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Following the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, the world turned its eyes towards this rising new global power in Asia. By defeating the Russians and the waiving of the white flag at Liaoyang, the Japanese have quickly proven themselves as an overall competitor to the West in terms of political and military power. By the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth in September 5, 1905, it recognized Japanese supremacy in Korea, oversaw the transition of Russian holdings in Manchuria (Liaodong…

As academics look at events to see the repercussions, what they were really about from the approach of the scholar sometimes they find contradicting ideas about a single event, which allows for further debate. To properly support the idea of the state analysis being the ideal idea for the Treaty of Dunkirk, and for the concentration of Security and Strategy, using the analyses of John Baylis, Cees Wiebes and Bert Zeeman, and Sean Greenwood to support the state analysis and show the different…

Although there are numerous international relations theories that exist within the world today, not many clash like neorealism and idealism do. Where neorealists see a world full of actors focused on achieving power for survival, idealists see many actors attempting to achieve that same survival through the use of cooperation instead of force. When neorealists say that power is the best means for survival, idealists assert that survival is not in power, but rather in cooperation and…

European Union and its creation of overarching rules amongst its member states. These overarching rules are created in competence by the member states in order to achieve ‘…objectives that they have in common.’ In order to execute these common objectives, the principle of direct effect holds each member state accountable for the laws decided as a collective through the implementation of the European Court of Justice against member states. Various articles in the Treaty on European Union…

The idea in an arms race is to control the actions of the opposition. This creates a very unusual way to strategize during near war times. The near war times referred to here are the years of the Cold War between the Untied States and the Soviet Union. Tensions were high between the two countries, from the time in 1945, when the Soviets blocked the Polish government-in-exile in London from becoming part of the Moscow-sponsored communist government (Norton, 2015.) The Soviets feared that the…

a little history of the of the European Union. Everything started in 1992 when EU nations signed the Treaty of Maastricht, which set steps to accomplish two goals: political union and the decision to replace each national currency with a single European currency, that until this days has eliminated different currencies as a trade barrier. According to the Treaty of Maastricht, countries had to meet certain criteria to be part of the European Monetary Union (EMU) such as the annual government…

1650 through the 1800 's was a time when educated westerners began to look to science and reason instead of religion for the improvement of humankind. This era is referred to as the Enlightenment. Beginning in the 1800 's many began to reject some of the major ideas that the Enlightenment entailed. Such as the idea of the individual, private property, human rights, human equality, and the idea of progress. With this came the "age of uncertainty" which reached it 's first high point with the…

The Korean War was an armed conflict spanning from June 1950 – July 1953 and involved two opposing sides, North Korea and South Korea. Each side was backed up by the Soviet Union and United States, respectively, and was part of the larger, long-term Cold War. The stage was set for a South Korean-U.S. victory with the allied forces pushing back the communists north of the 38th parallel and to the Yalu River in North Korea. However, victory could not be seized as the South Korean troops were met…

and Equal Pay, Not So Fair and Equal Labor Unions seem like a decaying memory; over the past few years, numbers of membership of unions have dropped to a low 11.1 percent in 2015, while membership in 1983 was at 20.1%. (“Union Members Summary”) The drop-in numbers seem to be related to economic issues like the recession in December of 2007(“By comparison”). Or could it be that workers are sick of equal pay for all employees? People that belong to unions, seem tired of going to work, doing their…

few months ago, news broke that Britain had decided to leave the European Union. Britain’s decision is now known as “Brexit”. There were many theories as to what was going to happen to the economy from Britain leaving the European Union. Now that a few months have passed, we can take a look at the overall outcome of the situation. We can also make guesses as to what will happen in the future. Britain leaving the European Union has had many effects on the European economy as well as the global…