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International Companies and Unions

PG). Today, amidst the swelling effect of globalization, unions serve to maintain a presence of much-needed checks and balances w...

Australia's Income Inequality and Social Consequences

where income distribution between top and bottom has become wider and wider (1996). The widest gaps seem to exist in the least-reg...

Expansion of the European Union

the membership of the CEECs as well as the internal reform of the which will be a precondition for the next enlargement" (2001). T...

Answering Cold War Questions

arms in Germany, which appeared to Stalin that the US was rearming that country. He was enraged at this perceived betrayal (Vidal...

NY Fiscal Crisis of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty First Centuries

to declining tax revenues (Guardian Unlimited, 2003). But it wasnt just tax revenues that brought Manhattan to the brink of bankru...

How Abraham Lincoln Overcame Social and Political Obstacles in the Elimination of Slavery and Preservation of the Union

great impact on the national notions and approach to freedom and civil equality. From as early as his Inaugural Address, Pr...

'Tsarist' Approach to Soviet Foreign Policy

the revolutionaries and the new leaders and demonstrate its usefulness in terms of serving as a format for class organization as w...

Singapore's Trade Unions

2003). The basic framework for labor relations in Singapore is related to the Industrial Relations Act of 1960 and is something th...

Post World War and Cold War Economic and Political Impacts

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Decision Making and EU Democratic Deficit

need for a democratic country to exist. However, this is at national level and not international level where decisions are made ...

Foreign Policy of the EU

likely that no other topics pertaining to the EU and foreign policy is more political. With the end of the cold war and the fall o...

United Europe and its Importance

world as one entity anyway. While the U.S. and Canada for example, and Mexico for that matter, are all on one content, they each h...

EU Security and Foreign Policy Obstacles

(EU) member states to forge a truly Common Foreign Security Policy, we must of course recognize that multiethnic and multiracial s...

Enigma of 1989 by Jacques Levesque

of the U.S.S.R. and what it all means. One is left with a sense that what occurred in the headlines is really more than the defeat...

Parliamentary Sovereignty and EU Membership

Parliament invited William of Orange and his wife Mary to take the Crown on the proviso that they abided by the Bill of Rights. Th...

Post WorldCom and Enron International Accounting Standards

a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...

Wage Disputes, Collective Bargaining and the 1994 MLB Strike

This is because the assumption that wages are paid out of a fixed amount of capital has long been discredited (pp. 63). Bard and K...

Containment Policy of George F. Kennan

because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...

Trade and a Background of the European Union

Netherlands and Luxembourg, under the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) (Palmer and Colton, 1969). The ECSC was created to...

Agriculture, Environment, and the EU

One component of the Treaty of Rome was the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC). High profile participants in ...

Difficulties in Earning a Living by Working

next recession of the early 1990s would be followed by some prosperity, but again, things would go downhill and in the early 2000s...

Theories and Analysis on the EU's Effectiveness

to answer these questions by outlining the background and reason for formation of the EU and explain what the original intent was....

Communism, China, and the Paradox Represented by Chairman Mao

important to recognize their interaction with the West prior to the revolution was extremely limited. Indeed, even European merch...

Turkey and EU Membership

aimed at creating a stable and the ability to guarantee certain human rights are all needed. These requirements are known as the C...

Precarious Balance of the EU

ambitious of these alternatives proposed creating a common market among the participating countries. This plan incorporated such ...

'Counterintelligence State' Known as the Soviet Union

time "They found themselves, no doubt, with much more information than they could ever possibly use in the short span of time left...

Political and Economic Reasons Why The South Lost The Civil War

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

there are few who are literally starving to death--there is AFDC, shelters, charities--there are two classes in society which are ...

Comparative Analysis of Married Heterosexuals and Married Homosexuals

divorce rates should make a statement about the fate of the traditional family structures. Most statistics state that one in two m...