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Thirty-four years ago, the Islamic Revolution changed not only the leadership of Iran but brought a complex and strained relationships with the United States. The focus of this paper is an analysis on an Iranian engagement policy option outlined in the CSIS Report “The Gulf Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Iranian Challenge”. The international relations theory of liberalism is applied using the tenets of economic interdependence and democratic transparency. For three decades, exchanges between

Cultural challenges after entry Leadership and Management The culture of China, in terms of management inside of a company is described as each person has a very clear role and that helps organization to keep things in order. Unlike Serbia and Montenegro where it has a culture of employees expecting employer to give them detailed directions and no questions are expected. Generally managers in China use autocratic leadership style. However they will not embarrass or punish employee publicly or in

The History and Function of Miniseries of Foreign Affairs The practice of what we call diplomacy did not always exist in the way we know it today. In its place entities, which can be loosely defined as States, employed rudimentary lines of communication between one another dating back to 15th centenary. It was an arduous task to have open and responsive lines of communication between these states, however, given the close proximity of Italian city-states and their need for open channels of communication

Power in politics is a central concept, yet a contested one for a multitude of reasons. Chief among them is its contested nature and disagreement among political scientists over the concept itself as well as its operationalization. I refrain from further exploring the literature on power as a general political science concept and focus on its aspects related to negotiation. From an international relations perspective, realists for example, emphasize on the materialistic aspect of power; military

The relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China is perhaps the most important bilateral tie shaping the future of the world. China’s economy for the past 20 years has been riding a phenomenal wave of growth surging to become the world’s second largest economic power. This prospering economy has additionally generated the necessary resources for China to rapidly strengthen and modernize its military and capabilities. These additional resources and capabilities makes

In this paper I will briefly define mediation as a means of official diplomacy and its main features, and then further elaborate on the strengths and weaknesses of the process, with an evaluation of a contemporary example of intergovernmental mediation process, i.e. the EU facilitated dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo. By one of its broadest definitions, mediation is “a process of conflict management, related to but distinct from the parties’ own negotiations, where those in conflict seek the assistance

The rise of the People’s Republic of China (China) in today’s world has evolved into a new reality. In this essay, it will be noted that although China is increasing its prominence in international politics, China will not be a dominant global actor in the near future. In this evaluation, the phrase “dominant global actor” will be defined, and the parameters for “near future” will be set to the next two decades from now. This essay will then outline examples on how China has increased its presence

“The Guns of Augest” by Barbara Tuchman Synapsis In a book that commences with Solem, Though a high end funeral of a global leader does not sound any attractive to a reader, the book, The Guns of Augest immediately captures the attention of the reader to the world history as it unfolded in the First World War with edge hanging suspense and accuracy of history . The book details vividly how a local war turned out to be a struggle for the Europeans as there was a call to war against Russia. Immediately

‘Permissive’ causes of war are those “features of the international system which, while not actively promoting war, nevertheless allow it to happen” (Baylis et al 2002, p. 71). The lack of ungoverned international system some believe is the root that causes war. There are reasonable arguments for both. It has also been found useful to distinguish between ‘necessary’ and ‘sufficient’ causes of war. A necessary condition is one that must be present for it to occur if that condition is not present

forty years. After retiring, he became an emeritus faculty member and he continued to have lectures at various universities. Christopher Merrill is the director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. He also conducted cultural diplomacy missions in over thirty countries for the U.S. State Department. Their conversation is structured in a series of paragraphs over a fifteen-month time period from the year of 2011 to 2012. The paragraphs were stylistically written in prose for the