1,500-word Essay
Please choose one of the offered topics!
Assignment questions:
1. Be a state creator: Invent the country, position it geographically, describe its political culture and traditions, national and ethnic identities, citizenship and determine its electoral system, party politics, a system of governance, define the state and clarify why this would be the best solution for your state. It can be a democracy, autocracy, dictatorship, ‘hippy-community’, totalitarian regime, whatever you like.
2. Egg or Chicken question: ‘The state creates the nation or the nation creates the state?
3. Separation and balance of powers within the state under modern conditions provides and secures liberty. Truth or illusion? Analyze.
4. Was Joseph Schumpeter right when acknowledging Karl Marx was right in predicting the end of capitalism (and liberal democracy with it) once there was no more space for its expansion? Express your opinion freely using your own political preferences.
5. Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Nationalism. Provide comparative analysis.
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