Parliamentary sovereignty

Realists and Liberalist are often times conflicting on how they think about different issues and the way they go about constructing their own nations. But, institutionalism bridges a gap between the both of them. Institutionalism functions as a neutral territory that aims to diffuse potentially competing and conflicting issues. Realism, being the oldest International Relations theory gives a pessimistic view of human nature. Realists believe that. Some of the known Realists who shaped the ideals…

The emergence of ‘rights’ is not separate from law, force or violence; instead these concepts are highly interconnected. Thus, through the lens of Rousseau, Nietzsche and Foucault, this paper will argue that civilization has always operated within a 'state of violence ' as force and violence are centrally imbedded into law and it will account for how the social contract is used as a vital tool in order to enact laws. It will do so by first discussing how civilization has operated as a ‘state of…

Michael Cameron Prof. Crowe Political Philosophy 8 Nov. 2016 Midterm Paper The State of Nature is a concept by which philosophers are capable of developing varying or similar theories of government, or social contracts. These social contract theories allow us to better understand the course humanity takes and the reasoning behind this when forming a social contract to create a Sovereign body to rule over it. The two main social…

1. Introduction The issue of anarchic system in international politics is a crucial motive to define the interstates relationship between major theories of international relations. That is, there are diverse theoretical approaches to explicate how actors with a dilemma will behave or react between confrontation and cooperation in the decentralised world, thus understanding major theories such as realism and liberalism would be helpful to size up all possibilities of theoretical alternative in…

tension between state sovereignty and international intervention in pursuit of human rights protection has been contested. Over three centuries later, and the United Nations Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has codified human rights protection in a global political commitment of the highest order. Following the international acceptance of the R2P, many who support state protection contest the legitimacy of the doctrine, and question its encroachment on state sovereignty. Conversely,…

The Metamorphosis: In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka suggests that the deep roots of societal values are determined, not by character, but by what others can you for oneself. Gregor Sansa is a man who fell victim to the selfish morals of others. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka suggests that societal values are based upon our own needs and are changed when those needs are distorted by external factors. Grete’s distortion towards her brother, Gregor, is evident when she asserts, “I won't…

Absolute monarchy is a is a monarchical form of government in which the monarch has absolute power among his or her people. An absolute monarch wields unrestricted political power over the sovereign state and its people. Absolutism was used in France with Louis XIV, Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Although all of these countries were quite different they mostly believed that absolute monarchy was necessary and justified. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe, absolute monarchy…

How did the ideas of mercantilism, The Enlightenment, and The Great Awakening contribute to the found of the United States? The United States government was created because the people of the Thirteen colonies had freed themselves from Great Britain and needed a new way of governing. They had split off from Britain because of the ideas of The Enlightenment and The Great Awakening. Each of these were movements that prompted people to throw out their old unjust government and built up a new one.…

internal conflicts to deal with and more money to work with. Lesser developed countries (LDCs) tend to have too many internal issues to remedy before they can begin helping others. A report from the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) argues that “what is at stake here is not making the world safe for big powers…but delivering practical protection for ordinary people, at risk of their lives, because their states are unwilling or unable to protect them”…

threatened the balance of power. Arguably still this was a fight not just for physical security but for the security of ideals, in the eyes of the U.S if “commy” ideology spread then this would pose a threat not only to national security but to their sovereignty also. The Cold War however is viewed to be controversial between Liberalists and Realists. From a liberal perspective the fact that the Cold War ended through peaceful means without conflict proves that war is not inevitable and that…