Essays on Vitalis

Summary Synthesis

In this paper, the author aims “to offer a more compelling understanding of the foundations of new international relations theory” (Vitalis 911). He seeks to do this not merely from the perspectives of historical sociology and international law but also regarding the racial anthropology and racial biology in the American historical context. He argues that there is a problem in the way social and political scientists understand the place of race and how the early scientists of these centuries construed or thought about it. He considers it an error for modern scientists to examine the works of early scientists ...

How Oil Discovery Changed the Society of Gulf States

Introduction Gulf state is the name given to the six Arabian states within the Persian Gulf. The states within the Persian Gulf include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq, Qatar, United Arabs Emirates and Saudi Arabia (Vitalis 2004, p. 162). All these countries form the Gulf State except Iraq. Prior to the discovery of oil in the middle east, Saudi Arabia as well as other Gulf states were the countries with the lowest socioeconomic and political development in the whole world. With the climate condition in those area, they could do very little in the field of agriculture. However, after around ...

Organizational development is often associated with incremental and planned organizational and personal changes by using behavioural and social knowledge which increases the effectiveness of an organization. Change has become a challenge for top management in organizations to cope with (Anderson, 2012). In the following paragraphs, I will be discussing my observations about organizational change and development. in addition, changes within organizational change and its development, how to manage these organizational changes, future implications of the study, the improvement required in learning this concept, ways and means to overcome difficulties in developing knowledge and skills with respect to organizational change and ...