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    The first source is a political cartoon dealing with the viability and success of modern liberal western democracy. The cartoon presents the perspective that such a democracy is ineffective and is crippled largely by apathy. In a democracy, good government is a dependent on good citizenship — which means citizens who will make informed decisions and participate in democratic processes. The cartoon suggests that American citizens cannot even be bothered to vote one of their most basic…

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    Dueck concludes by arguing, “no leader in the U.S is ever entirely freedom the influence of liberal ideas regarding the nature of international affairs, and that Bush’s early realism movement was never whole-hearted either” (Dueck, Pg.35). In short, Dueck thinks that these new policies shown that the American leadership’s aim to maintain America 's predominance via spreading liberal…

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    Realism and Liberalism in a Globalized World: The study of International Relations revolves around the “decisions that are made within a country that have implications for relationships outside the borders of that country” (Kaufman, Page 2). In the current globalized world, countries are interdependent entities that must exist and interact with one another. The manner in which countries choose to engage with another, such as aggressively or civilly, can be predicted and analyzed through various…

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    Democratic Peace Thesis

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    not fight, Duncan Bell’s Before the democratic peace: Racial utopianism, empire and the abolition of war calls attention to the shortcomings of democratic regimes’ ability to provide an egalitarian and peaceful society, even going as far to mark democracies as war prone. Furthermore, the article engages with various strands of political theories, such as radical liberalism and socialism, which speak to possibilities of world peace and the eradication of war by pinpointing the causes of conflict…

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    the behavior of incumbent political officials, in government. For democracy to prosper within a nation requires governments to be held responsible for wrongdoing against society. In a democracy, free and fair elections are essential to maintain stability within democracy because the process allows society to weed out political elite corrupt the system. Plattner argues that liberal democracy limits popular…

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    explanation, transparent policy-making processes avoid information imbalances that contribute to bargaining breakdowns which allows democracies to make more credible threats (Schultz, 1999). Although Schultz ultimately sided with the informational argument, his results remained inconclusive. Russett and Oneal, posited three variables that contribute to democratic peace, democracy, economic interdependence, and membership in intergovernmental organizations (IGO), and posited that each also…

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    terms to describe the nature of democracy, and this paper will aim to bring forth yet another one. Each term has its own different definition attached to it, ranging from the original, participatory form that did not have any notion of a hierarchy, to the more modern liberal democracy that instead relies on this notion of a hierarchy. Democracy is the movement that never stands still; it sails on the ship that is progressiveness. Progress is what has allowed democracy to be shaped and molded so…

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    Classic Liberalism

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    possible for peace through cooperation. Liberals believe that the international law "is a way of structuring "patterns of individual and group interaction in transnational society, patterns which, in turn, create interests that make up and constrain state action," (Burly, 1993-230). Liberals also stress the importance of liberal values, such as democracy, within the international system. In light of the current level of civilian abuse in conflict, the liberal theory could argue that the level…

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    Determinants of Stable and Peaceful Democracies: A Comparison of India and Pakistan Once part of the same dominion, India and Pakistan saw diverging political trajectories after partition in August 1947. Save for a period of emergency rule under Indira Gandhi between 1975-77, India is largely depicted as having successfully consolidated a stable and peaceful democracy. In contrast, Pakistan has alternated between military dictatorship and weak democracy characterised by violence. Comparing the…

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    The source believes that totalitarianism should be used regularly in governments in order to achieve goals. They have seen from history that totalitarianism results in great changes to a country. The USSR, for example, became rapidly industrialized under communism. The author ignores the fact that with this great power came great destruction to the lives of the citizens. Totalitarianism is an ideology that believes that the government should have complete control over nearly every aspect of its…

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