Constructivism in international relations

in a clearer way for the reader. I feel like I argued my contentions in my body paragraphs (pre-, during, and post-genocide policy guidelines) best. I felt most comfortable writing those parts as the language and process of explaining an international relations policy recommendation is fairly familiar to me. I worry that I made my argument regarding implications of human rights theory on the responsibility to protect in an unclear way. I feel like it’s almost shoehorned into the rest of my…

power to defend themselves in the anarchic international system. Many of these ideas came from Thucydides’ writing about realism in the international system. In many of his texts he writes about how a state’s survival depends largely on their material capability and alliances. More specifically if a state is internally solid with a strong communal identity, this will then lead to domestic stability and more importantly a strong foundation in the international system. However, being a strong…

Student : Mehrshid Jame Student Number: 209582305 The U.S is well known in the international community for compromising the sovereignty of states by means of foreign intervention. Events like the riots in Venezuela and the Taliban rising to power in Afghanistan are both symptoms of U.S intervention in foreign affairs outside of its own borders. These intervention efforts are often portrayed as a fight for democratic values but historical events will show us that in fact U.S foreign…

Currently, Stuenkel is an International Relations scholar working in Sao Palo for the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. His work has focused on macro issues in international relations, emergent powers and changing geopolitics. The regions that have formed the body of his research have been India, East Asia and South America. So far, his writings have been well…

Thesis The process through which the United States engages in State building, is rooted in the interplay of state formation and empire building that the US underwent, following its independence, as it expanded westwards; US led state formation and attempts at democracy building can therefore be understood as a continuation of American imperial goals. Outline In this paper, we will explore the connection between the roles that the US attempts to plays internationally, developing democratic…

Foreign aid is the international transfer of capital, goods, or services from a country or international organization for the benefit of the recipient country or its population. Aid can be economic, military, or emergency humanitarian (Williams 2015). Aid has long been recognized as crucial to help poor developing nations grow out of poverty. Peace and war has the significant effect of distribution of foreign aid in the developing countries. The distribution of foreign aids is effected in…

they otherwise would not do. The concept of power is a central theme to the study of International Relations, as there exist many forms and categories of it making it open to contestation and thus difficult to define. In particular, large entities and state power is the discourse in indicating social, political, economic, and military power. The many existential theories within the study of international relations all put a great deal of emphasis on the concept of power, yet describe its…

Brotherhood of Kings Analysis Amanda Podany’s Brotherhood of Kings provides a look at international relations in the near east during much of the third and second millennia BCE and how these interactions shaped the development of the area. In this analysis of Podany’s work an overview of Brotherhood of Kings, including its purpose, how it is structured, the major themes of the piece, the sources used within it, as well as the main points Podany draws, will be given. From there the influence of…

Within international relations there are quite a few different political theories and perspectives. Realism is known as being one of the oldest theory which is also known as political realism, it’s a view within international relations which condones the idea of competition for power and the conflict side of things for example wars. Theories like idealism and liberalism is usually used to contrast the idea of realism because they encourage the idea of cooperation. The realist view point is about…

Introduction This paper is a qualitative comparative analysis of the application of leadership and strategy theories within the TV show Game of Thrones, in relation to the Stark family. The TV show is based on the bestselling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. Essentially, it’s a story about a political game in which the struggle for power (the Iron Throne) is what motivates the major characters. Everyone has a distinct political agenda, but only a small minority of…