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:...

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...

The deep-rooted diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Romania can be traced back centuries ago. On the 13 February 2015 both countries’ embassies celebrated 135 years of successful cooperation between the counterparts. Both of which are very fond of being able to...

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,...

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...

As typical neighbours, Venezuela, Colombia and Guyana’s relations have fluctuated between cordiality and hostility; this to a large part due to divergent political allegiances and ideology. In the 1800s, Simon Bolívar conquered a considerable portion of South America, called it Greater Colombia and asserted his...

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...

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,...

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...

Oyegun said this in Abuja during the public presentation of the reports as submitted by the Governor Nasir El-rufai- led APC committee on True Federalism, adding that Nigeria’s current system of government is ‘more of a unitary system of government. “We have held flamboyant conferences...

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...

Through an examination of Anglo-German relations between 1890 and 1914, this opening chapter argues that Great Britain and Imperial Germany had far more convoluted relations than hitherto has been acknowledged, by both popular belief and much historiography. Indeed, various scholars have unpersuasively viewed the wartime...

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...

According to Carl Von Clausewitz, War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will. It is used to counter against the enemy with the use of modern types of equipment or armaments. It is a physical force where two...

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...

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...