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On Soros's Open Society Foundation

Posted on:2011-11-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y T GongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360302999846Subject:World History
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In 1979, Soros' Open Society Foundation was Established in New York, then the Soros foundation enlarged quickly. It becomes a huge network including Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Eurasia, South Africa, Haiti, Guatemala and America. The aim of Soros foundation is that Open the closed society, search the possible "budding democracy", then adopt various means to foster its development and growth. This process is peaceful, slow, gradual, but continuous. it will lead to "democracy" borns in some countries at the end. Soros's Open Society Foundation is based on his open society theory. Soros inherited open society idea of Karl Popper and Soros thinks that our understanding is not complete, a perfect society is impossible; so we must meet in a second best option, an imperfect society, which accepts it at any time to improve, and strive to improve.This thesis is divided into four parts.Part one introduces the construction of Soros's open society foundation. Soros's open society foundation is Established on the basis of Soros open society theory, Soros inherits the open society idea of Karl Popper, and comes into his own theory. Soros thinks that a perfect society is impossible, so we must meet in a second best option:an imperfect society which accepts it at any time to improve, and strive to improve.Part two introduces the guiding ideology of Soros's Open Society Foundation,Its guiding ideology mainly includes the theory of reflexivity and fallacious hypothesisPart three introduces The Open society foundation's impact on international politics.it brings huge affect to Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and so on.Part four introduces the evaluations of Soros'Open Society foundation. The action of Soros's Open Society Foundation has visible political flavor, but we should recognize that Soros's Open Society also brings a lot of profit to many countries and region, and it promotes human society in many areas.
Keywords/Search Tags:Open Society Foundation, Soros, Open Society Theory
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