Essays on Liberalism

Liberalism was a system that was used to protect the rights of life, property and liberty, where the society govern themselves as group not been control by a certain party. Cause of Great Trek that pointed to liberalism and pointed to and the pursuit of...

Introduction My assignment will look at what makes liberalism an ideology. Through the years liberalism has evolved taking on new ideas and becoming a fundamental part of human life. This assignment will look focus on two aspects: what is an ideology? And liberalism. The liberalism...

The political realm is multifaceted with different schools of thought. Among the most influential schools of thought are: the liberalism, realism, idealism, pragmatism, existentialism, radicals and conservative. These schools of thought hold on to different world views that help in shaping the politics of the...

The definition of torture is split. The malleability of the term “serious pain or distress” in the heart of this definition has created the condition in which the reality agrees on these texts but may not agree on their meaning. This “I remember it when...

The nation of Great Britain has a long history of a parliamentary democracy and in obtaining progress in what it means to be a liberal democracy. Most people think that the creation of the British nation began in 1707, with the passage of the Act...

Friedrich August von Hayek, was profoundly known by most of the individuals who took interest in classical liberalism in the early 20th century as an economist, but he was also considered a competent philosopher and also a political thinker due to his books that he...

Introduction Neoliberalization was a common method with which developing economies opened their markets during the 20th century. Neoliberalization can be applied either narrowly or in full, narrowly referring to a shift in policies that increase market reliance, and full referring to a change in the...

Throughout Unit 1 we have covered a wide range of concepts and key terms which were based on the topic of ideologies as well as the social sciences. Among these many terms there were 3 of them which stood out to me most, Sociology, Liberalism...

A common worry among the Islamic modernists and those living in Muslim societies during the late 19th century was, how far can the cultural renaissance progress and how much of their traditions will be swept away along with it? Charles Kurzman notes a modernist Islamic...

Liberalism is an existent fact that in the minds of the people who practice it that there should be liberty world over and in addition, to that equal rights. Through these views, the liberal minded individuals portray a lot of distinct characteristics. Human rights and...

The Self-Preservation of Empire in the Individual The inclusionary politics of neoliberalism are such that struggles against empire and the domination of capital are detached from struggles over sexuality, gender and race. The radical potential of these struggles in resisting and subverting the dominant logics...

The United States’ presence and intervention in the international community has been greatly noticed. Engaging in two large-scale world wars, pursuing temporary isolationism, fighting the Cold War, and vigorously promoting democracy has turned the US into an international hegemon. Earning this label, thus, obligates the...

Neo-realism vs Neoliberalism The acknowledged authority of “neo-realism” or “new realism” (sometimes also referred to as modern “realism”, “structural realism”) is Kenneth Waltz, who in his work “The Theory of International Politics,” published in 1979, rethought the traditional theories of “realism” . Walts more clearly...

For the abolitionists and intellectual opponents of slavery during the 19th century, fruitless sympathy from the “enlightened” liberals of northern states was simply not enough. In the literary works “Benito Cereno” and Our Nig, authors Herman Meville and Harriet E. Wilson argue that sentimental sympathy...

Liberalism disagrees with realism/political realism on many key assumptions. There are a number of differences between these two schools of thought. To begin, unlike political realism, which views the state as the primary actor, liberalism/pluralism sees non-state actors as highly important in the international system....