To what extent is it true that religious fundamentalism arose as a reaction to the influences of the West? It is true to the large extent that religious fundamentalism arose as a reaction to the influences of the West due to US backing for Shah‚ Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the support for the Mujahedeen. However‚ Western influence may not be the only factor as globalisation and the failure of modernization and secularization also play a part in the rise of religious fundamentalism.
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result of independence. Nonetheless‚ Inequality had been fundamental to the colonial social order. The revolution challenged it in many ways‚ therefore American freedom would be forever linked with the idea of equality. For free white men‚ the democratization of freedom was dramatic. In the political thought of the eighteenth century the term democracy had several different meanings‚ one meaning‚ coming from the writings of Aristotle defines democracy as a system in which he entire people governed
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Budd 1 Liam Budd 260465022 POLI 227 TA: Sherif Fouad The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East Marc Lynch defines the 2011 Arab uprisings as “an exceptionally rapid‚ intense‚ and nearly simultaneous explosions of popular protest across an Arab world united by shared transnational media and bound by a common identity” (Lynch‚ 9). In his book The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East‚ he sets out to put the events of the Arab uprising
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03.01. Global democratic imaginaries: The Pneumatic Parliament by Peter Sloterdijk y Gesa Mueller von der Haegen‚ 2005. In 2005‚ Peter Sloterdijk and Gesa Mueller von der Hagen´s presented a proposal for a Pneumatic Parliament at the exhibition “Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy‚” curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel at ZKM in Karlsruhe. The project consisted on a transparent and inflatable parliament building that can be dropped from a cargo plane to “any grounds and then unfolds
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1. INTRODUCTION The end of the Cold War in the early 1990s has had a dual impact on international relations. On the one hand‚ the Soviet military withdrawal from Eastern Europe and the Third World brought an end to the Cold War‚ allowed democratization to proceed in many states previously ruled by Marxist dictatorships‚ and led to significant progress in resolving several Third World conflicts that had become prolonged during the Cold War. The reduction in East-West tension also resulted in
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Explain the meaning of the revolutionary slogan ‘no taxation without representation’. How did that express the core values of the new American political culture? Under American Revolution we understand politic developments in British colonies in North America in 1775-1783‚ which ended up creating the United States. They were caused by the unwillingness of the colonies to obey to the interests of the metropolis. The slogan that best expressed the cause of the revolution was ‘No taxation without
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COMENIUS UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES EUROPEAN UNION ENLARGEMENT: TURKEY and EU From 1963 to 2013 Semih BAŞKAYA DEPARTMENT OF EUROPEAN STUDIES BRATISLAVA 2013 Contents EUROPEAN UNION ENLARGEMENT: TURKEY and EU From 1963 to 2013 Semih BAŞKAYA ABSTRACT The relations with European Union has been always important for Turkey since it has applied for being member but also it has been always a
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“Higley and Burton provide a comprehensive and rigorous framework through which scholars can make sense of the varieties of elite rule. Their hard-headed analysis of the forces that lie behind liberal democracy is all the more necessary given that U.S. foreign policy is now dedicated to the spread of such institutions around the world.” —Peter Rutland‚ Wesleyan University This compelling and convincing study‚ the capstone of decades of research‚ argues that political regimes are created and
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In the Name of the Father‚ Son‚ and Grandson: Succession Patterns and the Kim Dynasty Virginie Grzelczyk Nottingham Trent University The Journal of Northeast Asian History Volume 9 Number 2 (Winter 2012)‚ 33-68 Copyright © 2012 by the Northeast Asian History Foundation. All Rights Reserved. No portion of the contents may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the Northeast Asian History Foundation. In the Name of the Father‚ Son‚ and Grandson: Succession Patterns
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TLMBA 2012-2014 Strategic Management Final Exam Ana Tomaz – 153 012 155 1 Furniture retailing market Japan 50% China 17% Latin America 2% 8 €/inh. Brasil 65% 400 Bi euros in 2012 Others 2% Asia 18% EU 25 45% NAFTA 33% 210€/inh. Imports 9‚5% 165€/inh. Imports 32%( 20% from Asia and 5% from Europe) 1 – Furniture retailing business analysis and its KSF Macro Environmental Analysis 2 Furniture retailing market Schools‚ hospitals‚ hotels and churches
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