This movement affects not only the future of those countries, but also the rest of the world due to the changing of fundamental beliefs at a national and geopolitical level. ... Background The Arab Spring is the name that has been given to the recent wave of protests, civil wars, and political unrest in the Arab region of the world. ... Arab Spring countries haven't decided what kind of economy they are trying to create, and still don't have a clear vision of their economic future. ... A country's economy is what determines how much influence that country is going to have on the...

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Therefore, it could be assumed that as more countries in the world change into democracies, the more peaceful the world would become. By making this deduction, all liberal countries in the world should have a strong security interest in spreading democracy to all authoritarian countries. ... Additionally, it stands for the protection of the private property and that the economy should be led by the market with no regulations (Baylis & Smith, 2005: 186). ... They advertise the principles of liberalism to the citizens from the authoritarian states and show them how good and successful the people...

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During the 19th century China finally saw fall towards the West through unfair trade impositions and regulations, and after World War II the Chinese Communist Party took control of the China that is known today. Shortly after World War II there was a power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT), the nationalist party, shortly after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. ... Deng Xiaoping brought western economic reform to open up the economy and called upon a more specialized middle class in order to have China assimilate within the world. ... Only, the intell...

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The list goes on, and with two world wars, the division of Europe, a world warped with ideological conflict during the cold war and political and economical pressures of the late 60's and 70's which had previously shattered complacency about stability and progress in the democratic world, now faith in democratic reason could be fully restored. ... It is hard to imagine a world without rights and freedom. ... Democracy is now thought to be linked with prosperity and advances in economy and lifestyle. Modern economies depend on communication, barriers to communication in democratic c...

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This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently led to the independence of Cambodia in 1953. ... Moreover, under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's economy experienced a shift towards a fully agricultural society, which meant that private property was banned and anyone living in cities or towns was immediately forced to move to the countryside and contribute to the country's agricultural production by partaking in the newly formed collective farms. ... Furthermore, close ties between the business sector of t...

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Even if the economy has been on a rising trend ever since 2000, and positive results have become apparent at least in as far as the macroeconomic development is con-cerned, corruption, legal uncertainty, excessive red-tapism, the underground economy and the very slow progress of the privatization process remain the major impediments in the way of a significant economic upturn. ... They cannot follow the optimism of the Nastase government, which expects that Romania, as the last of the candidate countries to the EU, be granted the status of a functional market economy" in the upcoming country p...

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Machiavelli's belief is concurrent with most of the nations of the free world: a good leader's main responsibility is to preserve his country first. ... Machiavelli was a realist; he was concerned with how things were in reality, not how things could be if the world was perfect. ...

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Schivelbusch expresses that both the revolutionary states of Bolshevism and fascism as well as the reformist ones of the capitalist democracies, needed an architecture that would tower on behalf of, but also above, the people like a temple, inspiring trust, respect, and a quasi-religious sense of deeper meaning and community while at the same time showing the rest of the world who it was dealing with. Though The Hall of People in Berlin, the construction and expansion of roads and thoroughfares, and the implementation of state measures to control hygiene and traffic, militaristic planning of c...

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China scored a 4.3 in quality of overall infrastructure and ranks 69th in the world. ... With a fast growing economy over the past couple decades; the Chinese government has been heavily invested in its infrastructure. Out of the world's top 50 largest container harbors in the world, China has fourteen of them. ... Out of the world's busiest airport by carrying cargo, China has six of them. ... The blackout also brought the world's attention to India's power situation again. ...

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A majority of her comments focus solely around how conflicted the world is, and how Obama is portrayed as the bad guy, making bad decisions for most of the time. She ever so often rants about the debt ceiling, its unnecessary excessive spending, and how the middle class has yet to prosper in the recovery of the economy like the other social classes. That is usually her state government rants about how things are getting more expensive, and where in the world is out tax money going to, and just the usually politically obsessed talk. ... The reason being, she doesn't really pay too much att...

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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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Introduction The recent adoption of the anti-gay propaganda law and annexation of Crimea have put Russia back into the international spotlight. A possible explanation for its controversial policy decisions could be the fact that the country is characterized by an undemocratic political system. After the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet-Union, many former Soviet satellite states changed into a democratic regime. Also for Russia there was good hope that the country would finally embrace democracy after 70 years of communism. Democracy is mostly seen by Western scholars as,...

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