US Foreign Policy: Multilateralism vs. Unilateralism
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
In the course of international relations, the United States, as usual, faces a challenge that consists of two choices in strategy dictating methods of dealing with international problems. A feature of multilateralism, not a unilateral one, is international cooperation and participation...
« The Weapon of the Weak » for a superpower. Multilateralism and the United States Foreign Policy
Essay - 8 pages - Economic politics
One reads a lot, especially in Europe, about American hegemony, unilateralism and even imperialism. For a lot of observers, that the current United States administration is pursuing an unilateralist foreign policy is obvious. On issues ranging from the Iraqi war to global warming to the...
UN Security Council Resolution 1559 and US multilateralism - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The United Nations Security Council Resolution of 1559 was adopted by the Security Council on September 2, 2004 by a vote of 9 in favor (Angola, Benin, Chile, France, Germany, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States), to none against, with 6 abstentions (Algeria, Brazil, China, Pakistan,...
UN Security Council Resolution 1559 and US multilateralism
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The United Nations Security Council Resolution of 1559 was adopted by the Security Council on September 2, 2004 by a vote of 9 in favor (Angola, Benin, Chile, France, Germany, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States), to none against, with 6 abstentions (Algeria, Brazil, China, Pakistan,...
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...
The United States and the World: A New World Order?
Course material - 7 pages - Political science
We remember George Bush's optimism in 1990: he had announced "A New World Order", resting on the promotion of liberal democracy and free enterprise everywhere, resting on the UN (at last again effective due to the end of the Cold War) and on American benevolent hegemony. One could have the...
The United States and the World: The US and the Cold War (1945-1980)
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
The goal of this document is to stress the main thrust of American strategy in the Cold War in order to understand the legacy of the Cold War on American foreign policy today. The main structures of US foreign policy and foreign policy establishment and instruments, still in place today, were...
The development and failure of the European system (1815-1945)
Course material - 7 pages - Modern history
There was a European system before the current European Union. Its roots went back to the 17th century and the Westphalian peace of 1648. It reached its maturity during the 19th century, after the Vienna Congress, and under the impression of 25 years of revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It was...
The United States and the World: The Sources and Tools of American Foreign Policy
Course material - 8 pages - Modern history
There is undoubtedly an American exceptionalism: the US considers itself since the 18th century to be different from Europe. It has seen itself from the beginning as a universal model: the “American way of life” (linking most strongly liberal democracy and free enterprise, two notions...
Presentation - "Of Paradise and Power", Robert Kagan
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
In his book, Kagan presents a very interesting point of view. He shows that, whether Europeans or Americans want to accept it or not, everybody has to recognize objectively, that American and European interests are sharply diverging today and that the transatlantic relationship has changed after...
The Iraq war: an International Relations Theory Analysis - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 16 pages - Political science
On the nineteenth of March 2003 America and its allies started their invasion of Iraq. This intervention had the official goal of the struggle against a terrorism-friendly country, to avoid the expansion of mass destruction weapons and establish a democratic breakthrough in the Middle East. This...
How valid were Third World criticisms of international economy between 1945 and 1991?
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
With the end of the Second World War in 1945 came the reconstruction and development of the global economy via such pillars of multilateralism as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At this point I must specify...
How do French companies use trade agreements to export internationally?
Dissertation - 21 pages - International economy
Since 1950, trade has exploded. On trend, trade is growing much faster than GDP. An ever-increasing share of the world's production is therefore destined for international trade. In general, the growth rate of international trade flows in goods and services is higher than the growth rate of...
Ending Cold War legacies and facing new threats together: Is there a foreseeable future for Russia within NATO?
Case study - 4 pages - International relations
In the light of recent developments and Russia's Foreign Policy turn of the past decade, this study will try to weigh out the country's position toward the West, and more specifically toward the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Will the future confirm what some observers interpreted as...
The Iraq war: an International Relations Theory Analysis
Case study - 16 pages - Political science
On the nineteenth of March 2003 America and its allies started their invasion of Iraq. This intervention had the official goal of the struggle against a terrorism-friendly country, to avoid the expansion of mass destruction weapons and establish a democratic breakthrough in the Middle East. This...
International Law and Organization: Weighing the Democracy Deficit - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The history of the relationship between the United States and international law and organization has always been a love-hate one. While historically the U.S. has unquestionably been one of the strongest proponents of the development of international organizations such as the United Nations...
The Regionalization of World's Economy (An analysis)
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
The establishment of areas of integration in world trade: The establishment of large regional areas reveals two trends. Within NAFTA, regionalization has led to an intensification of trade within the zone, while in the EU, trade stagnated. Regionalization does not imply a strong increase in...
International Law and Organization: Weighing the Democracy Deficit
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The history of the relationship between the United States and international law and organization has always been a love-hate one. While historically the U.S. has unquestionably been one of the strongest proponents of the development of international organizations such as the United Nations...
The effectiveness of the UN as a multilateral institution
Thesis - 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...
State Sovereignty - Has the Role of the State Under Global Governance, Increased, Changed, Diminished or Stayed the Same?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Depending on the theoretical frame used by scholars, the perception of a state, at the time of increased globalization is really different. Its role, its place in international society, its obligations and what jeopardizes it, gets completely antagonist answers. Between those who believe that the...
The impact of globalization of French politics
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
According to Manuel Castells, the pre-globalization state used to shape society, and identities, but this is no longer true because the state has lost power over space and time. The equilibrium has been upset by the sudden growth of the flows of goods, capital, information, services and...
Globalisation and peace in the twenty-first century: a structuralist approach - publié le 13/01/2009
Thesis - 15 pages - Philosophy
In his Glance at today's world (1931), French poet Paul Valéry wrote "Le temps du monde fini commence" (1). By "monde fini", he meant that the world now had well-established geographical limits, implying there was no more Terra incognita or utopia where to transpose our dreams, either in...
The European Union (EU) and Mercosur - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - European union
“The objectives of this Agreement shall be to strengthen the existing relations between the Parties and to prepare conditions enabling an interregional association to be created. To these ends, the Agreement covers trade and economic matters, cooperation regarding integration and other...
To what extent does it make sense to consider the EU foreign policy as distinctive from the American one ?
Worksheets - 11 pages - European union
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the literature on American and European international policy has been exuberant. However, the policies continue to remain blurred. Indeed numerous scholars have emphasized overall and increasing divergence. Contradicting this divergence are others who are...
Globalisation and peace in the twenty-first century: a structuralist approach
Essay - 14 pages - International relations
In his Glance at today's world (1931), French poet Paul Valéry wrote "Le temps du monde fini commence" (1). By "monde fini", he meant that the world now had well-established geographical limits, implying there was no more Terra incognita or utopia where to transpose our dreams, either in...
The European Union (EU) and Mercosur
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
“The objectives of this Agreement shall be to strengthen existing relations between the Parties and to prepare the conditions enabling an inter-regional association to be created. To those ends, the Agreement covers trade and economic matters, cooperation regarding integration and other...
Assess hegemonic stability theory and how this relates to US foreign policy during the Clinton to G.W.Bush administrations - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
In 1970 Liberalism tried to create a revolution: international relations should be thought of using the study of economic interdependence, a key concept where states are affected by decisions taken by others. Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye insisted on economic facts of the early 1970s as the...
Are Michael Mann's Incoherent Empire's arguments still relevant four years later? - publié le 29/09/2010
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...
China's (mis)perception of the European Union
Thesis - 5 pages - European union
The People's Republic of China's (PRC) rise and arrival as a superpower on the international stage makes it more necessary to study China's vision of the world,and how it perceives the different actors with which it interacts daily. The European Union (EU) is one of these important...
