The "Civilising Mission" was the most detrimental aspect of French colonial policy in the Middle-East
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
After the First World War, France became one of the main colonising powers in the Middle East, along with Britain. In the study of colonial policies, there is general consensus among historians that while Britain had more economic and strategic interests in the region, the French were more...
Does Realism still provide a convincing analysis of international relationships ? - published: 28/01/2005
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Realism arose as a theory after World War II because of the perceived failure of a world guided by Liberal Internationalist principles. The tension fraught era of the Cold War were ideal conditions for the stark, suspicious pragmaticism espoused by the likes of E.H. Carr and Hans J. Morgenthau....
Western Countries versus Themselves, The division of the Occidental World
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Spring 2003 evokes in everyone's mind the occidental division on the Iraqi issue between Russia, Europe and the United-States. It has paralysed the United Nations, founded in San Francisco (the 26th June 1945) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, founded in Washington in 1949....
What is human security? - published: 19/10/2004
Worksheets - 6 pages - International relations
The end of Cold War brought new global challenges to the security field. The arousal of new forms of conflict, such as internal wars and terrorism made it important to rethink civilian protection as the centre of this new perspective of security. Threats to security are no longer restricted to...
What is human security?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
The end of Cold War brought new global challenges to the security field. The arousal of new forms of conflict, such as internal wars and terrorism made it important to rethink civilian protection as the centre of this new perspective of security. Threats to security are no longer restricted to...
The State, War, and the State of War by Kalevi J. Holsti (1996)
Book review - 7 pages - International relations
The State, War and the State of War has been published in 1996. Its author, Kalevi J. Holsti is a professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. This book is based on his previous study: Peace and War: armed conflicts and International Order 1648-1989. The work was...
The Power of the Big Three
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
"Big Three? is a word that came into being in February 2004 as the French President Mr. Chirac, the British Prime Minister Mr. Blair and the German Chancellor Mr. Schröder met in Berlin. The alliance between Germany France and the UK may seem obvious to a reader. However these countries have...
Terrorism and internalisation of conflicts : how to explain the rise of terrorism ?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Terrorism can be divided in several types among which two have always prevailed: state terrorism and dissident terrorism. The first one also called as ?terror from above' or ?state-sponsored terrorism' is the political violence used by the state. It is the most organized and potentially...
ETA and the role of the Spanish government in the war on terrorism
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
Basque nationalists claim that there has always been Basque speaking people (speaking Euskera- the name of the Basque language) in the territory that extends from Bordeaux in the north to Zaragoza and Burgos in the South and to Santander in the West. Such claims are not believed to be true by...
Can the war on terrorism justify an Empire politics?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism - The terrorist attacks of Sept 11 were acts of war against the USA and its allies, and against the very idea of civilized society. No cause justifies terrorism. The world must respond and fight this evil that is intent on threatening and destroying our...
"The postnational constellation" by J. Habermas
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Throughout his works J. Habermas has articulated a universalist vision of political life, studying the possibilities of a renewal of democracy in a globalized political environment. With The Postnational Constellation, Habermas focused on the moral and ethical dilemmas of the global...
"The postnational constellation" by J. Habermas - published: 23/04/2004
Thesis - 7 pages - International relations
“The image of a post national constellation gives rise to alamrist feelings of enlightened helplessness widely observed in the political arena today” . Indeed, the ideal of cosmopolitanism is generating new controversy today with the challenges of globalization. In The Post national...
Manifest Destiny & American Foreign Policy
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
The whole idea of manifesting destingy started in Europe because people were depressed and had no freedom. One reason to go to the New World was that there weren't any restrictions and they could practice there own religious freedom. "The first act of the freemen was to gather, perhaps in...
To what extent Russia's foreign policy differs from the Soviet Union's ?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
That's why Russia had to define a new foreign policy, since its national identity, its national interests and its domestic politics on which foreign policy is based had been modified. The main visible change is a normalisation of relations with the other countries which comes from the idea...
The Non-Governmental Organisations
Worksheets - 9 pages - International relations
The development of new technologies and the intensification of countries' outlook towards globalization has motivated a lot of developed countries to increase their standard of living, improve their status in the worlds market economy and their overall position in the world. However, not all...
War crimes in the Vietnam war
Essay - 57 pages - International relations
The Vietnamese people call the Vietnam war the "American War" because it was preceded by a war against the French. The Vietnam War has had tremendous consequences for both the United States and Vietnam. Today, the consequences of the Vietnam war are particularly visible in Vietnam's...
Asia - Europe relations
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Asia is a huge continent housing more than 60% of the world's total population, and which stretches physically from Afghanistan to Japan. Morevoer, the scale, cultural diversity, economic disparities and political divisions of Asia are clearly indomitable. In conceiving its relations with...
Do we need a feminist contribution to International Relations?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The open debates in International Relations (IR) in the late 1980s paved the way for feminist contributions to the discipline where it had previously received scant attention. The ten years that followed have seen a substantial amount of literature on gender and the discipline of international...
Israel / Palestine : Ongoing Conflict And Elusive Peace
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Since 1948 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has occupied a central place in the field of political conflicts. It can therefore be defined as an uncompromising conflict, and so it is a conflict which shows a relationship of rivalry between two regions punctuated with large scale violence. Such...
State-Building in Afghanistan
Essay - 15 pages - International relations
After what some historians have called the "imperial peace of the Cold War?, there has been an explosion of "failed states? in the Third World. A "failed state? is a country where the national political authority is unable to fulfill its basic responsibilities, such as providing its citizens...
Whose interest is the National Interest ?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The national interest is a term frequently used in politics and international relations, usually in speeches by politicians who are referring to their state's foreign policies. However, the literature of international relations provides an incredible array of definitions and interpretations...
What are the options of the Russian foreign policy, a decade after the collapse of the USSR ?
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
Since the break-up of the Soviet Union ten years ago, Russia has been in a state of confusion about its relations with the outside world, unsure of what direction to face in foreign affairs. Following fifty years of making global headlines with every single foreign policy move, Russia has...
What have been the main driving forces of the US foreign policy in the Middle East ?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Thanks to a sizeable diplomatic work, the US has gradually become the major foreign power in the Middle East. But, without any former influence in the area, what can have been the main driving forces of the US policy towards the Middle East ? This question obviously implies to know precisely what...
What are the benefits and limitations of an « ever closer union » as found in the European Union ?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The forthcoming enlargement of the European Union put on the agenda questions about its future and its actual situation in the “ever closer union”. Indeed what can we say today about this process? Is it a success or a failure ? Can the European Union still be closer, or has it reached...
The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's Security Adviser between 1977 and 1981, is currently a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a Professor at Johns Hopkins University and used to teach at Harvard and Columbia. ‘The Grand Chessboard - American...
Economic and commercial consideration in the American foreign policy
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The American imperialism began about 100 years ago, in 1890, with the end of the Frontier, an imaginary line that separated civilization from wilderness and that was constantly moving towards west. The Second World War, the rise of new markets, development of new technologies stimulated the US...
Dimensions of culture
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Geert Hofestede defines culture as "the collective programming which distinguishes the members of a group and who differentiate them from the others?. According to Hofstede, there are four criteria which determine culture and they are power distance, individualism/collectivism,...
Was the Gulf war a just war?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Just two days after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991, Saddam Hussain became a new threat to the world order. Saddam Hussain, who had deliberately violated the international rules by aggressing Kuwait, one of his Arab neighbours as a result of which the war against Iraq became inevitable. Ten...
Jihad Vs. McWorld by Benjamin Barber. Two opposite tendencies that threaten democracy
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Benjamin R. Barber is a professor of political science and director of the Whitman Center at Rutgers University. His popular books are Strong Democracy (1984), An aristocracy of Everyone (1992), and Jihad Vs. McWorld (Times Books, 1995). Jihad Vs. McWorld, his last book was published in the...
Does the notion of 'Rogue states' make sense?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
According to George Bush's declaration in his state of the union speech to Congress on January 29th, an axis of evil threatens the peace of the world reminds us of Reagan's description of the USSR as an evil empire. In this speech, he clearly pointed a finger directly at three countries...
