Essays on Politics

Foreign policies are an integral part of states. The underlying purpose of foreign policies is the fact that they serve as a guide of what is happening in the international community about international relations. Foreign policies that are documented are often referred to as foreign policy doctrines. Foreign policy doctrine...

There are two main tools used to control the amount of money in supply of the economy. They are monetary and fiscal policies. The pros of the policies are that they play the vital role in stabilizing the economy and foster economic development. However, there are also disadvantages of using...

The Global Strategy of the European Union provided a better position for the union to transpose itself so as to continue being a global superpower. Being a universal leader, it had to set up all the possible approaches to enhance unity and cooperation in the outside environment. Despite being financially...

In the wake of the 21st century, the role of political parties has risen to be the center of attraction in the field of governance. The world has witnessed the massive expansion and increase in the number of parties in every country after the end of the First and the...

The United States and Federal Government The United States of America is based on the federal government. A federal government is a system of rule whereby there is the division of power between the local state government and the central government that are linked to one another through the national government....

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) emerged after the Rwanda mass atrocity in 1990 that necessitated intervention by the international community to prevent harm to human beings. The concept has continuously ascended in China and especially Beijing’s policies towards humanitarian crisis. The crises experienced in Syria, Darfur, and Libya elaborates China’s diplomacy...

Intellectual Property (IP) refers to the mind creations including inventions, art and literary works, designs, and commercial symbols, images, and names. There are two main categories of IP: industrial property and copyright. Industrial property refers to the patents for trademarks, inventions, geographical indications, and industrial designs (Bradner Contreras,...

The Independence of the US Supreme Court The Supreme Court is the highest court in the United States that was created by the Founding Fathers to interpret the Constitution and maintain a system of checks and balances on the Presidency and Congress (Manaster 20). Judicial Independence Most importantly, the US Founding Fathers created...

Reading Suisheng Zhao’s treatise on “Foreign Policy Implications of Chinese Nationalism Revisited: the strident turn” brings the role of nationalism in foreign policy under focus. It focuses on the geopolitical relations between nations given their historical diplomatic relations and the change in foreign policy. The change in China’s foreign policy...

Governance is an important an aspect of every institution; the above notion is based on the role it plays in regulating the conducts of members of such organizations by providing well-established rules and regulations. In the course of societal development, a couple of factors has been introduced the concept of...

Indoctrination has become a critical and controversial issue in modern education. This form of education raises fundamental questions about the ethics of teaching. Indoctrination is a manipulative form of teaching where educators pass specific beliefs and values to their students. Over the last 100 years, the understanding of indoctrination has...

The Concept of Essentially Contested Concepts The essentially contested concept was a formulation of W.B Gallie who opined that a concept may be categorized as being contested when thoughts relating to the concept's application become the subject of debate as to how to properly define the concept (1956). Although complicated concepts...