International Relations Essays

The Effects of Fracking on US Energy Security

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Introduction Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is a novel method for extracting oil and natural gas that involves injecting highly pressurised water, sand and chemicals into shale rock dee...

The Effects of Structural Adjustment Programs

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INTRODUCTION At independence, most African countries had their economies rely heavily on the production of primary commodities especially agriculture. However due to a sharp increase of market prices...

The European powers

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Abstract Being unified late in the 19th century it was difficult for Italy to establish itself amongst the other European powers. Therefore, one can view the indecisiveness of the Italians on where t...

The European Union: International Relations

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The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 member states, located primarily in Europe. Committed to regional integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 ...

The Future of China-Russia Relations: Alliance, Enemy or Partnership

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China and Russia, two neighboring countries share a long border and many historical heritages, their relation is a considerable force to form a new world order. As their total GDP accounted for o...

The Impact of Social Media During the Arab Spring

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1. Introduction The Arab Spring is a revolutionary movement in North Africa and the Middle East, which began in December 2010 with the Tunisian Revolution – before spreading to other Arab countries,...

The Internally Displaced People International Relations Essay

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The outbreak and the maintenance of armed conflicts have had a negative impact on peace, stability and security in many regions of the planet during world history, often resulting in the movemen...

The Korean War

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Abstract This study examines the relationship between declining public opinion towards the Truman administration during the Korean War ultimately leading to the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur....

The Modern State and International Relations

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Q2. What is the most significant feature of the modern state and how has it shaped international relations? The core of the early modern period to vast histories of sovereignty and state formation is...

The Moroccan Goums In The French Army International Relations Essay

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Linguistically speaking, the term Goum comes from the Arabic word (قم) pronounced with a Maghrebi accent which means stand up. This term is going to define a military unit that was formed by the...

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict

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Across the Muslim world it is a common refrain that “Palestine is the mother of all problems.” (Atran & Ginges: 2009: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/opinion/25atran .html) That the...

The Paradox in US-China Relations

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The Paradox in the US-China Relations: A Commentary Almost a decade and half ago, one of the leading thinker and strategic expert on China; Gerald Segal prophetically described the implications of Ch...

The possible solution

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CHAPTER VII One reason for dissatisfaction with the IWT is that, as presently constructed, it offers very thin support to the integrated or joint development of the Indus River Basin. After all the tr...

The poverty issue

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This issue of” Poverty” has been general concern to humanity due to the serious setback it is causing globally. It has become the World’s epidemic threatening some economic especiall...

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power | Review

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BOOK REVIEW: THE PRIZE: THE EPIC QUEST FOR OIL, MONEY AND POWER The book “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power” by Daniel Yergin opens to the reader the whole...

The Process of Democratization in Yugoslavia

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Transitions in Nationalism: The Process of Democratization in Yugoslavia The Yugoslav transition to democracy is perhaps the most complex of all of the Eastern European cases. The level of parall...

The Pursuit of Relative Gains in Regard to Climate Change

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International Relations is a large field of study that has over time sparked several great debates concerning the actions of states, the presence of anarchy, and the meaning of power. Within the ...

The Region Is The Middle East International Relations Essay

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The region is the Middle East. The cause of the Israel/Palestine conflict is the question of land and who rules it. Jewish colonization and Palestinian nationalism, both laying claim to the same t...

The Relationship Between Politics and War

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Introduction The relation between war and politics always been entwined in human history and many political scientists and foreign policy makers view war as an instrument of politics. Ev...

The Role of Military Force in Promoting Humanitarian Values

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Recent years have seen an increase in military force being used as a tool for increasing the scope for humanitarian values within conflict zones. This paper assesses this trend, and uses a number of c...

The securitization of HIV/AIDS

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Some Theoretical Implications The severe casualties and the worldwide spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic have posed a tremendous challenge for the global security. Since AIDS was first diagnosed in the ear...

The Special Relationship UK and US

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The term ‘special relationship’ is used to describe the Anglo-American relations soon after the Second World War when Britain and the United States developed a close working relationship and c...

The Syria Crisis: Overview and US Reactions

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The Crisis in Syria In Syria, anti-government shows started in Spring of 2011, some portion of the Arab Spring. The quiet dissents immediately heightened after the administration’s fierce cr...

The Transition from Isolationism to Intervention in America

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  Due to the gruesome experience & aftermath of WWI, approximately 90% of Americans supported isolationism regarding U.S. involvement in another war (United States Holoca...

The UN Dealing with Conflict Post-Cold War Era

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Analyse the Strengths and Weaknesses of the International System (The UN) In Dealing with Conflicts since the End of the Cold War Introduction Since the end of the Cold War, int...

The United States’ Increasing Legitimacy

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Prompt: The legitimacy of the United States government has increased over time. Identify and explain how the following increased legitimacy: ●       the C...

The USA's Relationship with the Dominican Republic

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural speech on March 4, 1933 introduced his plans for a new peaceful America. Roosevelt mainly focused on improving relations between the United...

Theoretical Accounts of Great Power Politics

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Postcolonialism is primarily concerned with the south, the subaltern and its past because as Abrahamsen argues, “Any understanding of contemporary IR requires a careful account of the multiple a...

Theories for the Causes of Terrorism

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The search for the causes of terrorism is futile Introduction One of the side effects of globalization is terrorism. It created new threats, a sense of everyday risk and the globalization of lo...

Theories in Nationalism

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Introduction Nationalism, a term which has been defined in various ways and still continues to nurture the debate around it, is one of the strongest forces in the world as we know it today. Despite it...

Theories on Causes of Wars

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What causes wars? What causes wars? One could say that there is no solid answer to the question at hand as there are so many different types of wars, and different causes for each. For a...

Thucydides and international relations

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Thucydides is seen by some scholars as the first writer in the realist tradition as well as the founding father of International Relations.[1] There are contrasting interpretations of the ‘Histo...

To What Extent Do Effective International Institutions Require the Existence of a Global Hegemon?

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Introduction Global Hegemonic power relies on the effective manipulation of social institutions as well as of culture. Antonio Gramsci 1920s from Italy was considered as the social theor...

To what extent does the new NAFTA treaty affect the United States, Canada, and Mexico?

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To what extent does the new NAFTA treaty affect the various parties such as the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 1. Introduction A new NAFTA deal now called the UMSCA agreemen...

Trade Relations between India and Russia

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Abstract Russia is an old and time-tested partner of India in the field of bilateral trade and cultural exchanges. Development and strengthening of bilateral relations is one of the most...

Transitional Justice in Post-war Societies

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Introduction 462 What justice is, who it serves to and what forms it can take are the issues that have been challenging philosophers, legal and political scientists for centuries making them search ...

Trump’s Foreign Policy Agenda on North Korea

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Which administration cabinet officer supported foreign policy on North Korea ? Secretary of Defense James Mattis has supported The president in negotiations with North Korea. Mattis has been again...

Turkey and UK Relations

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Introduction: The relationship between Turkey and United Kingdom is well-rounded and covers economic, politic, military and social aspects. In this paper, the relationship between Turkey and United K...

Two-State Solution to Israel and Palestine

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I. Introduction Why the U.S. needs Israel to agree to a two-state solution? Before leaving the White House, President Barrack Obama signed a new financial agreement that guarantees the Israeli ...

U.S. intervention in Iraq

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Introduction There are people that are opposed to the U.S. intervention in Iraq, as they believe that it will not lead to stability and democracy. These people, find similarities to America’s Vi...

UK and US relations changed after Obama's election

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In his 1946 Iron Curtain speech, Winston Churchill (2015, n. pag.) stated that “[n]either the sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of world organisation will be gained without what I ...

Ukraine and Russia Threat Analysis

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Ukraine has been a country plagued with turmoil. With seven bordering neighbors, Belarus, Russia, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland, it faces a constant threat of invasion. It’...

United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)

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The purpose of this memo is to critically summarise the operations of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and its goals for the future. Following the end of World War II in 1946, The United Nati...

US and UN Intervention in the Syrian Conflict

Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2019

There is an increasingly growing global controversy about whether the United States and UN should intervene in the Syrian conflict, and whether this intervention should be military or strategic. The ...

Voting Behaviour in Nigeria

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ETHNICITY AND VOTING BEHAVIOUR IN NIGERIA ABSTRACT This paper tried to give a historical discourse about the relationship between ethnicity and voting behavior using Nigeria as its case study. Lookin...

Was the Cold War an Identity Conflict?

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The Cold War was a controversial war. Unlike previous wars the main actors never really frontally fought each other. By using client states to fight on their behalf, the USA and Soviet Union fought ...

Was the Iran Nuclear Deal a Good Deal?

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NUCLEAR WEAPONS ESSAY PLANS : 1. Was the Iran nuclear deal a good deal? This essay will seek to explore both the advantages and disadvantages that came from the "stunn...

Water Crisis between India and Pakistan

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Water resources management in India

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CHAPTER III India is facing a serious problem of natural resource scarcity, especially that of water in view of population growth and economic development[1]. The annual average rainfall in the India...

Weak Governance and Social Cohesion

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Weak Governance and Social Cohesion and Its Impact on Violent Conflict in the Domestic Politics of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan By Tasneem Winkler Assignment Question: Domestic politics in India...

What Do We Mean By Political Authority?

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INTRODUCTION Political power or sovereign power is exercised through a man or an assembly of men. Commonly, we recognize that its mission is to ensure social cohesion and the development of the prospe...

What factors influence the policies and practices of multinational firms?

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“What factors influence the policies and practices of multinational firms?” Multinational firms are those who have direct operations and employees within several countries (Almond and Tregaskis,...

What Is Collier's Conflict Trap and How Can It Be Overcome?

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This essay will explore Collier’s conception of the Trap, particularly examining how he frames it through the lens of Greed and Grievance. It will then proceed to place the Trap within Collier’s oeuvre...

Why a Peaceful Resolution Could Not Be Met Between the Us and Iraq, 1991-2003

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TERM 2 –Identify and analyse critically why the strategic approaches adopted by the United States were unable to achieve a peaceful resolution to the crisis with Iraq between 1991 and 2003...

Why is not ASEAN regionalism as successful as the EU

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 Since the end of WWII, integration and regionalism has been the main focus for the study of international relations.  Peace was the main reason for creating a regional body, but since the fall ...

World's lone superpower

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In order to answer this question successfully we must answer it in four distinct sections. In the first section we will examine the debate over whether the United States is a hegemonic power or an imp...