Thomas Hobbes in his book The Leviathan talks about the great Leviathan which is synonymous with that of a common-wealth or state. ... John Locke in his book called The Second Treatise on Civil Government describes the government, or common-wealth as being a compilation of what its people have given up to the government. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his book called The Social Contract and Discourses demonstrates this basic principle very clearly. ...

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The vast empire comprised much of present day Cambodia, along with Thailand, Laos and southern Vietnam (CIA Fact book). ... The kingdom was made up of large reservoirs and canals, in addition to an extensive network of roads and, monumental temples, with Angkor Wat being known as perhaps the most prominent legacy left behind (CIA Fact book). ... The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating everything and labeling his movement as, "Buddhist Socialism," (CIA Fact book). ...

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The book scrutinizes human behaviour in its most natural and un-conditioned shape and proves to be one big allegory. ... The book travels alongside the boys into their descent into savagery and reveals underlying conflicts of human behaviour that are covered by civilization. ...

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Locke's book, Two Treatises (published in 1690), stated that under the "social contract," the government's job was to protect "natural rights", which included "the right to life, liberty, and the ownership of property." Rousseau expanded on this idea with his book, The Social Contract, in 1762. ...

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An important topic in international politics today is if Iraq has the ability to politically succeed. Judging by their present democratic and military standing; Iraq seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The westernized view of political success or democracy is still in reach but Iraqi citizens must overcome a number of problems before it can be effectively achieved. Although a political transformation to a westernized style of democracy may never be fully accomplishable because of the differing culture and social norms, Iraqi citizens still must strive for their government to conquer the...

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China has seen much political change in the past few centuries. Changing from being ruled by monarchs, to imperialists, with a short lapse of democracy before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, and ongoing from the 1970s a blend of socialism and capitalism introduced by Deng Xiaoping. The change of Chinese politics is associated with many factors; such as the ever changing culture, social media, western influence, and high levels of specialization faced throughout the latter half of the 20th century. A major reason for the rise in economy of China had to do with the ownership, &q...

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One of the reasons that China's GDP has been growing at a yearly average of ten percent for the past two decades is the large amount of Foreign Direct Investment coming from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the West. However, China's GDP growth rate dropped to 8.7 percent during 2012 with a slow down in export growth from 26% to 7%. A lot of economists started to doubt that this might be the end of the phenomenon of the Chinese export miracle. With other developing countries emerging in East Asia, many investors have begun to consider moving their factories and investments out of China and into...

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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. Roosevelt, fascist Germany under Adolf Hitler, and Italy under Benito Mussolini. Schivelbusch examines the rise of three separate political systems, all with different goals, that have some unexpected yet unde...

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Canada has repeatedly been named the best, or among the best places to live on earth by the United Nations. Renowned for its peacekeepers, advocacy of freedoms and liberties, and multicultural society, Canada has become an admired and respected democracy the world over. Despite this image of democ...

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