Places and forms of power - How did Africa go from an oppressive regime to a real democracy?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
I'm going to talk about the notion of places and forms of power. ‘Places' could be important buildings that represent a form of power, like the White House for example, the symbol of the American presidency, but it can also be a country which represents a form of power like South Africa...
Biography of Kwame Nkrumah
Worksheets - 2 pages - International relations
Kwame Nkrumah was born on the twenty-first (21st) of September nineteen nine (1909) in Gold Coast (now Ghana) and died the twenty-seven (27) of April nineteen seventy-two (1972) in Bucharest. He comes from a modest background: his father is a goldsmith and his mother is a tradesman. He first...
Worldwide threat assessment of the French Directorate-General for External Security
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
- The year 2018 has been a really eventful year with unexpected changes in terms of international affairs and regional complexity. - The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States has been a game changer, discombobulating the international order as his predecessor left it. -...
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...
The Sunshine Policy (1998-2008) on the Korean peninsula, a critical assessment questioning the dominant western paradigm
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
This article criticizes the dominant Western paradigm vis-à-vis North Korea, which is often critical towards it, while Pyongyang has sometimes been able to compromise. This paper seeks to highlight the reasons why North Korea and South Korea have not achieved reunification despite the...
Governance and organized crime
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Organized crime has over the years developed into a global problem with law enforcement agencies and nongovernmental organizations taking the initiative to stop activities carried out by these organized crime groups. Nongovernmental have also intervened in reducing the involvement of society into...
Geopolitical implications of the Afghan conflict
Case study - 24 pages - International relations
Afghanistan was created in the late nineteenth century. At that time this area was the scene of a struggle between the Russian Empire and the British Empire. This is called the "Great Game". Today's Afghanistan was created to act as a buffer state bringing together multiple ethnicities...
Refugee studies, humanitarian issues in International Politics
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
The concept of humanitarian protection encompasses the various activities that are aimed at achieving full respect for the rights of individuals in accordance with the letter and the spirit of the relevant law bodies. Moreover, the relevant bodies of humanitarian, human rights and refugee law...
Foreign relations of Japan
Case study - 3 pages - International relations
In 2012, the Obama Administration represented by its Secretary of State Hilary Clinton published an ambitious document putting forth the United States' intention to pivot its main foreign policy concerns to the Asia-Pacific region. Traditionally in charge of ensuring security over allies such as...
The Franco-German relationship in the energy transitionThe Franco-German relationship in the energy transition
Essay - 45 pages - International relations
The close relationship between France and Germany on the energy plan began after World War II with the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). It was an international organization which purpose was to unify European countries after the war. Thereby the Franco-German relationship has been the...
Soft Law: Forms of Cooperation in the Arctic- The Barents Regional Council
Case study - 9 pages - International relations
The Arctic area represents one of the best example of regional cooperation between States despite the main issues surrounding that part of the world. However, the Arctic defined as the northernmost ocean covered by ice of the Earth used to be a tension region during the cold war. Indeed, the...
British Policy
Case study - 6 pages - International relations
Mixing Peter Oborne and “Controversial” in the same sentence is simply a pleonasm. If this statement can appear as particularly shocking, the author is used to attack politics or journalists directly and publicly, that's also why he has been nicknamed, sarcasticly, Peter “O'Bore'...
Water: The real perpetrator of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Case study - 17 pages - International relations
The vast majority of literature around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been expressly focused on negotiating a peace treaty that satisfies the nationalistic urges of both parties in the conflict. Many prominent authors have simply designated the “right to exist” as an independent...
Only by the internal, domestic politics of states can one understand how they behave in International Relations
Case study - 3 pages - International relations
Theories in international relations are built in order to understand the international anarchy, according to Grieco. Scholars are interested in analyzing struggles between states, as well military as economic one. So this topic is actually the study of states' behavior in the world, and...
International relations of the United States
Case study - 3 pages - International relations
After WWII, the charter of United Nations prohibited war. But the real order after WWII was a bipolar world with a Cold War between two powers: US and URSS = Legal system vs. reality. At the end of cold war: the world needs a new order. The US becomes the only leader because it is the only...
What has been the impact of Hugo Chavez's election in 1999 on U.S.-Venezuela relations?
Case study - 5 pages - International relations
Throughout the twentieth century and more especially since the end of the Second World War, the United States has successfully established itself as a key actor in the international scene. Since 1945, the United States has frequently proved its ability to change the course of history. Most of the...
Analyze what is meant by either 'international society' or 'international interdependence' and assess how significantly the concept challenges the idea of international anarchy
Case study - 4 pages - International relations
The English school of thought holds two contrasting visions when looking at the international society theory and how it challenges the concept of international anarchy. It was Hedley Bull whom firstly brought these two contrasts to light in 1962, which were the pluralist and the solidarist...
Has globalization made soft power more important than hard power in the conduct of international affairs?
Case study - 4 pages - International relations
As Nye points out in his book ‘Soft Power ‘,Power is the capability to get things done, meaning that it has the ability to gain the outcomes one wants through affecting the behavior of others. In this essay I will explore whether globalization has made the emergence of soft power more...
Is India too poor and does it have too many security problems to become a major player in international relations?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
In the wake of the emergence of China which is gaining more and more influence at the international level; India is willing to take the same pathway in the search for an international status. As a matter of fact India possesses many assets to reach this position. It is the biggest democracy in...
Canadian policy at the crossroads: Protecting Canada's independence in the age of globalization
Case study - 8 pages - International relations
The foreign relations of Canada are by nature, very much centered upon its southern neighbor, the United States. This is true for both trade and foreign policy considerations. In addition, Canadian governments have also had active relations with many other nations. These relationships have...
Building strong civil societies in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism: Poland, Romania, and the importance of pre-existing social roots
Case study - 6 pages - International relations
Throughout Eastern Europe, embryonic civil societies have demonstrated in various ways but with the same result their crucial role in the advent of democracy in the early 1990s : within a few years, Eastern European communist governments were forced to cede power and undertake democratic reforms...
Building strong civil societies in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism: Poland, Romania, and the importance of pre-existing social roots - publié le 21/09/2012
Case study - 6 pages - International relations
Throughout Eastern Europe, embryonic civil societies have demonstrated in various ways but with the same result their crucial role in the advent of democracy in the early 1990s : within a few years, Eastern European communist governments were forced to cede power and undertake democratic reforms...
The incorporation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict within the Arab-Israeli wars
Case study - 8 pages - International relations
From the onset, Arab states surrounding Israel - Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon - were concerned with the emergence of a non-Arab state adjacent to their borders, and it is this preoccupation, more than a genuine sense of solidarity with Palestinians, that explains Arab involvement in what...
International relations analysis: Germany and France during the Euro crisis resolution
Case study - 9 pages - International relations
Germany and France relations during the Euro crisis implied some disagreements. It started when the European Union decided to manage the global economic crisis at the European stage. It decided to especially manage the case of Greece which is the symbol of the beginning of the Euro zone debt...
Impact of economic liberalization on the flow of private foreign investment
Case study - 15 pages - International relations
The impact of Economic liberalization on the flow of private foreign investment can have different impacts on specific regions. One common perspective is that economic liberation on the one hand can be beneficial for the developed countries but on the other hand it can actually harm the domestic...
Foreign governments and the Arab spring: Case study, France
Case study - 15 pages - International relations
While citizens all over the Arab world struggled in order to topple their oppressive regimes, foreign governments remained somewhat skeptical on which side to intervene on. This hesitation can be extracted from both the case of Tunisia and in Egypt in which most foreign governments at the...
How do the World Trade Organisation agreements impact upon the laws and legal systems of the WTO member states?
Case study - 21 pages - International relations
Article XVI § 4 of the Marrakech Agreement has put an end to the “grandfather clause” which, under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), allowed the Member States to invoke a previously existing domestic law to escape their GATT obligations. It provides that: “Each...
Modernization and Globalization in Bangladesh: A Case Study
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Many hailed the 2004 opening of Bashundhara City, a world-class shopping mall located in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka, as yet another indicator of the country's consistently expanding economy. This was the first Western-style mall to open in the country and accordingly it has created quite...
Britain and France in Mandatory Palestine and Lebanon: Power, Division, and the Nation
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
Most scholars of the Middle East agree that many conflicts present in the Middle East today can be attributed to the borders drawn by Western powers during the crucial Mandate period beginning in 1919 and continuing through the outbreak of World War I. The cases of Palestine/Israel and Lebanon...
Emmeline Lott: An Adventure into the Harems of Egypt
Essay - 17 pages - International relations
Throughout the 1800s, European academic was interested in the unfamiliar lands of the Middle East. various Egyptologists and Orientalist scholars brought lengthy descriptions of Eastern culture, history, and customs back to the Western world. The testament of Emmeline Lott, perhaps only an...
