Essays on Ideology

Personal dictators remain a key feature of contemporary regimes termed ‘authoritarian’ or ‘totalitarian’, particularly in their early consolidating phases. But there is still disagreement over the seemingly ideological, polemical and indiscriminate use of the term totalitarian dictatorship as an analytic concept and tool to guide foreign policy formulation. 1 Jeane Kirkpatrick elevated the taxonomy to…

The 2007 comedy film Knocked Up is designed for the entertainment of today’s youth. While categorized as a romantic comedy, it primarily focuses on comedy. It offers plenty of laughs with its awkward romance and stoner behavior, targeting its intended audience. However, the film also tackles issues that are rarely seen in movies. Judd Apatow,…

Guerra i Outline Thesis: A key concept to understanding Hannah Arendt’s “Total Domination” is the essence of terror and the importance of concentration camps in maintaining the Nazi totalitarian state. 1. There are numerous parts to the ideology behind the fundamental belief of totalitarianism. A) “…that everything is possible, is being verified.”(Total Domination, 280) B)…

Can’t We All Just Get Along? Liberal vs. Conservative Growing up in a home that could be characterized as a political battlefield was traumatic. I spent the first decade of my life living peacefully with two left- winged hippie parents. My mother had hair like Rapunzel and my dad worked as a jazz musician. Life…

Human nature insists on a definition for every concept. The field of strategic management cannot afford to rely on a single definition of strategy, indeed the word has long been used implicitly in different ways even if it has traditionally been defined formally in only one. Explicit recognition of multiple definitions can help practitioners and…

When people come together with the same vision of helping and changing a community s way of living, it is essentially what community development is all about. Community development has many different definitions, however they are all based around the same values. The main value community development maintains is that it is about creating and…

The New Right ideology that arose after Margaret Thatcher blends elements from both neo-Liberal and neo-Conservative ideologies, despite occasional conflicts. These distinctions set the New Right apart from traditional Conservatism. The New Right encompasses principles of neo-liberalism such as a non-interventionist stance towards welfare, strong backing for individualism and the expanding middle class, and limited…

            Neo-liberalism is a political movement, which originated from Classical Liberalism during 1970s. In general, neo-liberalism stands on the same core principles and ideas of Liberalism such as to project values of order, cooperation, liberty, justice and toleration into International Relations. The same as neo-realism, respectively neo-liberalism is progeny of more old traditional theory- Liberalism….