Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 82:2 2011 pp. 167–186 STRATEGIC DIAGNOSIS OF SPANISH FARMING COOPERATIVE CREDIT SECTIONS: A SWOT ANALYSIS by Joan Ram´ n SANCHIS-PALACIO∗ o Universidad de Valencia‚ Spain and ´ Amparo MELIAN-NAVARRO Universidad Miguel Hernandez Elche‚ Spain ´ ABSTRACT∗∗ : Farming cooperative credit sections are financial instruments set up within a cooperative and at its service. They are key funding tools in rural areas and have been developed all
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He believed that interstate politics usually lacked justice and regulation. For instance‚ in the Melian dialogue he claimed that in interstate relations‚ the strong usually do what their power allows them to do‚ while the weak simply accept what they are told. According to him‚ international relations usually allows the individuals considered as mighty to
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Thucydides‚ the Chinese military general Sun Tzu and Kautylia (also know as Chanakya)‚ the adviser of the first Maurya emperor. The Melian dialogue is arguably the most relevant passage of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian war for understanding realist international politics. The powerful city of Athens attacks the small colony of Melos that was allied with Sparta. The Melians argue that it is unjust as they have not been hostile to Athens. The Athenians reply that ‘the standard of justice depends
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Sophism In this essay I would like to talk about the nature of sophism and how it changes religion‚ politics and education. In the first part of my essay I am going to define the meaning of sophism‚ in the second part I am going to talk about the connection of sophism and aristocrats‚ in the third part of my essay I am going to talk about the changes in religion with the help of sophism; in the fourth part I will examine the changes in decision-making and in last part I will talk about Socrates
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A Comparison of Herodotus and Thucydides The Persian and Peloponnesian wars were both significant conflicts that tested independence. Documenting these wars was obviously hard at this point of civilization‚ but two men did‚ and are now known as the great writers of their time. When analyzing the writings of Herodotus and Thucydides‚ the authors must be compared and contrasted. Though it is almost impossible to know the complete accuracy of their accounts‚ analyzing the writing style will give
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Martin Luther King Jr. is known for his work in desegregation and the end of of the most well known racial equality activists ever‚ and he lived during a period of time that had many unjust laws that created many problems for African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. agreed with St. Augustine that a law that is unjust is actually not a law after all. Martin Luther King Jr.’s belief in this idea was seen in his letter from a Birmingham Jail when he says‚ “One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/2703498 5. Shimko‚ Keith L. International Relations: Perspectives and Controversies Wadsworth. 2010. United States of America. 6. Thcydides‚ The Peloponnesian War (Rex Warner‚ trans.) (Penguin‚ Harmondsworth‚ 1954). “Melian Dialogue”‚ pp. 400-408. http://mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/melian.htm
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The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War‚ which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides‚ an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The Histories are divided into eight books by editors of later
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Trojan War Thesis Paper From the reading the Trojan War we can see that the Mycenaean people regard themselves as inferior to the gods‚ and are the gods pawns meant to carry out what they will not do themselves. Since the Trojan War is a document taken almost entirely from Homer’s Iliad‚ as well as a variety of poems written around the time‚ the insecurities of the Mycenaean are clear as they themselves created gods to worship who have little to no respect for the human race. The gods treat
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After Persian wars‚ Athens and Sparta emerged as Greek strong societies growing their powers and living together peacefully with a truce in place. They had a treaty in place for 30 years. During peace time Athens became a naval power and Sparta developed military land power. Eventually‚ the Peloponnesian War (431- 404 BCE) broke out in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta city-states. It was between Athens and their allies (the Delian League) and Spartan and their allies (the Peloponnesian
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