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83Democratic Peace Theory and the dangers of incomplete democratization
Since the 1990’s, past Presidential administrations have centered their foreign policy initiatives within the framework of the democratic peace theory, a theory that states that democracies do not wage war against each other. I seek to explain...
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85Edmund Burke: Society and Reason
BURKE: THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDER OF WESTERN CONSERVATISM Edmund Burke served in the British House of Commons and was a member of the Whig party. He is considered to be the philosophical founder of...
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76Haj Amin al-Husseini and Nazi Racial Policies in the Arab World
Haj Amin Al_Husseini was instrumental in ushering in National Socialism within the Arab World and in contributing to tens of thousands of deaths both directly and indirectly during the War. He has influenced men from Adolf Eichmann to Abdul Nasser...
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79The Rise of Russian Nationalism
On April 16th, 2005, Garry Kasparov, the thirteenth world chess champion, had just concluded a lecture in front of a group of youth activists. As the meeting ended, a young man posing as a chess fan approached the world champion petitioning for an...
76Tolerance: From Enlightenment Thinking to Modern Perception
The American heritage Dictionary defines tolerance as the capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others. The Random House dictionary defines it as a fair,...
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75The troubled relationship between Nietzsche and Postmodernism.
Postmodernism is succinctly defined by Jean Lyotard as “incredulity toward metanarratives.” This is implicitly noted in the supposed weakness of language itself in conveying any objective meaning or notion of truth outside of ourselves. Upon...
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78Could the Iranian Revolution been avoided?
The revolution in Iran and the overthrow of Mohammad Reza, the Shah of Iran, served notice to the United States that estimating and maintaining the stability of its allies in the Middle east was tenuous at...
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