The intervention of the World Trade Organization in regulating international trade
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The 'classic' body of rules of GATT, which form the basis of the WTO, is based on a project of progressive liberalization. Successive rounds served the goal of gradually reducing trade barriers, more generally to facilitate access to domestic markets. Once the bulk of this objective is...
The uncertainties in the fight against terrorism and the United Nations (UN)
Dissertation - 26 pages - International relations
The United Nations has mobilized all the means necessary to make the fight against terrorism a major concern of all States. The media coverage of the September 11 attacks on U.S. soil with Security Council resolution- 1373 has raised awareness that terrorism can strike at any time. However, at...
The rise of power of China and its opportunities facing the American superpower
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
The People's Republic of China today plays an increasingly important role at the regional and international levels.In recent history it is rare that a country has maintained its hegemony for over a century. One may therefore question whether the U.S. can extend their supremacy for longer...
Comparison of the British counter terrorist policies and strategies: The IRA and Al Qaeda
Internship report - 5 pages - International relations
This essay compares the British strategies toward two different cases: the IRA and Al Qaeda. It underlines the main similarities and differences in both cases and also gives an overview of their historical facts. Through the comparison of both cases, this essay shows how the similarities are...
Israeli Arabs between Israel and Palestine: Israelis by right, Palestinians by heart
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
There are more than 1 million 400 thousand Israeli Arabs among a population of nearly 7 million Israelis. They are the descendants of 160,000 Palestinians who remained on their land after the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. For 60 years, the ambivalence of identity has been palpable. They...
The situation of the United States concerning the Kyoto Protocol
Thesis - 17 pages - International relations
Understanding and predicting climate issues have become important because of disturbances caused by human activities and population pressure and economic development. The scientists were the first to draw the attention of policymakers on the risk of climate change linked to emissions of...
The UN and France in the Ivorian crisis
Thesis - 20 pages - International relations
The “oldest daughter” of France did sink in the chaos following the events which have occurred in the night from September 18 to September 19, 2002 simultaneously in Bouake and Abidjan. We need to understand such a complex conflict where there is not enough retreat to seize all the...
The status of Caspian 15 years after the fall of the USSR
Thesis - 27 pages - International relations
Until 1991, when the Soviet Union ended, the Caspian was controlled by two States, the USSR and, to a more limited extent, Iran. The dissolution of the USSR and the emergence of three new coastal states have changed this balance. The Caspian Sea is now acquiring an international dimension....
Should Turkey Be welcomed in the EU? - published: 02/12/2010
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
Since October 2005, the accession of negotiations has been opened between the European Union and Turkey. However, the debate is still raging on Turkey's inclusion or rejection. In this presentation, we have examined whether Turkey should or should not be welcomed in the HAVE segment. This...
The action of the International Monetary Fund in the world
Internship report - 6 pages - International relations
“The International Monetary Fund is established and shall operate in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement as originally adopted and subsequently amended” asserts the first clause of the Articles of Agreement. Set up after the Second World War as a response to the world...
Congress and Foreign Policy and Control of the Executive
Thesis - 10 pages - International relations
A Foreign Policy aims at finding how to expand the country into what territories through tactics of national interests, how to create and maintain a favorable international order, and how to protect democratic values at home and abroad.In the US, both the President and the Congress share these...
French foreign Policy in the Middle East during the 5th Republic
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
The roots of the conflict in the Middle East started around 1950 when the British mandate in Palestine was given to the United Nations which decided then to create the state of Israel on the Palestinian lands. Some migratory waves of Jewish settlement had already started to come to Israel in the...
The uniqueness of Japan's diplomacy: From Meiji to today
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
Japan has always claimed for a particular place in international relations. The Japanese prefer their country to be a unique model of integration - or non-integration - in the world's diplomatic system rather than a “normal power” that has never been supported by any majority of...
The Swedish model: Analysis and perspectives
Thesis - 50 pages - International relations
The Swedish Model is often looked at as one of the most advanced model, integrating aspects of social sustainability, and therefore, pointed as an example by many as far as employment, flexibility and job security is concerned. Even though one single week can never be enough to get to understand...
What is the role of culture in international business?
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
Since the introduction of the widely accepted cultural model by Hofstede (1980:475), which introduced the dimensions paradigm, there has been a vast amount of cultural research, some of which has been based on this paradigm. However, what do we know about culture in the context of international...
How can a western company setting up business in Japan learn from cultural behavior theory?
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
Entering the Asian market can be particularly difficult for British and American companies, due to the various cultural differences. This paper will show how various cultural models can aid a British company to overcome cultural problems when establishing a business unit in Japan. Before looking...
The Darfur Crisis
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...
Analysis of the creation United States of Africa - published: 29/09/2010
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...
Africa in the International system by Christopher - A review
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...
Can conflict be avoided in human societies ? - published: 29/09/2010
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...
"After colonialism. The cultural consequences of globalization ", Arjun Appadurai (1996) - publié le 29/09/2010
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...
How does Realism help us to understand international relations? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The study of International Relations regroups a large range of theorists who have different opinions about the way international politics are organised. Among these theorists, you can generally distinguish three main schools of thoughts, the liberals, the Marxists and the realists. They all help...
Short essay: Security Council Reform In The United Nations and Changing World Politics (Westview Press, 2007), the author argues that "a significant shake-up in the way the UN does business is essential" if the UN is to keep pace with changing world
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, called in September 2003 for the reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC), in order to make it more effective and more representative, given the changed geopolitical realities. Diverse problems affect both the efficiency and the representative character of...
Humanitarian corridors
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
A humanitarian corridor aims at facilitating the transportation of charitable supplies like food, clothes, medicines, and hospital services such as ambulances that are directed to the local population in times of crisis in conflict zones. It is set on a specific route for a given time....
The Outbreak of an Ethnic - Conflict in Serbia - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Like many other peoples throughout Europe, the Serbs form a community united by a common history and a common culture. Serbs feel specifically united by their historical sufferings, mainly the Ottoman rule until the 19th century and the persecution by the Croatian Usta'e during World War Two....
Partition or Consocialism? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Facing proliferating ethnic conflicts since the end of the Cold War (the most important ones being Rwanda and Yugoslavia)the international community needs to find new and efficient solutions to ensure peace between ethnic groups and give them political power in order to prevent new massacres and...
Foreign Aid, the non-aligned movement: how to make aid work
Book review - 2 pages - International relations
It seems that ever since foreign aid existed, there have been voices calling for its increase. Nowadays, everyone, from the world leaders of the G81 to the economists, seem to agree on the quite unclear target of doubling aid to Africa. But there are, at the same time growing doubts about aid...
Mexico and the USA - A recent history framed by the North American Free Trade Agreement : the borderless economy in a "Neo-Monroeist" order ? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represented a turning point in the relationship between Mexico and the USA and was considered likely to resolve key bilateral issues. NAFTA was thus a sort of promising frame to achieve the benefits of interdependence in a globalizing...
Theory of International Cooperation: Possibility, reasons and conditions of International Cooperation
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
The two main theories have very different views on cooperation. The first, and the dominant theory of neorealism, is that cooperation is not likely to occur, while on the other hand, neoliberalism focuses on the possibility for cooperation to take place. According to neorealism,...
John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt - Can Saddam be contained? History says yes
Book review - 1 pages - International relations
This text was written in November 2002 by John J. Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University. It takes part in the aftermath of 9/11, and the debate over the necessity of a war in Iraq,...
