The Evolution of Cooperation

greater benefits for everybody at home and abroad (Jackson and Sorenson, 98). Liberalists believe that an increasing interstate cooperation thus brings the best chances for development and peace. Liberalists believe that institutions uphold and defend justice. Therefore, liberalists join institutions because they believe that the nations and states benefit through cooperation than acting alone. Liberalist theories are presented in American foreign policy as well and are rooted in the democracy…

are concerns that selection pressure from antibiotics in the environment may accelerate the evolution and dissemination of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Nevertheless, there is currently no regulatory system that takes such risks into account.” With the Swedish team’s findings, it becomes more important to seek global regulation of the use of antibiotics in food production, in order to minimize the evolution of these superbugs. Global regulation could prove effective in reducing the rate of…

MONKEYLUV: A CRITICAL REVIEW As I picked up picked up my AP Psychology required reading, Monkeyluv by Robert Sapolsky, I wondered what on earth animal behavior could have to do with human psychology. The idea that we could draw connections between the conduct of mice and humans escaped me; I had forgotten that humans were, in fact, animals. Sapolsky does his best to drive this point home as he humorously, yet intellectually, illustrates the idea that humans and animals are often more similar…

What Really Makes Us Who We Are? Social Psychology, Supplemental Book Review: The Rational Animal: How Evolution Makes Us Smarter Than We Think. Overview: In this essay, I discuss the different ways that this book has altered my way of thinking, both slightly and greatly, as well as the questions or ideas that sparked in my brain while reading the book. Summary: This book offers a new insight into the way that we may see or think about a variety of human interactions as well as the way…

Union in 1991, the United States emerged as the victor of the Cold War and as the new unchallenged global hegemonic power, with no other state able to match its power and influence. This resulted in some experts believing that this would lead to an evolution of the field of international relations, where the international community would finally put aside their differences and work towards a brighter future for all. But, the reaction of the international community to the Rwandan Genocide…

Thorstein Veblen was one of the first eighteenth-century economist to disagree with mercantilist fallacies. Veblen focused on human behavior and its value unlike classical economists, who claimed that humans behave in accordance to their nature as rational utility maximizers only, basically degrading the human being to pleasure and pain calculators. He realized that if humans really did act on a purely utility maximizing basis, the existence of culture and institutions, which shape human…

Putting aside differences to achieve balance and benefit from one another should be the overall goal. The fear of losing a societies cultural identity must be put aside. In doing so we can integrate our culture with others to achieve a new identity. Cooperation with other nations to meld into a new identirty will allow us to put aside our differences and reduce unnecessary conflict. If the western powers are willing to step down off their high horse and cooperate with open minds, the global…

As Achebe demonstrates through Things Fall Apart, relationships between cultures need to evolve from one of domination/dominated to one of cooperation. In order to preserve the planet, the destructive perspectives and beliefs that humans are perpetuating in ignorance and arrogance must be reversed or amended. Perspective precedes and precipitates action. Grove notes in his essay “Green Imperialism” that the awareness to preserve the environment on some scale is nothing new but that many attempts…

Participation in the early response of Cyclone Nargis: Reflective case study Introduction Myanmar is exposed to multi-hazards such as fire, flood, earthquake, cyclone and landslide. It is situated in tropical climate zone and has three seasons-Summer (mid-February to mid-May), Rainy (mid-May to mid-October) and Winter (mid-October to mid-February). The official cyclone season is in monsoon period and the high potential of cyclone formation is in pre-monsoon and post-monsoon periods. Cyclone…

This history study will define the exclusive rights of governmental representation through the development of citizenship in the early Roman Republic. In the early Roman Republic, the fall of the monarchy provided a new way to interpret citizenship that provided a broader range of legal rights to the ruling classes. The “patricians” define an early example of the development of citizenship to grant specific governmental rights of representation, which dominated Roman society as a type oligarchic…