Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.bronx.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.bronx.com/files.php?file= http://www.bronx.com/ http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/1070.html Politics Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:29:00 -0400 The Golan Heights http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/1030.html Politics Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:12:00 -0400 Before the creation of a Jewish state, all Jews existed in Diaspora. Dispersed throughout the world, Jews adopted the corresponding language, culture, and traditions of their perspective countries, but preserved a common ethnic identity as a Jewish people. http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/1022.html Politics Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:35:00 -0400 Although sometimes subsumed within a political science program of study, dialectics is endowed with a generality allowing for its application to all facets of life. Dialectical investigation is premised on the idea that each object and process possesses an opposite—a competing force—which constitutes both its defining element and the impetus for change. http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/448.html Politics Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:05:00 -0400 The arrangement and design of the world had undergone a dramatic shift beginning with the French Revolution in the late 18th century. A world comprised of empires, in which multiple ethnic groups of disparate culture, language, and traditions coexisted under one domain, began to transform into a world of nation-states. http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/387.html Politics Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:24:00 -0400 An Arab population, essentially absent of a national consciousness prior to the twentieth century, forged a collective identity as the Palestinian people spurred conjointly by the forces of modernization and Zionism. The British mandate and policies of international actors also helped evoke a national consciousness in the Arab natives of Palestine, consequently forging the Palestinian identity in its nascent stages. http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/383.html Politics Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:29:00 -0400 The clash of divergent nationalisms within the same territory culminated in the establishment of a sovereign state by one nation, but rendered the other a splintered population devoid of a nation-state. After centuries of a scattered existence in Diaspora, the Jewish people rejoiced as the Zionist project achieved the creation of their own state, safeguarded from the perils of anti-Semitism. http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/304.html Politics Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:43:00 -0400 Turkey’s experiment as a secular, westernized state represents not only an anomaly, but the prototype of secular modernization in the Middle East. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder the Turkish Republic in 1923, embarked on a series of social and political reforms, abolishing Islamic institutions, positions, and insignia to secure Turkey’s position as a modern democracy. http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/303.html Politics Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:31:00 -0400 After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the international system shifted from bipolarity to unipolarity, redefining the structure of the system. As a result, US primacy in this unipolar world has constituted the most salient element affecting the arrangement of the system and defining a world comprised of nation-states. http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/230.html Politics Sat, 16 May 2009 21:51:00 -0400 The current governing paradigm in most Middle Eastern countries is marked by executive supremacy unbridled by any legal body or branch of government to restrain the oppressive power of the ruler. Bereft of a legitimate legislature and judiciary to counteract and neutralize an unjust and authoritarian executive, these Middle Eastern countries must seek to reform and ameliorate their form of governance to attain prosperity, just rule, and political justice. http://www.bronx.com/news/politics/229.html Politics Sat, 16 May 2009 18:02:00 -0400 As a country economically, culturally, and politically disparate from its neighbors, Israel represents a democratic bastion in a region rife with stagnant, totalitarian regimes. Zionism yielded a state born of immigrants from various backgrounds bound by a common Jewish identity, deeming Israel’s existence anomalous. The Eastern European immigrants of the aliyot developed the political framework of the pre-state period; these Zionist leaders subsequently became the leaders of the new state in 1948, opting for a representative parliamentary democracy. The Bronx Times & Bronx.com