Water Politics - case study on the South-Eastern Anatolian project and its consequences
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
The GAP, Güneydogu Anadolu Projesi, is a multi sector-related and integrated regional development, based on the concept of sustainable development. It was launched in 1977 to enable the economic take off in Anatolia, one of the poorest regions of Turkey. It's one of the largest dam projects...
United States - Europe relationship
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Three days ago, President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Barack Obama met in Washington to address economic issues and the European role in the sanctions against Iran. This meeting has been the main news in the European media, the American media barely spoke about it. This difference of views is...
The Darfur crisis - the causes of the civil war
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The Darfur war does not seem to be an interesting topic for the media. Indeed, after a short period during which the world seemed to finally decide to act, the Darfur situation was once again forgotten. On August 2009, Rodolphe Adada and Luther Agwai, heads of the UNAMID, affirmed that the war...
Theories of International Relations
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
It is commonly perceived in the public opinion that the Moroccan foreign policy since the Cold War has been largely western-oriented; in fact, more specifically, the Moroccan foreign policy is said to be developed in compliance with the will of the United States of which Morocco is extremely...
Captains of the clouds
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The job of a fighter pilot has always made people dream and is always presented as a perfect job. We all know how intelligent and strong are the fighter pilots but we never talk about the drawbacks, we are never shown the other side of this job. The aim of this project is to learn more about the...
The opium war
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
Maritime trade between Europe and China started in the 16th century when the Portuguese conquered an Indian settlement. The Europeans were in seek of Chinese goods such as tea, silk and porcelain but the Chinese limited foreign trade to limit contact with the outside world because for them trade...
International Mediation
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
International negotiation is implicated in all deal making processes but most of the time participants reach only a global agreement without being able to make clear points. Also, the negotiation goes on. Due to the implication of an increasing number of factors in the international context,...
The 1980 Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission Decision
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
"It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. The responsibility is fully my own", stated President Carter after the failure of the rescue mission designed to save the American diplomats taken hostages in Iran, six months ago. By recognizing his full liability in this collapse, Carter...
Hezbollah : Towards Lebanonisation ?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Labelling Hezbollah raises a series of difficulties. Indeed, born as a non-state actor in the early 1980s, the Party of God is now running as a regular political force for the 2009-legislative elections. Furthermore, while the movement is depicted by Western media and politicians as a terrorist...
The Darfur Crisis - structural factors and challenges, resolution methods, long term needs
Essay - 12 pages - International relations
Since February 2003, Sudan's western province of Darfur has been the site of an extremely violent conflict between the province's nomadic Arab tribes, supported by the government in Khartoum, and the native African settled peasant tribes. Fighting among various factions has killed...
Analysis of the creation United States of Africa
Essay - 24 pages - International relations
The United States of Africa is a project that has been raising issues for decades. Indeed, many international actors, activists groups, countries and other companies are concerned about the unity of an African people formed as a strong and powerful continent. It is true that many key topics are...
Transnational organized crime in the Netherlands.
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
This paper is about transnational organized crime in the Netherlands and the ways and means necessary to effectively combat it. Most people, when confronted with the question: "What is organized crime? often think of a mafia-like organization, much like the one portrayed in the Godfather-trilogy....
From the Great Powers to the European Union: assess and discuss the role and impact of the European influence in the Balkans
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
On the 21st of July 1774, the town of Kuchuk Kainarji in Bulgaria was the scene to the signing of the treaty that would end the Russo-Turkish War. From then on, the history of the Balkan peninsula would coincide with the receding of the Ottoman empire and the expansion of European influence....
Control of the 'weapons'
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Arms control designates restrictions to the development, production, proliferation and usage of weapons imposed through diplomacy. The goal of Arms control are reducing the risk of war, or at least reducing the number of casualties if war cannot be avoided, and limiting the costs linked to war...
An essay on Globalization
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
As early as 1967, in his book The Medium is the Massage, Canadian sociologist and philosopher Marshall MacLuhan described the world anchoring itself in a process of exchanges and interdependences melting into networks, as a 'Global Village'. This phrase gave birth to the concept of...
Ghana's future after the oil discoveries - Four scenarios
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Ghana seems to be destined for a bright future. According to the Ministry of Finance of Ghana, poverty fell from 52% of the total population in 1992 to 28.5% in 2006. However, challenges remain. Unfortunately, inequalities sustain and the poorest Ghanaian people do not seem to benefit from...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Economic sanctions: what effectiveness?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Economic sanctions have been an increasingly conspicuous feature of world politics since the end of World War I. This increase owes largely to the decreasing legitimacy of the use of force and the world's growing economic interdependence. With World War I, it became generally recognized that...
