These people are often the most adversely affected and they often found allies within non-governmental organisations, which advocate for human rights and independent reviews of dam projects. ... In Nepal, the hydropower potential could easily cover the power requirements that the country is facing. ...
Through these mechanisms the NGOs reach the public and translate current scientific knowledge into more easily comprehensible problems that the public can understand and react upon. ... The reason for this "good-will" shown by governments etc. towards NGOs is first of all that the governments. have found the NGO's expertise useful. One of the most official acknowledgements of this expertise can be found in Chapter 27 of Agenda 21. ...
Introduction Globalization is a term often used in today's modern context. Yet not many people are sentient of the implications that come with globalization. Many people are still unquestioning about the sugar-coated truths of globalization, swallowing facts with blind faith. What my essay seeks to do is to break away from the mould of typical positive stereotypes that come along with the term "globalization". Through out the course of my essay, I shall explore the challenges that globalization poses to the modern state particularly centred on the issues of power and sovereignty. ...
Aristotle's Political Ideal "It is not Fortune's power to make a city good; that is a matter of scientific planning and deliberative policy."" Aristotle, along with most of the prominent thinkers of his time, theorized upon what the Ideal Political State would be and through what means it could b...
However, it is quite difficult to conjure up a normative sense of legitimacy that regimes can be judged by, and therefore one in which authoritarian regimes can be easily demonized. ... Yet from a more collective perspective as might be found in some Asian countries, the state is still the protector and server of the people, but the people at large rather than the individual. ...