful and its ambitions had ruined Iran, caused economic obstacles which resulted in massive inflation.

 Economic and trade are becoming the most effective political tools in the current globalized and inter-dependent World. The fast growth of certain economies in the Asian continent has increased their interdependence over the region as well as international countries. China and India have emerged as fastest growing countries in the current decade.

According to the research, porous border in various nations has been a great threat to the developing countries and especially to the United States. On the other hand, the lax borders greatly help the United States to achieve the ability to control the international criminals, terrorists, and smugglers from entering the state.

Previous BJP lead coalition government often faces criticisms to support fundamentalist thoughts of Hindu religion. In spite of all such

The European Security Strategy is clearly aimed to tackle the new kind of military conflict that comes through terrorist attacks. The development of ESDP as a capability driven institution together with the need to intervene and assist the contemporary crisis is due to the re-emergence of terrorism as an absolute threat to Europe.

The narrator of this essay aims to tell that one of the main differences is that unlike the nation-state governments, cities often lack the formal authority that is required in resolving issues such as those related to their development and economic growth. Also, cities tend to have more heterogeneous populations than nation-states.

A perfect democratic system is a privileged group of leaders with a particular ancestry, intrinsic quality or worth, higher intellect, wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes who believe carry considerable clout and wisdom and whose specialized skills maintain the ability to create more effective decision-making”.

The earliest origin of Border security is recorded to have started taking root in the early 20th century. During this time, Mounted watchmen of the U.S. Immigration service were taking border patrols in an attempt to control and put to stop prohibited immigrants from crossing into the U.S. territory.

Nobody can even imagine the entry of a communist or any other liberal parties in Arab countries. Most of the Arab countries were previously ruled by Muslim emperors or kings and democracy is a distant dream in many Arab countries, though some kind of parliament elections may hold in some of the Arab countries in their own manner.

In spite of this trend of human trafficking across borders going on for more than two decades, the government has done nothing substantial to curb it.  Probably this is in recognition of the fact that without cheap labor provided by millions of such immigrants, it is difficult to sustain an economy as big as that of the United States.

Health Care Reform legislation has also met with a concerted industry drive to block reform and create new rules favorable to the industry. While this is normal and expected for businesses to protect their interests politically, the balance may have shifted in Congress through those companies’ use of soft money and contributions.

Therefore, the author proposes that Japan to respect China’s sovereignty and cease from interfering with their economic activities, which ought to have taken place in the DiaoYu Islands (Moore, 2012). This is because China was the first to discover the uninhabited islands, before the latter using weird ways in collaboration with the US to annex it.

Being one of the greatest and most steady political parties to ever exist in the world of democratic government, the Liberal Democratic Party reigned almost unceasingly for approximately 54 years since its formation in 1995 up until it was dethroned by the Democratic Party of Japan or DPJ during the 2009 election, states Christensen (2012).

The argument passes does not make a good case. Although both premises seem correct, the conclusion does not offer a good solution to the problem. Both of the premises in the argument to pass the true premises test. The chances of defeating ISIS could be achieved when other Muslim Nations see the threat it poses to their security and that of the world.

After November, when the presidential election is held, electors in the Electoral College cast their votes for president, thereby acting as representatives of the citizens. It follows, therefore, that the delegates represent their state in choosing a presidential and vice presidential nominee for a political party.  

 It is in this effect that the continent is viewed as a leading continent in many world issues like eradicating poverty, fighting terrorism, advocating for liberal democracy all over the world and fighting corruption in the world. Most of the countries in the continent are fully developed and are members of the G8. 

According to the Iranian government’s point of view, Iran’s nuclear programme is for the purpose of generating electricity and it’s a very peaceful mission of the Iranian government. Iran stresses the fact that getting enough resources to produce electricity is the right of an independent nation and no power can seize the basic rights. 

Almost every issue in the American agenda has a political affiliation from either the Democrats or the Republicans. Therefore, for a national policy to get passed in the Congress, it has to have enough backing from both political divide. The politics of the day define what is important at that time and they vote to pass the policy.

A great deal of ink has been spilled over two subjects to provide a framework within which one can answer the question of a government’s role in the economy. The first issue is of the size of government, where “size” refers in varying degrees to its scope of power, both economically and politically. The second issue is of the public’s trust in government.

On the basis of the foregoing analysis, it can be concluded that parliamentary sovereignty is a deep-rooted concept in the British parliamentary system. Pride in the country’s political independence and an important leadership position in the world may allow it to resist the pressure of ceding part of the parliamentary sovereignty institutions.  

They directly provide their candidate with a job position in case he/she wins the election and further indirectly provide jobs for the political appointees that get jobs following an election victory. The number of political appointees that a political party will give jobs to varies depending on the level of politics that the party plays in.

Currently, the USA uses the federal system of governance where the 52 states are headed by a governor who oversees all the affairs of the local government in the state. The central government has less power compared to a unitary state (Cropf, 2008). The federal system is the most appropriate in the United States of America.

The memorandum mentioned here specifically talks about regulation of the conduct of those business sectors which have been authorized the possession and distribution of marijuana. I believe that it is a very important issue, as there can always be a hitch in the system or a leakage from where marijuana may get into the hands of the system

According to the report, the majority of Britain’s do not want to abandon the Pound Sterling, a hundreds-year-old currency, and adopt the European Monetary Unit (EMU) or Euro as its national currency despite the enormous evidence that supports the benefits this move would provide and rebukes the arguments against its acceptance.

The author states that the emergence of political groups results to power-sharing and a center of crisis due to the greed of power. Peace keeping in Somalia stands out an issue of global importance, since when peacekeeping is achieved, displacement of Somalia citizen will be history, and this country will develop, hence being a source of many resources.

It is evidently clear from the discussion that the Afghans embracing religious practices of not killing Christians will greatly improve the relationship between Christians and Islam.  Introduction of education to the Afghan women will improve their living standards. They can participate in education and can also work in any occupation they want.

Politics and governance are based on the government’s power; however, policies are different and are limited of government’s power. According to Dye (2010) policies are driven by public participation and effective planning. This indicates that the government has limited power over the type of public policies to be implemented 

“Human rights have been classified historically in terms of the notion of three “generations” of human rights. The first generation of civil and political rights includes the rights to life and liberty and the rights to freedom of speech and worship.

It is a question that has troubled billions of people since the dawn of time: how should a society construct itself to maximize justice and opportunity? Is a strong central government necessary to do so? There are as many theories as there are grains of sand on the beach, but some ideas over the years have been more popular than others.

The common good of the public and the limited resources amidst extended desire to for more may pit the public against each other but the political system in place puts due measures to give every individual fair chance. Political authority is also obliged to make international or regional interactions on behalf of the public.

As discussed, these occupations directly benefited big defense companies like Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Aegis Defence Services, among others, with unprecedented growth in profits in their respective divisions that provide combat equipment, intelligence facilities, and services to both US and UK

There were first of all the stock-piled continental corn surpluses, which were likely to make their way into England at cheap prices almost immediately under the virtually ‘free trade’ conditions prevailing before 1815. This would destroy the fragile additional agricultural infrastructure that had grown up around corn in the last five years.

The researcher states that despite the ending of slavery trade practices, there exists an increase in slave labor and sex trafficking in the world today. This is because, some individuals’ belief that others are more or less than human. As a result of globalization, there is a continuous flow of services, goods, labor and capital between various countries and continents in the world.

This research tells that it is of course quite logical that democracies and other types of regimes that are democratic in nature are the most obvious choice for development for countries and general, and especially Third World countries, which are in even greater need for development and growth. However, several arguments have been raised in favor of dictatorships.

However, the psychological, social, political and cultural factors which prompt such hostile acts on their part are highly complex and difficult to understand. The fundamental assumption behind the reasons why terrorists and terrorist organizations use weapons of mass destruction in executing their evil designs can be understood by assessing the background of the past events.

Electorates often search for negative information, in order to justify their stand for supporting for a candidate during final elections. However, there are instances where negative advertising created a great deal of controversy in within the political and social circles and boomeranged to affect the sponsor candidate adversely

The argument of this analysis is that the foreign policy of PRC is based on defensive realism. It is trying to influence Asia. The idea of protecting borders along with securing influence includes Taiwan, the South China Sea which is oil rich. The rattling with the US is just a pressure increasing technique to safeguard its benefits and advantages. 

The author starts with the observation that political scandal has heretofore been the preserve of the gutter press and the tabloid newspapers, and in many ways has been thought unsuitable as a subject for academic study. Thompson bemoans this ‘dearth of serious scholarly literature on the subject’.