Essays on International Relations

Gallie explained security as an ‘essentially contested concept’ which is an appropriate analogy when considering this essay. Securitization Theory falls under the umbrella of Critical Security Studies which entered the theoretical mainstream after the post-cold war paradigm shift. Naturally, these ‘critical’ conceptions criticize the traditional...

Donald Trump’s campaign and election raised expectations for change in the U.S.-Russia relationship. But just under a year into his administration, little has changed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, however, quickly emerged as President Trump’s go-to-person on relations with Moscow. He described a step-by-step approach:...

The discourse of International Relations has garnered criticism and speculation amongst intellectuals that do not adhere to a positivist interpretation of history. An assertion in response to IR is an increased demand for attention in postcolonial thought and its applicable methods to illuminate social and...

Also considered the “Peace of Westphalia”, these were a series of peace treaties that effectively ended the European wars of religion and this negotiation took roughly 5 years. This was and still is a very significant treaty seeing as it ended the Thirty Years War...

Introduction: The main aim of this assignment is to show the relationship Dark Tourism has with International tourism and how it will implicate on future trends. “Tourism is one of the ways in which we attempt to approach and understand otherness” (Willis, 2014). Dark tourism...

Constructivism is one of the more modern international theory that takes issue with the realist and liberal theory of anarchy in the international system. It focuses on the ideas of norms, the development of structures relationship as well as how identity influences the way state...

Foreign aid means the economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to the another for purpose of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense of the nation. Some experts charges that aid has enlarged government bureaucracies, perpetuated bad government, enriched...

India receives grants (aid) from various countries and agencies for the development of specific projects. According to the data provided by the Government in the Lok Sabha in the year 2007-08 and 2015-16, India received foreign aid an average of Rs 2575 crore annually and...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was truly one of the world’s worst escalations of tension between two willing and able superpowers that could have resulted in damages both parties would still be recovering from today. Beginning with issues concerning Cuba, the crisis came to involve the...

In the decade of the 1960’s, there was an expanse of many different world changing events. From civil rights movements to landing a man on the moon so many things happened. One event that took place in October of 1962 that was very important and...

Introduction As of now, and for the past 20 years, US relations with North Korea has continued to remain broken. Though recently, there have been various summits and meetings between the Trump administration and Kim regime regarding this very topic. So far, there is no...

As far back as the approach of the European Coal and Steel Society in 1951 there has been a significant need of making a political system. What at first was an endeavor of completely money related blend at long last moved powerfully towards hypothesis with...

The creation of complex societies and empires in Europe/ Mediterranean and Asia had many similarities, as well as, differences. Similarities among the creation of complex societies and empires consisted of workers skilled in specific areas, experienced a social ranking among their people, and specialized laborers,...

After the Cold War, countries looked to the United States of America for guidance on how to control nuclear weapons. This is a common example of the United States of America setting an example and leading other countries into a new era. As a result...

Very recently this year, Canada made a tweet to Saudi Arabia demanding that they immediately release all human rights activists being held in custody. The Saudi Arabian government lashed out against Canada and has broken all ties with the country. This event brought up an...

My interest and attitude towards international relations and global studies have sparked when I was in a middle school in South Korea. Whenever I turned on the TV, I often saw North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile launch tests as a headline news. At that point,...

Greece country is in southeast Europe region.It declared that its independence in 1821. It was member of NATO(North atlantic Treaty Organization) in 1952 and it was member of European Union in 1981. Its population is around 11 millions. Greece has a lot of relations with...

There is a myth of “domestic analogy” in idealism. Domestic analogy says that states are like a “society of individuals”, relations between individuals and relations between states are similar to each other. Therefore, a nation state is not just a political, but also a social...

The New Year has arrived early in the land of China. They are fondly calling it as the “Year of the Dragon”. The Chinese dragon is looking beyond east to start its conquest. With America going back to its boundaries, Britain breaking away from the...