Right-wing politics

English language. After independence, English remained an official language in many countries and is taught as a second language in school. The ability to speak English as well as local language was useful for establishing a position in international politics, trade and finance. The English language has in turn become richer with words borrowed from many of the cultures with which it came into contact. The commonwealth is an association of 53 independent nations plus several British independencies such

that the world faced a “polarization of powers” in which a slave society was trying to triumph over “the free”. The Cold War has become a reality. Tired of crises and challenge, Americans of the 1950s renewed the 1920s “quest for normalcy”. American politics continued to flow in cycles, alternating between “liberal” (Démocrates de gauche) eras, when public action seemed the best way of meeting national problems, and Conservative eras, relying on private action and private interest. CHAPTER ONE : TRUMAN

union struggles since the 1926 General Strike",[108] with some commentators even suggesting it was "the nearest the country had come to civil war for 400 years".[107] Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie accused Thatcher personally of fostering a "politics of confrontation", and blamed her policies for high unemployment, which he said had created "despair about the future".[105] After a year out on strike, in March 1985, the NUM leadership conceded without a deal. The cost of the strike to the economy

totalitarian conception of state politics, an activist and antitheoretical ideology as well as a focus on virility and anti-hedonistic mythical foundations. For Gentile a defining feature of fascism was its character as a secular religion which affirms the primacy of the nation understood as an organic and ethnically homogenous community. Moreover, this nation was to be hierarchically organized in a corporativist state endowed with a war-mongering vocation that searches for a politics of national expansion

the US to eliminate agricultural subsidies, which officials in Washington contend is an issue best handled by the WTO. In response, Lula’s government effectively took other significant elements of the free trade deal, notably intellectual property rights and international investment rules, off the negotiating table by contending that they too should be decided within the framework of the WTO. With the approach of the Miami meeting in November, President George W. Bush is himself in something of a

find the British constitution in an accumulation of British documents. However British constitution is not one single Constitution, it shows how the institutions work and the rights of duties of citizens in the country. The Magna Carta, the great chart, in 1215 protects the Community against the Monarch. The Bill of Rights of 1689 extends the power of Parliament. The Act of Settlements stipulated that only a protestant king could be British Monarch. It was ended at fighting again Catholic kings.

any hope of a public option » “I’m here to kill Obama’s healthcare reform” “I’m defending private insurance” Why is Obama’s plan vulnerable? The Hazards of American politics Republican hype: Political perspective: mid-term elections Republicans put on pressure Serious criticism Libertarian/ right-wing background Another “bloated government entitlement” Obama’s plan: Too much state intervention Too costly More taxation (+public debt)

JENKINS Over 11 years she transformed her nation and gave birth to an -ism. Not widely loved, but was admired even by those who disagreed with her. Though her form of economic liberalism wasn't new, her will to implement it against the grain of politics was unique. She bred a generation of politicians all of whom took her as reference. Her fall left the nation stunned. Essays saw it as so idiosyncratic that it could not survive her departure. Yet her departure = the end of the beginning.

26 a) Table 1- Measures of Democratic Attitudes: Tolerance, Obedience and Interpersonal Trust b) Table 2 - Civil Support for Democratic and Non-Democratic Government c) Table 3 - Civil Satisfaction with Democracy and Perception of Respect for Human Rights d) Table 4 (1) - Democratic Attitudes in Mexico by Education e) Table 4 (2) – Democratic Attitudes in Mexico by Education f) Table 4 (3) - Breakdown of Support for Presidential Elections 2000 g) Table 5 - Political Authoritarianism: Support or Rejection

5081mm; in the SW: 550mm > economy: > fishing ports (Scotland, Humberside, east coast) > exportation > shipbuilding (Hull, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Belfast) > seaside resorts (Blackpool in the north, Brighton in the south > politics: no invasion since 1066 (Normans under William the Conqueror) > sense of isolation (“us against them”, especially after 1940 “Battle of Britain”) > sceptical attitude towards the “continent” (cf. EEC) + sense of continuity and tradition, preserved