international system has experience a multitude of theoretical frameworks including realism, liberalism, and idealism; furthermore, each has emerged into new schools of thought after the conclusion of the Cold War. The liberal school of thought has inherited many developments and new features since 1989. The ending of the Cold War and initiation of neoliberalism was expected to lead to a decline in conflict and result in a cooperating international system under the anarchic system. In addition, to
During the period of Cold War, the world was divided into two camps and battled for ideology – capitalism vs. communism. There was also a competition for nuclear and space race, a competition for industrial and scientific advancements and a competition for spheres of influence between the two world superpowers namely, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Cold War Period started at the end of the Second World War in 1947 and ended on the dissolution of the Soviet Union
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama published "the End of History?" on the National Interest. Throughout the article, he attempted to account for the global changes in the post-Cold War era including the ideological transformation of the Soviet Union by introducing a new idea of 'the end of history'. To Fukuyama, this idea signified the main ground for the turbulence and the systematic reformation. His argument that the history will no longer evolve has two main significations. First, the ideas or ideologies
Introduction The United Nations (UN) is an international organization composed of sovereign states. Before the World War II, there was an international alliance that similar to the UN, which could often be regarded as the predecessor of the UN. The Charter of the United Nations, which came into force on October 24th 1945, marked the establishment of the UN. According to the Charter, the UN is open to “all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter
justice as per Gatlung’s positive peace theory. These findings continue to highlight the need to understand the risks of occurrence violent conflict, as well as the early warning signs of onset in order to address the underlying issues before civil wars erupt and degenerate into regional armed conflicts; thus affecting global security. Although G-8 nations and multiple international organizations (such as the United Nations, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, African Union, Southern
Human Rights Human rights are the rights a person has simply because he or she is a human being. They are entitlements owed to a person by virtue of creation and they are held by all persons equally, universally, and forever. Article 1 of the Universal Declaration proclaims that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...” Human rights are inalienable and indivisible, so you cannot lose these rights any more than you can cease being a human being and you cannot be denied a
In Unjust Justice, Chantal Delsol evaluates the contemporary international system and contemporary international law, the regulation of relations between sovereign states, by defending various principles that she claims will be violated by the potential formation of a “world government”. The principles that Delsol defends in response to recent steps toward a universal state are found in the works of modern thinker, Emer de Vattel, and medieval thinker, Thomas Aquinas. Furthermore, her critique
promoting and protecting human rights. During the cold war humanitarian intervention went stagnant because the two superpowers who were facing off (US & Russia) were at odds about ideology and this caused world peace to be thrown into turmoil. The UN was very new and did not have the international legal clout to stop either superpower from promoting its system of governance through invasion or indirect military support. The Cold War caused social, economic, and political upheaval globally which allowed
concept of strategic geometry comprises the notion that that the interactions and interconnections between a number of political actors within a particular system of international relations, either global or regional can be seen in terms of geometric patterns of strategic configurations. It can be a case of simple geometry, in which A interacts with B: but in a more complex system such as that of
The political world has evolved and reshaped itself greatly throughout the history of mankind, with its most important and distinctive change occurring during the period of 1945, the end of the Second World War and 1989 which marked the end of the Cold War. The interaction of nation-states is center of politics on the international level, where the relationships of different nations dictates what events occur in regards to, but not limited to war, peace, economic agreements, and foreign aide involvement