The Darfur crisis - the causes of the civil war
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The Darfur war does not seem to be an interesting topic for the media. Indeed, after a short period during which the world seemed to finally decide to act, the Darfur situation was once again forgotten. On August 2009, Rodolphe Adada and Luther Agwai, heads of the UNAMID, affirmed that the war...
"Cultural Politics", E. Lampton (2002)
Book review - 11 pages - International relations
The book "Cultural Politics"written by E. Lampton addresses two simple questions: Why is the relationship between the United States and China so difficult for Washington and Beijing to manage? And how can it be handled more effectively? The book reaches one simple conclusion: both nations can...
Theories of International Relations
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
It is commonly perceived in the public opinion that the Moroccan foreign policy since the Cold War has been largely western-oriented; in fact, more specifically, the Moroccan foreign policy is said to be developed in compliance with the will of the United States of which Morocco is extremely...
Captains of the clouds
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The job of a fighter pilot has always made people dream and is always presented as a perfect job. We all know how intelligent and strong are the fighter pilots but we never talk about the drawbacks, we are never shown the other side of this job. The aim of this project is to learn more about the...
The opium war
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
Maritime trade between Europe and China started in the 16th century when the Portuguese conquered an Indian settlement. The Europeans were in seek of Chinese goods such as tea, silk and porcelain but the Chinese limited foreign trade to limit contact with the outside world because for them trade...
International Mediation
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
International negotiation is implicated in all deal making processes but most of the time participants reach only a global agreement without being able to make clear points. Also, the negotiation goes on. Due to the implication of an increasing number of factors in the international context,...
The 1980 Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission Decision
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
"It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. The responsibility is fully my own", stated President Carter after the failure of the rescue mission designed to save the American diplomats taken hostages in Iran, six months ago. By recognizing his full liability in this collapse, Carter...
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace - by Dennis Ross
Book review - 7 pages - International relations
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace' is a book by Dennis Ross, it was published in 2004, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Ross is an American diplomat, he served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George Bush and he...
Hezbollah : Towards Lebanonisation ?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Labelling Hezbollah raises a series of difficulties. Indeed, born as a non-state actor in the early 1980s, the Party of God is now running as a regular political force for the 2009-legislative elections. Furthermore, while the movement is depicted by Western media and politicians as a terrorist...
The Darfur Crisis - structural factors and challenges, resolution methods, long term needs
Essay - 12 pages - International relations
Since February 2003, Sudan's western province of Darfur has been the site of an extremely violent conflict between the province's nomadic Arab tribes, supported by the government in Khartoum, and the native African settled peasant tribes. Fighting among various factions has killed...
The policy of the United States against the Afghan crisis
Dissertation - 21 pages - International relations
At the time of writing this dissertation, a native of Dubuque American soldier has died in Afghanistan. This brings the number of soldiers killed to 1747, and the statistics continue to increase. Afghanistan is geographically situated in Asia; it shares the biggest part of its borders with...
Arab-Israeli conflict: From Copenhagen to Beijing and Washington to Jerusalem: American-Israeli relations cooling off
Thesis - 12 pages - International relations
Since the dawn of the industrial revolution there have been two consistent interlocking themes behind Middle Eastern-Great Power interactions. First, Great Powers have a tendency to view the Middle East as a strategic commodity, because of its geographic location and vital natural resources....
Analysis of the creation United States of Africa
Essay - 24 pages - International relations
The United States of Africa is a project that has been raising issues for decades. Indeed, many international actors, activists groups, countries and other companies are concerned about the unity of an African people formed as a strong and powerful continent. It is true that many key topics are...
Transnational organized crime in the Netherlands.
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
This paper is about transnational organized crime in the Netherlands and the ways and means necessary to effectively combat it. Most people, when confronted with the question: "What is organized crime? often think of a mafia-like organization, much like the one portrayed in the Godfather-trilogy....
John Hilary, "Time to kill of Doha", The Guardian, November 25, 2009
Text commentary - 3 pages - International relations
This article entitled "Time to kill off Doha? was published in The Guardian on November 25, 2009. This centre-left newspaper is in favor of regulated form of trade that would enforce respect of social and environmental standards and fight against poverty and social inequalities. This article is...
From the Great Powers to the European Union: assess and discuss the role and impact of the European influence in the Balkans
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
On the 21st of July 1774, the town of Kuchuk Kainarji in Bulgaria was the scene to the signing of the treaty that would end the Russo-Turkish War. From then on, the history of the Balkan peninsula would coincide with the receding of the Ottoman empire and the expansion of European influence....
Control of the 'weapons'
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Arms control designates restrictions to the development, production, proliferation and usage of weapons imposed through diplomacy. The goal of Arms control are reducing the risk of war, or at least reducing the number of casualties if war cannot be avoided, and limiting the costs linked to war...
In oil rich Niger delta, the sun never sets: smokestacks still shooting out gas flares
Case study - 10 pages - International relations
For half a century, some oil has been extracted for commercial ends in the Niger Delta. The vast reserves of hydrocarbons created several billion dollars of income for the Nigerian state, but the majority of the inhabitants of the oil production zones live in poverty. The multidimensional crisis...
An essay on Globalization
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
As early as 1967, in his book The Medium is the Massage, Canadian sociologist and philosopher Marshall MacLuhan described the world anchoring itself in a process of exchanges and interdependences melting into networks, as a 'Global Village'. This phrase gave birth to the concept of...
"The U.S. operations of peacekeeping in Africa ", A. Sarjoh Bah and K. Aning (2008)
Book review - 3 pages - International relations
The US engagement in Africa after the cold war was rather half-hearted but the 9/11 attacks led to a renewed interest in the continent, as the US now fight a war of terror and wish to prevent failing African states from providing sanctuary to terrorist groups as well as to reduce its dependence...
Africa in the International system by Christopher - A review - publié le 15/04/2010
Book review - 4 pages - International relations
During the cold war, Africa was probably the smallest concern of both the superpowers. The Afro-superpowers relationship has often been reduced to the sterile formula of African independence versus superpower imperialism. Actually, African leaders often had a certain freedom of action as they...
Ghana's future after the oil discoveries - Four scenarios
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Ghana seems to be destined for a bright future. According to the Ministry of Finance of Ghana, poverty fell from 52% of the total population in 1992 to 28.5% in 2006. However, challenges remain. Unfortunately, inequalities sustain and the poorest Ghanaian people do not seem to benefit from...
"Cela coûte cher d'être pauvre", Julius Nyerere
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
Julius Nyerere is the first President of the United Republic of Tanzania. He is an atypical personage, often called an American Socialist. He's more popular in Tanzania. His nickname is the symbol of his economic policies. During the period where he was on power, his objective was to prevent...
Interpreting Washington's plans of African Americans in society and the political system post-slavery: The flaw of Du Bois' argument on Washington's program
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
In his autobiography, Up from Slavery (1901), Booker T. Washington, a renowned African American leader in the late nineteenth century, describes his influential life experiences and his hypotheses for black reconstruction. Washington provides detail about his childhood, his education at the...
The French-German Pair through the relationships of the German chancellor and the French president
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
After World War II, Europe was fragmented. Germany was defeated, ruined and divided by the winners of the war. France was considered as a winner and had a zone under its responsibility in Germany like the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1949, the state of the Federal...
Can conflict be avoided in human societies ?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
In each society, people have to face struggles and fights as soon as the day begins. They have to scramble just in order to reach and to creep into a subway. Others must cover a long walk just to bring back some water. Everyone has a daily struggle against the time, or against the crowd, or...
To what extent were New-York, London and Paris centers for technical innovations?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
In his paper 'City as Truth-Spot, Laboratories and Field-Sites in Urban Studies', Thomas Gyerin contends that each locus for practicing science is linked 'with distinctive epistemic virtues'. In other words, when the laboratory is standardized-prone, removing doubts that...
"After colonialism. The cultural consequences of globalization ", Arjun Appadurai (1996)
Book review - 1 pages - International relations
Arjun Appadurai (born 1949 in Bombay) earned his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences and his Master of Arts from Brandeis University. He is a Doctor of Philosophy since 1976. He currently focuses his studies on ethnic violence in the context of globalization. He also leads a project on the cultural...
The East in the West, "Introduction: the West's problem with the East" (1996), Jack Goody.
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
Jack Goody (born 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He tries to understand the specific role which written communication has played in the development of social and cultural institutions in contemporary societies. He has also written on the history of the family and the anthropology of...
Constitutionalism: Marbury vs. Madison Case
Essay - 1 pages - International relations
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. These unalienable rights were granted by the Founding Fathers to all humans, America and the Americans have always seemed to epitomize at best these values. At the heart of the American dream has ever, from the very beginning of its history to even...
