Abstract The Irish Land War was a pivotal conflict in the history of liberal political thought. With significant impacts on both sides Atlantic, events Ireland were about more than self-determination. Heavily reliant discourse natural right, and asserting relationship between land ownership democratic-republican citizenship, provided vehicle for popular radical opposition to an increasingly pos...

the inhuman acts of israel in the gaza strip (2008-9) have seriously violated the international humanitarian law.international documents such as the geneva convention (iv) and additional protocol to the geneva conventions (ii) relating to protecting civilians during armed conflicts have clearly indicated violation of humanitarian law during israeli’s deadly offensive at the turn of the year. u...

rawls’ theory of justice is expressed in a constructivist procedure. he holds that his constructivist procedure is free of metaphysical presuppositions. his constructivist procedure is here pursued in three stages: (1) in a theory of justice, rawls intends to come to moral principles regarding the original position which could even result in other moral principles as well. he also asserts some ...

We will show that the Arrow impossibility theorem for binary social choice rules that there exists no binary social choice rule which satisfies transitivity, Pareto principle, independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA), and has no dictator, and Amartya Sen’s liberal paradox for binary social choice rules that there exists no binary social choice rule which satisfies acyclicity, Pareto princi...

This research examined the proposition that differential role occupancy by women and men fosters gender gaps in sociopolitical attitudes. Analyses of the General Social Survey (J. A. Davis & T. W. Smith, 1998) and a community sample showed that women, more than men, endorsed policies that are socially compassionate, traditionally moral, and supportive of equal rights for women and for gays and ...

The critique of utilitarianism forms a crucial subplot in the complex analysis of social justice that John Rawls develops in his first book, A Theory of Justice. 1 The weaknesses of utilitarianism indicate the need for an alternative theory, and at many stages of the argument the test for the adequacy of the new theory that Rawls elaborates is whether it can be demonstrated to be superior to th...

So far, various contributions have failed to explain Asia’s fat foreign currency reserve accumulation. In this paper, I analyze reserve holding decisions in a wider social, political, and economic context. Using Weber’s heuristic of ideas and interests as determinants of actions, I show that Asian countries' reserve accumulation is caused by a paradigm shift. In Asia’s former Development State ...

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