“Should we plan for places or people?” It is a question that has vexed planners for decades, with no end in sight. Even the question..
Discussion of the ambivalent issues within the European Union’s foreign policy as it is represented through the Common Foreign Security Policy and the European Defence..
Argues that a change in social conventions, rather than a change in laws, empowered women to fight off domestic violence in the nascent United States...
As a response to neo-liberal policies that have exacerbated inequality in Latin America, a leftist movement has risen in Chile, Ecuador and Uruguay. Though with..
Due to Pakistan’s history as a colonized state, its close involvement with foreign aid, and the U.S.-led War on Terror, the people of Pakistan have come..
Academia is a database that promotes the free exchange of ideas and scholarly work, encourages student research, and sets a platform on which to foment..
Fyodor Dostoevsky explores human suffering in his The Brothers Karamazov dividing humanity in two groups: those who willingly romanticize their suffering and those who unwillingly..
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has faced tough economic times due to a lack of funding. As it was established to protect the public interest..
Through the story of the peasant Ramón González, Angus Wright explores the effects of the Green Revolution in rural Mexico. With the introduction of pesticides,..
Marxist influence in Italy was particularly noteworthy in Italian cinema. Through visual and sensory aids, movies such as La Terra Trema and Rocco and his Brothers criticize..
The evolution of Michelangelo’s art from naturalism to idealism analyzed through the scope of his sculpture and painting during his time in Rome. Michelangelo’s Work..
How the Habsburg King Joseph II’s (1741-1790) aims to establish an enlightened despotism following the ideals of his mother Maria Theresa, got thwarted by his..
Hugo Chavez sought to create a participatory democracy in Venezuela, for which he increased the government’s social spending. This policies caused polarization across social classes,..
A critical account of the shortcomings of microfinance as an engine for macroeconomic growth. These include lack of diversification and innovation, inefficiency in aiding the..
Reasons of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the reaction of the American media that reignited the hatred of the two super powers..
Book report of Biography of a Runaway Slave by Miguel Barnet. Localized in colonial Cuba, it analyzes the ethnic dynamics, social hierarchies and sexual relations..
The effects of the New Economic Policy in aiding Malaysia’s economic growth and extensive urbanization in the period comprising from the 1970s until the 2000s...
Playing With Fire in the Dragon’s Den explores the reasons China’s human rights violations go unpunished. In discussing the highly plausible political and economic motivations..
In Oil Wealth and Regime Stability in Light of the Arab Spring, Paul Cipriani critiques the recent Arab Spring movement under the theoretical focus of..
Unemployment in Germany Read By: George Bauer
A look at the causes-mainly the perceived threat of the French Revolution-that prevented the consolidation of the Habsburg’s enlightened despotism. The Death of Enlightened Despotism ..