Politics: Political Science Ideologies
The contemporary political and social debate, at least from the time of the beginning of the 19th century, arose out of two most important conceptual models of how society should be organized. They go under the name of liberalism and socialism.
It is essential to state at once that they were not contrasting views; the latter (socialism) must be seen as the radicalization and extension to everybody of the premises included in the former (liberalism). Actually, the most vital and reliable soc ...
Politics: Political Science
Democracy and universal suffrage are nowadays identified with the words liberty and basic rights. Not necessarily so argues Fareed Zakaria suggesting that it is not democracy itself that brings about liberty and rights, but that the creation and protection of those inalienable rights - along with economic progress and a rise in living standards - that ultimately make for legitimate democracy. To criticize democracy is sometimes seen as like criticizing the idea of human rights; how can anybody d ...
Politics: Arguments for War in Iraq (Pros)
Military activity of the United States in Iraq, supported by armed forces of the UK and Spain, was initiated in March 2003, after a number of sanctions and political doctrines from the side of President G.W. Bush. In April 2003 united forces took over Baghdad and appointed a civil administrator Paul Bremer to control Iraq, as former ruler of the country Saddam Hussein was in hiding. Military activity has been unfolding all around the territories, accompanied by dreadful acts of violence, taking ...
Politics: Forensics in World Trade Center Bombing in 1993
The World Trade Center bombing in February, 1993, became a landmark in the new wave of terrorism, with civilians involved into the tragedy. The World Trade Center served as the target of the bombing. As a result of the terrorist act, six people were killed and more than thousand were injured. But taking into account the fact, that there used to be about 20,000 people usually working at the Center simultaneously, and more than 80,000 people visited or traveled along the complex, the consequences ...
Politics: Iraq War
Jācques Roumāin is certāinly one of the most importānt figures in Hāitiān literāture. Communist, politicāl āctivist, diplomāt, politicāl exile, co-founder of Lā Revue Indigene, yet ā mān who died young āt only 37. His cāreer points to ān energetic āctivist ānd ārtist, ā focāl point of Hāitiān intellectuāl life ānd resistānce in the occupātion ānd post-occupātion period. Roumāin is probābly most fāmous for his novel, The Māsters of the Dew, which wās trānslāted into English in 1947. Roumāin rec ...
