Realism, liberalism, world systems theory, environmentalism, feminism, islamism and constructivism help organize our views of world politics theoretically. ... World systems theory, environmentalism, feminism and islamism (criticalism) are similar to one another in the sense that they all offer criticism to both realism and liberalism. ... World systems theory argues that the current state of world politics is geared towards the domination and the exploitation of the poorer countries by the richer ones. ... Those two theories have devastating consequences for Mother Nature. ... Criticalism gro...

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Now that we know why people view Communism as being evil lets go over the theory of Communism. Communism is a theory of government in which the people are all considered equal. ... The Capitalistic system allows it's people to die of starvation simply because of their being poor (at least until the eerily similar version of Communist policy known as "welfare" came into being in the United States). The Soviet Communism of the Cold War was unable to succeed not because of it's basic theory, but rather because of the extreme drain of having to devote so much of it's resources to de...

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Nation-states, city-states, empires and Kingdoms have interacted with each other in a similar way since the end of the thirty years war. An example could be China, Africa, India, and Ancient Greece; they got involved in economic relations, established embassies and helped each other or fought in war...

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Perestroika meant restructuring, referring to the restructuring of the economic system of the Soviet Union. ... Although perestroika made an enormous change in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev presented this plan to have control over people who would take advantage of the system, like freeloaders. ... With this economic goal in mind the new theory wanted to support the community and stop worsening the standard way of life. ... As well as permitting China to open out to the world with an improved and reformed economic system. ... Characteristics of a dictatorship system were important to him and th...

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Marx defined communism as an economic system characterized by common ownership of all economic resources. ... As a result, the workers would become aware of their own class interests, revolt against the capitalists, and overthrow the entire system. ... At least in theory, goods were produced to meet the needs of the people. ... Leaders of the former Soviet Union and some Eastern European nations decided to abandon government ownership and control of the means of production because the system was unresponsive to the needs of the marketplace and offered no incentive for increased efficienc...

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Marx defined communism as an economic system characterized by common ownership of all economic resources. ... As a result, the workers would become aware of their own class interests, revolt against the capitalists, and overthrow the entire system. ... At least in theory, goods were produced to meet the needs of the people. ... Leaders of the former Soviet Union and some Eastern European nations decided to abandon government ownership and control of the means of production because the system was unresponsive to the needs of the marketplace and offered no incentive for increased efficienc...

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The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. ... Soviet Foreign Minister Vyshinsky, for example, claims that the Marshall Plan was a way the USA was establishing a European empire and that its theorical method of helping other countries recover was just a way of achieving economic domination and dependence, which would ultimately lead them to political control. ... He writes in 1997 that the justification for all the USSR's actions and for their whole system was ideology. Gaddis endorse...

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There are various theories that contribute to the internal and external characteristics of the US and how they have implemented their policy throughout history; realism and liberalism being the main two. ... As for the liberalist theory, their arguments focus more on good and bad states instead of more powerful and less powerful. Advocates of this theory focus on institutions, ideas, economic interdependence and the spread of democracy and liberty in the interest of the United States' security. ... It is easier to see that system drove behavior in the case of WWII more than WWI as the US ...

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They believed that these systems were more civilized and less violent than the nationalism of the preceding generations. ... In his reply to Churchill he reminds us that Churchill too is like Hitler in that he is striving for a fully valuable nation through his racial theory. ...

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Some of these themes have escalated from his childhood and the strict and sometimes power abusing schooling system he had to endure. ... His ability to perceive social effects of political theories have inspired people to think of him as the greatest moral force in English literature, during the past several decades (George Orwell). ... Although his specific political purpose was to show that the Soviet Union was not fulfilling the promise of socialism, Orwell intended it also as an illustration of the dangers of all totalitarian systems (Eric [Arthur] Blair). ...

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The theory of total destruction of the other country was based on three ideas. ... The aim of both nations was to decrease the amount of response time that was inherent in their nuclear defense system. ...

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In theory more efficiently ran because larger fields abled the use of machines, fertilizers, and more modern farming methods. ... Also, to attract foreigners some of the Zecs worked to build the Moscow underground system at great speed with no safety policies causing many deaths. ...

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