To What Extent Have the United States and Europe Grown Closer or Further Apart After September 11?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
September 11, 2001 appears to be a major turning point in the American management of foreign affairs. Europe, as a major partner and ally, is also impacted by this attack. The objective of our analysis will be to determine the consequences of these. Moreover, the exponential rise in power of...
Analytical Report on a Conflict and Conflict Management: The War of the Sands
Tutorials/exercises - 15 pages - International relations
In 1956, Morocco claimed sovereignty over parts of the Sahara which were under Moroccan influence, “the Greater Morocco”. Interested in Algerian Sahara because of recently discovered resources, France tried to trade these territories against a common organization responsible for...
Rise and Fall of Democratic Expectations in Ukraine
Essay - 21 pages - International relations
L'essai développe les multiples tentatives de démocratisation de l'Ukraine depuis la chute de l'URSS à travers des soulèvements populaires au succès mitigé. Il décrit également les facteurs économiques et géopolitiques qui ont contribué à la sclérose de l'Etat de droit en Ukraine...
Towards a "Europe-puissance" or towards a free trade zone?
Course material - 8 pages - International relations
The development of the European Union, along the line of constant progress towards more integration, which more or less prevailed since 1950, appeared to stop suddenly in May 2005 with the French "No" to the so-called Constitutional Treaty. That problem has been solved, at least for now, with the...
Towards a European Defense?
Course material - 7 pages - International relations
The problem of a European defense system is not new: we remember the Brussels Treaty of 1948, which was a military alliance between GB, France and the Benelux countries, including a common European general staff which was stationed in Fontainebleau, until it was taken over by NATO in 1951, but...
Peace Process in Ireland/Processus de paix en Irlande
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
L'essai relate les différentes étapes du processus de paix en Irlande après la création de l'Armée républicaine irlandaise (IRA), luttant par les armes contre la présence britannique en Irlande. Des troubles causés en Irlande du Nord et en République d'Irlande dans les années 1970 aux...
Rising waters in the pacific islands and state sovereignty
Tutorials/exercises - 19 pages - International relations
Ce devoir expose les enjeux de la montée des eaux dans l'Indo-Pacifique et en particulier pour Tuvalu. Rédigé en anglais. This homework exposes the stakes of rising sea levels in the Indo-Pacific and in particular for Tuvalu. Written in English.
Trade and international relations
Worksheets - 2 pages - International relations
We live on an international scene punctuated by globalization and the intensification of trade. We currently exchange more than we produce: a good is exchanged on average 1.4 times. In this perspective, trade (even if it is basically established between two companies) is a way for countries to...
How has the Belt and Road Initiative played a part in China's cross-regional political and security relations?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 was meant to signal China's interest in building stronger global economic links, but it has been argued that the BRI also serves to improve Beijing's cross-regional diplomacy in other ways, including strengthening the country's security....
How have the USA and its immigrants built each other?
Case study - 2 pages - International relations
I am going to talk about the notion of “Spaces and Exchanges”. But before we start, we shall say that exchange is all about giving and receiving something in return, whereas the space is the place where those exchanges happen. In class, we studied this notion through the lens of...
What were the three main challenges in achieving your objectives in the multilateral negotiation exercise?
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - International relations
Multilateral negotiation occurs usually between three or more parties which debate on several subjects in the aim to reach an agreement which would be acceptable by everybody. As said Saadia Touval in his article titillated "Multilateral Negotiation", multilateral negotiation is most of the time...
Brexit and the implications of the border in the politics of Northern Ireland and the Republic: pushing a unification too quickly or too hard a separation?
Dissertation - 10 pages - International relations
In Northern Ireland, separation has been part of the history of the nation since its conquest of the Normans in 1169, as it paved the way for the later British involvement in Ireland. Today, the thorny issue that threatens the country is Brexit and its implications on the dividing border and...
Globalization and Inequalities: Towards a World Without Poverty: Theories, Institutions, SDG's Policies, Future Perspectives for a Better Society
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
When we talk about globalization, we mainly think about how it has been a driver and shaper of our current society. Despite having increased and revolutionized the economic exchanges, it has largely impacted our cultural and political processes by perturbing them. Globalization appeared and...
What are the impacts of computer sciences on international exchanges?
Essay - 1 pages - International relations
I'm going to deal with the notion of Spaces and Exchanges. To start with, I'd like to define the notion. An exchange is a movement or circulation, which can take several forms: information sharing, cultural, and movements of people. I've chosen to focus particularly on computer...
Are we observing the end of the diplomacy of the state?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
For Fiona McConnel and al. “Geopolitical events as diverse as the uprisings of the ‘Arab Spring', the secession of South Sudan, the formation of the European External Action Service and the WikiLeaks affair foreground the intellectual urgency of issues around international diplomacy...
The Dayton Peace agreement
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
The Dayton Peace agreement, initiated in Dayton, Ohio in November 1995 and signed in Paris a month later, put an end to the worst conflict Europe had known since the Second World War. After three years of diplomatic shortcomings and blocked negotiations, US envoy Richard Hoolbrooke - the...
Operation Serval's strategic considerations and Clausewitz
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
In February 2011, Geoff D. Porter commented on the increased activity of al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), whose 'kidnap and ransom threat' made a growing instability factor in the Saharan region. Establishing multiple groups on the cross-border zone of northern Mali, northern...
Relationships between Serbia and the European Union
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Serbia also officially called the Republic of Serbia is a small sovereign state whose capital city is Belgrade. On June 5 of 2006, the Republic of Serbia was created after the independence of Montenegro which composed a federation (Serbia and Montenegro) since 2003 after the disruption of...
What democracy is and is not, de SCHMITTER et KARL
Book review - 5 pages - International relations
Fiche réalisée dans le cadre d'un exposé pour un cours de Democracy and Democratization of South and East Asia. Il s'agit d'une fiche de lecture de l'essai de Philippe C. SCHMITTER et Terry Lynn KARL "What democracy is and is not" disponible ici :...
Démocratie et Démocratisation en Asie du Sud et de l'Est
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - International relations
Devoir rendu dans le cadre d'un cours de Democracy and Democratization in South and East Asia, répondant au sujet suivant : To what extent and on what conditions might democracy be imposed (hence undemocratically) by a foreign power?
Politique étrangère du Japon
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - International relations
Devoir rendu dans le cadre d'un cours anglophone de Foreign Policy of Japan, discutant les relations entre le Japon et Singapour en termes de buts, de moyens (économiques, politiques, stratégiques) et des politiques menées (ex : JSEPA).
African Conflicts in International Relations - China in Africa : Political or Economic interests ?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
China's involvement in Africa cannot be reduced to only one dimension. It would be an oversimplification to label the Chinese interests on the continent as either political or economic solely: these two aspects often constitute two faces of the same coin. China's increasing engagement in...
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...
