Papers On Selected Comparative Politics
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The Greatest Challenges Facing the European Union
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This 9 page
report discusses a number of the issues being dealt with by the
leaders of the European Union. With an admittedly shared but
still distinct history, the nations of Europe have faced and will
continue to face a significant number of obstacles blocking the
utopian state that some imagine as the future of Europe. New
regulatory frameworks, the creation of the Euro,
post-nationalism, economic and social expansion, as well as the
growing sense of alienation on the part citizens of EU
member-nations must all be considered as important challenges of
the 21st century. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: BWeuchal.wps
Politics in the Enlightenment
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This 8 page paper explores politics during the
Age of Enlightenment (the 18th C) which changed the
feudal system of rule to a more centralized
thoughtful government. Montesquieu, Locke, Kant,
and Wollstonecraft are discussed. Bibliography
lists 7 sources.
Filename: BBenpol.doc.
“Earthquakes in Salvador and Seattle”
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A six page paper which compares the recent earthquakes in Salvador and Seattle, in terms of the resultant damage, collateral effects on the economy, and the measures which the respective countries had previously taken to alleviate the potential impact of natural disasters.
Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: JLearthquakes.wps
“Melvyn Dubofsky and Labour and Capital”
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A paper which looks at Melvyn’s Dubofsky’s theories regarding the interrelationship between labour and capital, and the way in which government intervention in the movement of capital and the development of the welfare state can be seen to have parallels in the socio-economic situation of the present day, both in the US and in other areas of the world.
Filename: JLdubofsky.wps
“The transition from feudalism to capitalism”
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A five page paper which looks at different theories of the way in which the transition from feudalism to capitalism was initiated and maintained, with reference to the importance of external market forces, the control of the means of production, and the extent to which local economic factors could be seen as more significant than the wider market.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JLfeud.wps
“Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003” by Itamar Rabinovich
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A 5 page review of “Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003” by Itamar Rabinovich. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAwgp.rtf
"Communist Manifesto" - Marx & Engels
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3 pages in length. The social classes Marx and Engels identify in 19th century society include the ruling class, whose primary concern was material in nature; the bourgeois middle class, who would ultimately become squeezed out of the caste system if capitalism were to secure a foothold; and the lower working class, whose daily struggle to survive was routinely thwarted by the oppressive desires of the ruling class. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCComManMrx.rtf