Regions

How should America react when bad things happen in unimportant places?

Joely Denkinger • Jul 30 2011 • Essays

What should the United States do when saving strangers is the morally correct thing to do, but politically and practically, it could turn out to be a nightmare? If America is going to put the lives of its citizens at stake in situations where the primary motivation is not national interest, but an interest in common global humanity, America should be sure that she can do more good than harm.

The US Healthcare Debate: A History and Implications

Christopher Wood • Jul 29 2011 • Essays

There are a wide range of factors that contribute to the difficulties faced by the Obama administration in passing health care reform. Understanding public perception of the state of the health care industry in the United States is essential in explaining the difficulties faced by the Obama administration in passing reform.

Who is to blame for the perceived crisis in democracy? Politicians, the media or the public?

Patrick Lee • Jul 28 2011 • Essays

Blame can be placed on citizens, politicians and the media for not adequately fulfilling their democratic role. However, each relies on each other in such a way that makes a healthy democracy impossible if one does not function adequately. Put differently: citizens, politicians and the media are to blame for the crisis in democracy.

Limitations of the Green Movement and Barriers to Reform in Iran

Luke M. Herrington • Jul 28 2011 • Essays

A number of social, political, and economic barriers to regime change exist in Iran, and each has contributed to the perceived failures of the Green Movement since June 2009. This essay is a discussion of these barriers—impediments to the Green Movement’s success—and the opposition’s attempts to overcome them.

“The Suppression of Nationhood”: Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom

Julian Neal • Jul 28 2011 • Essays

To date, the United Kingdom has remained a fundamental part of the European Union. There are no significant signs that this will change in the near future, yet with so much Eurosceptic sentiment amongst its politics and people, British EU withdrawal is not an action that is at all a fantasy.

Factors of Persistent Poverty in Sierra Leone

Sharanya Ravichandran • Jul 28 2011 • Essays

Release from colonial rule has not benefited Sierra Leone. Ironically, it is the government’s responsibility to provide its citizens with good living conditions; in Sierra Leone, it is this same government that plays a key factor in pushing them into deeper poverty.

Why did Britain fight a war against the Mau Mau movement in Kenya?

anon • Jul 28 2011 • Essays

The central cause to the instigation of the tragic seven years of rebellion, or emergency, in Colonial Kenya between 1952 and 1959 has to be due to Britain’s terrible management of its territorial holdings. By protecting a hugely unfair and unjust settler economy, the British provoked a seemingly vile resistance movement in the form of the Mau Mau.

Examining the 1956 Suez Crisis

Anca Ioana Voinea • Jul 27 2011 • Essays

The 1956 Suez War marked a new chapter in the development of Middle Eastern politics.The emergence of Nasserism in the Middle East after the Suez crisis sustains the idea that Egypt was the sole winner of Suez. The Suez War managed to bring into question the significant role of the Middle East in world politics, particularly in the Cold War context.

Bush and Blair: the impact of a special relationship on national interests

John Laidlaw • Jul 26 2011 • Essays

This dissertation argues that the ‘special’ relationship shared between Tony Blair and George W Bush while they presided over their respective countries’ had a greater effect on their own individual pursuit of national interests than conventionally acknowledged.

Assessing China and India’s New Role in Africa

Tom McCarthy • Jul 26 2011 • Essays

This dissertation seeks to explore the rise of China and India in Africa, arguing that the two countries represent a second generation of donors that are able to free-ride on the previous reforms imposed by Western donors, and are then re-interpreting this to announce a new way of providing assistance, centred around ‘non-interference’ and respect for state sovereignty.

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