Politics Essays

A case for laxity of community laxity was evident in the Rwanda case. The country entered into turmoil after the serving president and his deputy who was both Hutu died in a plane crash after being shot with a missile while approaching Kigali Airport. The Intaharamwe with the help of the presidential guard organized a killing spree of Tutsi and moderate Hutus resulting in the death of millions.

A good political system translates to good social and economical states f a country, and vice versa is true (Kingsbury, p.199). The following essay will discuss in detail the following issues. Nationalism, economy, education, political party’s movement, and political parties’ coalitions and associations Nationalism is a feeling of belonging to a nation.

As the paper tells, there exist divergent views on the exact position and role of international migration in regards to development. Therefore, it becomes necessary to establish the linkage between international migration and development; whereby, the linkage is evaluated within the realms of a win-win scenario.

“The boat people” is a common term used to refer to illegal immigrants who enter a country through the use of boats (Barzilai, 2003: 4). These people usually use crude boats during their journey to certain destined countries. The increase in the boat people in the twentieth century was due to various factors which include searching for greener pastures or seeking protection.

Socialism is the only area I have so far identified, where the government aims to ensure equity, justice, and fairness through the provision of jobs, access to affordable health care, provision of educational opportunities to all, people to have decent houses and living conditions, availability and access to quality food and access to water and clean air.

The form of state in Southeast Asian nations varies greatly from one another. For example, the Philippines has a presidential democracy, and countries like Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand have parliamentary systems. While Malaysia and Thailand are constitutional monarchies, in Malaysia a federal system is also in place (Gonzalez and Mendoza, n.d.).

Christianity and Islam are informed by Religious affiliations and doctrines of what should entail a proper government. Islam mainly creates a level where all religions are to be treated equally as provided by the Koran, but on the other hand, liberal democracy tends to bring in an alien system of governance.

Given that the closest United States presidential election contest in history is a week away, Romney and Obama are continuing with their non-stop campaigns in order to win the minds, motivations, and hearts of U.S voters. The media has continued to measure the public opinions related to elections directly and indirectly. 

When a government lowers taxes in a sector of the economy, that sector automatically becomes more lucrative to investors. This is because; investors will remit lower taxes to the government hence it will be preferred to other sectors with lesser subsidies. Likewise, if the government increases the tax remittances in a sector of an economy, investors will elude the sector hence reducing revenue.

Hedges and Karasik establish that terrorists normally form out from a poor European city or in areas where the state is failing or is too weak to contain them. In these areas, terrorists face little interference from the local population. This is explained by the fact that terrorists have established their networks in South Middle Eastern states, South Asian Asians, and Caucasians for their continued survival.

The essay makes a detailed account of current events such as Australia's relationship with China, trade of Uranium with India, and Australia’s seat at the UN Security Council. It is important to define what middle power is and understand the strong connection between foreign policies, multilateralism, and middle power is constantly receiving recognition in the international relations literature.

Over the years, Asylum seekers have been making their way to Australia by boats from countries such as Indonesia. Since the Australian government introduced tough new policies on asylum seekers, including the turning back of boats, the number of asylum seekers arriving in Australia especially by boat has dropped drastically.

A democratic government is the free right of the citizens of a country to elect their preferred leaders through free and fair elections. In this system of governance, no citizen is above the law: all citizens are equal.  Law is passed or rejected based on the opinion of the majority of the public represented by their elected leaders.

The author of the paper argues in a well-organized manner that the Arab Spring goes by several names such as the Arab Revolt, Middle East Uprising just to name a few. The revolution began with Tunisia followed by Yemen, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, and Egypt as well as in smaller groups in states, for instance, Morocco and Saudi Arabia (Prashad, 2012).

The essay is divided into three sections. In the first section of the essay, a brief introduction of the two systems of democratic governance, presidential and parliamentary, is presented. This is done by examining the key differences between the two systems in terms of specific legal, constitutional and practical aspects.

Rudd has been said to have defined a way of how he wanted his government to run. He considered this most in his decision-making and the control of agendas. However, he faced a lot of criticism. There a lot of claims that Rudd was the most powerful prime minister ever found in Australian history and also that he was trying to bring a new style of governance into the history of Australia.

The ways that terrorism has been affecting security has been analyzed and the various initiatives that have been employed in the process of countering the increased terrorism explored. The essay paper has tried to shed some light on the reader concerning different forms of terrorist threats that have been taking place and why terrorism has been a challenge to handle globally.

Despite offering power to the majority in a ruling, the minorities are also capable of expressing their voices and ideologies in a well-organized democracy setup. The citizens should evaluate their ways of treating democracy and elect leaders with the understanding of the culture and the needs of the society irrespective of their power. 

The Arab spring is a term that refers to the uprisings that happened in the Arab world between 2011 and 2012 (Salih, 2013). The uprisings involved civil resistance that was characterized by rallies, marches, demonstrations, and protests, which culminated in the fall of several regimes within the Arab world.

The Islamic Council took slow steps in recognizing Libya’s transitional government NTC (National Transitional Council) but the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Iran released a statement congratulating the Iranian people for removing Qaddafi from power. The Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister, Ali Akbar explained that Iran offered humanitarian help to the NTC s a gesture of Iran’s support for the rebels.

Afghanistan at that time become the home of the world-known international terrorists who were causing insecurity globally. Experts have shown their concerns towards engaging the neighboring countries in the process of solving the challenges facing Afghanistan as peace in the country could be realized in an easy way through a regional approach.

It is appropriate for the government entities and relevant practitioners to continue to monitor and train the security officials rather than invest more resources. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the fact that terrorism is a threat to international and national security, but it is not as serious a threat as the governments, and media want society members to believe.

Jihadism is controlled by the idea that Jihad controls all Muslims. Some of the jihadists groups are Salafi-jihadists which include al-Qaida and ISIS. Islamic State of al-Sham (ISIS) follows some beliefs from the Islam religion and the duties of Muhammad. Islam is believed to be a dictatorial political ideology where sovereignty does not belong to people but rather to God.

While the concept of social democracyseeks to change the society to enable citizens who are in adverse situations to benefit by accommodating h state intervention in economic affairs, it also seeks to make sure that those in office benefit directly from the policies they consider to be desirable whenever they take part in parliamentary democracy (Platzeck et al., 2005).

Major conventional war is still absolute today. The period from 1914 has been characterized by major wars and they include the French Revolution War, World War One, and World War Two, the Cold War. Other wars include the Vietnam War and the most recent War on Terrorism. Therefore, it would be true to indicate that major wars are still absolute.

Democracy is not a precondition for capitalism. To illustrate there, there are many societies that are not currently democracies but have capitalist economies. There are also societies that existed in the past which were not democracies but were characterized by capitalism. Some examples include such countries include South Korea under Park Chung-hee and Chile under General Augusto Pinochet.

John Howard’s regime introduced industrial reform, which included the introduction of the “Workplace Relations Act 1996” and the “Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1997”. These legislations provided a strong foundation for workplace reforms. The government led by John Howard also introduced tax and economic reforms.

Throughout the period under study, identification of indigenous typologies between Iranian and Saudi Arabian political systems was provided through categorization. The study required determination to highlight both the implicit and explicit social needs, diplomatic relations, and regional actions undertaken by the Islamic republic and the Gulf Kingdom.

We have seen various practical incidents where the struggle for leadership positions has resulted in conflicts that have escalated into war and even cause deaths in the country. However, a country or community might be, there will be no agreements on issues regarding who is the best leader for them.

That Britain has for a long time been central in the efforts to provide quality education, not only at the domestic level but also to the international students. This was more profound after 1945 whereby there was the free provision of Higher Education in the UK as the Local Education Authority was mandated with the role of paying the HE tuition fees for each student. 

The main objective of this research is to provide an excellent contribution to knowledge. In this regard, without having a clear preview of the previous studies in this field, it is virtually impossible demonstrating how the current research advances the knowledge in the field of citizen participation.

Leaders must possess particular abilities and skills so as to manage disasters rooted in the conditions of the environment, countries or organizations they lead, and the disaster scope. Management of both major disasters and routine emergencies needs a broad scope of management/leadership abilities. 

Historical institutionalization operates in the realm of social sciences as it also tries to identify, link, and relate to the economic, social as well as political behavioral changes over a stipulated period of time. Though scholars sometimes use this historical institutionalism theory hand in hand with rational choice institutionalization, there is a distinctive difference between the two.

As a result of the oppressive policies, the deeply divided bazaars became unified. When repression was substantially reduced, the bazaars were able to mobilize support for anti-government protests. Such mobilizations took place in the year 1977 when the state adopted legal changes that lessened the repercussions of repression, thereby giving members of bazaars an opportunity to revolt.

The body that has the mandate to advise the defense department of the country is The National Security Adviser (NSA). He directs and coordinates all the national intelligence and security agencies. NSA has been offering advice to Prime Minister’s Secretary thus he dictates policy matters that concern national as well as overseas security policy implementation.

Despite the fact that new wars are seen as an extension of the old wars, a prominent feature is that they are fundamentally different. This fundamental difference especially in the post-Cold War period can be conceptualized in terms of the objectives or rather goals of the war; the method of warfare used; as well as how much new wars are financed. 

They argue that a large population leads to more revenue, labor availability and that Australia carrying capacity cannot be affected by the current population growth. Despite this, the support for population policy is based on the fact that a large population will strain Australia's infrastructure, affect government planning, resources, and the country’s carrying capacity.

The issues in India are the two mentioned with categories that include bribes and perversion of justice, where these oppress the poor and those without means to reach out to government officials for service delivery. Corruption reduces investor confidence, lowering revenues and crippling government operations, while at the same time destroying equal opportunities for all to develop the country.

Development challenges are inextricably coupled to governance challenges, except if national, regional, and local governments carry out their assigned duties, and accomplish this in an acceptably efficient way, or they will remain in illiteracy, disease, poverty, crime, civil war, as well as other challenges hassling poor countries (Vries 2).

The world is economically divided into developed nations and developing nations, where developing nations face numerous challenges that affect the daily running of government affairs. The citizens or even the governments themselves through the creation of loopholes in policy leave them vulnerable to exploitation, thus they usually instigate the challenges.

John Locke was a libertarian born in August 1632. He believed that the Government ought to let people enjoy their natural rights to life, liberty, and property. He also believed that an individual had the sole right of lending his property to anybody as he wished and that the government had no control over this.

This thesis targets the description and analysis of the dimensions of the Syrian crisis and a reflection of the exodus of refugees outside Syria, especially those who went to Europe and the attendant impact on the political, economic and security, and social in these countries, since the beginning of the Syrian crisis for the year 2011, until the present time.

I think that the argument of the reading is based on the fact that individuals in a society increasingly started relying on the acquired knowledge rather than the societal aspects. This argument is associated with strengths such as the ability to prove the particular conversion (Frantz, & Ezrow, 2011).

. The research’s focus is to use an appropriate qualitative method to use the data found in the codes to create and connect themes that would provide an easier grasp of the text. The analysis points out similarities as well as cause and effect actions that can be used as a level ground for the Iran-Saudi Arabian bilateral relations.

A government belongs to the people when there are competitive elections that are fair and procedural. Needless to say, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of political expression are essential so that citizens make informed decisions based on their personal interests (Estlund et al., 1989, pp.1325).

The definition of democracy focuses on the need to elect skilled representation of others and the elected have the mandate of making public decisions aimed at bettering the lives of the majority. The definition also sees the need to protect the liberty of the electorates. We both see people as the final instance with the decision on who will govern them within a predetermined period of time.

Germany became more stable under the Weimar Republic but weakened again during the Great Depression. It is during this time that Hitler’s influence becomes more significant. Combined with the fact that Hitler could convince many people through speeches and propaganda, many people believed that he could help them deal with the problems that they were facing during the Great Depression.

There are definitions of democracy such as rule by the majority, a government led by the people, or a direct, representative, or participatory rule by the people (Lansford, 2007). The main objective of this essay is to assess the seminaries and differences of different definitions of the term democracy. 

Many of the theories and approaches have been created to describe international relations.  However, in spite of all these themes, there are several major thoughts that are discernible and highly accepted within the community. These are realism, Marxist, and liberalism (Roach, Griffiths, & O'Callaghan, 2014).

The author states that the economy was stagnant and the firms were mostly owned by the government which meant that there was no incentive to work. This is why as soon as Deng came to power he tried to transform the entire economic system. Deng during his regime tried to focus mainly on the transformation of China.