International relations (IR) is one of the fascinating fields of political science that different ancient and modern philosophers have written about. When reading for David Hume or René Descartes, I have found many ideas that could be applicable to global politics and the relations between states. Even though these ideas might not be aligned with Hume or Descartes’s individual political philosophies, they are worth applying to the current global political system. The first idea is Descartes’s doubting
I. Introduction The field of International Security Studies has evolved from the discipline of International Relations as a passage to apprehend the driving forces within international politics. The increases of traditional and non-traditional security threats and problems have made security studies vital to academics, governments, and policymakers. In addition to that, the theory of realism has been a long prevailing paradigm in international security studies. Moreover, realism is more than a single
International relation is a process that states try to serve their national interests, which may be in conflicts with those of other nations, in an anarchic international structure, by means of their policies and actions. Basing on this consideration, the nature of international relations could be summarized as three key features: anarchy, power and national behavior or policies, which almost every theories or approach had concerned with. This essay will basically make comparison on how does each
International Relations as “a discipline concerned with the relationships existing between sovereign units in the international arena, wherein each unit (state or non-state actor) may be motivated by self interest and the pursuit of power, however the behavior of each unit is not independent of the prevailing norms existing within international society. In other words it provides a network upon which international relations can be analysed and how nation states interact with other nations within
Contemporary international relations is a complex field. Understanding events and attempting to make sense of them can be a daunting task. There are, however, tools available, which can assist in providing clarity to these complex issues. The first of these tools is historic knowledge. Without historic background of an issue, it is nearly impossible to understand the events driving that issue in modern times. A second tool, the one which will be the focus of this paper, is international relations theory
Waltz’s idea of ‘capabilities’ differ from Hans Morgenthau’s idea of ‘power’? Does this have any effect on how each view the nature of international politics? Introduction This paper will focus on the main difference of certain points in two theories, idea of “capabilities” by neorealist Kenneth Waltz and idea of “power” by Hans Morgenthau. Both theorists tried to explain how the international system works and how its structure has an influence on the international politics. In first two parts of this
International Relations Essay A Classic Realist’s perception of the 2003 Iraq War International Relations as a whole debates that politics equals power, therefore there are several theories which have emerged within International Relations that illuminate how nation-states interact with each other, their reason to go to war and what motivates them to establish peace. Within its many strands, Classical Realism emerged as a Post-World War 2 theory and is argued to be ‘pessimistic about the prospects
established the foundation for one of the two currently accepted international relations schools, the other Neoliberalism. This essay compares Waltz’s theory to other contemporary thinkers, then applies it to the 1992-1996 Afghan Civil War. The paper concludes by noticing the similarities events during the
norm of sovereignty and non-intervention. There exists a strong disposition to follow international law as a means to prevent war or at the very least ward-off potential intervention by extraregional powers. Accordingly, the factor of self-interests and self-preservation creates a divergent spectrum of foreign policies within these countries. Thus, there is a unique propensity of domestic politics—primarily from those leaders in
Introduction Nuclear issue in the North Korea has been a problem widely discussed around the world in recent years, while the whole progress from the start of the nuclear crisis (The withdrawal of the North Korea from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003) to the cooperation (Six Party Talks) and its failure is quite dramatic and worth exploring (Fang, 2009). This paper attempted to use two perspectives including neorealism and neoliberalism to look at the issue, and examine their explanatory