Essays on International Relations

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:...

Asia West North Carolina A&T State University Spring 2018 HIST 130.Sect.#12 The World Since 1945 Group 4: Written Assignment I: Question 4. 4 Based upon the document, The Zionist Organization: Memorandum to the Peace Conference in Versailles: On the Establishment of a Jewish State in...

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...

The U.S.-Japan relationship since the end of World War II has been intimate and complex. The formal structure supporting the relationship has been the US-Japan security alliance, however, the bilateral relationship encompasses not only the military alliance but also close and complex economic and political...

How effective is international cooperation in addressing transnational environmental issues? This essay will investigate how International cooperation work together, how effective the international community’s contingency plans have been at achieving environmental change in transnational issues. Transnational issues refer to threats to environmental issues that affect...

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...

The world’s diplomatic relations with North Korea are difficult at best, non-existent at worst: the progress of their weapons of mass destruction programs is an extraordinary and disturbing development. But the most important regional dynamic on this issue is the interplay among South Korea, Japan,...

“ Australia , officially called the commonwealth of Australia, is a country and sovereign state in the Southern Hemisphere, located on its own continent between the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. Australia is sixth biggest country in the world by land area and is a...

The South China Sea disputes involve both island and maritime claims among several sovereign states. An estimated US$5 trillion worth of global trade passes through the South China Sea and many non-claimant states want the South China Sea to remain international waters. The disputes include...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE The Purpose of this topic is to explain the core problem of the Israel and Palestine conflict and with our point of view, give the solution that is acceptable within international relation study. BACKGROUND A “two-state solution” to the decades-old conflict between Israelis and...

China–Pakistan relations began in 1950 when Pakistan was among the first countries to end official diplomatic relations with the Republic of China or Taiwan and recognize the PRC. Since then, both countries have placed considerable importance on the maintenance of an extremely close and supportive...

Currency plays an important part in business. The first step is realize the currency of a foreign country if a person want to trade with this country. Taiwan dollar (TWD) is the official currency of Taiwan. The value in relation between Canada and Taiwan is...

North Korea has accepted South Korea’s proposal for official talks in what will be the first high-level contact between the two countries in more than two years. North and South Korean athletes will march together at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony under a unified flag,...

The cultural connection between India and West Asia & North African region point towards some of the stark similarities between them because no other civilisation in the Asian continent have had as long and sustained historical engagement with the West Asia and North African region...

The Chinese are laying out a grand economic design aimed at global supremacy. The One Belt One Road initiative is just a part of it and it is the Project-of-the-Century as described by China’s leader Xi Jinping on May 14, by laying out his grand...

The relationship between the United States and Chile deteriorated in 1960 due to a concern of the Chilean Left and the rise of Nationalization. “For the United States the appearance of Marxist Government was completely unacceptable. Dente between superpowers was one thing, allowing Chile “to...

Amongst the constant white noise that defines American news today, one could easily be pardoned for becoming deaf to any actual developments in our relationship with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: the tiny, isolated regime run by a despot’s son whose penchant for a...

The founding of People`s Republic of China in 1949, China has made tremendous efforts to explore a development road designed for her own needs and suitable to her own national conditions, which was finally summed up by Deng Xiaoping, the architect of the opening-up in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...