International Relations Essay

Canada’s experience as an international relative has been a brief and recent development compared to many other countries. Due to the heroic efforts done in part by Canadian soldiers in World War One, Canada was gifted the statue of Westminster. This gift signaled the end of British primacy to our foreign policy, and crafted Canada’s foreign strategy that has been known around the world for many decades. Canada’s role in World War two to help aid in the fight of Nazism and Fascism played a…

How realists and liberalists ( in international relations context) see individuals, groups and the world differently The differences between realists and liberalists come from their difference in the view of the individual. For realists “homo homini lupus”, that is, individuals are selfish and will try to subjugate their opponents whenever they will have the occasion. Only the power of the State with its legitimate use of violence can bring order from anarchy. Liberalists, instead, have a more…

United States and China are not heading toward a rivalry similar to the United States-Soviet conflict during the 20th century. This can be explained using the three levels of analysis in international relations: system, unit and individual respectively. Firstly, the system level of analysis, the international system is defined by anarchy—the absence of a central authority (Waltz). United States and the Soviet Union were sovereign and thus were autonomous to each other. The Cold War in the…

The field of international politics is a vastly complex field that can be difficult to interpret and make sense of. There is no supreme governing power, only sovereign states. Theories can be used as a sort of lens to find patterns in the behavior of states and determine how likely cooperation is in the international system. In this essay, I will be presenting the Neorealist argument that states are self-interested actors concerned with security and survival, and the Neoliberal Institutionalist…

interconnectivity of states, it is more or less impossible for a country to have absolute sovereignty. While other countries are not likely to intervene in the affairs of another country, the conducts of a state should be consistent with the established international laws (Krasner, 2001). This implies in exercising the free will of a country, a country must ensure that its activities do not impact or infringe on the free will of another country. In other words,…

a push for stronger military and borders. The interview focus on the topics of immigration or refugees and the European Union to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to domestic and international relations importance of trade and military. These different topics can be analyzed through international relation theories of realism, constructivism, and liberalism.…

the country’s pressing domestic economic problems” above “stabilize international economic relations.” Then again, “The national interest is not a blank slate upon which the international system writes at will, it is internally determined by the socioeconomic evolution of the nation in question. The ability to pursue these “national interests” successfully, and the best strategy to do so, many similarly be determined by international conditions, but the interests themselves are domestically…

detailed events in which domestic relations coincide with the effects and creation of foreign policies. By providing the reader with concise examples, Joyce Kaufman provides detailed connections between governments, economies, and individuals that are ultimately intertwined by foreign policy. More precisely, Kaufman allows for a thorough connection between the public, as a national identity, and the events that ultimately turn us into the actors in the international arena. National interest,…

with isolationist tendencies to a strong beacon of power with an internationalist foreign policy agenda which helps define the international community. US foreign policy is best understood as a constant dichotomy between…

their ethnicity or background. Even when I considered myself to be more conservatively inclined, I have always believed in an international, multilateral approach to politics. In turn, I consider myself a global citizen, even though I am proud of my country. These two ideas do not have to be mutually exclusive because I strongly believe that strengthening international relations makes our country…