Leader of the Opposition

cyclical disturbances and Khomeini's strategy should have been more obvious to the Shah's government and to American Iran watchers”. The CIA’s overestimation of the Shah’s ability to retain power went hand in hand with the notion that the Iranian opposition could not effectively mobilize in order to topple the regime and instill a new government, with the CIA possessing the belief that “‘Iran was not in a revolutionary or even a pre-revolutionary state" and that the “Shah…

Social opposition movements have been apart of the international relations world for centuries. According to Alain Touraine he describes these movements to be formed conflicts or conflicts between organized actors over the social use of a common value (Touraine 89). In recent years we have seen Latin America’s opposition movements on the headlines of the news. Whether it is Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez marching with millions of civilians as a cry for help to the world about the…

Throughout the book, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War From Stalin to Gorbachev, Zubok demonstrates the differing personalities of successive Soviet leaders. These contrasting personalities were critical in shaping the character of Moscow’s cold war. In chapter seven and chapter eight, in particular, Zubok’s work concerns his interpretation of Brezhnev. During the Brezhnev period, the Soviet Union and the United States entered an era of détente. Brezhnev was committed to the…

Introduction The collapse of colonialism in Africa in the last decades of the twentieth century witnessed the change in the nature of political party systems in Africa. Soon after independence, one party governments became a hallmark in most newly independent African states. Many of these governments were independence movements who led the fight against colonialism, and therefore inherited the mantle of liberators, and by virtue of this came to dominate post-colonial governments. After…

It informed leaders about the importance of democratic procedures. It also shows that political leaders should open up a legal system that reflects the popular interests of the citizens of their country or state rather than focus on elite corporations and exploitation of a country’s means, like copper or steel…

It had called a press conference on November 20 to present the report. However, the Kanpur rail accident scuttled this plan. Meanwhile, the NDA leaders Ram Vilas Paswan, Upendra Kushwaha and Jitan Ram Manjhi came up with a different account of Nitish government's performance with the document titled “Ek saal, bura haal.” Predictably, the opposition questioned the state government on its apparent failures. It raised issues like deteriorating crime situation, dissolution of the agriculture…

government into everything caused great opposition. President Roosevelt’s reforms challenged recent practices, causing criticism from business leaders, the Left, and radicals (Roark, et al. 729). Initial industrial reforms made by the New Dealers included the formation of the National Recovery Administration, which produced voluntary codes for industrialists to follow. The government enforcement on these codes was nearly nonexistent, yet many business leaders saw the New Deal as: “too radical,…

30th of January 1933 was a momentous day which the leader of the Nazi party – Adolf Hilter was appointed as the chancellor of the Reichstag, granting him power to rule Germany. However, his stand in Germany was not strong enough. In the March1933 election, NSDAP only won around 43.9% of the German votes . It was not the majority. They still needed NSVDP’s help to control the parliament. Opposition parties, like SPD and KPD, on the other hand, gained the second most votes after NSDAP. Therefore,…

resistance from the church is the Catholic Church who like many groups displayed direct opposition and protest towards Nazi policies particularly to the policy of euthanasia. A high up Catholic bishop publicly denounced euthanasia on behalf of the church and this was followed by a number of churches doing the same throughout Germany. This is one of the few examples where their considerable support for the opposition of Nazi policies. It was an unusual situation where a well respected…

movement. The civil rights movement was a chain of events pertaining to the realization that African Americans were human beings and deserved the same rights as whites. Non violent protests were a big part of this movement. Usually organized by a set leader such as Martin Luther King Jr. Or the Freedom riders,…