Balance of power in international relations

History professor Ross Kennedy has applied his expertise in the First World War, Woodrow Wilson, and U.S. foreign relations in conceptualizing and analyzing the political leaders’ and policy makers’ strategy for peace and national security during and after the First World War. Currently a professor at the Illinois State University Department of History, Kennedy has been awarded the Outstanding College Research Award in 2014 as well as the ISU-CAS Outstanding Service Award. Beside his monograph,…

Woods Conference and decided on a plan for change. It was during this conference that the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International…

theoretically inconsistent, or that; 2) its inconsistencies does not make it useless in practice; 3) that apologism may be less of a problem that it is depicted; and 4) that the extent of the integration of law and social science in the context of international law might be too much. Notions of Non-Consensualism as a Part of Consent The article listed two…

anarchic.” That is how realists may see the world and relations amongst state are only necessary in order to gain states’ own interests. They believe that states are competitive towards one another with the primary goal of gaining power. Their theory is often contradicting the theory of the liberalists and idealists, which believe in cooperation and the existences of mutual benefits. The realists believe that states are meant to struggle for power and act in a way to prioritize the nation’s…

distrust of American power and influence]…

has used its power to promote western values across the globe in many different ways. Some of the ways in which the US’s exerts its hegemonic power can be reflected on the way the world functions today. Its power is embedded in economic policies, environmental agreements, and its global institutions like the IMF and the World Bank “since the early 1990s, U.S. policymakers have embraced primacy and adopted an ambitious grand strategy of expanding the United States’ preponderant power” (Layne,…

emissions, and perpetuating the protections offered by the Constitution are issues for the United States today, tomorrow, and for the decades to come. Principally of concern are our actions and reactions abroad, namely those with Russia, China. The balance of power theory maintains that…

The British had a unitary system, which acts as a single unit with all or most of the power concentrated in the central government. “Americans rebelled against Britain’s unitary government and were certainty not going to reintroduce the same system all over again” (Morone and Kersh 88). Also, the Articles of Confederation created a system called a confederation, which was made of states that gave some of their powers to the national government. Americans found out this system created too weak of…

Disarmament case: “It is understandable that courts will be cautious about frivolous litigations. At the same time, they must balance this concern against the international community’s interest in providing access to justice and promoting the peaceful settlement of disputes. This is all the more important at the ICJ given how difficult it is to seize its jurisdiction.” The International Court of Justice (ICJ) cautious enforcement of justice and promotion of peaceful settlement in the Marshall…

War can result from failure of states to resolve their disputes by diplomatic means. The US uses the national instrument of power to keep the leadership position in the world. “As a nation, the US wages war employing all instruments of national power—diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. The President employs the Armed Forces of the United States to achieve national strategic objectives.” US military helps the executive…