Corporate Social Responsibility Over the past decades, there have been increasing concerns from the public that many businesses have little concern for the consumer, care nothing about the deteriorating social order, and are indifferent to the problems of the environment and minorities. What do business and ethics have in common? Is ethical behavior expected and rewarded in the business world? Is it sufficient as a businessman to manage business as long...

China – An Emerging Economy  For the past two decades, bosses have been chasing the Chinese Dream and finally the long march is reaping benefits. More than 450 U.S. companies surveyed by the American Chamber of Commerce, 68 % of them say that they are profitable, and 70 % say their China margins equal or exceed their global average. Before China’s entry into the World Trade Organization this would have been...

Prohibition – A Social Necessity The problem of prohibition is the most intricate one in the sense that the puritan wants to abolish it and the segment of the public preference for alcohol runs athwart. It is the matter of habit and habit dies hard. There has been a regular tussle between the public habit and the social intention. Many times the prohibition has been introduced and many times it has...

Population Explosion The population explosion in the last one hundred years is a well-documented and well-examined subject matter. All sorts of agencies have devoted time and resources to studying, problematizing, and strategizing in order to deal with the threat of overpopulation. Diverse groups, including the United Nations, have developed plans to encourage population control and decreased fertility rates. However, one will say that population control in Third World nations have become...

Adoption Adopting a child is an experience that promises to bring great joy as it changes a couple or individual’s life forever. But what happens if the mother of that child wants to endorse their child? Those are the issues that many adopting parents and birth-right mothers are facing today. Many biological mothers want their child back. There are many concerns for adopting parents to know- that there is the possibility...

Problems in The Middle East Oil that is what the modern Middle Eastern geopolitics have usually been about. Given the vast energy resources that form the backbone of western economies, influence and involvement in the Middle East has been of paramount importance for the former and current imperial and super powers, including France, Britain, USA and the former Soviet Union. Prior to the discovery of oil, the region had been a...

New World Order Political scientists and diplomatic historians have long been interested in the question of world order. European nation-states and their governments sought ways to establish international order in Europe following the destructive wars of the 19th century. That is, they sought to establish guidelines, practices, and international institutions that would ensure peace and order in Europe and in the rest of the world, much of which was under European...

Television Addiction An addiction, by definition, is an uncontrollable compulsion to re eat behaviour regardless of its harmful consequences many types of addiction have been described including alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gambling, food, computers and worlds. Adding television to that list should not be a stretch considering the ubiquitous accessibility of TV screens to the populace. Television can teach and amuse, and it does provide the much needed distraction and escape. Yet,...