Quebec sovereignty movement

Our Constitution: Does it need to be reformed? Anybody who has ever run knows you can’t just randomly go out a run five miles without pain or taking breaks. It takes time, dedication, and patience to get into shape for running so that you are able to run those five miles painless and efficiently. Take that into consideration for a national state convention, you can’t just call for one and expect everything to run smoothly. It takes small steps in order to pursue great things. If the states were…

What is the relationship between the self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of states in contemporary international politics? 1 This report elucidates the link between sovereignty of states & self-determination of peoples therefore the focal point of this essay is to elaborate on the underlying concept of sovereignty as it incorporates the protection and the practice of various human rights as stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The main goal of this…

Popular sovereignty is the idea that the authority of the state and its government is created and managed by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives who are the head of the political power. In essence, popular sovereignty is an idea which may not necessarily reflect or describe the reality of a political setting. Popular sovereignty is needed by each states in Agonistan. Majoritarian and Minoritarian argues that popular sovereignty demands for equal rights of all…

to keep up with the multitude’s desire. This gradual change could be beneficial for both the government and the citizens, but because China has been at a dictorial state for so long, the absence of absolute power is feared. China does not want any movement that could be perceived as a challenge to their authority, nor does it want democracy campaigns to influence the mind of the…

After Waltz opened the door in the structural theory, other neorealists created theories to build on top of Waltz’s foundation. One in particular, John Mearsheimer, agreed with almost everything that Waltz said, except for his stance on security. In Waltz’s neorealism theory, he spoke about the security dilemma, and how that shapes a states foreign policy, and how they, in turn acts towards others. Mearsheimer offers the offensive realism theory, which is the opposite to the defensive theory…

Iran’s form of hegemonic internationalism is nuclear weapons. Iran has been trying to develop nuclear arms to guarantee Iran’s security, economy, and international status. If Iran were to develop nuclear arms, the United States and other allied nations couldn’t just invade Iran because if they did a nuclear missile could be launched at their nation inflicting millions of innocent deaths that would ultimately be their fault. Building nuclear arms also enhances Iran’s status as a “leading state”…

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…