Union Nationale

Student movements have been part of revolutionary changes throughout history. This year another student movement took place which will be a part of the revolution. This revolution began on the second of November, which was an action day for all students in Canada, in a campaign to protest the rising of tuition fees called Fight the fees. Eight thousand students gathered around the country in major cities, in important political spaces to raise awareness about the high-rising tuition fees. A…

Self Interest in International Courts and Tribunals International justice and law is a tool used by powerful states directed against smaller states. I would go even further and argue that international bodies, when controlled by powerful states, is a tool meant to intervene specifically in conflicts where those same powerful states could benefit. International tribunals, specifically the ICC, have motives that make the pursuit of justice desirable. Through the lens of a realism, I see the ICC…

Under Stalin’s control, the Soviet Union experienced a foundational transformation that served to create a new empire. The Communist Party became the core of the state, forming a government of party leaders and soviets, as well as replacing capitalist elements of the former era with the ideology of socialism. Stalin’s Soviet Union also underwent rapid industrialization, shifting the country’s chief economy from agriculture to manufacturing. Nevertheless, the push for industrialization saw…

Unions typically are not an employers best friend because once a union is formed with members, they all tend to stick together. This could result in a whole bunch of people going on strike until they get what they want. “Back in the late 1800’s, the first woman union was formed by Kate Mullaney. She led a strike against 14 commercial laundries demanding wage increases and attention…

In this paper I will attempt to examine the root causes of the Aral Sea disaster that implicate in ecological, societal, economic, and cultural environments throughout the time and space. This paper will challenge the traditional view of the Aral Sea disaster as of “natural”, but rather “crescive” and “constructed”. I will analyze the Aral sea disaster through the following lenses, first is political - harsh Soviet politics and transition to the market economy that had subsequently resulted in…

For average Americans during the early postwar era, the shadow of the Soviet Union and communism loomed as a threat to their way of life, causing paranoia over the threat of communist infiltration, which gave rise to the “Red Scare”. This mass hysteria led Americans to become fearful of communist agents attempting to infiltrate their society, and to undermine it from within. Studies of this era of US culture tend to focus on McCarthyism, the term used to describe the mass communist “witch hunt”…

ultimate solutions many employees seek when morale is low and management is failing to resolve or improve the matter is labor unions. If employees believe they are not getting what they need from their employer, they often turn to labor unions in hopes of reaching some sort of rightful treatment. When things have reached an all-time low with morale employees may feel that labor unions can improve the situation. There are several companies that have prevented becoming unionized, and has a…

military power, and that Germany didn’t need to view the Soviet Union as a serious military or economic threat. Between 1937 and 1938 around seven million Soviet citizens were arrested, one million were executed, two million died in camps, and another one million were imprisoned. Taking the Purge and the Great Terror as a whole, roughly eight million people were in camps by the end of 1938. Stalin’s paranoia led him to set the Soviet Union on fire and as a result the Red Army fared poorly in…

persuasion, which is when the state persuades it’s ideology and culture for other to accept them and apply them as norms in their country, to inherently have a fundamental shift in policy and government. Many states that were originally part of the Soviet Union had felt constrained under the communist system and may have opted to adopt the western/American norms in their cultures to seek freedom and further their power in the world. Given the United…

The history of the Berlin Wall was ignited by World War II. Germany plotted an attack on Poland, yet was intimidated by the fact that the Soviet Union might interfere. So, before raiding Poland, Hitler made sure to sign a non-aggression pact with the U.S.S.R. This pact secretly stated that Poland should be divided between Germany and the Soviet Union, with Germany receiving the western third, while the Soviets gained control of the remaining two-thirds. Germany began their attacks on Poland on…