Regime

current state of land contamination. This essay will discuss the provision of the current contaminated land regime, its interaction with other environmental cleanup groups in the UK, and its complications. It will further look at it in reference to the UK 's planning authority. It will establish through case law, the influence of the European Union law on the UK contaminated land regime. This paper will elaborate on the doctrine of Environmental Impact Assessment and the role of local authority…

Republic and Aristotle’s Politics present frameworks of governance where regimes inevitably change forms. Neither a dynastic kingship nor a classless democracy can possibly survive indefinitely. Plato and Aristotle analyze this change in depth, each providing a distinct view: Plato’s cycle of regime corruption and Aristotle’s web of possible regime transitions. In these frameworks, Plato and Aristotle both agree on five regime types: kingship, the rule of a virtuous person; timocracy or…

The literature on persistent authoritarianism relies on a variety of hypothesis to explain the exceptionalism of the MENA region to maintain authoritarian regimes. Certain variables or prerequisites of a state to achieve a democratic reform are considered in Bellin’s article. Bellin stresses that these variables are not enough to explain authoritarian resilience in the region nor either the success or failure of states to transition to democracy. This essay will aim to validate proposed…

Archie Brown makes the claim that the cult of the leader was of the ‘utmost importance’ in the totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist Russia during the twentieth century. One cannot deny the increased emphasis on personal leadership as a fundamental characteristic of totalitarian states. This is essentially due to the personality cults of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini that were formed during this era. E.A. Rees maintains that a leader cult is an ‘established system…

Not only does the spread of democracy serve the security interests of the United States, it could be argued that the attempt to spread democracy is morally defensible. This relies on the idea the democracy is the morally superior regime. As Janzekovic and Silander (2013, pp. 91), writes “The collective identity of Western community is based on a liberal view of human rights regarding individual freedoms, political rights and civil liberties”. Given this, it could also be said that despite its…

Instead their work showed the ways regimes were able to consolidate and strengthen their power. In this sense, these analyses are still useful, as they focused on the pursuit and persistence of authoritarian stability, rather than the essentialist view that somehow these regimes would always stay in power. As such, the literature on this paradigm is still useful in examining the regimes that did witness uprisings but who were able to resist them. The question…

Lieutenant General Jorge Rafaél Videla assumed the role of president of the military dictatorship and quickly “imposed censorship, banned trade unions, and brought state and municipal government under military control” (Britannica). In addition, Videla’s regime began what they called a war on subversion, employing…

Commander.’ Do you think that women have gained under the Gileadean regime? In the book The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, women have failed to gain more than the life they lived before. This is a result of the regime removing their power through the elimination of rights and freedoms and relationships. Replacing it with roles women wouldn’t choose nor want and a life that failed to meet the standards the regime pledged. The regime removed many rights and freedoms within Gilead,…

innocence of childhood to expresser point of view. Iran is commonly thought of as an Islamic majority country. In an attempt to negate the marginalized view of Iran, Marjane seeks to provide an alternative view of Iran, one that opposes the Islamic regime. On page 62, she shares a fact she learned from the television that the vast majority of Iran was for the Islamic…

and ridiculous events as a way to protest the communist regime peacefully, all the while rejecting the starkness of Solidarity and the strictness of…