Politics Essays

The scandal involved electronic buffing of the democratic bugging of the National Committee headquarters which was located in the Watergate apartment an office which was located in Washington D.C. However, the term ‘Watergate’ was later applied to other several related scandals and it led to the resignation of the president Richard M, Nixon.

Migration is a common phenomenon; people of various countries and from different backgrounds migrate in order to seek better opportunities in life. History clearly reveals that the history of Chinese Americans consisted of ethnic Chinese who were living in the United States. Chinese migrating and going towards the United States is basically divided into three different parts.

Martin Luther’s speech had a widespread influential impact in the United States and the World at large. Luther’s oration was not only meant to stir the United States Congress but also parliament to enact legislation promoting racial equality. The primary focus of Martin Luther was the United States; however, his dream of racial reconciliation had a transcend appeal to all nations.  

The word Exceptionalism has become of interest in American society. It has evolved from ancient times, gaining different perspectives from different historians. It has led to the division of the conservatives from the liberals. In fact, the Liberals would like the nation to understand that it is just an ordinary state like any other.   

Social media is a platform in which people around the world share ideas and information. According to recent research, internet users tend to consume much of their time on social media sites. The most popular social networks with the largest number of users include; Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Others include Linked in and WhatsApp.

Any FTA contract will enforce duties of support for trade liberalization (Swanson, 2006): all involved parties to the contract will have to open their markets (ibid, p. 782). The trade policy of the United States toward neighboring nations shows conflicting ideals of trade liberalization and protectionism.

Fighting terrorism is not only important to the country but the entire world. However, the US has assumed full responsibility in ensuring a terror-free world. This decision has considerable implications for the government and the country. Terrorism is a global problem and, therefore all countries should have an equal contribution.

Jonathan Swift was an Irish author born in Dublin, Ireland in 1667, and was the author of the classic tale “Gulliver’s Travels.” Raised by his late father’s brother who was a prominent attorney, Swift earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Trinity College, and in later years became the dean at St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Damrosch 1).

The author states that the non-existence of its definition cannot shroud the fact that terrorism has down the decades been a grave threat to both national and international security and peace. Several reasons for terrorism ranging from personal to political exists. It is almost impossible to pinpoint one single reason behind terrorist activities.

Since the end of World War II and the formation of NATO, the Middle East has played a central role in global politics and international diplomacy. In the diplomatic world, the amount of conflicts occurring in a region is often an indicator of geopolitical and military importance; the Middle East is one such place (Lamy, 2012:39).   

Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism are two notions that seem popular in up to date journalistic and scholarly discourses everywhere in the world currently. Both of them have no definition that can be accepted universally even though different explanations and descriptions may seem to refer to them hence making them challenged in the literature.

It is based on philosophical ideas in governance and predicts a state of governance that would prevail in the world given certain prevailing circumstances. For this reason, it is a highly political book that predicts doom because of bad governance and warns, especially the western public, on the matters they treat with less rationality.

The United States had gone into Iraq to rid it of its armament of nuclear weapons and other WMDs. It did not anticipate getting bogged down in the country fighting a sustained war against guerilla fighters. It also failed to find Iraq’s stock of nuclear weapons or WMDs. The toll in terms of lives and money has been enormous counting both US and Iraqi casualties.

In its ruling, the court stated that the Second Amendment of the US constitution n regards to traditional reasons that include self-defense grants an individual the right to possess a firearm. It further ruled that two of Columbia district provisions that banned firearms and required disassembling of firearms at home had violated the right granted.

When people embark on the process of electing their preferred representatives, their core desire is to select leaders who will positively transform the future of their country or society. Elections are usually termed as very concise ways of empowering ordinary citizens and give them a participatory role in shaping the destiny of their countries.

It is not until relevant and adequate political advertising youth behavior can be changed from passive into an active one. Data limitation and information deficiency influence voting rejection among youth. Nevertheless, even the development of organizations and coalitions directed on stimulation of youth voting behavior isn’t always fruitful. 

The author states that in the UK, most people are overweight and obese, including 61.9% of the adult population and 28% of children aged between 2 and 15 years of age; all these people are at a great risk of lifestyle-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart complications, as well as a several cancers.

Despite the improvement in Russia’s economy over the last thirteen years, its standards and performance are incomparable to those of the USA. The USA economy has advanced more than that of Russia specifically in terms of GDP. A GDP graph of Russia and the USA per capita from 1948-58 and 1998-2008 respectively is indicative of Russia’s underdevelopment.

To create problems for them to become a part of the country’s recognized population and easily unite with their loved ones is a risk to the country as it will result in significant resource drain and they are bound to move to countries that embrace them with open arm and more lenient policies for immigration.

In the history textbook, Mao firstly led the early movement of laborers and farmers in Hunan province and established the native party organization to publicize his own thoughts against the invaders. 

Mighty and powerful countries continue to feed on less powerful and poor countries even after the end of colonization in the name of providing aid. The United States has and is still the most powerful country in the world that has risen on various occasions to help both the United Nations and poor countries in providing aid and also military aid. 

The ideas presented above present a strong possibility that the memo scandal was launched to reach certain objectives that may not seem clear at first. For one thing, the memo fails to make any sense on the diplomatic level that it was launched. Historically when governments are in danger, the urgency of the situation is not presented in memos and letters but instead in person.

George Lakoff has mentioned a number of techniques that are employed by politicians in order to frame their campaigns and their motives. As understood by a number of instances where George Lakoff discusses framing, it is easy to note and state that framing is a moral phenomenon or an outlook that is suited to an individual’s thought process regarding what is being seen or heard.

Toward the last decades of the twentieth century, the equations of the class have become intertwined with race.  With the influx of highly skilled immigrant workers from across the world, alongside the free flow of labour across the European Union, the term ‘working class’ is increasingly seen as representing indigenous whites of the British isles.

Allegations of corruption and other malpractices are rampant in the Saudi government and in the royal family. Most significantly, the American political system includes the president, vice president, congress, and senators (Brooks, 2009). The Saudi Arabian political system includes the king, prince, royal family, and the religious leaders.

The two-party system of the US began to emerge during the 1790s and this was mainly due to the opposing opinions about the powers which had been given to the federal government by the various states. The consequence was the formation of two early parties, mainly the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party. 

Due to the geographic isolation of the United States and the fact that the only territorial attacks that took place occurred in the Pacific, the United States was more or less insulated from the deeper economic and infrastructural destruction that many of the Great Powers suffered as a result of this conflict. 

There has been a change of focus towards the inclusion of other political-related features that might influence the electorate. For instance, in 2004, the BJP published posters featuring train terror attacks that claimed 59 lives. Politicians primarily use such posters to spread propaganda that potentially influences the opinions of voters.

Narcissism is almost everywhere, in the workplace, in politics, in families, in the media and can be demonstrated by any individuals, which makes it part of human lives. Narcissism meaning has evolved from an earlier psychoanalytical definition which entailed an exclusive meaning of self-gratifying sexuality clinically used by Havelock into constructed character traits.

Due to the Cold War, a number of aspects of international politics changed which resulted in the change in relationships between countries. Moreover, a number of countries changed their foreign policies during the era of the Cold War and all these factors impacted the overall global culture significantly. 

The author of this following paper states that some individuals can make a big difference, and an example of this is President Obama who has introduced an important health care reform and has changed the way that people view the Presidency since he is not a white person like all the previous presidents were.

Realists put into account the primary actors in the international arena to be nations that are worried about their own security, act in pursuit of their own national interests, and struggle for supremacy. The downbeat side of the pragmatists’ stress on sovereignty and self-interest is frequently on their cynicism regarding the importance of ethical customs to relations amid nations. 

Democratic states in this regard refer to the states under the rule of democratic governments and presumed to be a rule of people, by the people and for the people (Dahl, 1989, p. 5-7). On the other hand, some other states of the world have redirected their efforts towards stabilizing their economies for the well being of the native citizens.

The growth of terrorism and terrorist upheavals all throughout the world has alarmed the world nations and this turbulent condition has forced countries to reconsider their homeland security measures and tactics. The peace and security of its citizens is the primary concern of every country and any attempts that cause threat to the lives or peaceful living of its people.

Waltz further argues that by the 1990 bipolarity was coming to an end and predicted the emergence of a multi-polar system in line with Hobbes view of foreign policy that the international system is technically anarchical because there is no enforcement authority, which creates a complex myriad of multi-polar institutions and interstate relations (Waltz, 1995).

According to Robert Kaplan in Atlantic Monthly, “the coming anarchy that threat failed states posed to international security and stability was grave.” Alike, it was argued, “disintegrating societies and failed states with their civil conflicts and destabilizing refugee flows have emerged as the greatest menace to global stability.”

History shows many examples in which the governments acted against the interests of the public have been dethroned by people’s agitations and subsequent revolutions. American Revolution and the French revolution are examples in which the people utilized their natural right to displace the selfish administrations. 

History reveals that many forms of governments have been tried in many countries with different results, but all with the same underlying problem, namely, they just could not meet the expectations of people craving for individual rights and liberty, two crucial issues that have caused the failure of the various forms of governments time and time again.

The world is becoming more and more interdependent and whether people think globalization is a good or bad thing, it is here to stay. Along with globalization, regional integration is a force to be reckoned with in the twenty-first century. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent, different regions of the globe are becoming increasingly integrated.

Challenges existing in the operations of international environmental governance are the main reasons why it can never be effective in its objectives of realization of environmental sustainability. Despite achieving some success, international environmental governance has never been effective in its operations.

Egypt’s government as it has been revealed it not a true democracy such as what is envisioned in the West when the word is invoked.  As has been discovered, true democracy has several important elements that keep the people free and able to participate in an active decision-making process regarding how the country should operate.  

Can an entire cluster of ‘people’ really run a government? Even directly and indirectly elected representatives of the ‘people’ also cannot really – all of them together – run a government and State at one go. People themselves do not form an individual identity. 

Local economies are those which are based on the business of the domestic firms. They are mainly involved in the business which covers the local and regional economies and the money is never flown out of the community. The anti-capitalist view of green left parties would be viable only when the locally based business flourish.  

There are two valuations of good and evil that Nietzsche explains, the triumphant value being the lower class system of values that have arisen out of social upheavals. The noble or aristocratic modes of valuation of goodness are things that are powerful, life-affirming and exclusive.

... He is the creator of modern scientific terminology who founded and classified the various sciences extant today’ (Jayasinghe 2009)That Machiavelli’s reputation is somewhat more controversial can be ascertained from the dictionary definitions of the word ‘Machiavellian’.

It is the prospect that studies in the future on the same topic will allow acquiring an extensive and critical understanding of the topic. Conclusively, it is an anticipation of the researcher that the above discussions will be very fruitful for students, teachers, and professionals in a better understanding of the topic.

It is a social and political philosophy that began flourishing as Europe emerged from the medieval world that existed from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 CE. Liberalism provided a more optimistic social and political philosophy. Among the thinkers influential in the development of liberal thought was John Locke.

The Prince was 350 years ahead of its time. Machiavelli’s work stood in such blunt dissimilarity to society’s ideals of government that he was fortunate he was dead once his treatise circulated, else he would’ve faced execution by the church. The Prince carved a new vision of the importance of virtue and vice in politics that remains applicable to contemporary business strategy.

There are just as many types of states with different types of governments in the world today; a vast range of the 200 states in the 21st century can be classified as weak, failed or failing. The principle difference between failed states and strong states is that the latter are tense, conflicted and dangerous while the former exert a strong control over their territories while delivering high order political goods to their citizens.

McDonaldization is rooted in the fast-food industry but its implications are not just limited to the cuisine but it's far-reaching. To start with local motels with the local flair and trend have been replaced by McDonalized chain. Higher education and universities are plagued by the model of McUniversities.