Bosnia and Herzegovina: Research and documentation center Sarajevo
Thesis - 9 pages - International relations
The second half of the twentieth century saw a growing trend toward democratization, or countries moving from repressive regimes to democratic governments. In Europe, this came largely at the end of the Second World War, with the fall of Nazi Germany, and more recently in Eastern Europe, with...
How Modernization Theory Helped to Determine the Kennedy Administration's Colombia Policy
Case study - 7 pages - International relations
The Kennedy administration is known for its involvement in helping development as the creation of the USAID in 1961 indicates. However, this role endorsed by the United States is not exclusive to Kennedy and was already present during Truman's and Eisenhower's mandates. All of these...
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...
What was driving the war on terror?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
"On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country. Americans have known wars. But for the past 136 years, they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941". The terrorist attacks of September 2001 represent a second Pearl Harbor, America is...
Reviewing laws after September 11th
Thesis - 11 pages - International relations
After 9/11 attacks the law making bodies all over the world observed a tremendous alter in their playback, these changes mostly affected the legal documents for those who took down the laws imposed by the legislative bodies. In another way you can say that these changes made the local governments...
Identify and Assess the Core Elements of Liberal Thinking in International Politics
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
At the end of World War I, the world was traumatized and will never be the same as it was before. Indeed, the 'Great War' was the first total war, the first large-scale slaughter. President Woodrow Wilson in his 14 points speech represents his hope for a change in international policy. In...
Partition or Consocialism?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Facing proliferating ethnic conflicts since the end of the Cold War (the most important ones being Rwanda and Yugoslavia)the international community needs to find new and efficient solutions to ensure peace between ethnic groups and give them political power in order to prevent new massacres and...
The Outbreak of an Ethnic - Conflict in Serbia
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Like many other peoples throughout Europe, the Serbs form a community united by a common history and a common culture. Serbs feel specifically united by their historical sufferings, mainly the Ottoman rule until the 19th century and the persecution by the Croatian Usta'e during World War Two....
Where dis "we" go, Thomas L.Friedman
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
Thomas L.Friedman is an author and a journalist who works in the famous news paper the New York Times. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner , is specialized in opec and has served as the chief diplomatic office of the White House, and of international economics. He is thus an important...
How US domestic policy influenced the Cuban missile crisis?
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
It is a well known fact that United States and Soviet Union came close to nuclear war due to the Cuban Missile Crisis. President John Kennedy's diplomatic efforts helped to resolve the crisis in the peaceful manner for which he received international acclaim. President Kennedy's popularity soared...
An analysis of United States foreign policy towards Cuba
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
The United State's initial stance on Cuba was one of tolerance towards the Castro regime in order to provide this government a chance to establish a reasonable relationship with the U.S. While the radical and anti-American background of the Castro family was well documented, such as their...
Constructivism and intervention: The case of Kosovo
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
Constructivism is one of the “newer” theories of International Relations (IR) that attempts to build bridges between the existing theories of IR, most notably neo-realism and neo-liberalism. Constructivism has its roots in the pre-World War II (WWII) Utopian era, which then intermixed...
Foreign Aid, the non-aligned move-ment: how to make aid work
Text commentary - 2 pages - International relations
It seems that ever since foreign aid existed, there have been voices calling for its increase. Nowadays, everyone, from the world leaders of the G81 to the economists, seem to agree on the quite unclear target of doubling aid to Africa. But there are, at the same time growing doubts about aid...
Threats and opportunities for Russia after the establishment of WTO
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
As Russia was the heart of Soviet Union and it used to have economic relations only inside USSR, this isolation from the rest of the world has weakened the economy of Russia and other member countries of USSR. Today Russia is an independent country, but it still does not have many contacts with...
The review of WTO in free trade
Thesis - 4 pages - International relations
Many people would argue that there is no doubt that the GATT/WTO has been relatively successful to an extent in creating global free trade. The figures over their existence have shown a massive movement towards the globalization of markets and thus free trade. Between the introduction of...
A critical evaluation of the World Bank's policy towards developing nations
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
The World Bank was first established during World War II at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The emphasis in the early stages of the World Banks development was during the time of post war rebuilding. The first loan provided by the World Bank was to France in 1947 for $250 million to help it recover...
International Trade Centre: Trade Policy for Human Development?
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
The International Trade Centre (ITC) of the United Nations defines its role as enabling 'small business export success in developing countries by providing, with partners, sustainable and inclusive trade development solutions to the private sector, trade support institutions and...
U.S foreign policy : the changing balance of power faced by Barack Obama
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Barack Obama's election as the President of the United States of America hasn't occurred in an easy period: the country is currently in the midst of a global financial crisis, whilst also being bogged down in an arduous conflict in Iraq. Hence, several challenges are awaiting the...
Todd Purdum - A Time of our choosing
Book review - 3 pages - International relations
?A Time of Our Choosing: America's War in Iraq', written by political correspondent Todd Purdum, was first published in 2003. As it title indicates, it deals with the American military intervention in Iraq, and covers all its aspects such as its causes, its conduct and, eventually, its...
How useful is the Vietnam analogy for understanding the Iraq War?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The Vietnam War, in which the US participated between 1964 and 1973, and the fights in Iraq that have begun in 2003 are two of the greatest conflicts that the American nation had to face in the last half-century. At first sight, they are worlds apart: their nature, the international and domestic...
Mexico and the USA - A recent history framed by the North American Free Trade Agreement : the borderless economy in a "Neo-Monroeist" order ?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represented a turning point in the relationship between Mexico and the USA and was considered likely to resolve key bilateral issues. NAFTA was thus a sort of promising frame to achieve the benefits of interdependence in a globalizing...
Migratory pattern between Mexico and the USA : historical elements and current trends of a migratory couple
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
The United States and Mexico share a common history that includes some dramatic events such as the territorial struggles which often turned into established wars. In 1848 the USA annexed California and other Northern Mexican states. The episode generated important dissensions among the...
Beyond the issue of immigrant organizations : transnationalism as the engine of the immigrants' activities
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
Even though the word 'transnationalism' had been used since the 1970's in some scholars' research, the concept actually emerged during the 1980's. It has been quickly assimilated and appropriated by many disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, political sciences and other...
The pregnancy of the organized crime: "narcos" as a constitutive element of the Mexican society or Mexico as a "Narco-State"?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
In a historical perspective, Mexico has always represented a major supply route between the continent's major consumer of drugs (the US) and the principal suppliers (Colombia, Peru and Bolivia). The National Drug Intelligence Center considers Mexican drug cartels as dominating the illicit...
Mexico and the USA : the Immigration issue
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
In the 19th century, the approach of the United States to immigration control can be characterized as "laissez-faire" with almost no governmental interference in flows that were almost only labor flows. The issue of migration was already in the hands on United States through the role of its...
Ethnic conflicts : the example of Cyprus
Worksheets - 1 pages - International relations
Since the 1st of May 2004, Cyprus joined the European Union. This State represents one of the oldest civilizations of Europe and had less economic problems than the others eastern and central countries of the Union. The first aim of this entry was to reduce the division between the two parts of...
Theory of International Cooperation: Possibility, reasons and conditions of International Cooperation - publié le 29/10/2009
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The two main theories have very different views on cooperation. The first, and the dominant theory of neorealism, is that cooperation is not likely to occur, while on the other hand, neoliberalism focuses on the possibility for cooperation to take place. According to neorealism,...
Hinnesbush & Ehteshami - The foreign policy of Middle Eastern States, Iran and Turkey
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
Iran's decision to capture British soldiers may endanger its economic and political links with the European Union and discourage the foreign investments the country needs for the modernization of its economy. Iran's attempt to get the nuclear weapon combined with its declaration about...
Stephen Martin Walt ? The ties that fray. Why Europe and America are drifting apart
Book review - 1 pages - International relations
This text has been written by Stephen Martin Walt, a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of government. According to him the security community between the United States and Europe comes to an end, in spite of the misleading good health of the...
European security : The role of the OSCE in the Transnistrian conflict in the Copenhagen school perspective
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Along with entities such as Abkhazie or South Ossetia, Transnistria is one the non internationally-recognized states of Europe. Transnistria is widely seen as a hub for a spectrum of illegal activities and as a matter of concern in term of security for many countries. Before going any further, it...
