Power in international relations

An Analysis of Joseph Nye’s Use of “Soft Power” and its Relationship with Morality in International Relations Recently, the United States has lost a great deal of power in the international arena because of its invasion of Iraq and torture of prisoners of war. The United States holds an incredible edge in military capabilities over any other nation and the US benefits from the largest economy in the world. In a world where there is one single superpower, why is that superpower unable to

Robert O. Kehoane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. “Power and Interdependence” In this text, Keohane and Nye try to shape and define a new concept of power applied on international relations based on the notion of interdependence, which is a concept broadly used and misunderstood in the discipline. Interdependence is getting more and more important in defining international affairs, inter-state relationships and worldwide behaviors; for a good understanding of the issue, we should now define the cornerstone

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

AIS 3121 Theories of International Relations Are companies more powerful than nation-state in international relations? Chak Shu Fai, 52626878 Introduction This essay will focus on the influential relations between companies and nation-states in international relations. It is a serious issue because companies have raised the importance in international relations, especially non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). According to the data collected by the

Early approaches to international relations can be found in the works of the Greeks and Romans. Plato and Aristotle, who wrote on the concept of war and the defense of the city-state. Partially as a result of the decline of the Greek city-states, the idealist concept of cosmopolitanism and world citizenship took hold. Roman scholars later developed the law of nations, which consisted of a body of legal principles and practices common to those societies associated with Rome. French writers, particularly

CONVINCING PARADIGM FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS? WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF REALISM AS A THEORY FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS? Realism has dominated international relations theory since emerging in the 1930’s. The era of state conflict lasting from the 1930’s to the end of the cold war in 1947, proved the perfect hostile environment to fit the largely pessimistic view of world politics. While many aspects of realism are still alive in International Relations today; including the dominant

Realism, the international system is defined by anarchy and the lack of a central authority, meaning that states are independent from each other and no structure or system can establish a forced relation among them. In this type of system, power is the main objective that each state plans to accomplish because only by achieving this power they can protect themselves and survive. According to this theory, there are different powers that a state plans to achieve for example the military power, the economic

INTRODUCTION The most historically entrenched theoretical perspective in international relations theory is that of classical realism. Surprisingly though classical realism was not sensationalized in the international relations arena until World War II despite its existence in fifth-century Athens. Many great philosophers such as Thucydides, Machiavelli and Hobbes developed the basics of classical realism and in 1948 Hans J. Morgenthau made the great leap into contemporizing classical realism

Introduction The study of international relations takes a wide range of theoretical approaches. Some emerge from the discipline itself; others have been imported, in whole part from disciplines such as economics or sociology. Many theories of international relations are internally and externally contested, and few scholars believe only in one or another. A theory of international relations is a set of ideas that explains how the international system works (SparkNote on International Politics, 2010). Unlike

Syrian refugees’ crisis, the motion of modern international system always moves forward with the changes of world politics. There is a number of scholars would use “Eurocentric” as a key word to define this system because of several reasons. Since Karl Haushofer (NV & Leiden, 2006) firstly wrote “Europe-centric” in German during the 1920s, the debate of this topic has been one of the most crucial projects for every scholar of international relations in these centuries. More precisely, “Eurocentric”