Category: Political science
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Change Your World
Abstract: A Plant Manager became aware of a concept for communicating better in employee meetings from a Group Dynamics course that a co-worker had attended. He began to use this idea and found that it addressed a problem he had been faced with many times. When an employee in the Q&A part of the meeting voiced a…
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Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction by Paul Robbins (Study Notes)
Ecology refers to the relationship between the human beings and their physical world or surroundings. Robbins inscribes about political ecology through an instance of East Africa. The ecology of East Africa is beautiful and on the same hand important. The flora and fauna (lions, hyenas, baboons etc.) gives the natives as well as the other…
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What is Communism in Simple words? All you need to know
In this essay, we will go over Marx’s theory of the rise of communism, its characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages, and how some countries around the world have adapted to it. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher and a pivotal figure in economic thought history. With the arrival of the industrial revolution and its…
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Neo-colonialism in Africa: The cases of China and Iran
Neo-colonialism is a term used to describe the practices of colonialism that persist in formerly colonized countries through the means of economics, society and religion. Several concepts can be used to explain neocolonialism. It owes much of its thinking to Marxism, which refers to the unequal power relations between former colonies and colonizing nations. It…
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Dependency Theory: Definition, Approaches, Examples, limitations
Dependency theory is a school of thought in modern social science that aims to comprehend underdevelopment, analyse its origins, and to some extent, provide ways to overcome it. It first appeared in Latin America in the 1960s, quickly moved to North America, Europe, and Africa, and is still relevant in today’s debates. It also gained…