Importance of GATT and WTO for international trade - publié le 07/05/2009
Dissertation - 5 pages - International relations
The World Trade Organization (WTO) h?s become the organization of excellence for dealing with international trade. The transformation of the Gener?l ?greement on T?riffs ?nd Tr?de (G?TT) to WTO w?s ? n?tur?l phenomenon th?t led to ch?nges in the intern?tion?l economic scene. The WTO is, without...
Communist systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - publié le 07/05/2009
Dissertation - 2 pages - International relations
During the XXth century, the communist system, an alternative political system to capitalism, emerged in Russia after the October Revolution. The features of this system are the important ideologies, the role of the communist party, the central planned economy and also the terror that took place...
Cuban immigration in the United States - publié le 07/05/2009
Dissertation - 3 pages - International relations
The United States of America has always been an immigration Land. 301 Million Whites, Blacks, Latinos and Asians, subdivided in different ethnic groups are living together. Because of the all-known complicated relationship between Cuba and America, one of the most interesting immigration is the...
Border control for the US: "Legitimate threat"
Dissertation - 10 pages - International relations
The attacks on September 11, 2001 forced a change in the national security policy of the United States. Eight years later, debate still surrounds the issue on how best to defend against terrorism. The question of how large of a national security threat do current border policies pose to the...
Walls in the world
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
While the on-going process of Globalization refers to an increased mobility of goods, capital, technology, as well as the spread of ideas and values, walls divide neighbors all around the world. Some of them were built a long time ago, but still exist (like the Peace lines in Ireland or the DMZ...
Responses to World War I in European culture: "A very long engagement"
Dissertation - 7 pages - International relations
War and love could be said to be polar opposites. However, in the film “A Very Long Engagement (2004) by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the two intertwine, as the main character, Mathilde, a young woman with polio, begins a search for her lost love, a French soldier who was sent into...
Old and new wars
Text analysis - 2 pages - International relations
This study is based on the article written by Paul Richards in 2005: New War: An Ethnographic Approach. What was really important in this article, according to me, was to discover a new way to look at and to study wars. In this study, I will try to sum up what I've found in the article by...
Narratives of nation and division - Post colonial theory and the partition of India
Dissertation - 9 pages - International relations
This paper will explore the partition of India into India and Pakistan at the end of the era of British colonialism as a narrative story of the imaginary. (Bhabha, 1992). In order to discuss the rift between the two nations, which can be understood as exacerbated communal and ethnic tensions...
Success in developmental states of Taiwan and Korea after Japanese colonization
Dissertation - 6 pages - International relations
As Taiwan and Korea, both being former colonies of Japan, began to develop over time, their growth exemplified the characteristics of what we term “developmental states”. These two particular states have exhibited rapid, sustained, export-led growth over a long period of time, with...
Critically assess the major conceptual ideas of Liberals about international relations
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
In the study of international relations, two main theories have been historically opposed, leading to what today is referred to as the Neo-Neo debate. In fact, realism and liberalism, while sharing common assumptions, have a very different analytical perception of the international system and the...
Identify and evaluate the reasons for the long term success of Realism as an approach to international relations
Study guide - 1 pages - International relations
In order to answer this question, it is necessary to first expose the core assumptions of Realism and Neo-realism. The main idea of classical realism is that the international system is anarchic, and therefore no higher controlling entity above states can exist to control them. In fact, states...
Are Michael Mann Incoherent Empire's arguments still relevant four years later?
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
Michael Mann's Incoherent Empire is a revealing text which manages to address bold political accusations and provide concurrent evidence. His critique of the American empire is timely and arguably more pertinent today than it was when written, after various imperial failures have helped...
Oil in the Niger delta: geology and geopolitics
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
Niger Delta is extremely rich in terms of oil resources. Large progradation has lead to deposition of sand reservoirs and the sediment influx has lead to formation of growth faults and abundant traps. The heavy sedimentation has caused rapid subsidence and has allowed deep shales to enter the oil...
Rapprochement and Co-operation between China and the United States
Dissertation - 7 pages - International relations
The establishment of relations between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China (China) was in every sense a watershed in the history of foreign policy, and permanently altered the international system. U. S. President Richard M. Nixon's trip to China in February 1972 was...
Report on "Blood Diamonds"
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Firstly, the main subject of this report will be based in the conflicting diamonds from the African countries. Indeed, this conflict had resulted in Civil Wars in many African countries like the Civil War in Sierra Leone or Angola. This problem has increased since the ninety's and still...
Is globalization good or bad?
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
I have chosen to focus my work on the subject of Globalization in order to understand this notion better and increase my knowledge in this domain. It is very important for me to understand it well because I want work in the field of marketing and event management. According to the university of...
Essay on the US foreign policy : What are the objectives in the global war on terror and are they liable to be met?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
In 2001, on the 11th of September, Georges W. Bush had won a controversial presidential election and was officially president of the United States since January. As explained by Dean Baker, the former governor of Texas, elected with less popular votes than his opponent was still implementing his...
How Korea impacted American foreign policy throughout the second half of the twentieth century
Dissertation - 9 pages - International relations
“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear ” proclaimed General Douglas MacArthur on May 15, 1951 in a...
Occidental intelligences facing Middle East's quest for nuclear weapons: the case of Israel Vs. the case of Iran
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
The nuclear bomb is much more than a common weapon, it can determine the balance of the powers, and it is a crucial point for understanding the international strategic relations. The nuclear bomb represents the possibility for a country to be wiped off the map. Between 1950 and 1990, it became...
The effectiveness of the UN as a multilateral institution
Dissertation - 6 pages - International relations
The concept of globalization continues to be a hot issue in the arena of political discourse. Globalism, or interdependence, has been, and continues to be a critical force in world politics that affects nearly every aspect of global economic, political, diplomatic and military behaviour. It...
India's China Policy: Should China regard India as a competitor or a partner?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The question of Indo-Chinese relationship is very complex. Even though they developed cooperation and friendship at the end of the colonial era, China had clashed with India right after the independence of India in 1947 and the creation of the PRC in 1949. The first proof of the tensions existing...
Military force is a blunt and ineffectual instrument of power in the international system: do you agree?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Since its presupposed apparition with the Thucydide's narration of the Peloponnesian war, the study of International Relations has, focused on the military force. It is an element omnipresent in the international system since the apparition of the Westphalian order, and even before the...
The "Kurdish Problem" in Turkey
Dissertation - 5 pages - International relations
The “Kurdish issue” is Turkey's most difficult and painful problem, one that presents a vast moral dilemma for the country. The issue feeds Turkey's continuing inflation and is the major source of human rights violations and the biggest irritant in Turkey's relations with the European...
The Taliban in Pakistan: Before and after 9/11
Dissertation - 6 pages - International relations
It is safe to say that in the years leading up to the September 11 attacks, the United States had little to no working relationship with Pakistan, especially when it came to stopping the Taliban. In fact, the United States contributed to the creation and rise of the Taliban: according to Prime...
To what extent does realism naturalize war? - publié le 02/03/2009
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
In 1991 a US-led coalition launched, with the agreement of UN, a wide military operation against the rogue regime of Saddam Hussein that had attempted to invade Kuwait in order to take over its staggering oil resources. George Herbert Bush, at the head of the coalition that was to rescue Kuwait,...
Has the 'war on terror' influenced Latin America and its relationship with the U.S.? What are the implications of this process for the region?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
War on Terror was launched by the George Bush administration in respond to the attacks on September 11, 2001 on the US soil. The official term used by the US military, Global war on Terrorism refers to the various military, political, and legal action taken to curb the spread of terrorism. So, to...
Why does a solution to the conflict in Darfur seem so intractable?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
In September 2004, one year after the beginning of the civil war in Sudan, Colin Powell said it was ''genocide''. Since the beginning of the war, many associations were created in order to 'Save Darfur'. Darfur has recently been one of the most publicized wars in Africa, however, the...
Does culture need to be protected from the effects of globalization? An essay with the French example
Essay - 36 pages - International relations
Today the word « Globalization » is on everybody's lips. From the company who goes abroad because of cheaper costs to the “junky food” that we like to eat, Globalization seems to be the perfect scapegoat for every international phenomenon. Globalization seems to be THE trendy word that...
Guantanamo: consequences of a juridical black hole
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Guantanamo: the consonance sounds sweet, but the word rimes with a much darker reality. Here is one of the burning issues Obama will have to tackle quickly in order to keep his current aura alive. Located in the South East Cuba, the Guantanamo detention camp is a perpetually polemic subject,...
The relationship between Quebec and the US
Study guide - 3 pages - International relations
The question of the relationship between Quebec and the US is very interesting and must be studied because it helps understand the major part of the contemporary stakes in Quebec. The question of the relationship with the US goes hand in hand with the relations of Quebec with Canada and France,...
