History And The Last Man Analysis

In his article, ‘The Worldwide Liberal Revolution’ he emphasizes on liberalization, democracy, and communism, authoritarian and totalitarian governments. He adds that there has been a much quieter revolution occurring over the past twenty or thirty odd years. This may be seen in the exceptional economic growth in East Asia since World War II.

The article titled Why China Won’t Overtake the United States authored by Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth brings up many valid points and statistical data to support the thesis of the piece however, it is mainly presented from a liberal idealist point of view. While I agree with, ‘as the saying goes’, great power comes great responsibility, I do not agree with the articles premise or false assumption that a provisional “technological gap” or lack of Nobel Prizes and scientific citations matter much in the way of predicting the future geopolitical actions or capability of any country. Especially one as customarily isolated and historically unpredictable as China.

The Earth’s apparent boundary between tangible existence and conceptual objectives consequently ignites curiosity throughout humanity, while the beckoning of man-kind’s search for reason throughout the unexplained components of life, thus, has become inevitable. In contrasting demeanor, some individual beings have lavished in the comfort that is granted to them through faith and religion. The repression of one’s inquisitive behavior reaps growth in acceptance of trivial mysteries regarding life. Likely, human reactions to genuine solitude vary and are ultimately subjective in accordance to each human’s differing perception. Debuting during the Revolutionary era in literature, “The Last Man” by Thomas Campbell embraced societal speculation, and provided interesting documentation that regarded the termination of the human race. The narrator of Campbell’s poem, who presumably lacks the mortal conditions of the human species, garners a pessimistic outlook upon the forced separation between he and all mortal beings. Opposing Campbell’s dreary attitudes on the topic, Wordsworth delivered a speaker within his poem titled “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” who insistently, and gleefully observed and portrayed nature from an area of chosen detachment. Within these poems, Wordsworth and Campbell centralized the concept of the complete isolation of man from all but the nature that surrounds him. In

Chinese philosophy places great emphasis on gradual change in order to maintain stability. Many Chinese elite, scholars and technocrats, who are affiliated with the CCP, are the ones who shape the debate and are able to change norms and policies. Whereas Americans, regardless of social standing and political patronage, have been known to challenge social, economic and political norms, resulting in constant innovation. In China, pulling the lever is reserved to a minority elite with limited room to address issues beyond business, finance and economics. The Chinese government is already grappling with the consequences of market reforms which has given Chinese citizen the ability to voice their opinions through their economic rights. Unfortunately, challenging orthodoxy does not go hand in hand with Chinese

Can democracy work in China? Zakaria feels it cannot be ignored the progress the Chinese economy has had under its state as a free economy. But the problem continues to be the political progress of this country. China still only has a small middle class, which is detrimental towards a functioning liberal democracy. During the 1980s, there were pushes for political reform from members of the

One of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill said : “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.” May be he should have seen modern Chinese communism to moderate this passionate rhetoric. If we try to contrast two opposite governmental models like those of the USA and China, we will see that differences between them are not so obvious, as they might seem. American electoral democracy and Chinese communism are different in terms of legitimacy, self-correction and way to power.

I’ve read Y: The Last Man which is a graphic novel series written by Brian K. Vaughan and loved it. It’s brilliant. I was excited when I got the chance to read a copy of this graphic novel from Netgalley. Paper Girls is graphic novel series about four newspaper delivery girls in 1988 who discover the most important and exciting story in their town. It’s only the first volume so it serves as an introduction to the world and how things work in this series. There’s nothing much to the plot except questions, a lot of them, which need to be answered. Like what‘s really going on? My God I was hooked. I wish the second volume out soon because I need it. I love the color tones used in this graphic novel. It uses vibrant colors yet they give enough

In conclusion, china has become such a despicable place for human rights that it has surmised to a modern form of Hitler's reign. Its citizens are simply numbers in the face of its government and will be slaughtered if not obeyed as seen in recent history. However this ends this decade. With the constant addition of activists and human rights lawyers as well as the still rising umbrella revolution members there is still hope for freedom of speech, assembly, and religion for the Chinese

In his article, “The Future of the Liberal World Order”, John Inkenberry discusses what he sees as a global shift in power, from the Western and Northern powers such as the United States and Great Britain to the more Eastern and Southern developing states like China, India and Brazil. This potential shift in power has sparked a fear in many people. This fear, as the global power switches from West to East and North to South, stems from the thinking that these new nations that are coming to power will abolish the liberal world order that we all know. I however believe that instead of challenging the United States for power and changing the world order to more reflect their ideologies, these emerging nations will instead seek a greater position of leadership in the already existing world order. Firstly, I will provide an argument of Inkenberry’s main arguments and why realists’ have started to worry. Second, I will show how China is rising to threaten the United States superpower position in today’s world order, and finally I will illustrate ways which show that China is not challenging the Liberal World Order and why.

According to Friedberg, China and the U.S. are on their way to compete for international power and influence. In his work, he reviews an emerging Sino- American rivalry that continues to intensify due to the power gap narrowing. This rivalry is not due to erased misperceptions and policy errors. However, it is due to power politics and differing ideologies. Both the U.S. and PRC have objectives that threaten interests of the others side. The United States promotes “regime change” in China. They wish to have China move from an authoritarian means towards liberal democracy by peaceful and gradual methods. Even though both have differences, they see the benefit in continuing their economic relations. Author claims that we focus on the more

Following Mao, Deng Xiaoping’s focus was on the “invigoration of china” and he coined this term after his goal was to restore China from many damages caused in the Cultural Revolution of Mao. He saw very high levels of growth in the economy by reducing the role of the state in the economy (Wang, 2013; Krieger, Kesselmen and William, 2013). However, tragedy in Tiananmen Square shook the growing progress of Xiaoping, although Chinese government saw their brutal tactics and use of force as necessary to secure national stability (Krieger, Kesselmen and William, 2013). Deng Xiaoping’s successor, Jiang Zemin, reiterated the idea of the Chinese Dream by promoting the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” which ultimately focused on everything anti-western, as Western powers were scene as the “source of China’s backwardness and suffering” (Wang, 2013). This was a major contrast to Deng Xiaoping’s view, which was that China’s ‘backwardness’ was rooted in the cultural revolutions and the problems that arose there. The next attempt at achieving the Chinese Dream came with Hu Jintao and his attempt to

Confucianism emphasised harmony and stressed the importance of the collective rather than the individual. The communist Chinese government claims that according to the Asian values, the welfare of the collective Chinese population should always proceed any rights of any individual and in order to create a harmonious society, it is sometimes necessary to force individuals to sacrifice their rights for the wider needs of the society (People’s Daily, 2005). We cannot blame China for slowly implementing the rights of the West. Keep in mind that even the most advanced liberal democracies have only relatively recently implemented human rights. An example of this is the racial segregation in the United States in the 1960s (Breslin & Taylor, 2008). Burstein & De Keijzer indicate that human rights are often simply a part of a political agenda. How is it possible that for example the United States is able to create close ties and do not overwhelm the human rights agenda in countries such as Indonesia, India or Saudi Arabia, which also violate human rights according to Western standards (as cited in Breslin & Taylor, 2008). Keeping in mind China’s stage of development and its discourse on human rights, it should be pointed out that China has made considerable progress over the last few decades.

The debate on whether the rise of China is displacing the United States (US) as hegemon is a contentious debate. While scholars on the one hand argue that this is the case, others refute this by arguing that despite the increase of Chinese influence in the South-Pacific, it is still far away from becoming a global superpower. Using the theoretical lenses of Hegemonic Stability, Balance of Power, and Realism, this paper will argue that the rise of China as global hegemon lacks theoretical support; while in fact China is growing militarily, economically, and politically, it will not replace the United States (US) as Global Hegemon.

To be able to successfully evaluate the role of the rise of China in the security of states, the international order must be looked at first. Due to the anarchical nature of the international order, survival is the supposedly the most important interest of any independent state, as it forces states to be fearful of each other as each state is concerned about their security and their abilities to compete with each other for power according to realism. It is this system that causes the

Realism assumes that under a balance of power, the overriding aim of all states is to maximize power and become the only hegemony in the system. States only help themselves in the anarchic international system. Therefore, China’s rise is regarded as a disconcerting threat to the U.S.’s primacy of power in the present international stage. The power shift in East Asia is creating security dilemmas; the U.S. thus demands more security to its Asian allies including Philippines, Japan and South Korea. The rapidly-rising Chinese power would inevitably challenge the current international balance of power and appear aggressively in the eyes of weaker power such as the Philippines. Therefore it seeks help to its ally, the U.S., to counterbalance the power of China. China intends to gain more resources and to transform current international order to its favor according to its national interests. The 2010 Chinese White Paper on National Defence states that: “Contradictions continue to surface between developed and developing countries and between traditional