Mearsheimer’s article “Hans Morgenthau and the Iraq war: realism versus neo-conservatism” The article primarily focuses on research of political conceptions of realism and neo-conservatism. The content of the article is kind of specific: it represents to readers a comparative analysis of these two directions of political thought. In the article John Mearsheimer tried to find an answer to the question “What position would Hans Morgenthau would choose in case of the Iraq war?” But why the opinion of Morgenthau
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population? Population is all organisms that both belong to the same species and live in the same geographical area. The Webster Dictionary defined population as the total number of persons inhabiting in a country‚ city or any district or area. Overpopulation is the most crucial issue in the Philippines. Many people suffer from poverty‚ hunger and slackness due to some conflicts the government cannot sustain the primary needs of its people‚ as the issue concerns the government still finding a adequate
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Ecology on the subjects of resource in western civilization. Dr. Hardin was born in the early 1900’s and lived until 2003. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology and a PHD in Microbiology‚ Dr. Hardin was known for his brutally honest thoughts on human overpopulation. Some of his writings were considered inhumane which made him widely be criticized. (Wikipedia.) In his article “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor‚” using real world examples and lifeboat metaphor‚ Dr. Hardin strongly warned to
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day unaware that they are possibly causing extinction. Hardin also presents that there is a tragedy of the freedom to breed. He explains that it is intolerable because people will continue to have many children for their own interest‚ causing overpopulation. Hardin begins the article by stating there are problems that exist but lack technical solutions. He goes on to claim that one example is the “population problem” and that our growing human population‚ with each individual trying to maximize
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scarcities of natural resources such as arable land and potable water. This resource scarcity‚ coupled with destabilizing urban poverty and overpopulation‚ will exacerbate ethnic conflicts and cause mass migration of individuals‚ which in turn will further increase conflict‚ crime‚ and the proliferation of disease. All of these reactions to overpopulation and environmentally induced conflict‚ crime‚ and migration will‚ according to Kaplan‚ ultimately lead to weakened central governments‚ the
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McNamara and former SOD Donald Rumsfeld‚ while under Bush’s command. Many have argued that the connection of similar let downs have been revealed when looking at the stance and judgment calls made by McNamara during the Vietnam War and Rumsfeld during the Iraq War. McNamara and Rumsfeld both have similar characteristics‚ in terms of‚ stopping the fight against dictatorship. Both secretaries of defense were fighting in different periods of time‚ yet having such extraordinary parallels. These men were both
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The impact of population to the country A lot of studies suggest that population has a direct impact to the economy of a country. More specifically‚ several papers came out highlighting that the Philippines is already overpopulated and this is causing the economic woes of the country. A Policy Brief by the Philippine Center for Population and Development in 2010 categorically stated that “The rapid population growth in the Philippines over the last several decades has hindered the country’s economic
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Effects of Food Scarcity “Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” by Lester R. Brown Article Summary “Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” is a somewhat absurd but well written article. Lester R. Brown‚ the author‚ does a prodigious public favor in trying to wake the human race up to three facts: we must stop using hydrocarbons for transportation‚ burning coal for electricity‚ and stabilize the population which is predicted to rise quickly. It is a clear and dramatic statement
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the Effects of China’s Large Population With the rapid development of science and technology‚ population and development have further become important issues‚ which are the general subjects of international community. By the end of 2008‚ China has reached a population of almost 1.35billion (excluding the population of Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan Province)‚ accounting for about 21% of the world’s population. China has the largest and one of the densest population
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forests with methods such as burning trees down will lead to air pollution. Deforestation is beneficial to humans because it creates more areas for the creation of settlements. Rapidly growing populations require more space to live in‚ to prevent overpopulation. New settlements (i.e. housing and social facilities) can be built upon empty‚ open spaces created through the clearing of previously forested (and uninhabitable) areas. People can move into these new settlements‚ instead of overpopulated and
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