Domestic Politics and American Foreign Policy: American & European political culture, an unsolvable misunderstanding?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The end of the cold war with the collapse of the Soviet Union enabled the emergence of the United States as a hegemonic power. At this time Realist Theories in International Relations predicted that a counterbalancing coalition should soon be organized. The European Union appeared as the most...
European cultural identities: The agents of European consciousness and how successful have they been in engendering such consciousness
Essay - 4 pages - European union
‘Being in Europe' and ‘Being a European' are two different things. It is fair to say that over the years a common space has been created in the economic, legal, and to a certain extent in political spheres. However, when we come to other realities (language, culture, religion, memories,...
The economic, territorial, and cultural impact of the European Union on the Danish identity
Worksheets - 7 pages - European union
Created by the treaty of Rome in 1957, the European Union now has 25 member states. Over the years and decades, it has developed a wide range of policies with an emphasis on economic measures. The member states have had to adapt themselves to this new system of governance and to the presence of...
Comparison between the ports of Antwerp, Le Havre and Rotterdam
Presentation - 46 pages - Economy general
Le Havre harbor is simple in meaning and it represents a harbor. Le Havre Harbor occupies a predominant position in the European terrain. In fact, Le Havre is believed to be ?The European Door'. A door through which trade is facilitated globally. Le Havre is articulated by complex and varied...
Is multilateralism still viable today ?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
After WWII, various multilateral organizations have been promoted by the US and implemented through many international organizations such as the UN, the GATT and the IMF. Overtime, multilateral co-operation dramatically developed in different forms (Summits, Conferences, etc...). However, critics...
Is multilateralism still viable today? - published: 22/08/2005
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
After WWII, various multilateral organizations have been promoted by the US and implemented through many international organizations such as the UN, the GATT and the IMF. Overtime, multilateral co-operation dramatically developed in different forms (Summits, Conferences, etc...). However, critics...
Comparison between the US and Japanese banking systems
Dissertation - 11 pages - Economy general
The Japanese and the Americans have different perceptions of time. This difference exists as part of their culture and the values they advocate. The cultural, political and historical background consequently leads to two different banking forms: the bank-based and the market-based systems. Until...
A research proposal for the Masters Thesis; Environment and Trade in the Word Trade Organisation
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
The global environmental issues include climate change, ozone depletion, marine dumping, deforestation, and biodiversity. However the objective of my thesis is not to provide a detailed scientific treatment of the nature of the major environmental challenges facing the world, but rather to...
Environmental Regulation and its Effect on Competition
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
The following text provides a brief discussion of the development of new technologies and how they affect the environment. After explaining the effects, the focus shifts to response mechanisms, which the society has created, to limit the impact of innovations on environmental factors. These...
National systems of innovation: comparison of France and USA
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
We are going to see through this essay several point of comparison in national system of innovation between France and USA. We will focus on several points in order to explain the differences between both countries. We will talk about the role of the system of education, then the government...
What are the major problems inherent in the Common Agricultural Policy? Assess the extent to which the 2003 reforms have dealt with these problems.
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
The Common Agricultural Policy was, together with competition policy, the great early success story of the EU. It is perhaps the aspect of European integration which has most impressed itself on public consciousness. Indeed, the “CAP is one of the most pervasive of all EU policies, one of...
The Sustainable Development Policy within the European Union
Dissertation - 27 pages - Economy general
In this dissertation, we are going to focus especially on political aspects of the given concept, especially within the EU. The ways and means by which this theory can be turned into a reality is one of the themes of this dissertation. It also evaluates the ambiguities inherent in the concept and...
The Networks of the Renewable Energy Policies in the United States, Belgium, and France.
Essay - 28 pages - Ecology & environment
At the end of September 2004, the Russian government announced its ratification to the Kyoto protocol. This event gave the question of renewable energies a new breath. The goal of this work will be to compare the networks of decision in the three home countries of the members of the group, and to...
Define and analyse the principal amendments proposed by the new constitution for the EU
Essay - 5 pages - European union
The new Constitution has raised several debates across EU Member States. On the one hand, concerning institutional aspects of the Constitution, smallest countries feared that amendments support big countries such as France, Germany or United Kingdom. On the other hand, other countries feared that...
Europe versus America
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
There exists a wide gap between European and American economies. The GDP, GDP per capita as well as productivity levels are much higher in the US than in Europe. These figures show the extent of American dynamism which cannot be denied. And after the 9/11 events, many felt that the American...
In order to promote the wealth of nations, what should be the relationship between the visible hand of the state and the invisible hand of the market?
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
The decline of social democracy in Europe during the last decade is one of the examples which seem to show that there is no other global alternative for a state regulation under the market in the globalisation context. The predominance of the market in a political economy is not recent. Adam...
Should Britain join the European Single Currency?
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
The history of Britain's integration into the European Union has always been very complex. Its first attempt to join was vetoed in 1963. Britain joined finally in 1973 with the departure of the French president Charles De Gaulle who was opposed to the presence of an Anglo-Saxon "Trojan horse"...
The European Monetary Union. Why and how it has happened?
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
The idea of creating a huge integrated area in Europe, known as the European Economic Community, was born in 1954. Almost half a century later, the European Monetary Union became the most well-known example of financial and monetary integration in the world. According to Bela Belassa, a Hungarian...
Does citizenship demand or threaten rights ?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
All human beings are born with rights, and the chief function of the government is to secure those rights. The rights of the individuals come first, before their corresponding duties. The proponents of the concept of active citizenship claim, however, that citizenship essentially demands...
Why has CAP reform proved so difficult to agree and implement ?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
The CAP was created in the hope of modernizing and controlling the market and sector of agriculture. It was in fact the first policy developed at the European level and it rapidly became a symbol for the European integration. Nevertheless, the desire of reforming was still alive...
"America's Europe". Discuss with reference to the origins of european integration
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The American dimension to European integration has stirred up great debate, conventionally crystallized in the ‘traditionalist/revisionist' dichotomy. A central concern in any study of the origins of European integration consists in determining how far the development of intense patterns...
Discuss the claim that imperialism is an enduring feature of international relations
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The very concept of imperialism is dynamic, fluid, and the complexity of the notion of imperialism allows for the possibility to give multiple definitions, various accounts for it. This essay will examine major aspects and theories accounting for imperialism and the remnants of the phenomenon in...
To what extent does membership of international organisations constraint national foreign policy decision-makers?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The claim that profound structural transformations in the external environment are undermining the principle of state sovereignty has been advanced by many foreign policy analysts from quite different theoretical traditions, and the specific instance of the constraint of membership of...
The Search for Russian National Identity and Coherent Foreign Policy: Development and Change in Foreign Relations under Yeltsin and Putin
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Traditionally, Russia has been a geographical concept. Its external borders have defined its identity and the strengthes or weaknesses of its leaders and internal organization have determined its external borders. Even its geography is subordinate to the ability of its leaders to secure it...
Why Africa can not reach sustained development. What kind of Future for Africa.
Essay - 16 pages - Economy general
Africa, a continent endowed with immense natural and human resources as well as great cultural, ecological and economic diversity, remains underdeveloped for many years. Almost all the African nations suffered (and still suffer) from military dictatorships, corruption, civil unrest and war,...
To what extent is the clausewitzian account of war a political instrument relevant in the twenty-first century ?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Clausewitz's description of war as a means to an end or, to use his own formulation, “the continuation of politics by other means”, must be interpreted against the contemporary intellectual background: the majority of enlightenment writers had regarded war as an aberration, an...
Does Realism still provide a convincing analysis of international relationships ?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Realism arose as a theory after World War II because of the perceived failure of a world guided by Liberal Internationalist principles. The tension fraught era of the Cold War were ideal conditions for the stark, suspicious pragmaticism espoused by the likes of E.H. Carr and Hans J. Morgenthau....
What kind of entity is the European Union ?
Essay - 5 pages - European union
In order to define the characteristics of the EU as an entity, it is essential to determine the sources of its creation. The immediate origins of European unification lie in the economic and political problems confronting European countries, notably France and Germany, in the immediate aftermath...
The "Civilising Mission" was the most detrimental aspect of French colonial policy in the Middle-East
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
After the First World War, France became one of the main colonising powers in the Middle East, along with Britain. In the study of colonial policies, there is general consensus among historians that while Britain had more economic and strategic interests in the region, the French were more...
To what extent is the clausewitzian account of war a political instrument relevant in the twenty-first century ? - published: 28/01/2005
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
Clausewitz's description of war as a means to an end or, to use his own formulation, “the continuation of politics by other means”, must be interpreted against the contemporary intellectual background: the majority of enlightenment writers had regarded war as an aberration, an...
