Arab-Israeli conflict: From Copenhagen to Beijing and Washington to Jerusalem: American-Israeli relations cooling off
Dissertation - 12 pages - International relations
Since the dawn of the industrial revolution there have been two consistent interlocking themes behind Middle Eastern-Great Power interactions. First, Great Powers have a tendency to view the Middle East as a strategic commodity, because of its geographic location and vital natural resources....
Analysis of the creation United States of Africa
Essay - 24 pages - International relations
The United States of Africa is a project that has been raising issues for decades. Indeed, many international actors, activists groups, countries and other companies are concerned about the unity of an African people formed as a strong and powerful continent. It is true that many key topics are...
Transnational organized crime in the Netherlands.
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
This paper is about transnational organized crime in the Netherlands and the ways and means necessary to effectively combat it. Most people, when confronted with the question: "What is organized crime? often think of a mafia-like organization, much like the one portrayed in the Godfather-trilogy....
John Hilary, "Time to kill of Doha", The Guardian, November 25, 2009
Text analysis - 3 pages - International relations
This article entitled "Time to kill off Doha? was published in The Guardian on November 25, 2009. This centre-left newspaper is in favor of regulated form of trade that would enforce respect of social and environmental standards and fight against poverty and social inequalities. This article is...
From the Great Powers to the European Union: assess and discuss the role and impact of the European influence in the Balkans
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
On the 21st of July 1774, the town of Kuchuk Kainarji in Bulgaria was the scene to the signing of the treaty that would end the Russo-Turkish War. From then on, the history of the Balkan peninsula would coincide with the receding of the Ottoman empire and the expansion of European influence....
Control of the 'weapons'
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Arms control designates restrictions to the development, production, proliferation and usage of weapons imposed through diplomacy. The goal of Arms control are reducing the risk of war, or at least reducing the number of casualties if war cannot be avoided, and limiting the costs linked to war...
In oil rich Niger delta, the sun never sets: smokestacks still shooting out gas flares
Case study - 10 pages - International relations
For half a century, some oil has been extracted for commercial ends in the Niger Delta. The vast reserves of hydrocarbons created several billion dollars of income for the Nigerian state, but the majority of the inhabitants of the oil production zones live in poverty. The multidimensional crisis...
An essay on Globalization
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
As early as 1967, in his book The Medium is the Massage, Canadian sociologist and philosopher Marshall MacLuhan described the world anchoring itself in a process of exchanges and interdependences melting into networks, as a 'Global Village'. This phrase gave birth to the concept of...
"The U.S. operations of peacekeeping in Africa ", A. Sarjoh Bah and K. Aning (2008)
Book review - 3 pages - International relations
The US engagement in Africa after the cold war was rather half-hearted but the 9/11 attacks led to a renewed interest in the continent, as the US now fight a war of terror and wish to prevent failing African states from providing sanctuary to terrorist groups as well as to reduce its dependence...
Africa in the International system by Christopher - A review - publié le 15/04/2010
Book review - 4 pages - International relations
During the cold war, Africa was probably the smallest concern of both the superpowers. The Afro-superpowers relationship has often been reduced to the sterile formula of African independence versus superpower imperialism. Actually, African leaders often had a certain freedom of action as they...
Ghana's future after the oil discoveries - Four scenarios
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Ghana seems to be destined for a bright future. According to the Ministry of Finance of Ghana, poverty fell from 52% of the total population in 1992 to 28.5% in 2006. However, challenges remain. Unfortunately, inequalities sustain and the poorest Ghanaian people do not seem to benefit from...
"Cela coûte cher d'être pauvre", Julius Nyerere
Text analysis - 1 pages - International relations
Julius Nyerere is the first President of the United Republic of Tanzania. He is an atypical personage, often called an American Socialist. He's more popular in Tanzania. His nickname is the symbol of his economic policies. During the period where he was on power, his objective was to prevent...
Interpreting Washington's plans of African Americans in society and the political system post-slavery: The flaw of Du Bois' argument on Washington's program
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
In his autobiography, Up from Slavery (1901), Booker T. Washington, a renowned African American leader in the late nineteenth century, describes his influential life experiences and his hypotheses for black reconstruction. Washington provides detail about his childhood, his education at the...
The French-German Pair through the relationships of the German chancellor and the French president
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
After World War II, Europe was fragmented. Germany was defeated, ruined and divided by the winners of the war. France was considered as a winner and had a zone under its responsibility in Germany like the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1949, the state of the Federal...
Can conflict be avoided in human societies ?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
In each society, people have to face struggles and fights as soon as the day begins. They have to scramble just in order to reach and to creep into a subway. Others must cover a long walk just to bring back some water. Everyone has a daily struggle against the time, or against the crowd, or...
To what extent were New-York, London and Paris centers for technical innovations?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
In his paper 'City as Truth-Spot, Laboratories and Field-Sites in Urban Studies', Thomas Gyerin contends that each locus for practicing science is linked 'with distinctive epistemic virtues'. In other words, when the laboratory is standardized-prone, removing doubts that...
"After colonialism. The cultural consequences of globalization ", Arjun Appadurai (1996)
Book review - 1 pages - International relations
Arjun Appadurai (born 1949 in Bombay) earned his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences and his Master of Arts from Brandeis University. He is a Doctor of Philosophy since 1976. He currently focuses his studies on ethnic violence in the context of globalization. He also leads a project on the cultural...
The East in the West, "Introduction: the West's problem with the East" (1996), Jack Goody.
Text analysis - 1 pages - International relations
Jack Goody (born 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He tries to understand the specific role which written communication has played in the development of social and cultural institutions in contemporary societies. He has also written on the history of the family and the anthropology of...
Constitutionalism: Marbury vs. Madison Case
Essay - 1 pages - International relations
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. These unalienable rights were granted by the Founding Fathers to all humans, America and the Americans have always seemed to epitomize at best these values. At the heart of the American dream has ever, from the very beginning of its history to even...
Why does it seem so difficult to fight mafia and organized crime?
Study guide - 2 pages - International relations
Recent studies have shown that mafia related problems remain to be a manifest reality in the world. Criminal organizations continue to pose a threat to democracies. Their presence is not limited to economic sectors, with illegal trafficking, but mafias penetrate all parts of society, from civil...
How does Realism help us to understand international relations?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The study of International Relations regroups a large range of theorists who have different opinions about the way international politics are organised. Among these theorists, you can generally distinguish three main schools of thoughts, the liberals, the Marxists and the realists. They all help...
International organizations and the protection of human rights
Dissertation - 3 pages - International relations
This is the perception that certain behavior is required by law; a duty that is legally obliged. Customary law that is drawn from the practice of States accompanied by the opinion juris, is therefore a conviction that law requires the practice set. The performance of opinio juris would be in...
An evaluation comparing and contrasting the international covenant of economic, social and cultural rights with the international covenant on civil and political rights
Dissertation - 5 pages - International relations
The central purposes of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights have many things in common as they work together to form the backbone of the International Bill of Rights. The two Covenants were created so...
Closed door meeting of North Atlantic Council: NATO-Russia relations
Dissertation - 3 pages - International relations
Vladimir Putin's Russia is no longer the towering superpower it had been twenty years ago, and its influence and military might are considerably less of a force in global politics. But, thanks to a huge and poorly maintained nuclear arms force, the growing instability in the Caucasus, Central...
"The Management of Organizational Justice" (Management de la justice), R. Cropanzano, D.E. Bowen et S.W. Gilliland (2007) - publié le 25/03/2010
Book review - 2 pages - International relations
Over the last two decades the number of non-government organizations (NGOs) has exploded, and as new challenges were being faced by nations, new issues appeared and the whole system of NGOs became more complex. This essay will focus on one of the main internal issues faced by NGOs. The main issue...
The concept of "democratic peace"
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
Democratic regime is perceived as the best way to ensure peace in the world. Several political scientists have theorized this subject, and the result is the Theory of Democratic peace. Nevertheless, this theory had to face several criticisms. This fact incited our attention towards this topic and...
Belfast : a mirror of the conflict or an actor implicated in it ?
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
The city of Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, and it is where the cleavages between Protestant Unionists and Catholic Republicans was the most salient, as most of the troubles happened in this city. This conflict is both about an identity issue, as historical and religious cleavages are...
States', International Organizations' and International nongovernmental Organizations' interactions in Global Politics
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
Until the 1960s, the dominant approach in international relations was the realist approach, focusing on the centrality of the unitary states in global politics. In contrast to the classical state-centric approach to international relations theory, this approach develops a framework of global...
The controversial role of United Nations organization in the expansion of Human rights
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The best institution to promote human rights and carry them is embodied in the United Nations organization, whose principal aim is to promote peace and international security and support the expansion of human rights. A large majority of States are now members of this organization. It permits to...
Joseph Stalin's iron grip
Dissertation - 3 pages - International relations
With World War II beginning to affect the entire globe, the Soviet Union has found itself within the center of attention. Going all the way back to January of 1933 when Hitler comes into power in Germany, a theme of discontent begins with his actions of re-armoring the nation: ultimately an...
