Essays on Foreign Policy

The U.S. and Britain’s agreement to go to war with Iraq in 2003 was and remains one of the U.S. government’s most divisive foreign policy decisions. Whether, amid the attacks, the war was a justifiable gesture, considering the fundamentally different opinions on the position of...

Nowadays, the world and the societies that we live in are regulated by a set of rules fixed by the governments. Politics are the power that control and maintain the human behavior. Thus, the implementation of certain technologies within the society can be either neutral...

International Studies Quarterly, Vol 17, no. 2. Pp. 147-174. Michael J. Shapiro is an American nationalist and a Professor of the Political Sciences at the University of Hawaii. He is best known as an educator, theorist and writer. His works more often described as “post...

Michael J. Shapiro is an American nationalist and a Professor of the Political Sciences at the University of Hawaii. He is best known as an educator, theorist and writer. His works more often described as “post disciplinary”. International relation theory, comparative politics, sociology and indigenous...

Introduction In these days and ages, economic sanctions are considered as a ubiquitous foreign policy tool used by many countries to demand a change in the action of a target state (Afesorgbor and Mahadevan, 2016). These measures could be defined as the withdrawal of customary...

Regarding Japan’s pacifism and lack of legitimate military forces, it is quite simple enough to recognize that Japanese foreign policies are based on liberal beliefs, as pointed out that “others of a more liberal bent have labeled Japan the precursor of the pacifist nations of...

Qatar’s decision to turn into an active policy after 2011 has seriously damaged its status as a mediator. Regional doubts soon spread over Doha’s actions. The constant rumors of Qatari participation in the Islamist takeover of northern Mali in 2012 have proved to be skeptical....

World War II was a disastrous, a worldwide problem that affected every portion of the earth. After VE day in Europe, the war proceeded for over 3 months, until VJ day in mid-August of 1945. This war in Japan finished a short time after the...

The Summit, showcased China’s plans to construct a community of exchange routes underneath the only Belt, One street initiative to the representatives of 57 collaborating countries. As a founding-member of the Asian Infrastructure funding financial institution (AIIB), that’s a financial arm of the OBOR, India...

U.S. relations with China have ebbed and flowed over the decades. It’s current and future state is unclear with Donald Trump as President. The Trump administration has not presented a coherent explanation of how it views China, what kind of relationship it seeks to nurture,...

I have chosen to review the Book, Ideology and US. Foreign Policy, by Michael H. Hunt. The reason why I have selected this text, is primarily because it emphasises assiduously (good word but do you know its meaning?) the relationship between the United States’ Ideological...

The United States’ presence and intervention in the international community has been greatly noticed. Engaging in two large-scale world wars, pursuing temporary isolationism, fighting the Cold War, and vigorously promoting democracy has turned the US into an international hegemon. Earning this label, thus, obligates the...

Introduction and History Launched in 2013, the One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR or BRI) is a Chinese foreign policy of a transnational economic belt. The scale of the initiative is astonishing for it is so far the largest of its kind launched by one...