CFSP (Common Foreign and Security Policy) and Non Proliferation - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 12 pages - European union
Since the end of the Cold War, the nature and origins of threats on Europe have changed. This evolution of repartition of powers in the world led some countries to develop their defence and military capabilities, whether it concerns missiles, biological or chemical weapons, or the ultimate...
Modern Maritime Piracy: Stakes and Prospects of a Transnational Organized Crime - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 14 pages - International relations
Piracy is not a new phenomenon. Quite the reverse, it is as old as sea navigation and especially maritime trade. As early as in the Antiquity, the Roman Empire organized military campaigns to destroy pirate ships that were starving the Empire despite the fact that piracy was considered an...
Does regionalism contradicts globalization?
Essay - 4 pages - Economic politics
Globalization is a historical process characterized, first by intensification and an acceleration of international exchanges, secondly by the development of transnational and deterritorialized relations and thirdly by the establishment of solidarity systems around the world. Globalization affects...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a multilateral trading system; in other words, it is shaped by multilateral agreements between member states based on four principles. The first principle is transparency on trade exchanges and WTO decisions. Members have a transparency obligation such as...
The World Trade Organization (WTO)
Essay - 8 pages - International economy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a multilateral trading system; in other words, it is shaped by multilateral agreements between member states based on four principles. The first principle is transparency on trade exchanges and WTO decisions. Members have a transparency obligation such as...
What is distinctive about international human rights politics?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Three main theories lead the international human rights political politics: the realist, the ideational and the republican liberalist theory. The realist theory assumes that democratic countries, and especially the great powers use coercion to make other governments adopt international human...
International trade and business: Case study
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
A free trade system is a market form in which goods and services can be exchanged between and within countries without any kind of government restriction or regulation. The free trade debate is obviously the most important debate of the 20th century. It has been very much politicized and the...
American Foreign Policy: What was driving the war on terror?
Thesis - 7 pages - Political science
The violence and the impact of the 9/11 attacks led the Bush government to act strongly in order to reassure the American people. Acting strongly at the time meant that the US would have to fight "the war on terror". This expression, although vague, highlighted a struggle against terrorism -...
International relations of the United States
Case study - 3 pages - International relations
After WWII, the charter of United Nations prohibited war. But the real order after WWII was a bipolar world with a Cold War between two powers: US and URSS = Legal system vs. reality. At the end of cold war: the world needs a new order. The US becomes the only leader because it is the only...
The impact of the EU common energy policy on the Commonwealth of Independent States
Thesis - 4 pages - International relations
Laidi has qualified the EU as being a normative empire considering that the EU normative production goes beyond its borders. The concept of a normative empire questioned the impact of an EU normative power - considered to be “a power which is able to shape the conceptions through...
Paul Kowert, "National Identity: Inside and Out", 1998
Text commentary - 7 pages - Political science
The concept of national identity was emphasized from the beginning of the 1990s as a crucial unit of analysis for scholars of international relations. Indeed, the post-bipolar era is characterized by two opposite trends dealing with the identity issue. First, the resurgence of nationalist...
The American strategic culture in the international relations
Essay - 12 pages - International relations
Culture can be defined as a persistent group, through which traditions, ideas, means of thought, and attitudes are transmitted socially and more or less specifically in a community of geographically located security and historical experience which is unique. We move towards a standardization of...
U.S foreign policy : the changing balance of power faced by Barack Obama
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Barack Obama's election as the President of the United States of America hasn't occurred in an easy period: the country is currently in the midst of a global financial crisis, whilst also being bogged down in an arduous conflict in Iraq. Hence, several challenges are awaiting the...
Modern Maritime Piracy: Stakes and Prospects of a Transnational Organized Crime
Essay - 14 pages - International relations
Piracy is not a new phenomenon. Quite the reverse, it is as old as sea navigation and especially maritime trade. As early as in the Antiquity, the Roman Empire organized military campaigns to destroy pirate ships that were starving the Empire despite the fact that piracy was considered an...
Is free trade desirable?
Essay - 13 pages - Economy general
A free trade system is a market form in which goods and services can be exchanged between and within countries without any kind of government restriction or regulation. The free trade debate is obviously the most important debate of the 20th century. It has been very much politicized and the...
U.S. policies towards the United Nations and the development of international law over the next two years
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
Two years before the presidential elections of 2008, the context of the relations between the United States (U.S.) and the United Nations (U.N) is at a turning point. The new Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, will enter into office on January 1, 2007, and it is likely that he will bring a new...
Migration: one of the most important challenges for Europe
Essay - 2 pages - European union
"The European population growth at a level of less than 3% per year [is] only possible through net migration?. Europe is indeed currently absorbing 2 million migrants each year ? proportionally more than any other part of the world. This influx is thus altering the population composition of...
What impact might Canberra and Washington's close relationship have on Australia's future?
Essay - 16 pages - International relations
The world has witnessed rampant changes at a faster pace ever since the end of the Cold War. The beginning of the 21st century illustrates and highlights this idea of quick changes. Thus, changes in terms of increased terrorism, the new American foreign policy and the rise of China are few...
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 have led to a complete change in American foreign policy
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
When George W. Bush arrived in office as President in 2000, he was determined to limit the role of the United States in foreign affairs, although there was in his electorate a hope for a strong foreign policy. The new administration saw in the failure in Yugoslavia, “Clinton's war” ,...
The Next General Election and its two main candidates
Presentation - 11 pages - Political life and election
7th September 2006 : Tony Blair declared that he intended to stand down as Labour Party Leader. Thus, he will not stand for the next general election, which will probably take place in 2009. Originality of the election : all three main parties go into the General Election with new leaders. The...
How Convincing Are Neorealism & Neoliberal Institutionalism To Understand Environmental Cooperation?
Essay - 14 pages - International relations
International cooperation is a radically different prospect with regard to positivist theories of international relations. According to each approach, states live in a specific international system, are motivated by diverse factors and possess various resources. Each theory then offers a...
Institutional Failures of the Global Environmental Governance
Essay - 42 pages - Ecology & environment
Despite a great awareness of environmental questions from developed and developing countries, there is a degradation of environmental issues and an appearance of new environmental problems. This aggravation of environmental matters is due to the inefficient state of the global environmental...
The European union and the third world: The case of the EU-ASEAN relations
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
The European Union is a growing and developing organization which is becoming more and more important. That's why its relations with other countries in a more and more globalized world are also moving. The EU relations with the developing world are as old as its creation but they have undoubtedly...
Dangerous liaisons: On the love-hate affair between the US and France
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
A quick look at the sheer number of French books written on the United States, whether it is on 9/11, Iraq, the environment, George W.Bush or any other foreign policy issue, shows how important is the United States for France. The opposite may not be so true. France is considered like one of...
Power and weakness in "American Power in the 21st Century" by Robert Kagan
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Robert Kagan is a neo-conservative American scholar and political commentator. He was born on September 26th 1958 in Athens. After graduating from Yale University in 1980, he earned a Masters from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD from American University in...
Iran's nuclear programme
Worksheets - 9 pages - International relations
Diplomats, from 190 signatory countries, gather in New York this week for the five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran will surely be present. Although some warning signs had been issued by various intelligence services during the previous decade, concern over...
The EU Foreign Policy - Myth or Reality?
Dissertation - 22 pages - European union
European Union (EU) critics are a very heterogenic group. Amongst them, there are people who think that this organization has too many responsibilities. Sometimes this disapproval is summarized in only one word: ‘Brussels', the city where several institutions of the EU and especially the...
