Crisis in Global Governance: BRICS and the Future
Text commentary - 2 pages - International relations
Zorawar Daulet Singh's article analyses the challenges facing global governance due to Western economic decline and the rise of BRICS nations, and their potential role in reshaping international relations.
Slovakia's New Government: Far-Right Rise
Text commentary - 2 pages - International relations
Le Monde article reports on Slovakia's legislative elections, where Robert Fico's Smer-SD party formed a coalition with the far-right, amid 'fake news' and migratory crisis.
Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China - Peter N. Miller and François Louis (2012) - Comparing Chinese and European Practices
Text commentary - 2 pages - International relations
The paper analyzes the article "Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China", by Peter N. Miller, with the following questions: - How can the Chinese antiquarian movement be compared with European antiquarianism? - How does comparing the two enhance our understanding of the world...
Crisis In Global Governance - Zorawar Daulet Singh (2013) - What challenges must global governance face in the context of Western economic decline and the rise of the BRICS countries?
Text commentary - 2 pages - International relations
Zorawar Daulet Singh's article, Crisis in Global Governance, published in World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues (Autumn 2013), analyses the challenges facing global governance in the wake of Western economic decline and the rise of the BRICS nations. [...] This commentary will...
Clinton Impeached - Peter Baker, Juliet Eilperin (1998) - How does the lie become the main factor of accusation?
Text commentary - 2 pages - International relations
Despite his relative frequency in the last couple of years, an impeachment procedure remains a rare event in American political history, as it requires the members of Congress to be ready to vote for the deposition of an elected president - meaning first that the president has been guilty of a...
The Indian political situation - Clement Attlee (1942) - To what extent does India's independence impose itself on the British political powers?
Text commentary - 2 pages - International relations
Clement Richard Attlee, a member of the Labour Party, was a British statesman who served as British Prime Minister at the end of the Second World War and subsequently from 1945 to 1951. Attlee held a number of posts, including First Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - after joining...
Human rights and regional order - Amitav Acharya
Text commentary - 4 pages - International relations
After the end of the Cold-War and the tolerance of human rights denial, these have become an issue in ASEAN agenda and the core of the new geopolitical framework between the West and Southeast Asia. This conflict reflects the lively debate between absolute and relative rights. If absolute and...
John Hilary, "Time to kill of Doha", The Guardian, November 25, 2009
Text commentary - 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...
"Cela coûte cher d'être pauvre", Julius Nyerere
Text commentary - 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...
The East in the West, "Introduction: the West's problem with the East" (1996), Jack Goody.
Text commentary - 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...
Comparative study of three texts: Ethics of war: paper
Text commentary - 3 pages - International relations
This document covers the following aspects: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Michael Walzer, Just and unjust wars and the rules of war. All these sections are based on the Doctrine of double effect from the article from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Considering that the Christian thought...
Where dis "we" go, Thomas L.Friedman
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
Thomas L.Friedman is an author and a journalist who works in the famous news paper the New York Times. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner , is specialized in opec and has served as the chief diplomatic office of the White House, and of international economics. He is thus an important...
Foreign Aid, the non-aligned move-ment: how to make aid work
Text commentary - 2 pages - International relations
It seems that ever since foreign aid existed, there have been voices calling for its increase. Nowadays, everyone, from the world leaders of the G81 to the economists, seem to agree on the quite unclear target of doubling aid to Africa. But there are, at the same time growing doubts about aid...
Hinnesbush & Ehteshami - The foreign policy of Middle Eastern States, Iran and Turkey
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
Iran's decision to capture British soldiers may endanger its economic and political links with the European Union and discourage the foreign investments the country needs for the modernization of its economy. Iran's attempt to get the nuclear weapon combined with its declaration about...
John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt - Can Saddam be contained? History says yes - publié le 28/10/2009
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
This text was written in November 2002 by John J. Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University. It takes part in the aftermath of 9/11, and the debate over the necessity of a war in Iraq,...
Why Women Can't Run the World: International Politics according to Francis Fukuyama
Text commentary - 7 pages - International relations
Humans are like chimps. The social-constructionist theory was a wrong methodology to study human behaviors and the social sciences should turned towards sociobiology. So males are more aggressive than females, it is engraved in their genetic code and this is the cause of insecurity around the...
"How to help poor countries", Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian
Text commentary - 4 pages - International relations
This article, published in the issue of "Foreign Affairs" dated July/August 2005, questions a lot of ready-made ideas about foreign aid and about the ways to "help poor countries". The main interest of this article is that it questions the foreign aid as the provision of resources from a country...
Old and new wars
Text commentary - 2 pages - International relations
This study is based on the article written by Paul Richards in 2005: New War: An Ethnographic Approach. What was really important in this article, according to me, was to discover a new way to look at and to study wars. In this study, I will try to sum up what I've found in the article by...
