President Bush is expected to project approximately $400 Billion in budget deficit for the years 2008 and 2009. This amount is twice the $163 Billion shortfall which was recorded in 2007. The budget deficit will be inherited by the incoming U.S. president who will assume office in 2009.

Divided into thematic sections that extract information from renowned thinkers and influential texts, it is a valuable tool in discussing and contemplating world politics. It examines the influences of the post-Cold War era on the concurrent events of globalization and the particular role of the state.

The book not is a welcome guide not only for those who are learning about world politics but also those who are teaching it. As a valuable resource material, people will receive a more in depth understanding and appreciation of the world of politics and international relations.

Much of the world attention centers on the numerous candidates and the policy stands they present on various issues that range from economic to technology and health care. The stand of the next U.S. President will surely dictate the country’s international policies, which may either strain or relax world political ties.

Various political, economic and social movements are circulating at an international level, which is seen as an inevitable trend welcomed overall but also seen as a threat by sectors that are more conservative. One thing is for certain though; globalization provides an alternative road to make world politics more responsive to the needs of the public.

A substantial harbor which could house a score of nuclear ballistic missile submarines a host of aircraft carriers has been built by China at the Sanya Base on Hainan Island’s southern tip based on satellite imagery passed to ‘The Daily Telegraph’. Pentagon’s greater concern is the massive tunnel entrances built into hillsides and around the base which is estimated to be 60ft high. Sources fear that these could lead to caverns that are capable of hiding as much as 20 nuclear submarines from spy satellites. This will be a significant challenge to the dominance of U.S. Navy and to the countries that are around the South China Sea.

Perhaps one of the most controversial political philosophers of the early times was Niccolo Machiavelli. He is the author of the book The Prince. Machiavelli is an Italian political theorist who raises the ideas of having an absolute ruler and the ways of attaining and maintaining absolute power.

Thomas Hobbes was responsible for the work, Leviathan. In this book, he created a model of the early development of humans as a means of justifying the roots of politics. He also raised the idea that every individual has an equal share of rights to every resources available. Hobbes also proposed the idea of social contract.

Plato is a Greek philosopher who authored the book The Republic. In his work, he made arguments about the conventional political systems. He pointed out that these forms of government such as democracy, oligarchy and monarchy are corrupt and stressed that the people should be governed by a class of elite and educated philosophers.