President William McKinley was deeply ambivalent about the war against Spain. To justify the use of weapons in the far Pacific‚ for the occasion he sacrificed his pacifist tendencies in the name of national interest and evoked the injustice done to the Filipino people and the moral duty that requires the United States to go to the rescue. At the end of the Spanish-American war‚ after originally declaring that it would "be criminal aggression" for the United States to annex the archipelago‚ he reversed
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and information is everywhere‚ sadly not all citizens are educated enough on health to formulate a healthy diet. Instead of expecting the public to simply accept a ban in a type of food eaten for generations‚ the government should have a more “realpolitik-like” view on the situation. The government can enforce the education of healthy eating on its citizens and then proceed to give more detailed nutritional facts on all varieties of foods sold. This wouldn’t nearly be as effective as banning something
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Notes on the Renaissance (and useful hyperlinks) Vocabulary: A polymath (Greek polymathēs‚ "having learned much") is a person with encyclopedic‚ broad‚ or varied knowledge or learning….Renaissance Man and Homo Universalis are related terms to describe a person who is well educated‚ or who excels‚ in a wide variety of subjects or fields. (wikidepia) The Renaissance – An Overview (from http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/renaissance/index.html) Between 1300 and 1600 the Western world was
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Introduction The Israeli-Palestinian struggle‚ “the world’s most intractable conflict”‚ is complex to interpret and analyze in the field of international relations. The conflict began in 1948 after Israel’s establishment and massive Jewish immigration from Europe to the Middle East. Since then‚ the conflict has escalated into intense hostilities between the Arab community and Israel‚ the huge displacement of Palestinians‚ the involvement of the international community‚ particularly the United States
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the same time. The Austrian Empire took over the German confederation; however‚ Prussia was prepared to unify them. Prussia had a mainly German empire. Therefore‚ nationalism truly unified Prussia. When Bismarck took control‚ he was a master of realpolitik. Bismarck’s method for uniting Germany was through blood and iron (Doc 5). He believed that the power of Germany should be allocated over all German People. In his eyes‚ war was the only option to achieving success. When nationalism emerged in
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Nationalism: loyal to your country Political ideologies Conservatism- does not want change Liberalism- wants change Moderates- wants some changes Congress of Vienna Metternich: Foreign minister of Austria. He distrusted the democratic ideals of the French Revolution. Metternich wanted to keep things as they were. He had three goals for the congress of Vienna. 1. He wanted to prevent future French aggression by surrounding it with strong countries. 2 restore a balance of power. 3 restore
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At the heart of Shakespeare’s polysemic tragedy Hamlet (1603) is the extent of Hamlet’s loyalty towards his father. His shifting identity within his world of realpolitik‚ as he fluctuates between absolutist filial duty and morally relative humanism impedes his revenge to an almost permanent state of inaction. The universality of these moral concerns are specifically epitomized within this extract‚ as the turning point which Hamlet utilizes to catalyse his agency. It is through Shakespeare’s incongruous
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In The Post-American World‚ Fareed Zakaria addresses a new era in the international system where power is being diffused from the central superpower‚ the United States‚ to rising developing nations. This is caused by what Zakaria calls “rise of the rest”‚ which includes new actors whom have made influential impact on the international system like China and India. The American society’s anxiety of the U.S. decline as the single-superpower has been growing with economic issues and the rise of anti-American
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Published in response to the 2009 banking and public debt crisis in the Eurozone‚ Jürgen Habermas makes an argument to salvage the project of European unification in his 2013 book The Lure of Technocracy. In order to prevent the European Union from slipping into a technocracy tailored to the financial markets‚ Habermas suggests the EU’s transformation from a pre-dominantly monetary to a truly political union. While the nation-states will maintain their independence‚ their national citizens must also
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The 19th century was marked by the uprising of the middle class and the spread of revolutionary ideas caused by the French Revolution‚ which ultimately led to the outbreak of war all across Europe. Once France was defeated‚ the Vienna Congress met to discuss the future and fate of Europe. The purpose of the Vienna Congress was to establish an international framework for continental cooperation and the maintenance of the balance of power. This aided the emperors of Russia‚ Austria as well as Prussia
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