Essays on Nation Building

The Dutch East Indies, today known as Indonesia, has through the history seen different colonizers that governed the country in different periods of time. There were and still are different perceptions of the different colonizing countries among Indonesians. The Netherlands and Japan are one of the most important countries that impacted the country’s nation building. The paper will answer the research question in what ways were the Japanese different than the Dutch regarding nation-building in the Dutch East Indies. There were some similarities and a lot of differences in governance. The historical context played a vital role in ...

Introduction

The changing economic situation and global trends often impact the European economies and Germany is not exempted. Germany has asserted its authority as one of the global economic powers with reduced cases of unemployment and growing economy. In the past decade, German took major steps towards changing the labor market in what turned to be labor reforms. The radical labor market alterations have since yielded the lowest form of unemployment. Economic growth remains critical to every nation’s progress. While economic growth determines the living standards of every member of the nation, the contribution of the citizens towards nation ...

Nationalism and the Press

Nationalism is a feeling of loyalty and devotion a person has towards his country. It is a sense of national consciousness where an individual praises his country and places primary emphasis on the country's culture and interests as opposed to other nations. Nationalism can lead to uniformity of thoughts, actions and assumption among various individuals in a country. Nationalism is a major cultural defining factor in any state. It mainly depends on a country's ideology and way of life. The press, on the other hand, is an independent body that sensitizes the citizens on various aspects of life including ...

Central Part of Mexican National Identity

Mexican identity was shaped during the 19th century not by the elite in the society but the ordinary people who were limited in both social and economic resources. Even after independence in 1821, there were persistent issues of political instability, military uprising and foreign invasions that led to social problems among the citizens. As Gillingham puts it, the village benefitted from Cuauhtémoc bones through economic progression that led to major development programs and achievement of political prominence. Cuauhtémoc was a symbol for the elites before it decided to embrace the lives of the ordinary people, thereby, leading ...

1. From the very beginning of the war, it was obvious that the U.S. nation building mission in Afghanistan was going to be a failure, just as the Soviets and every other foreign power had failed there in the past.

2. In 2001, we failed to kill Osama bin Laden and he escaped into the tribal areas of Pakistan, although only a fool would believe that he had no help from the government and intelligence services of that country.

3. After all, they created the Taliban in ...

The movie Invictus portrays Nelson Mandela in his role as a transformational leader, who undertakes a delicate and sensitive act of political engineering in his nation, South Africa, torn apart by fratricidal race war. South Africa at the time lacked national identity, while politicizing sports emerged as an excellent nation building strategy to unite the nation and build the national identity. The core strategy underpinning Mandela’s approach to nation building was “No Losers Strategy”, a win-win approach to national reconstruction, nation building and national identity.

Politicization of Sports: Politicization of sports can have both positive and negative outcomes. When a sport ...

We should have learned from South Vietnam that the U.S. is just not very good at nation building, and in fact we did remember that lesson for a time, but then we forgot it again and had to be reminded in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Even in 2001, when Osama bin Laden escaped into Pakistan and, as it turned out, hid there for ten years with the collusion of the authorities, it should have been quite clear that nation building in that part of the world would fail. Britain and Russia also failed there in the past so we ...

Introduction

Among the different expenditure heads of the Federal Government, we are mainly concerned with Public Investment expenditures and Entitlement expenditures here. Public Investments expenditure is those as in public projects (building of roads, bridges, schools, hospitals etc.) which are direct investments. Expenditure is also incurred in indirect investments i.e. investments in sectors like Education, Healthcare, Food and Nutrition, R&D, etc. which may not show a direct value return as they are intangible, but are vital to nation building. On the other side, we have the entitlement expenses which is payable to beneficiaries who is entitled to them as per ...

Arguably, many people in the world believe American government, to be democratic. In fact, they have various stable means to exercise popular control over their institutions and lawmakers. This is actually a basic paradox of American government because these powers are in most cases fragmented through the federalist system. Undeniably, these institutions are repeatedly unresponsive to the majority of public demands. The public always depend on this institutions and lawmakers in various ways; hence, it influences voter participation, as well as citizen participation in nation building.

In United States, federal system is a philosophical and political concept that elaborates on how ...

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SIA: Business Model.10 Conclusion & Implications...11 References....13 Abstract The dramatic change in airline industry has mandated airlines re-engineer business operations, processes, management styles and, not least, service delivery methods and platforms. Singapore Airlines (SIA) is an example of a global carrier which has managed to weather negative fluctuations in airline industry, to continue to perform successfully and yield solid profits over years. SIA is well known for service quality and cost-effectiveness. To explore how SIA has managed to present an example of a company combining apparently contradictory value propositions, ...

The rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against Iraqi forces represents yet another critical milestone in Iraq’s turbulent recent history. The policy options available to the United States are complicated by the regional dimensions of the conflict and the divergent interests of key players, most notably Iran, Syria, Russia, a loose coalistion of Western countries and Sunni-regimes in the region. While most of the policy options may be framed as a search for the “least bad” policy to address this quagmire, there may be a path worth exploring to transform the situation into a rare opportunity ...

What do Sen's experiences as a government official reveal about modern India?

The protagonist’s experiences of Sen as a government official makes him feel dislocated. Sen lived without vision or ambition and was addicted to marijuana. His experience shows that the modern Indian culture and society has experienced dramatic changes in the present century. The culture comprises of people with different contrasts and diversities such as Muslim Sufi Saints, Snake-Charmers, Hindu Monks, and Street side Astrologers. South Asia is a land of more than two billion people. Individual countries of South Asia like India continues to embrace cultural changes introduced by people practicing modern cultural deeds different from the past activities. English, ...

People gather to listen to a speech expecting something in a topic immediately. People will give importance to what matters and is relevant to them. I chose to discuss discrimination in this paper. This affects almost everyone living in Canada and is there for a topic that matter to most people both natives and immigrants. Canadian system despite existence of provisions that protect immigrants from non-European countries, lesbians and non-Christian, the physically challenged are still seen to likely pose an excessive demand (Rudolph 231).

Purpose of presentation and intended audience

The main purpose of this representation is to influence the perception of anyone while dealing with a person with ...

PRISON DISCRIMINATION

The prison system within the American judicial system is tainted and full of discrimination. Various authors describe the value of human life by saying; race does not exist, but rather merely human beings (Gordon 1983; Wilson and Moore 2003). All humans are unique despite their social background, ethnic race as well as the language they speak. Therefore, this raises a question as to why is there is a social divide amongst humans, and why it continues to develop over the years. These questions are some, but a few of the overwhelming thoughts that both academic scholars and politicians have had a difficult time ...

English

Opposing view: A woman’s place is in the kitchen because it is the place where she will eat what her man cooked for her and to ensure that he cooked the dish correctly. 1.) Prejudice against women in the work place is considered as a violation of the fundamental principle of equality of genders. Heffner (2005) stated that a career flexibility should be given to women as they deserved to be respected in their careers by allowing them to work without having to sacrifice right to nurture their homes and families. It is shameful that the modern world perceives ...

The complete failure of the Arab nations to form a national narrative for the purpose of unification and the establishment of contemporary egalitarian polities happens to be the primary cause behind the ongoing socio-political explosion in the Arab world in recent times. Unity is no longer the major goal and the construction of a society that is capable of mobilizing its resources to combat backwardness and enhance the financial condition of the state has taken a backseat. The elite class has instead tried to enforce a brand of unity via Islam and Arab nationalism that has alienated portions of the population not present ...

History

The Cocopah tribe, otherwise known as Kwapa meaning ‘river people’ is a group of people living along the river Colorado in Arizona. These people are collectively described as generous with no materialistic characteristics. The Cocopah tribes have tried to maintain their cultural and religious beliefs despite the changing times. They have been able to withstand political waves to remain united with their common belief and culture. The Indian tribe is a sub-tribe of the Yunan language speakers who lived and occupied the areas bordering Colorado River. The ancestors of this tribe also resided along Colorado River near the Gulf of California. ...

1. Using North Korea and China as examples, why do some leaders construct a personality cult around their rule? What is the downside of the personality cults in government? Personality cult is a term used to refer to the accumulation of all power in one leader within an autocratic state and the near veneration of the leader in government propaganda. With this cult, the leader in power is launded for being courageous, possessing immense wisdom and other extraordinary features. Various historical leaders across the globe have established a personality cult for themselves. Examples of these leaders are Mao Zedong of China ...

For the eminent political scientist and theorist of international relations Charles Tilly, behind the construction of every great nation lies a great crime, or even many great crimes, although he would also have been the first to agree that Western concepts of nationalism and nation-building simply did not apply to failed states like Somalia. Indeed, it never was a nation in the modern, Western since but a colony up until 1960, and was then ruled by the military dictatorship of Mohamed Siad Barre from 1969 to 1991. It was also a client state of the West during the Cold War before completely collapsing ...

ABSTRACT

Suicide bombing and other forms of terrorism are tactics, not goals or strategies, and since the Afghanistan War began in 1979, the main political, religious and ideological purpose of men like Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki was to overthrow the regimes in Muslim countries that were allied with the Western powers and restore the medieval Islamic Caliphate based on Sharia law. They used terrorist methods at any time and in any countries that they thought would best accomplish their overall purpose, and also searched for countries in Africa, East Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia where they ...

International Security

Debatably, the most potent lesson that all nations learnt from the first and second world wars, is the fact that sustaining war is one of the most expensive forms of public spending. War can drain the economic strength of a country to an extent that a country can shift from a first class economy to a middle income economy. Historians have always had to look at war as a detrimental social phenomenon that has negative impacts on the economic development of the state h, as well as the country building process. Contrary to this assumption, war has positive aspects as well. In the contexts ...

Introduction: Afghanistan as America’s Longest War

In Chapter 2 of her book, Every Man in this Village is a Liar, Megan Stack described the start of the Afghan War in 2001 and the failed attempt to capture or kill Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora. Bin Laden is dead now, of course, gunned down by a Navy SEAL team at his hideout in Pakistan, but the war in Afghanistan drags on despite all loss of popular support for it there or in the United States. None of the conditions Stack observed in 2001, such as the corruption of the warlords, the poverty and despair of the common ...

The educational system in Saudi Arabia is under the control of the government. It has given priority funding to education which accounts for 23% of the national budget and 7.5% of the GNP. Over the years, the education system has evolved in incorporating subjects that equip students with the knowledge that they require to actively participate in nation building.

The education system has embraced certain aspects in preparing the students to face the outside world. It is diversified both geographically and in terms of the subjects covered in school. As opposed to the past, the system emphasizes vocational training, ...

President Obama is a Keynesian and social democrat in domestic policy, and has been forced to deal with the worst depression since the 1930s. He has rightfully rejected the conservative laissez faire policies of the last thirty years in favor of government stimulus, investments and support of the economy that have prevented far worse consequences for the American people. In this area his policies are far preferable to those of his Republican opponents and he should be reelected. This is also true of his foreign policy, which is more realistic and pragmatic than that of his opponents and less likely ...