Quebec sovereignty movement

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…

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. And each one acted as heat for a revolution which built up till the people could take no more. Before the colonized disbanded from Britain, they were forced…

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…

In Richard A. Koenigsberg’s “Love of War” he discusses the “X” factor. Koenigsberg defines the “X” factor as the sacred ideal that acts as a released transforming violent acts into forms of goodness. I believe that the X factor is just used as an excuse to obtain power from other cultures to control their natural resources. Governments leaders have used many excuses to convince their citizens to fight for their agenda but in the big scheme, the destruction of these cultures is fueled by greed…

In contemporary America, Donald Trump, is the latest example of a flaw built directly into the American political system: an electoral system in which the majority rules and there is no minority representation, because the winner takes all. Except, in the 2016 American presidential election, the majority winner did not win; Trump lost the popular vote to Clinton by over 2.8 million votes. Therefore, the Trump phenomenon is not the end of democracy as we know it, or even the end of the world. The…

Introduction At first glance, Hobbes’s theory of rule within his artificial commonwealth appears deceptively simple: an omnipotent, totalitarian sovereign who compels absolute obedience through the use of terror, fear, and the constant threat of violence. At the core of this conventional view is the common-held notion of the sovereign as a dispenser of cruel and malevolent punishment. However, a more nuanced examination of Hobbes’s treatment of the purpose and character of punishment reveals…

Sovereignty forms part as an essential role to the functions of the State. It distinguishes the major identity which defines the Statehood of an entity in its legal capacity to act within its borders, and enter into relations with other sovereign States; and without intervention from the acts which it may deem necessary for its autonomy other than that from the provisions of the international law. Under the current international law and as stated by Alessandro Pelizzon in the Sovereign Union of…