European integration

Political Cleavages Background Political cleavage and the idea of conflicts as an integral element in the creation and sustenance of political systems was first formulated by Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan in 1967. They stress on the idea of historical conflicts as the primary reason for the manner in which political parties emerge and create their voter base. This is relatively true, as seen in the political, social, economic and religious agenda which informs party organization and…

world war, the European economy and infrastructure were severely devastated. Europe had the mindset of avoiding any further damage and deaths in their land. Leading them to begin moving forward towards a more peaceful Europe. Over decades of treaty making and attempts to collaborate with one another, eventually, the Maastricht Treaty was created in 1992. This new treaty was put into effect in 1993 providing unity to twenty-seven member states. Giving the world the birth of the European Union.…

The European crisis has affected numerous individuals over the years, and still continues to affect several of them. As stated in the article “Why did the Crisis happen?” It all began “When a slowdown in the US economy caused over-extended American homeowners to default on their mortgages, banks all over the world with investments linked to those mortgages started losing money.” (2014) Our fourth largest bank in America collapsed, and other banks feared the same would happen to them. As a…

Would it be in the United Kingdom’s economic interest to leave the European Union? The United Kingdom (UK) has been a member of the European Union (EU) for almost four decades and has thrived financially since joining. However, following the recent financial crisis, concerns about Britain’s ongoing membership of the EU have increased dramatically, notably voiced by the head of the Confederation of British Industries (CBI), the UK’s largest business lobby. A key promise in the Conservative…

International University. • Dr. Wendy Grenade, Lecturer in Political Science and Deputy Dean (Outreach) Faculty of Social Sciences University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. • Dr. Joaquin Roy Jean, Monnet Chair “ad personam” Director, European Union Center of Excellence University of Miami. • Panel Discussion chaired by Dr. Markus Thiel, Politics & International Relations (FIU) Dr. Hintzen went first with his topic, “The EU, CARIFORUM, AND CELAC: the new multilateral alliance”. He…

immediately successful. Belgium was said to have parties and provinces, but nothing that could be considered a nation. The constant alterations in the definition of nationalism in over the course of a century, were further factors that prevented the integration and acceptance of Belgium within the nation. One of the most popular definitions at the time, was by a historian of the Belgian Revolution; Henri Pirenne, who stated that the Belgian Identity was “not defined on racial, ethnic or…

Globalisation is the "integration of the political, economic and cultural activities of geographically and/or nationally separated people" (US Department of Defence, 1999, p1) which results in the widespread economic interdependence of nations across continents through the exchange of: capital and goods; information and ideas; people and environmental substances. This massively increased scale of trade and cultural interchange has been aided by a variety of processes: Improvements in…

improve. The repetition of this given exercise leads to improvement through practice, but cannot be applied to a new task. In an online article “Treating Sensory Processing Issues” which supports the use of SI therapy, the concept behind Sensory Integration Therapy is explained by Beth Arkly. Beth is a writer at Child Mind Institute, a website dedicated to providing care for children with disabilities. She writes "The idea behind SI therapy is that specific movement activities, resistive body…

Rachael Barnes February 7th, 2016 Dr. Queen Visual Search Lab Introduction Jeremy Wolfe is a psychologist who was particularly interested studying visual attention and visual search. The term “visual search” is used to describe the action of using one’s visual modality to identify an object given to you. Wolfe (2011) posed the question “how you find what you are looking for in a visual world filled with these things that you are not looking for?” (p.1). When it comes to visual search we…

many necessary measures to regain the power they once attained. 1. What are the Eastern Partnership initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union? Why are they contentious? The Eastern Partnership initiative gives the Eastern European countries access to the Western European countries large market if they promised to take the necessary action to make their countries more democratic, more efficient, as well as less corrupt. However, the EU did not allow the countries membership, it wasn’t totally…