Essays on Nation-State

For some human rights to work each and every person ought to possess a well-defined domain of agency and this domain requires to be defined by the person’s rights, in which he is strongly shielded from external disturbances. Therefore, to respect other people’s rights is to make sure that they may pursue their goals provided they do not violate others people’s rights to pursue their goals. Certainly, for people to come up with and pursue their goals, agents require to be soundly guaranteed that they will be able to make use of definite means and perform ...

In the book, Edward Weisband and Courtney Thomas have discussed political culture, its application as well as the different aspects related to it. According to the authors, a political culture refers to all the factors that enable the thriving of a particular political system. In fact, the practices, the values, the beliefs, and the shared systems, all contribute to the formation of a political system that defines an administration. In as much as most people believe that such a culture is naturally formed, this notion is not true because it takes many years to develop fully and take strong ...

According to Professor Takaki, the phrase "a lecture within a lecture" means teaching an off-shoot of a topic within a major topic. For instance, in this case, Professor Takaki teaches about the immigration of the Irish and Chinese women within a larger perspective of American history. He illustrates the manner in which the British colonialists displaced the Irish from their land leading to massive immigration of the Irish women from Europe to America.

According to Critical Race Theory, why is storytelling an important part of challenging hegemonic power and the master narrative?

Storytelling is an important part of challenging hegemonic power. The theory of hegemonic power asserts that the international political system will only remain stable if a ...

War in Vietnam has deeply influenced other countries in the region – Laos and Cambodia. The movie Vietnam: a TV History demonstrates through the historic images, frames and evidence of witnesses and active participants of this war the policy of American leadership towards these nation-states and the consequences of this policy. In the 1961 President Kennedy claimed that security in Laos was in national interests of the United States, in spite of the fact that it was far away. One of the arguments was made by President Kennedy when he announced the importance of supporting Laos in its battle against ...

Arrogance and ignorance may be called the twin causes of the American Revolution. Trace and discuss the ways in which the British lost their American colonies. Why were the British unable to retain the colonists’ loyalty in the period leading up to the Revolutionary War? The rapid economic growth of the colonies encouraged them to free themselves from the constraints posed by England in the fields of trade, industry and land use. Colonies wanted to get rid of the taxes imposed by the British government. Despite all this, in the 60’s of the 18th century colonial oppression increased. ...

In the essay, Alasdair MacIntyre (129-130) describes virtues, such as independent rational thinking and freedom of expression, which leads to deliberation and common mind, acknowledgement of dependency of the members of community on each other, and the virtue of just generosity, according to which, community should help the needy and dependent members. MacIntyre (131) argues that the modern nation-state and family cannot provide conditions, necessary to practice these virtues. Size of the modern nation-state is enormous and prevents the creation of shared decision-making and common mind through rational deliberation of all the members of the society. Instead, political processes ...

The Musee du Quai Branly in Paris boasts of an excellent and extensive collection of from different cultures, giving valuable insights into them. Those permanent and temporary collections in the great museum are original art, from Africa, South America, and Asia. The collections conserve about 370,000 works of art that display the cultural diversity of non-European civilizations from the Neolithic period till the 20th century. The non-European collections gradually accumulated in private collections because of the colonial expansion and economic development during the 18th century. The national museums were created following the French Revolution, and those ethnographic collections ...

THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

The French Revolution was known for its blood-lined streets, rioting peasants, and terrifying regime changes. However, all death and destruction aside, the protesters of this time were heavily influenced by the thinkers that had come before them and brought new ideas to light. While the results were bloody, the intentions were lodged in modern thought. The Enlightenment was a time that influenced many historical movements in the future and had a significant impact on the political structure of France before and after the revolution. The driving force behind this movement was the writings of the philosophes and their contributions ...

Abstract

Industrial ownership by nation states has been around since the 16th Century in the Western part of the world seeking protection by the Roman Empire. The significance of this act was defined at that time and even though we are in the 21st century those significances has not changed. The support for nation to own industries has made a positive impact to countries that require expansion but with benefits also comes consequences. Some of the action have prompted severe consequences for some causing economy meltdown and negative effects when in comes to global trade. The paper will look at ...

Seventeenth Century Problems in the 21st Century: An In-depth Look at Modern Slavery through the through the Work of Fiction “Zanzibar Chest” by Aidan Hartley

Abstract

The research would aim to delve into the intricacies of modern slavery that victimizes innumerable people from various corners of the globe. This is a qualitative study that goes on to explicate some statistical data as well for the purpose of substantiation of the claim. Indeed, an element of quantitative study would dig deeper into the work of fiction by Aidan Hartley. This author’s work, the Zanzibar’s Chest is a reminiscence of ...

Executive Summary

An American research group has presented a latest review "Global Recruitment Market Report 2013 Edition" in its gigantic pool of research reviews. The staffing industry differs significantly from one nation state to another with the Japan, United Kingdom and United States displaying the highest level of disintegration (Rogers, 2013). The staffing industry is categorized into professional and general employment industries. General employment that contains low experienced, low salary blue collar workers has a greater share in comparison to professional employment that contains more experienced, more salary white collar workers. North America exhibited the single largest industry considered in terms of earnings ...

Sovereignty: The word sovereignty means having paramount authority over a polity. The concept is, if a land is sovereign, then no external force has the right to intervene in the internal matters of the land.

International Organization: International organization has international presence, scope and membership. Such organizations operate across various nations. There are two categories of international organizations: INGOs and NGOs.

Actor: Any force that takes part in any political scenario, and has a role to play in it is known as an actor.

Anarchy: Anarchy is the absence of any government or the condition of disorder that ...

In 21st century globalization has touched all aspect of business, economy, trade, and government system. Globalization altered the way businesses were operating and governments were handling international relations. Experts have different opinion on globalization, few consider that globalization has reduced the power of nation state because of global capital. Some experts said that nation-state is still powerful, and adopt changes developed by globalization. This paper intends to discuss the impact of globalization on nation states, and how globalization reduced the power of the state.

Fundamentally all countries across the world have become the part of global transformations. Capital, products, ...

MNCs or Multinational Corporations is a company that operates under a corporate structure in more than once country. This term is general, and is used to encompass a wide array of companies, from small corporations that operate in two or a few countries, to giant companies like Apple that operate in over a hundred different countries. People within countries are governed by laws created by whatever government system corresponds with that country. One issue with Multinational Corporations is that because they operate across borders is that they are held accountable to different legal systems, which an at times be drastically different. Since no single ...

During the Stone Age period, communication between people was largely dependent on distance. Communication could only take place if two human beings were close enough to hear each other. Human beings progresses and started communicating using smoke signals to their relatives who were miles far away. Discovery of writing created a paradigm shift in communication. Written messages could be conveyed from one empire to the other via messengers. The concept of globalization grew as kingdoms interacted with each other through trade, migration, intermarriages and other social interaction. According to International Monetary Fund, globalization encapsulates four major components. The first one ...

Incidents of shooting at schools and colleges have become one of the most important issues in modern times in the land of America. Many lives are lost in the shocking incidents that seem to occur recurrently all over the state. Innocent children and teenagers meet with their untimely demise due to such unprecedented attacks that are carried out at educational institutions. Thus, it has become one of the most stirring issues of the society in the present day. The law and order of the nation state is also in jeopardy owing to such shocking incidents that amount to loss ...

Introduction:

Security refers to the protection of life from any force or factor that is threatening to it. Traditionally, security has been viewed from militaristic approaches that are related to the avoidance of conflicts between States and Nations of the world (BRAUCH, 2003). The traditional approach to this issue has majorly focused on studying the threats in our world and using or controlling military forces to address the issue. Since the cold war ended, there has been a distinct shift from security studies and international relations in addressing security approaches. The world super powers are no longer the sole determinants of ...

What is Machiavelli’s View of Political Power? Is the Prince an Immoral Text?

Indeed, the Prince is a seminal treatise on governance and the concept of the nation state. In the treatise, Machiavelli provides an illuminating conception of the state and governance. In his composed and combative approach, Machiavelli offers a viewpoint that essentially departs in a radical manner from what at that time was the typical conception in the mindset of the societies in question. The brief of this paper shall be to briefly examine Machiavelli’s view of political power and by extension assess whether the Prince is an immoral text. While the former task requires a discussion, the latter may as well be ...

The Arab Spring has been going on for the last two years. While the peaceful protest that started in Tunisia was over in the country after about 3 months, it took Libya about 6 months to finally stampede over the authoritative regime of Kaddafi. Kaddafi’s fall however, did not actualize the desires of a liberal and progressive democracy. Libya’s revolution backfired as the absence of a central authority led to civil unrest and the rise of extremists’ movements. In Egypt, the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 was seen as the culmination of freedom and the triumph of democracy ...

Political Science

Introduction Networks proved to be a growing power in the year 1996 where they enjoyed success human rights, transnational crime, insurgency and terror. Networks may be for licit or illicit intentions such as terrorist groups such as the Al-Qaeda or drug networks Zapatistas in Mexico. Currently, or networks rely on the internet to maintain cohesion and for expansion. Networks are often in conflictive relationship with nation states be they civil or uncivil. In the past nation faced challenges from empires, classical liberalism and Marxism. The networks aims were to push, pod and confront by use of swords. Though loyalty ...

Introduction

The nation-state is a means by which the political arena and the cultures of a specific nation are merged to develop one solid solution. This solid solution is having a regulated culture, economic life and even political adventure within the nation’s boundaries. The nation-state slogan is one slogan that is sweet to achieve but hard to achieve. However, this depends on the status of the nation and the number of cultures the nation holds (Domosh 2010). There are well defined reasons why nation-state objective is barely achieved by the nations. Besides there are also factors that slightly support the well-being of ...

The creation of the nation state characterized the Second Wave civilizing force that swept through Europe and Asia. These nation states made trade possible and necessitated national consolidation. A major part of this consolidation was the unification of a legal code throughout all the communities included in the nation state. This enabled a more productive division of labor and a larger market for capital and commodities. . In the large Eastern nations of India and China this was done throughout the country, without the focus on trade with other nations that was seen in the more fragmented and individually nationalized European nations. . ...

The paper aims to comprehend and document the history of Germany and delve deep into the possibilities and capacity of the nation to dominate the European continent. It requires our understanding that Germany has the potential and power to emerge as the omnipotent force in the continent and an insight into the national history would only reiterate the claim with testimonials and evidences to supplement the view. The country was hit by the March Revolution in 1848 which ended up in being a failed attempt at establishing the German state. However, this called for more liberal state policies, nationalism ...

Part 2

Rodrik portrays globalization as problematic and continues to claim that it leads to a problem of triangulation. He asserts that the countries cannot pursue all their internal activities without external interference. This is a case of a trilemma where nations are unable to afford national autonomy, democracy and economic liberty at the same time. This is because trade affects the internal structures of countries and also exerts political influence in the countries administrations. Globalization has suffered many hitches since it was introduced. The author cites the collapse of the gold standard of the 1914 due to economic problems. This was because ...

1. Introduction The changes occurred in the recent century as a result of globalization has in fact influenced the policy making ways and considerations. This has complicated the aspects of decision making particularly regarding policy matters and is true even in the case of domestic policies. Though nation states still hold control over domestic policy making process they need to verify whether the policy structures and priorities are complementing international policies and associated factors. Such compliance with international policies and legal structures are in fact essential to shape domestic policies that are implementable and enforceable. There are international agencies ...

Mark Twain, in The War-Prayer, portrays very simplistically how the wish for one’s victory is actually in a way the desire for the disaster of others who stand against the side. The stranger expresses the rationality which is ignored by the people who are only concerned about their prayer to the Almighty for the victory. The irony reaches its transcendental dais when at the end it is declared that the stranger was actually “a lunatic” and “there was no sense” in the things he said. Twain has also utilized this craft in other literary works penned by him. Similarly in ...

Just to begin with, it is important to acknowledge the fact that the economic development when studied along with the history of the economic growth can provide a more analytical and comprehensive understanding of the development process. In his book, the “Wealth and Poverty of the Nations”. Landes peruses the history of the world economies in order to analyze the causes in the disparities in the wealth of the nations. In his book, Landes examines the problem of whether or not there is convergence of income disparities among different economies in the world have been critically and comprehensively examined in ...

Both the Early and High Middle Ages ended with severe crises, such as the very destructive invasions of the Northmen (Vikings) in the 800s and 900s and the Black Death and peasant revolts of the 14th Century. Throughout the Middle Ages, kings and emperors struggled to establish order and stability in the face on constant clashes between various factions of robber barons, bandits, raiders and rival feudal overlords, such as the wars fought by King Louis the Fat for decades in the region around Paris. Feudalism was thus characterized by the lack of a centralized state and the political and ...

The clash of civilizations is an interesting article that attempts to change the conventional way of interpreting and discussing issues in International Relations. The author, Samuel Huntington, is of the opinion that the traditional approach to international relations no longer holds water and has been proved wrong and inadequate by the test of time. Samuel Huntington has divided the article in nine main parts beginning from the introduction to what he considers as implications of this clash of civilizations to the west and maybe, specifically the United States of America (Huntington 02). Huntington divides the world civilization ...

Abstract

On May 1, 2012, President Barack Obama made an address in Kabul, Afghanistan regarding the future of America's involvement in Afghanistan. Over the course of the speech, the President details the signing of an "historic agreement" between the two countries that establishes their relationship for the foreseeable future, one in which an "equal partnership" is created and the war in Afghanistan is slowly ended. Over the course of this speech, and in the plan itself, President Obama reveals a very neoliberalist attitude taken toward the United States and its relationship with Afghanistan; instead of conquering the country, or attempting to ...

Introduction

Immanuel wallerstein is among the prominent proponents of the world-systems analysis. [In 1974 he defined it “a system is defined as a unit with a single division of labor and multiple cultural systems.”] (Wallerstein, 2004). I n a longer definition he says “a social system,, one that has boundaries, structures, member groups, rules of legitimating and coherence. It is held by conflicting forces of tear and tension since each group seeks to remold it to its advantage.” Then in 1987 he gave a fuller description.

He says “Not a system of the world, but a system that is a world which can be, most often, has been, ...

Task:

Trans-boundary policy problem is a crisis resulting from set of rules that defines the clear cut in a boundary between two separate entities. The fight between two countries on the exact boundary line is the best example of this policy problem. Some water resources lie at the border of two countries and it becomes difficult in making the correct boundary line. Learning this helps us enhance our knowledge on how such cases arise and how they are addressed (Blatter 14).

Pro-modern ontology entails the comparison and approximation of objects to its perfect form. The best example of pre-modern onto.ogy is the ...

Introduction

State can be defined as the political and legal entity composed of a permanent populace, an internationally defined territory and duly constituted government and has the ability or the power to enter agreement with other states. On other hand, a nation refers to the cultural identity of a people and in most cases sharing the same language living within a boundary (Social Science Research Council, 2011). This distinction is very essential to so as to clearly differentiate the political and social impact of an occurrence to a country.

The Nation State

Therefore, the combination of the terms to get nation state refers to the political, social, cultural ...

Nation-State and Transnationalism

The nation-state is a sovereign entity governing a territory. The state is a political entity while the nation itself is a cultural entity. There are several characteristics which define a nation state and these include having a defined territory, some form of government which is organized, self rule in that they are sovereign against foreign interference and there exists a population of people who share a national identity and customs. These customs give a nation state a common identity. Thus, a nation state one that has a self identity and derives its legitimacy as a result of the sovereignty. The nation identifies people with common ancestry and culture such as the people ...

The land of Oz has recently become democratized due to the disappearance of the authoritarian Wizard, and now the Lady Glinda is heading a transitional government that would move towards a new system of government. Our job is to provide recommendations toward what that government should consist of. In this report, we will support our recommendation that the land of Oz move toward a presidential system of government, with a proportional representation electoral system for the president and legislature, and a federal system of government.

Presidential system

Given the segregated and divisive nature of the land of Oz, it is recommended that a democratically appointed president be ...