Africa: a cold war proxy field?

Political science   |   Political science   |   Presentation   |   01/13/2009   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : « democracy, free trade and capitalism, whereas Soviet leaders pursued the Zhdanov doctrine which identified democracy with communism. Both the USA and the USSR ...»

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How adequate is the question of sovereignty in the political disputes within Britain about the desirability of joining the European communities? (1945-1973)

Political science   |   Political science   |   Presentation   |   01/13/2009   |   .doc   |   7 pages
Document abstract : « With the Cold War, the international order was bipolarised between two superpowers, the USA and the USSR, and Western Europe was threatened by the Communism. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Britain's reluctance towards the European construction.. Britain's attitude after the war.. The question of the British sovereignty.. The development of the European integration.. looking for more integration. . The ECSC.. The...»

The American way of life in the fifties

Political science   |   Political science   |   Presentation   |   01/16/2009   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : « confused, uncertain and discontented with present definition of women's place in the USA". The whole TV industry feared anti-communism who gave lists of names ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Suburbia and consumerism.. Family life and sex roles.. Popular culture, tv, elite culture.. Politics in the 1950's.. Conclusion.....»

Power and weakness in "American Power in the 21st Century" by Robert Kagan

Political science   |   Political science   |   Book review   |   05/17/2009   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : « gap Unfortunately, today s divergence between Europe and the USA is not a central strategic theater of the worldwide struggle between communism and democratic ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction about the author. The geopolitical reasons of the transatlantic gap. The historical and psychological explanations. Today's reality. The future. The author's argumentation . Kagan's thesis about the divergence between the US and Europe...»

The response of the Republican administrations of the 1950s and the Democrat administrations of the 1960s to the domestic problems they faced

Political science   |   Political science   |   Case study   |   01/21/2009   |   .doc   |   8 pages
Document abstract : « Democrat image, accusing and demonizing them for being too soft on communism and thus The USA seemed to be doing so well under Eisenhower that he comfortably ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Impressive presidency of the democrat President Harry Truman.. China's embrace of communism in 1949.. Eisenhower's appointment to the presidential position.. The ambitious McCarthy.. President Eisenhower's modern Republicanism.. The...»

Pluralism, democracy, and citizenship

Political science   |   Political science   |   Presentation   |   01/13/2009   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : « The fact that our western democracies were constantly opposed to communism lead people clearly reduced citizen rights in order to protect the USA to terrorist ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. When the 'special moral force' of democracy justifies compliance towards democratically chosen laws.. The idea of moral force.. The second world war and the cold war.. When the so-called democracies lack legitimacy, justness and moral...»

Bulgaria: Transition towards democracy

Political science   |   Political science   |   Presentation   |   01/21/2009   |   .doc   |   22 pages
Document abstract : « Transition in Civil Society Communism Political Dissent 1989-1997 The ?Winter Revolution? and are opposed to NATO, the Iraq War and closer ties with the USA. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Political transition.. The Bulgarian Communist Party.. Coalition for Bulgaria.. The National Movement Simeon II.. National Union Attack.. United Democratic Forces.. Democrats for a strong Bulgaria.. Bulgarian Peoples Union.. Other...»

Transition of Croatia

Political science   |   Political science   |   Presentation   |   01/09/2009   |   .doc   |   20 pages
Document abstract : « of politicians as well as citizens to the nationalist communism of Slobodan to the favourable international situation, the sympathies of the USA and Germany ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Croatia before the First Yugoslavia.. The Yugoslav idea.. Realization of a Yugoslav unity?. Yugoslavia.. The first Yugoslavia (1918 ? 1941).. The independent state of Croatia (1941 – 1945).. The Second Yugoslavia (1945 –...»

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