Introduction For nearly six decades, the U.S. has enforced an official ban (el bloqueo) on trade and other economic transactions against Cuba. Since its introduction, the embargo has been the center of many political and socio-economic debates. In 2014, President Obama's administration made a significant shift towards normalizing the relations between...
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Bilateral tension has and continues to pose a major threat to developing as well as developed countries world over. However, having a clear understanding as well as demonstrating how the United States and China bilateral relations evolve has posted challenging tasks for both policy formulators as well as scholars. The...
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The Escalation of the Trade War between the United States and China The United States of America is fuelling a trade war with its main competitor China whose economy has expanded to the detriment of America`s traditional privilege in the international economy. The blusters from President Donald Trump as a result...
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Social Movements and Social Change Social movements are strategies and organizational structures that are made to empower oppressed groups of people so that they can resist advantaged and more powerful elites. These are large groups which can be formal or informal according to organizations or individuals whose focus is specific social...
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Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) in America is associated with the constant push that is a result of black activism which can also be related to the NFL protests by African American players. The activities of BLM have raised the question of where the tendency stands regarding the understanding of...
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In 1960, the two major political parties, the Republican and Democratic Party had different policies in which they promised the citizens of the United States a better society. During the presidential election of 1960, held on 8th November, John F. Kennedy, a Democrat defeated Richard M. Nixon narrowly (Rorabaugh, 2009)....
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The book Shirley Chisholm: A biography illustrates Chisholm`s journey to becoming the first black woman to be elected in Congress and to seek a Democratic nomination ticket for the United States president. Chisholm who was mentored by her grandmother throughout her childhood faced two major challenges in her career that...
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The nature of political conflicts in Cuba that resulted in an overthrow of the government of Batista in 1959, as well as series of threats of revolutions in Latin America spearheaded by the then leader, Fidel Castro, lead to a decision by the United to negate trade links with the...
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Different historical events have been key towards the shaping of American history and culture. Different documents such as court rulings, Supreme Court cases, revolutionaries, historians, political analysis, journalists among others. Authored in 2006, the book by Shafritz and Lee presented a compilation of different incidents documentations of incidents that shaped...
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The Electoral College is one of the famous voting systems in the United States which was formulated, devised by the framers of the US constitution to generate a method of election that was desirable, feasible as well as consistent alongside with the republican form of government. This paper discusses in...
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There have been so many debates about what motivated the founders of the constitution in the United States. Some people have argued that their motives were their economic interests.[1] These people had the belief that the founders were economic elites who wanted a constitution that would be of more importance in...
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Political participation is well-defined as nationals' activities touching political affairs which makes people rise up and fight for a certain aspect of their rights. From the time when the well-known memorial discourse of Pericles, legislators, and intellectuals have stressed the exceptional nature of social equality by stressing the role of...
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