Essays on Political Systems

Introduction Nationalism is a political, social, and financial belief system and development described by the advancement of the interests of a specific country, particularly with the point of picking up and keeping up the country’s power over its country. Nationalism holds that every country ought to administer itself, free from outside obstruction (self-assurance), that a...

Conservatism Traditional conservatism is an ideology based on the idea to maintain traditional, social and cultural principles. The government’s role in a conservative society is mainly to both preserve and mediate the importance of traditions, traditional values, and often religion. The reason for this is to protect the people from themselves. According to conservatives, humans...

The spread of communism was mostly thanks to an influential writer, Karl Marx, who helped propel the idea into reality. To clarify, Karl Marx wrote the “Manifesto of the Communist Party,” and was an extensive supporter for it. However, the manifesto had hardly any impact, yet the idea spread until almost half the world lived...

Marxism is based upon the works of philosopher Karl Marx (1818-43), he didn’t actually write extensively about crime but his ideas of inequalities of a capitalist system have been applied by criminologists to explain crime and societies responses to it. The reason Marxism is part of the Victimised Actor perspective is that crime is the...

The United States’ engagement with Islam is rather different from that of Europe, more specifically that of Britain and France. Unlike the United States, Britain and France actually had colonized parts of the East / the Islamic world. The U.S. however had more of a broken relationship with the East rather than direct contact. Since...

One could think that the Ku Klux Act did not generally define ‘Americanism’ as a whole. However, it is quite evident that this act, unfortunately, did represent a bigger part of Americanism, which has, from the earlier four hundred years been responsible for the oppression of the non-white people, and also keeps these individuals in...

This essay will be discussing Traditional, One Nation Conservatism and New Right Conservatism to be able to answer the question “to what extent can the new right be seen to have departed from traditional conservative values?” It will cover the start of One Nation by Benjamin Disraeli, and Thatcher’s revolutionary contributions to the New Right....

The war on terror is an international military campaign launched by the US govt after the 9/11 attacks. The main targets were Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen by the military. The intelligence department involved institutional reorganization and increased funding. The diplomatic department continued efforts to maintain a coalition of partner states and a campaign to counter...

Zionism is a nationalist movement started by Jews with an aim to restore their right of living in a land recommended to their ancestors. Zionist nationalist movement resembled with numerous other European nationalist movements yet it sought to give Jews from throughout the world a territory to live. The idea of Zionist nationalism appeared back...

Socialism is a critique of the French Revolution and by extension Conservatism. Whereas conservatism supports individual agency, socialism completely refutes it. Conservatism is made of four key claims which support the rampant capitalism after the French Revolution. Edmund Burke argues that government is a practical science in which exists a natural aristocracy. Joseph de Maistre...