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Peeling liberalism from democracy

After 18 months studying International Relations at Griffith University, I've learnt what the meaning of political science is. However it is in kind to consider politics as a science, I'm still as an undergrad concerned for the truism in this ideal. Politics of course has no phenomenological authority separate of humanity. Humanities order, the governing principles of interactions in war and peace, and the process divulgements and dissolutions, are politics. These are a complex range of principles, theories, and practices, and they may be recorded, and known linguistically with good and rightful authority, but they can't exist independent of us, and we who perceive this politics. This confers to me a substantial problem in describing politics as a science, where in fact what one's referring to is the array of practices in philosophical inquiry, sociological and psychological analysis, and the relative merits of this in ultimate objectivity of power. A power of persuasi...

The World Stage; China/Tibet, Israel/Palestine and colonialism

The inability and contempt from China to international leaders management of the Chinese-Tibet affair, expresses a serious cultural problem. Whilst similarly evident in case and point I will draw contextual comparison for understanding this issue, and how it concerns the international societies and toward the totalitarian regime of China. Furthermore, the middle-eastern conflict is a religious division of two similar but linguistically differentiated societies, which is applicable in contemporary appreciation whereby the middle eastern conflict and the Chinese-Tibetan conflict regards homogenous cultural identification. Before the contextual appreciation of Western colonialism and the modern international human rights standards, the domination of certain sub-groups or cultural groups is the core concern. I will show that the prerogative of the Chinese government is disinterested in a global solidarity, rather fixed to engender domination via the iron claw of market power. This however...