This paper explores the eight dominant ideologies on Earth today are Nationalism, Socialism, Liberal Liberalism, Conservative Liberalism, Populist Liberalism, Fascism, and Fundamentalism.

The eight dominant ideologies on Earth

Government Final Paper details: Respond to TWO of the following essay prompts. Please write 3 pages for each essay. 1) The eight dominant ideologies on Earth today are Nationalism, Socialism, Liberal Liberalism, Conservative Liberalism, Populist Liberalism, Fascism, and Fundamentalism. Communism suffered a catastrophic setback 30 years ago and is still globally declining. Liberal Liberalism and Socialism have suffered serious setbacks over the course of the last 20 years and are still in decline as well. Over the course of the last seven years in the US, Conservative Liberalism has also suffered and has for the most part been replaced.

The eight dominant ideologies on Earth

So far, this century is proving to be the century of nationalism, fundamentalism, and fascism, and often in some sort of mixture. For example, Putin and Modi are both nationalist fundamentalist fascists. Each ideology has its own definition of what a just society is. Compare and contrast each ideology’s definition of justice. Then explain what you think is driving the world towards ideologies that socialists, liberal liberals, conservative liberals, populist liberals, and communists banded together to destroy militarily in the 1930s and 40s. 2) The US Presidency is an ever-evolving institution. Each period has its own culture.

The eight dominant ideologies on Earth

First, describe this evolution in detail. Why do you think it keeps changing? What pushes the presidency in one direction and then into a different one? Is there a repeating pattern? If so describe that pattern. What does the future hold? Does social media favor one kind of presidency over the other? 3) It has been said that the world should be allowed to elect the US president. This of course is because of the massive role that the US president plays in shaping the condition of the global arrangement, since WWII. If the Spanish-American War was our debutante ball, then WWI was our engagement, and finally WWII was our shotgun wedding with the world.

The eight dominant ideologies on Earth

Over the time since WWII the US has played a pivotal role in upending democracies (Syria 1949, Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, the Democratic Republic of Congo 1961, Indonesia 1967, and Chile 1973, and Haiti 1988, 1988 again, 1991, and 2004 (both 1991 and 2004 were against the same guy!) to give some of the more dramatic examples. In addition to this the US has a long history of military engagements that spans before and after WWII. You can see here https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/interventions/ that we have been in about as many military adventures as there are years since 1890. Our big post WWII wars are Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq again.

The eight dominant ideologies on Earth

Between the four wars about nine million people died. In addition, we have founded and directed proxy wars in places like Angola, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, India, Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc. Millions more have died in those conflicts. To frame it all there has been a steady evolution of policies that change from president to president. The Truman doctrine was to fight communism at all costs. The Eisenhower doctrine prioritized disassembling and replacing the British and French Empires, then fighting against pan-Arabism (the goal of unifying the Arabs), and finally it put fighting communism in third place. https://youtu.be/1RWOpQXTltA

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