Should Turkey join tne european union ?
Essay - 21 pages - International relations
In the 1960s, a community of nations like France, Germany, Italy, and the Benelux covered almost all economic sectors, introduced the future common market framework, and established common policies for agriculture, transports, international relations, and regional cohesion. The integrating...
International crime: Evolutions in wildlife trafficking
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
Environmental crimes are by their very nature a transnational issue. The threat of species extinction for instance is not confined to a single country. However, the protection of the environment often comes against the global development process or increased standards of living worldwide...
Conflict between Somali and Ethiopia
Essay - 14 pages - International relations
At the outset, we deliver a reminder about Somali history. Once this summary is done, we will try to understand the conflict through the "getting to yes" precepts and the situation of the Africa Horn. For each point, we will analyze what the position of each party, and what could be done better...
NATO: Past, present, future
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is always in the news, and has remained so for 58 years. NATO refers to the organization, (the institutions and military capacities,) that was created by the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in April 1949 by 12 Occidental...
International politics of climate change: Can climate change represent a threat for international security? How?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
While science and economics dominate the ongoing United Nations climate change program, new reports warn of other serious consequences of global warming. In May 2007, the Democrats in the United States fought for a ruling that would require intelligence agencies to produce a document...
When a Nation Misbehaves A Look as U.S./Iranian Relations
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Political philosophers have been offering different ideologies regarding human nature and the development of governments for thousands of years. Some have claimed that humans are naturally good and compassionate whereas others have argued their selfish and brutish nature. Civilizations have...
Canada and the dilemma of Arctic's sovereignty
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The recent report from the US Geological Survey estimates that potentially 25% of the undiscovered oil and gas resources of the world are located under the Arctic Ocean. As a result of climate change, arctic ice is melting and these resources could become more easily accessible. Subsequently, the...
The History of Abolition: A Global Interplay of Events
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Historical phenomena such as the abolition of slavery cannot be explained by isolating them from the larger global context that created the conditions for their existence. In his chapter titled Whose Abolition? Popular Pressure and the Ending of the British Slave Trade, Seymor Drescher states:...
Conflict in West Africa: The cases of Sierra Leone and Liberia
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Overview After the Cold War the majority of wars in Africa were "societal" while conflict between states was considerably rare. The inter-state wars were further prolonged and worsened by foreign support. Military assistance on part of Western and Socialist countries is one of the common outside...
Globalization and its effect on Western Civilization
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Western Civilization has been shaped by the many people and events that have witnessed its transformation from the dawn of the early modern period in 1500 up to the present day. The present word view has been formed by many events including the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and the...
What are the major influences that increasing European integration has had and is having upon moves towards "regional" government within the United Kingdom?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The United Kingdom has a particular administrative division that is radically different from other European countries, where there are regions or Landers and then other sub regional entities under the state. The United Kingdom is constituted of four nations, like its official name suggests. These...
International political economy
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The interaction of states in the international sphere can either bring progress for both or development for just one player and detriments to the other. This dynamic can come in different permutations, with two, three or more players coming into the picture. Given that states interact in various...
In what circumstances may a state be legally responsible for acts of terrorism conducted by private individuals or organizations?
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
Under international law all sovereign states enjoy certain rights and perform and observe their duties towards other states. With respect to state responsibility, the Permanent Court of International Justice ruled in 1928, in the case of Germany v Poland, that any violation of the rights...
The Geneva Conventions are inadequate to meet the developments in warfare in the post-1945 world. Do you agree?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The world changes and evolves continuously. In such circumstances, few things remain as relevant or as useful as they originally were. The laws and rules that seek to cover the entire world within their jurisdiction, like the Geneva Conventions, tend to become irrelevant faster. However, before...
Current Polish foreign policy towards Poland's eastern neighbour states: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine (October 2004 - February 2005)
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
Poland has always lied at the crossroads of Europe, as suggested by the title of one of Norman Davies' famous history books Heart of Europe. Intermediate between the West and the East; buffer state; ally or enemy of the main European powers, Poland was once a very powerful country whose territory...
Business of war and terrorism
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
Towards Post Cold War conflicts, the English army became the heir of a strong strategic culture. Indeed, the geo-politic and military story of England has been made mainly by maritime army power, in order to avoid any insurrections from other countries. However, in today's absence of any...
Transitions in South East Europe - Case Study : Serbia, Road to Democratization
Essay - 31 pages - International relations
All post-communist countries experienced public dissatisfaction over the economic dislocation of transition to a democratic market economy as well as to the access to pure democratic values. As a result, few anticommunist reformers have won consecutive elections everywhere in Eastern Europe....
What are the relationships between Finland and the Eastern and Central Europe countries after enlargement in 2005?
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
The Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) applied for EU membership in the early 1990s. In 1998, the European Union started the accession negotiations with the first candidate countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, and Estonia. In Helsinki, in December 1999, the European...
The implementation of French culture in Australia
Essay - 17 pages - International relations
The Alliance Française de Sydney is a French-Australian organization, being settled on the Australian ground, it functions in accordance with the Australian regime. While studying an organization, we firstly need to determine what the instruments of the cultural policy in Australia are. Indeed,...
Comparison of arbitration, in France and in Czech Republic and at the international level (2006)
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
Aristotle wrote, "For an arbitrator goes by the equity of a case, a judge by the law, and arbitration was invented with the express purpose of securing full power for equity." Arbitration is a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution, specifically, a legal alternative to litigation whereby the...
Why did communism become established in Eastern Europe after the Second World War? - publié le 04/03/2008
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - International relations
On the 25th of April 1945, shortly before the official end of the Second World War, American and Soviet soldiers meet at the Elbe river. But to reach the Elbe river, the Russian troops had to come all the way across Europe, and so across Eastern Europe. By the end of the same year, seven states...
Rapport de stage: Association V-Glob Volontaire-globalisation (Placement report)
Internship report - 15 pages - International relations
Attracted by humanitarian work since a very long time, I seized the opportunity given to me during my third year of 'applied foreign languages' studies to do a work placement in a non-profit organisation in a third world country. I had been unable to find a placement during term time, as...
During the Cold War, what role did oil play in driving western intervention to the Middle East?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
After the Second World War in 1945, a new world order came up: Western Europe had to recover from the damages the war caused, and the US and the Soviet Union were competing against each other for power in a Cold War period. During this era, lasting up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in...
Humanitarian intervention is merely a pretext for states national interests
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
After the Second World War in 1945, the notion of ‘crime against humanity' emerged to condemn the killing of the Jews by the Nazis. In reaction to this shock, several countries stood in favour of conveying a new way of thinking about international relations, and tried to set up a new kind of...
The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the subject of numerous debates. The complexity of their development over centuries has led historians to consider events as early as the biblical enmity between Abraham's two sons, Isaac and Ishmael to be an appropriate starting point....
President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima: Was there a realistic alternative to this course of action?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States dropped, on the city of Hiroshima, the first of the only two nuclear bombs ever employed against human population, killing more than 115.000 people - probably as many as 250.000 according to the highest estimates - and injuring at least another...
Why are ASEAN institutions weak and informal? Is this likely to change? - publié le 17/02/2008
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is generally viewed as the most successful inter-governmental organization in the developing world. This association has grown over the year to include all the countries in Southeast Asia, except the newly independent East Timor. Today, the ASEAN...
How does the "English School" of international relations differ from American approaches?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
According to Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time, "a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model which contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the...
The case of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - International relations
Refugee situations across the world have been characterized by three different outcomes: return to the country of origin, assimilation in the host country or resettlement into a third country. All of the above have proven unrealistic options for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. This less than...
The nature of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: Distinguishing Myth from Reality
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - International relations
Historical narratives are often times fragile and subject to “mythification”. Especially vulnerable are the ones in which interests between two groups collide, violent disputes are common and the nature of the conflict is highly complex and distinctively unique. In those cases various...
