European integration theories
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
There is an increasingly accepted agreement that the EU and the process of European integration are just too complex to be captured by a single theoretical approach. Hix holds to this point: “We do not have a general theory of American or German politics so why should there be a general...
US Foreign Policy and international law
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The United States has been the main supporter of the development of international rules since the end of World War II. The US sought to rebuild an international system that would promote international cooperation in various areas to avoid conflicts: economic (through the creation of an...
Afghanistan: Threats and opportunities for the Transatlantic relation
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
Afghanistan represents undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges for the Western democracies. The reversal of the Taliban by the international coalition led by the United States after the 9/11 terrorist attacks was seen as a symbol of hope. This war was considered as legitimate, because of the...
Humanitarian intervention: The responsibility to protect (R2P)
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The protection of human rights is now considered as an important element of International Law. However, if there are frequent calls for “humanitarian interventions” (that is “coercive action against a state to protect people within its border from suffering grave harm” ) like...
UN peacekeeping operations
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Peacekeeping operations (PKOs) illustrate both the successes and the difficulties of the United Nations in the fulfillment of their primary goal: "the maintenance of international peace and security." They symbolize the ambitions of the organization but also its adaptation: it is thus interesting...
China & Japan
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Sino-Japanese relationships are very complex. Historically, both countries have known a kind of “Golden Age” when they dominated the Pacific region. Before the arrival of the Europeans, China was dominant. Then Japan modernized a lot during the Meiji Era (1868) and became superior. Even...
Explain and Illustrate the concept of "limited war" in the context of the cold war
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
After 1945, the parallel rises of US and USSR, emerged two superpowers in competition at all levels, fighting for hegemony on the post war world. Characterized by the possession of the nuclear weapon, obtained and used in 1945 by the United States and developed in USSR in 1949, this new conflict...
Explain the chief causes of the conflict in Chechnya
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The conflict in Chechnya constitutes one of the most burning issues of the post Cold War Russian federation politics. Actually, the two wars, that took place under Yeltsine's and Putin's presidencies, from 1994 to 1996 and from 1999 to 2001, and even to nowadays, have been the most important...
To what degree does the evidence of contemporary cross-strait relations support the view that Taiwan and Mainland China are experiencing not only economic but also political convergence?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
In 1949, after having lost the Chinese Civil War against the CPC, the Kuomintang retreated from Mainland China and established a government in Taipei, the largest city of the Taiwan Island, while continuing to claim its sovereignty over the whole China. At the same time, the People's Republic of...
Australia, Britain and the EU
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The relationship between Australia and the European Union does not seem to attract much attention. Few books had been written on it, and the general impression is that this relationship is not put forward by neither Australia nor the EU. While many scholars focus today on the importance of Asia...
Dangerous liaisons: On the love-hate affair between the US and France
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
A quick look at the sheer number of French books written on the United States, whether it is on 9/11, Iraq, the environment, George W.Bush or any other foreign policy issue, shows how important is the United States for France. The opposite may not be so true. France is considered like one of...
Crisis? What crisis? Darfur
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Is there a crisis in Darfur? This question looks at first sight rather provoking; everybody is aware of what is happening there. It is one of the main international hot spots. All the more so as the horrible events in Darfur are everything but new. However, this conflict takes place while the...
European union and regulation of the peace process in the Middle East since 1991 - publié le 29/10/2007
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
Launched with the Madrid Conference in 1991, the israeli-Palestinian peace process led to the historical handshake between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres at the White House in Washington. American president Clinton, thus sealed the signature of a statement of principles, and reaffirmed the...
How is and how should environmental regulation be allowed for in the formation of international trade policy?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
In 1994, 'the Committee on Trade and Environment' was created within the World Trade Organisation. Meeting three times a year, and composed of all WTO members plus some observers, its creation testifies of a need to take into account environmental issues into the formation of an...
The clash of civilisation, Huntington
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The clash of Civilisation' by S. Huntington, was first, an article of seventeen pages, published in the journal 'Foreign Affairs', which initiated a controversy among specialists . Even though Huntington had got a lot of flak, he developed this theory in his book bearing the same...
Dr Strangelove or How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb (Nuclear Proliferation)
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
On October, 9th 2006, North Korea annonced it had conducted a nuclear test successfully. The news struck the international community. The galloping spread of nuclear technologies and knowledge to nations that do not already have these capabilities, such as North Korea, but also Iran, is alarming....
China in Africa: Political or Economic Interest?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
China's growing involvement in Africa has been actively commented upon over the last few months. In 1996, President Jiang Zemin stated he wanted 'a new relationship' with Africa, based on five points: reliable friendship, sovereignty equality, non-intervention, mutual beneficial...
The Relations between the European Union and Latin America
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
Latin America is a huge geographical and cultural space that faces many serious difficulties in development because of high social inequalities, drug traffic and democracies that are often young and fragile. Because of these important issues, and as Latin America is a potentially important...
The Iranian Issue: The emergence of a main potential threat for the international security
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The Iranian regime appears to be one of the main present sources of threat for the international order and security. The nuclear programme that has been undertaken by its president Ahmadinezhad is raising strong tensions between this country and the main part of the rest of the world, even though...
The prospects and limitations of a global governance of finance
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
In our modern societies, market mechanisms shape the modes of production and distribution of goods and services, particularly more and more through the financial sphere, “that part of an economy that links savings with investments through different instruments denominated in monetary...
Discuss the view that globalization is increasingly rendering the state meaningless
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Most of the theories pertaining to International Relations highlight the centrality of the state on the international scene. The Nation-state has been characterized by the principle of sovereignty since the Westphalia Treaty in 1648. A good definition of sovereignty can be found in the book on...
The term globalization used in relation to a host of social, economic, cultural and political processes
Essay - 12 pages - International relations
Globalization is easier to describe than to define. This is because, in its present form and usage, it is a new, complex, dynamic, multidimensional, and worldwide phenomenon, which means different things to different people and different things to the same groups across time and space. It evokes...
The evolution of EU-American relationships: From obedience to independence?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
The EU-US relations were the basis upon which global institutions were built at the end of World War II, they permitted the creation of the United Nations, of the World Trade Organization, and of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation... they forged the framework still used to regulate...
Republic of China in Taiwan
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Small country of North-East Asia, Taiwan has experienced numerous developments throughout its history, founding over the centuries its own political identity, from the beginnings as a Ch'ing prefecture and province, to the half-century of Japanese possession and to the last fifty years as the...
Churchill & Roosevelt during the Second World War: The Special Relationship
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
The 7 December 1941, Japan attacked the American fleet in Pearl Harbor. From then on, the war is no more only European but officially global. The next day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States, declared war on Japan. With the coming into play of the American giant, the...
The European union and the third world: The case of the EU-ASEAN relations
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
The European Union is a growing and developing organization which is becoming more and more important. That's why its relations with other countries in a more and more globalized world are also moving. The EU relations with the developing world are as old as its creation but they have undoubtedly...
How Convincing Are Neorealism & Neoliberal Institutionalism To Understand Environmental Cooperation?
Essay - 14 pages - International relations
International cooperation is a radically different prospect with regard to positivist theories of international relations. According to each approach, states live in a specific international system, are motivated by diverse factors and possess various resources. Each theory then offers a...
The role of NGO's during wartime: humanitarian vs pacifist ideals
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Since the beginning of modern humanitarian action during wartime (with the birth of the ICRC), the question of the NGOs' role on the battlefields has been the subject of an important controversy, opposing humanitarian to pacifist ideals. Indeed, pacifists' main point was to denounce the...
Saakashvili and the developments in Ajara
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Ajara is the only autonomous region in the South Caucasus that never fought an armed conflict with its central government. In the Georgian context, the non-violent resolution of the Ajara crisis following the Rose revolution makes a particular sense compared to the situation in South-Ossetia and...
The Gypsies and the Balkans States
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The Gypsies are now recognized to have originated from northern India and to have arrived in Europe around the 14th century. This deprives the Gypsies of an historical homeland and a state able to protect their rights, even outside its borders. Moreover, their immigration in several waves created...
