What are human rights and what place have discussions on human rights found in international relations?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Though they may disagree on the importance of this phenomenon, most international experts now admit that there is a growing concern, both from states and from people, for Human Rights in international relations. Human Rights are often used to legitimate an action (diplomatic pressures, economic...
Africa: a cold war proxy field?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
In most discourses about International Relations, Africa is described as a ‘victim' of external powers - namely its former colonisers, the United States and, as far as the Cold War period is concerned, the Soviet Union. For instance, it is said that African wars in the post-colonial era were...
Is the United Nations an effective organisation?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The United Nations is not the first international organisation to be established to help settle conflict peacefully and to prevent future conflicts from arising. In 1899, the Hague Convention for the Settlement of International Disputes was established. “The conference was convened at the...
African Traditional Healing in Today's World
Dissertation - 4 pages - International relations
With the advent of postmodern theory in the mid-to-late twentieth century, Western thought has come to realize the need for a more complete view of human knowledge and being, one that does not fall prey to the modernist Enlightenment fascination with ‘rationality' and ‘objectivity'...
The clash of civilizations, by Samuel P. Huntington - Theory study and criticisms against the ideas
Book review - 2 pages - International relations
In 1996, Samuel Huntington published his book “The clash of civilization and the remaking of world order”. That book being a follow-up to the article that Huntington had published a few years earlier in the journal “Foreign affairs”. The journal Foreign Affairs never got so...
What are the main milestones in the emergence of the Palestinian problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
In January 2006, the Islamic militant group Hamas won the Palestinian Parliamentary elections, with 42,2% of the votes. The election in Palestine of a group that remains committed to an armed struggle, the destruction of Israel and retaliatory attacks on Israeli civilians shows that nearly sixty...
To what extent can we say Great Britain and the USA have a special relationship? What have the advantages and the disadvantages of the relationship been?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Many signs in history show that the UK and the USA detain a privileged relation. As one of the first British colony to be liberated, the USA has always been related to Great Britain. These two countries share the same language, the same political tradition, the same religion. From the point of...
International Organisation: The UN system
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Is global governance a chimera in a world of states, or is there as Keohane suggests, limited global governance in a partially globalized world, or is global governance an effective form of western hegemony? Is global governance a chimera in a world of states, or is there as Keohane suggests,...
Vatican Diplomacy
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - International relations
The Pope, as a spiritual and temporal leader, wields a double sovereignty: over the City of the Vatican as Head of State, and over the Holy See (or Apostolic See) as Head of the Roman Catholic Church. This fundamental distinction, “perennialized” by the 1929 Latran accords, is at the...
The evolution of the closer relationship between the United States and India
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
Since its independence and the end of the cold war, India has evolved considerably. Nowadays, India's power is rising like its influence on the international scene and the emergence of India as a major Asian power is a matter of fact. Indeed, thanks to diverse advantageous characteristics, India...
Is Intercultural communication possible across the Baltic Sea Region?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
“The meaning behind intercultural communication is to try to bring different world views and meaning attributions closer to each others through and with the help of verbal and non-verbal interactions” . Here is a definition of intercultural communication by Niina Kovalainen that reveals...
Britain is widely regarded as the ' awkward partner ' in Europe. How accurate is this assessment? - publié le 27/03/2007
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
“We have our own dreams and our own tasks. We are in Europe, but not part of it. We are linked, but not combined. We are interested and associated, but not integrated.” Winston Churchill's famous quote aptly describes Britain's approach to European integration since the inception of...
Britain is widely regarded as the « awkward partner » in Europe. How accurate is this assessment? - published: 27/03/2007
Dissertation - 4 pages - International relations
“We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not combined. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.” Winston Churchill's famous quote aptly describes Britain's approach to European integration since the inception of the EU in...
International relations, theory and practice: the Second Kashmir war
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
I will deal in this essay with the Second Kashmir War, which was a war between India and Pakistan in 1965. We will see how we can interpret the causes and the origins of the war, and the way it was ended and solved. I chose to use two different theories to interpret the Indo-Pakistani war of...
International organisations and sovereignty
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The French campaign for the referendum on the European Constitution has perfectly shown the fear of a loss of state sovereignty due to the European Union within the political elite as well as within the society. With the increase of international organisations, that can be defined as “a...
Kenneth Waltz's on nuclear weapons - publié le 12/03/2007
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Do you agree with Waltz's recommendation to spread nuclear weapons? On Sunday, April 9, 2006, the Washington Post announced that 'the Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon...
Kenneth Waltz's on nuclear weapons
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Do you agree with Waltz's recommendation to spread nuclear weapons? On Sunday, April 9, 2006, the Washington Post announced that “the Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon...
The Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society: a comparative study - publié le 01/03/2007
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The Jeffersonian idea that liberty and equality would be best achieved by every man pursuing his own interest and a federal government with constrained powers, is often seen as America's traditional political philosophy. During the 20th century, three eras of government activism, particularly...
The Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society: a comparative study
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The Jeffersonian idea that liberty and equality would be best achieved by everyman pursuing his own interest and a federal government with greatly constrained powers is often seen as America's traditional political philosophy. During the 20th century, three periods of government activism...
NGOs: Representing civil society at the WTO?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
In 1994, the Marrakech Agreement established the World Trade Organization (WTO), one of many suprastate institutions that were created all along the 20th century. The purpose of this organization is to regulate all trade activities between its Member states, by providing “the common...
"In the last resort, states with classical military forces prevail": How does the realist theory contribute to foreign policy?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The theory is mainly a tool for the study of International Relations. It allows for the building of a conceptual framework upon which the events of world politics are analyzed. Theory provides with models that help unravel the mechanisms at work in the international system. Each theory is like a...
Why and how does CISG (United Nation Convention on the International Sales of Goods) favour exporters?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
The CISG (United Nation Convention on the International Sales of goods) is a very useful law that facilitates transactions of goods between countries. With the increasing world trade exchanges, it seems useful to have a set of procedures that allow both parties in different countries to agree on...
The Kashmir conflict
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
When we speak about Kashmir, we think at first of this multitude of conflicts which concerns the history of this country. This territory situated in South Asia is a junction point of India, Pakistan and China. It always generated enormous desire. Without dwell upon the long lineage of dynasties...
Feminist perspectives : The contribution of ann ticker to the revision of the concept of security
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
As a searcher in international relations, Ann Tickner was firstly stroke by the law number of women working in the field. She then realised that not only were women excluded as researchers, but also as subjects of study. That was the first step of her carrier as one of the main feminist authors...
US policy towards the Taliban since the end of the cold war
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
The withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989 did not provoke the fall of Najibullah's communist regime, but rather the beginning of Civil war between the different factions and ethnics. The US was officially not interested anymore in that part of the world and focused primarily in Europe. However, the...
How to reform the UN security council and why?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The Security Council is usually considered as the most important organ of the UNO. Primarily “responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security” , the Security Council has huge responsibilities and thus needs legitimacy to fulfill its mission. There has been a great...
The conflict in Darfur (2003-today): a contemporary conflict that must be analysed through various visions and aspects because of its complexity
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
The conflict that is currently occurring in Darfur is one of the gravest and of the most disastrous the United Nations Organization (UNO) has had to deal with. It's a very complex conflict to understand, because of the diversity of its causes and of its explanations. It is also, therefore, a...
The uneasy relationship between Norway and the process of European integration
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
The construction of the European Union has always experienced difficulties in triggering enthusiasm within the European nations. According to Jacques Delors, "it is difficult to fall in love with a common market". Even though the European Union (EU) is now much more than a free trade area, the...
Disaster in Darfur and the responsibilities of France
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
On 16 May 2006, resolution 1679 was unanimously adopted by the Security Council of the United Nations Organisation (UNO). It expressed its intention to consider conducting a “United Nations Operation in Darfur” and called for the deployment of “a joint African Union and United...
The United States and international religious freedom - publié le 25/01/2007
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
In 1998, the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) created both the International Religious Freedom Office in the Department of State and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Since then, a report has been produced every year within the United States, "reviewing...
