... a `New International Economic Order' emanating from poorer post?colonial states contained within it the kernel of a liberal defence of justice as fairness. Liberal institutionalism According to the history of the discipline of International Relations, the collapse of the League of Nations signified the end of idealism. There is no doubt that the language of liberal institutionalism was less avowedly normative; how ... `Liberalism' signifies the broad Liberal tradition in international thought, whereas lower case `liberalism' signifies a particular kind of liberal thinking, or an individ...

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... agricultural land into an industrial-agricultural state. This transformation was carried out under a system of central planning patterned on that of the Soviet Union. Consumer desires were ignored, tight labor discipline was enforced, and living standards were depressed, so that the largest possible share of Hungary's resources could be used to develop an industrial base. Investment in industry was encouraged by ... a tax and subsidy structure that overpriced consumer goods and underpriced the components of heavy industrial goods. The highly centralize panning process often led to ineff...

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... the Petrograd garrison, Lavr Kornilov was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian army on the 18th of July, 1917. Kornilov rejected soviet order #1 and aimed to restore order and discipline to the armed forces, in particular reinstalling the death penalty. The Kornilov affair came about as Kerensky and Kornilov had different strategies on how to restore order in the Provisional ... ...

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... 1971 only 5000 troops were treated for combat wounds but 20,000 for serious drug abuse. The way the Americans had things did not help, they had a massive lack of discipline. US military tactics were also incompetent. One of the most prominent approaches was Operation Rolling Thunder which ended in a strategic US failure. Rolling Thunder was the name for the aerial ... ...

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... to the development and expansion of secondary and tertiary education systems. Stalin's regime also had a profound effect on society and culture, with the strengthening of the family, a greater emphasis on discipline in schools and other cultural activities that affected music, film, painting, literature and architecture. However, attempts were also made to destroy the religious base of the lives of Russians and ... ...

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... developed tyrannical rule of Napoleon. This clear discrepancy between reality and the attitude of animals suggests that the latter have evolved into self-controlled beings that have opted for self-discipline as a survival mechanism in the new political regime. The animals internalization of these attitudes, despite Napoleon's absence from public scenes, indicates their conforming to the image of prisoners in Foucault ... ...

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... the Soviet economic decline is the rigid command economy' imposed by Stalin in the early 1930s. It did not reward individual or collective effort; it absolved Soviet producers from the discipline of the market; and it gave power to officials who could not be held accountable by consumers. Consequently much of the investment that went into the civilian sector of the ... ...

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... Vilna ghetto. When the Nazi's took over Vilna in 1941 the ghetto was immediately established and Jacob Pentz was made head of the Judenrot. Pentzs enforced his philosophy that work discipline and order would preserve Jews by having spies reveal any resistance plans. However, the Jewish youth in Vilna felt adamantly disagreed and proclaimed their belief in a flyer given out on ... ...

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... ;particularly after the disastrous interruption of World War II. The Soviet leadership, therefore, was ruthless in marshaling all available human and material resources for the job of modernization. The harsh discipline and economic austerity that were necessary could be imposed only by an unrelenting dictatorship that could control all citizens' activities and suppress any hint of dissent or autonomy. The resulting ... ...

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... more autonomy."(p.154). This had a lot of potential to improve the economy, but by the time the law came into effect on January 1988 the new institutions of centralization and discipline were already in use. Enterprises having always been told what to do had little experience dealing with their self-financing. Enterprises found it easier to continue filling imposed production targets ... ...

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... and duma period. The 2 factions demarcated themselves in terms of their ideologies, strategies and tactics. The Bolsheviks formed from a narrow range of peasants and workers. They were attracted to Lenin's discipline, his firm leadership of the party, his simple slogans and undoubtedly his belief in immediate action to bring down the Tsarist regime rather than waiting. " This above all was what ... ...

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... superior to the other animals. The other animals are all inferior to the pigs. The pigs make the rules and the animals follow them and if not the dogs enforce discipline. The animals in the book are fairly gullible and easily manipulated. The animals work and work at the common goal of constructing the windmill. The windmill is ultimately to earn ... ...

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... and protect the position of the Communist party, even to sacrifice the life of his people. In order to obtain this purpose, it was necessary to enforce strict and absolute discipline was necessary at every level of society. This had gradually turned the society to a totalitarianism state. Lenin made himself the dictator and uses terror as his chief instrument to rule ... ...

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... -particularly after the disastrous interruption of World War II. The Soviet leadership, therefore, was ruthless in marshaling all available human and material resources for the job of modernization. The harsh discipline and economic austerity that were necessary could be imposed only by an unrelenting dictatorship that could control all citizens' activities and suppress any hint of dissent or autonomy. The resulting ... ...

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... a strictly theoretical analysis of International affaires, and demands to interpret reality by locking outside the reality itself, that is, any type of variables. "It is an irony of the IR-discipline that it has combined a focus on states as the most important actors in the system with an astonishing absence of analysis of the state itself- (Søresen 2001: 21). This ... ...

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... , called "specialists". The Bolsheviks also introduced the banning of private trade. However, this law was not enforced efficiently and, fotunately for many a huge black market developed. There was increaed labour discipline and fines were intriduced for lateness in addiiton to ration books. This system of rationing was class-based so the labourers received the largest rations, whereas porfessionals and middle classes ... ...

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... matter to the central committee. Again Stalin go the vote. Shows Stalin's movement into power influence over opposition. Appealed to members of opposition that if they differed to the party discipline everything would be alright. This didn't happen, however, and when they did he would state they hadn't done enough. "and doubtless he frightened his colleagues with warnings with a possible coup ... ...

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... sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. The forcible requisitioning of food and supplies was approved by Lenin. This could only be achieved by enforcing strict and absolute discipline at every level of society. Terror was to become the chief instrument of power and Lenin was to assume the role of dictator. This was a phenomenon which was to become ... ...

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... sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. The forcible requisitioning of food and supplies was approved by Lenin. This could only be achieved by enforcing strict and absolute discipline at every level of society. Terror was to become the chief instrument of power and Lenin was to assume the role of dictator. This was a phenomenon which was to become ... ...

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... sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. The forcible requisitioning of food and supplies was approved by Lenin. This could only be achieved by enforcing strict and absolute discipline at every level of society. Terror was to become the chief instrument of power and Lenin was to assume the role of dictator. This was a phenomenon which was to become ... ...

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... the seminar and made him work in the factory. A couple of years after his dad's death in 1890, he became a student at the Tiflis Theological Seminary, where he got a strict discipline. There, he initiates himself in secret, to the revolutionary and Marxism ideas. However, he will be kicked out of the seminar in 1899 because for propagating Marxism. This seminar left ... ...

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... a result of poor training, and furthermore, many of these resulted in punishment as accident prone untrained workers were tried as saboteurs to fill the gulags. Even for the trained labourers, discipline was harsh. If a worker didn't complete his targets or was late to work, he could be punished by losing his job, which often meant his house as well. Shock brigades ... ...

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... ?" . Land decrees abolished private land ownership, civil marriages were made compulsory and censorship of the press was introduced as seen in France. Large-scale industry and banks were nationalised, labour, discipline and duties were enforced and strikes were declared treason to the state. Thus what began as a protest against tyranny, ended in a totalitarian state and a despotism of a vigorous type. Therefore, the ... ...

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... :12). Anyone who was not patriotic as possible was deemed a suspect. The President showed concern with the weakened civic fabric and declared time and time again, the need for self-discipline and personal responsibility. The Red Scare further influenced popular culture through religion. This saw in the rise of revival movements all over the nation. Protestant revivals opened up all over ... ...

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... Lenin started the New Economic Policy. He used the weapon of Lenin's memory to shame the Leftists for not looking up to Lenin. Stalin also opposed the Leftist view of discipline before the revolution and ideology. This also went against Lenin's views and this, in time, became one of their fallacies as well. Leftist's leaders made their biggest mistake when they ... ...

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