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04 Jun 2012
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The United Nations and Libya

Case study - 9 pages - Political science

Violence used against Libya's citizens created a monumental concern for the United Nations organization—the country waged war on its own people. By “repress[ing] peaceful demonstrators and rejecting unequivocally the incitement to hostility against the civilian population,” the...

04 Jun 2012
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Urban Education

Case study - 11 pages - Political science

The lack of quality education for urban students has been a persistent problem in the United States for many years and the problem does not appear to be depleting. Students raised in urban communities seem to have a disadvantage, as opposed to those raised in suburban areas, from the start. Many...

28 May 2012
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When Mao died his only legacy was the political and economic devastation of China. Arguments in favor and against this proposition.

Case study - 4 pages - Political science

Revolutionary communist, philosopher and theorist, Mao made a significant impact of what is today in the People's Republic of China. In order to understand the complexity of Mao's regime, it is necessary to look at the context and period of history in which Communist China emerged as a nation....

25 May 2012
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Was the Vietnam War, in Michael Lind's phrase, a "necessary war"?

Case study - 12 pages - Political science

The Vietnam War was the lengthiest and probably one of the most polemical military conflicts in the history of the U.S. To analyze in more detail the most important issues of this armed conflict, this essay will include four parts. The first part will highlight the main events of the conflict...

22 May 2012
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Tools of colonial empire in action: Zimbabwe

Case study - 2 pages - Political science

Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia, was colonized by the British in 1880, with the arrival of Cecil Rhodes's British South African Company. Since then, the colonial British empire exercised its influence on the country and its population in a number of ways. British colonialism made a significant...

21 May 2012
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Critically evaluate one attempt to avoid the Gettier counter examples

Case study - 3 pages - Political science

In this essay I shall discuss one attempt to avoid the Gettier counterexamples proposed by Nicholas Everitt and Alec Fisher and demonstrate that their efforts are unsuccessful (as they themselves acknowledge). However I will argue that their endeavor is still more productive than that of Robert...

20 Jan 2012
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The declining status of native women after European contact

Case study - 8 pages - Political science

Contact between Europeans and Indians brought together two disparate systems of gender divisions. Prior to European contact, Native American women enjoyed greater levels of power and autonomy than their white counterparts. As European influence and culture spread, it predicated a decline in...

03 Feb 2011
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North Atlantic Pact (NATO)

Case study - 7 pages - Political science

April 4, 1949 witnessed the signing of the Treaty of the North Atlantic (or Atlantic Pact) thus marking the birth of the NATO military alliance between the United States, Canada and 10 European countries: France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark, Norway,...

27 Jan 2011
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Did Poland make a success of its return to the democracy?

Case study - 3 pages - Political science

Poland, the fatherland of Nicolas Copernicus, Frederic Chopin and Jean-Paul II, is widely regarded as an icon of the emancipation of the people's democracies of Central and Eastern Europe with respect to the USSR. More still, Poland appears in the international imagery as an effective...

29 Sep 2010
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The Iraq war: an International Relations Theory Analysis

Case study - 16 pages - Political science

On the nineteenth of March 2003 America and its allies started their invasion of Iraq. This intervention had the official goal of the struggle against a terrorism-friendly country, to avoid the expansion of mass destruction weapons and establish a democratic breakthrough in the Middle East. This...

12 Aug 2009
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Jordanian politics

Case study - 8 pages - Political science

The IMF and World Bank have both praised the economic and political reforms Jordan launched in the 1990s. The reforms touched “domestic taxation/subsidy polices, trade liberalization polices, monetary/financial sector polices, exchange rate polices, price reform and privatization,”...

09 Jun 2009
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Self-expression with regard to the political environment: The case of Czechoslovakia

Case study - 5 pages - Political science

Throughout history, nations have subordinated others politically, culturally and economically. The ruling regime usually used people who spoke out as an example in order to stifle the rest of the population. The ruling regime would utilize such cases to exercise their power of intimidation. This...

28 May 2009
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Maasai gender relations during the colonial period: A patriarchal transformation

Case study - 15 pages - Political science

The imposition of colonial power in Africa disrupted all aspects of indigenous society. Not only were Africans robbed of political independence, but pre-colonial social structures were also destroyed or transformed based on the mercy of certain colonial powers. The Maasai, a pastoral people in...

01 Apr 2009
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Communism and it's success in China

Case study - 23 pages - Political science

Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. It can be considered a branch of the broader socialist movement. Communism as a political goal is generally a conjectured form of future social...

21 Jan 2009
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The response of the Republican administrations of the 1950s and the Democrat administrations of the 1960s to the domestic problems they faced

Case study - 8 pages - Political science

Burning bras, rebel “teenagers”, rioting black Americans, burning cities, angry students and happy hippies are only a few amidst a veritable panoply of symbols of an exploding and ebullient young America struggling to find itself throughout the vibrant fifties and sixties, an era of...

13 Jan 2009
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Surasia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (Headquarters)

Case study - 16 pages - Political science

This paper will analyse the Suraisia government Ministry of Internal Affairs attempt to introduce an innovative culture to the Ministry of internal affairs HQ (MIQ) through the creation of “SSS” and “3i” initiatives. This analysis will take into account the drivers of the...

09 Jan 2009
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Comparative analysis of the political parties and the party systems: the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Case study - 6 pages - Political science

Although sharing institutions for over seventy years, and the transition pathways from communism, the two successor states of the former Czechoslovakia have faced different challenges in the state-building process and adopted distinct economic policies over the past thirteen years since Slovakia...

01 Sep 2008
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German vs. Italian nationalism

Case study - 14 pages - Political science

Indeed, in tracing the development of nationalism in the early 19th century, we are confronted with the inherent weaknesses of division, particularism and mass indifference; dubious motives of ‘nationalists' and oft-yieldless attempts to surmount forces of repression- to the point that it is...

30 Jul 2008
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The role of litigation in intercollegiate athletics of title IX

Case study - 8 pages - Political science

Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act reads “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial...

05 May 2008
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Citizenship & Democracy: Civil Society and the Democratization of Kosovo

Case study - 5 pages - Political science

The emergence of Kosovo as a modern nation-state is a recent development, tracing its immediate roots to the 1990s. At this time Kosovo was still a province of Serbia and under the authority of Serbia's leader, Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic went to extreme measures to put down the insurgency...

25 Apr 2008
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Eminent Domain Use and Abuse in Long Branch, New Jersey

Case study - 7 pages - Political science

Eminent domain is, at its essence, the power of a governmental entity to take private real estate for public use, with or without the permission of its owner. The right is most often exercised as a last resort, when all other avenues of negotiations have failed, to acquire land for the...

23 Apr 2008
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Examining the Positive and Negative Aspects of Affirmative Action

Case study - 4 pages - Political science

When one examines even the earliest hunter gatherer societies it becomes evident that women have always worked alongside men. Yet as societies began to progress away from the hunter gatherer lifestyle, women's work started to become less recognized despite its obvious importance. As time moved on...