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… both how international relations has systemic gender differentiated effects and how gender biased categories, identities, practices and frameworks affect the conduct and study of international relations." V. Spike Peterson, Transgressing Boundaries:…

… the dominant world power in the Middle East. Every political campaign or military intervention has been carried out to ensure the control of the world's most valuable energy source. Despite new discoveries of oil reserves in Central Asia, the…

… or peoples ruled by a single authority, especially an emperor or empress. There were many Empires that existed In the early centuries of the developing world. The Roman Empire that began in 27 B.C. was an historical empire that nearly lasted for…

… seek to explain why certain events occur based on politics and people's relationship to it. In Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics Juliet Gainsborough argues that people who live in suburbia identify and vote with the Republican Party.…

… 1884 in a small town near Leipzig. His father was a prominent Lutheran minister and his mother a simple homemaker. His father died while Friedrich was a small boy and his younger brother passed on not too long after that as well. At the age of fourteen…

… all members of that society have equal worth and dignity. The interests of any one person cannot count more than the interests of any one else. Valuing the "common good" over an individuals own interests is based on the recognition that individuals conce…

… Soviet control, Czechoslovakia once again became an independent nation, the Czech and Slovak Federalist Republic. This transition from Soviet socialism to democracy culminated throughout Central and Eastern Europe with the literal collapse of the Berlin…

… Japanese action movie Battle Royale is loosely based on the book Lord of The Flies by William Golding. In the movie a class of Japanese students is chosen for the Battle Royale program. The objective of this "game" is that the kids are taken to a…

… Civil Service is the convention of individual ministerial responsibility. The convention relies heavily on the notion that the minister is responsible to Parliament for the actions of his department and is expected to give accounts to Parliament of…

… to demand that people do something, and to say how a thing should be done or organised. Authority, however, is where power is granted by consent; and when an individual or committee is said to have authority, the reason that justifies this authority…