Politics: The Basics, 4th Edition

Politics between states If we conceive of the world in terms of the nation-state model already described, then international pol ...

This in turn relates to the question of the ‘national interest’. We have seen the difficulty in defining a nation – e.g. can it ...

with a veto over any decision by the Council) may have the merit of political realism, in that the UN cannot be expected to act ...

the small Central American country of Belize has less than 1 per cent of the revenue of Toyota. Such figures are greatly affecte ...

that country. (The few exceptions include Anglo-Dutch operations such as Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell.) Operations in specific ...

pop videos, international sporting events and Hollywood films char- acterises the mass media in many parts of the world. A share ...

BOX 2.2 DEFINITIONS OF GLOBALISATION The authors define globalisation as the thesis that the increasing global interdependence o ...

With the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc and the increasing inte- gration of China into a world capitalist trading system, the ...

Recommended reading Anderson, Benedict, 1991, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 2nd edn ...

http://pdba.georgetown.edu Political database of the Americas provides information on the political systems of the Caribbean, La ...

CONCEPTS This chapter explores some of the fundamental debates which have occurred about the nature of politics and of the state ...

logists as well as political scientists have argued as to the inevitability of conflict and aggression amongst human beings (in ...

Rousseau argued against this partly by suggesting that, even without the state, Men were social animals who would co-operate (al ...

Emma Goldman’s [1869–1940] definition highlights the anarchist’s opposing view that order need not be imposed by authority but s ...

In giving dynamite to the down-trodden millions of the globe, science has done its best work... a pound of this good stuff beats ...

writers such as Aristotle and Plato regarded man as a naturally social animal who should abide by the rules of the ‘polity’ (a c ...

The nature of authority In this section we attempt to clarify the concept of authority by distinguishing it from power, by disti ...

only in moments of crisis when normal claims to leadership are losing their authority is such authority likely to appeal. Equall ...

The discussion starts on the level of individual morality – will justice lead to individual happiness and injustice to unhappine ...

shown that embarrassing a few unlucky individuals on a TV show might make millions of viewers happy – thus achieving the happine ...