International Relations Glossary Nation State A form of political organization under which a relatively homogeneous people inhabits a sovereign state. Sovereignty Denotes a single‚ supreme political decision-making authority. In early modern Europe the Monarch was the Sovereign. In modern states sovereignty tends to lie with the executive arm of government. A controversial term‚ sovereignty relies on authority‚ not power. That is‚ the sovereign claims the right or authority to decide matters
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rejection of internationalism following WWI. Also the continuing quest for economic expansion by American business. President Harding had dismissed America’s role in the League of Nations and refused the Treaty of Versailles. Afterwards Presidents Harding and Coolidge who both didn’t have any expertise or interest in foreign affairs‚ so they let their secretaries of state make and implement any foreign policy decisions. They supported independent internationalism. They avoided
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CORRUPTION Evolutionary theory: One of the social problems that Philippines has been facing today is corruption. It’s been a major problem of the country since years ago. Corruption is as old as human history. But when was the concept of corruption started? In my opinion‚ corruption has started when people have organized themselves into groups‚ and that groups were headed by leaders and those leaders became powerful and began to abuse the authority they have. We‚ people chose leaders that became
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Translating Neologisms Introduction: Neologisms are perhaps the non-literary and the professional translator ’s biggest problem. New objects and processes are continually created in technology. New ideas and variations on feelings come from the media. Terms from the social sciences‚ slang‚ dialect coming into the mainstream of language‚ transferred words‚ make up the rest. It has been stated that each language acquire 3000 new words‚ annually‚ but in fact‚ neologisms cannot be accurately quantified
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Nationalism is a political philosophy holding that the welfare of the nation-state is paramount‚ and attitude often strengthened when people share a common history‚ religion‚ language‚ or ethnic background. The term also refers to a group state of mind in which patriotism‚ or loyalty to one’s country‚ is regarded as an individual’s principal duty. In the 18th century‚ nationalism began to take form by scholars & poets who sought to find in ancient legends and songs‚ the soul of the nation. The cohesion
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interpreted in many different ways. This may be because there is perhaps a blend of these major schools of American foreign policy in all of our international relations. The major schools that will be used as lenses are isolationism‚ liberal internationalism‚ Kissingerian realism‚ democratic globalism‚ and democratic realism. I am going to use these lenses to examine how the liberation in Iraq was handled‚ and what foreign policy was mainly used. Isolationism is a foreign policy that states we
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asserts that we must go out and solve the problems of the world in order to ensure America’s constitutional democracy for the next hundred years. Luce also writes that it is an American promise to provide “adequate production for all mankind.” The internationalism that he describes must be unique in that it is one “of the people‚ by the people and for the people‚” and one that shows an American prestige of faith in the good intentions of all individual people. Luce lastly describes four specific areas
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Source 20-1 Source Analysis Harmanan Dhamija Source A is a quote illustrating the concept of ultra-nationalism. This is extreme devotion to or advocacy of the interests of a nation‚ especially regardless of the effect on any other nations. This is proven when the author states “the English are best at everything”. From this it can be presumed that the author clearly favors ideas like Ethnocentrism‚ Imperialism‚ Inequality and Hierarchy. The author says “After all‚ we’re not savages”‚ this relates
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Philippine Literature Literature—Philippines Literature—Philippines Philippine literature‚ written in Filipino‚ English‚ Spanish‚ and Philippine languages (e.g.‚ Cebuan‚ Ilocano‚ Tagalog‚ Hiligaynon‚ Pampangan‚ Hanunuo-Mangyan‚ and Bontok)‚ has been influenced by colonization‚ economic and social systems‚ religion‚ and political movements. An oral tradition continues to exist through epics‚ riddles‚ poems‚ and legends of the country’s around sixty ethnolinguistic groups‚ reflecting a culture
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For at least 300 years‚ the Philippines had been controlled and restricted of freedom by her colonizers. It was also during these times of struggles‚ that great men‚ not essentially of action but of intelligence‚ rose up to fight for the freedom of an enslaved nation. Among the most greatest of Filipinos patriots is Jose Rizal – the fountainhead of Filipino Nationalism. Rizal’s Significance Then On the 19th day of June in the year 1861‚ in the second half of the 19th century‚ Jose Rizal was
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