"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...
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 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...
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?
Worksheets - 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
Thesis - 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
Thesis - 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
Thesis - 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
Thesis - 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...
The importance of international trade and foreign direct investment to lift the global economy out of the downturn
Thesis - 7 pages - International relations
The current global economic crisis has been labeled by economists as the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the domino effect of the crisis has culminated in the decline of consumer spending, demise of established businesses in key industry sectors and heightened government...
To what extent was the air campaign in operation Iraqi freedom a military success but a public relations failure?
Thesis - 15 pages - International relations
The relationship between the US and Iraq in the post-Cold War era has been marked by a shift in US foreign policy, which has culminated in two wars, namely Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The focus of this paper is to critically evaluate the tactical position of the USA in...
Short essay: Security Council Reform In The United Nations and Changing World Politics (Westview Press, 2007), the author argues that "a significant shake-up in the way the UN does business is essential" if the UN is to keep pace with changing world - published: 10/02/2010
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, called in September 2003 for the reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC), in order to make it more effective and more representative, given the changed geopolitical realities. Diverse problems affect both the efficiency and the representative character 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...
The World Trade Organization: Case DS 160, Music in bars
Case study - 5 pages - International relations
The WTO (World Trade Organization) succeeded the GATT (General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade) on January 1, 1994. The main purpose of the WTO is to supervise and liberalize the international trade. Countries have to become members of this international organization to take advantage of the...
Humanitarian corridors - published: 23/01/2010
Worksheets - 5 pages - International relations
A humanitarian corridor aims at facilitating the transportation of charitable supplies like food, clothes, medicines, and hospital services such as ambulances that are directed to the local population in times of crisis in conflict zones. It is set on a specific route for a given time....
The contaminated milk in China
Worksheets - 2 pages - International relations
I will talk about the problem of milk in China. To make it more clear, I divided my presentation into three parts. In the first part, I will explain the origin of the problem. Then I will explain the current situation. Finally, I will talk about the consequences of the scandal. Remember...
Does the UN have a real role to play in today's world? Analyze the role and effectiveness of the UN in recent conflicts
Essay - 1 pages - International relations
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization created in 1945 after World War II. Currently it is composed of 192 members. Because of the horrors of the two world wars, the aim of the UN is first of all to establish a lasting peace in the world. During the Cold War, the role of the UN...
The Implementation of SAPs in Africa in the 1980's: the Issue of Conditionality
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
When discussing the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative (HIPC initiative), a joint debt relief initiative by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank currently being implemented in 29 African countries, one has to remember that debt relief programs are not new in the...
Drug Trafficking in West Africa - The Case of Guinea-Bissau
Case study - 6 pages - International relations
When the police seized cocaine worth 15% of the country's annual income, two explanations emerged, either Africa is one of the poorest in the world or it has an alarming drug-trafficking problem. In the case of Guinea-Bissau, both explanations are valid. The whole of West Africa is becoming a...
The Dayton peace agreement and its consequences in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Thesis - 7 pages - International relations
In the early 1990s the unraveling of Yugoslavia was well under way, and by the time war reached Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Yugoslavia was almost nonexistent. Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia had already proclaimed independence with relatively little military conflict. When the time came for...
