Constructivism in international relations

For over 400 years of its history, America has always been involved in foreign affairs. However, the contradiction between the government’s handling of domestic issue and foreign issues often create entanglements. It is evident that the US government promotes certain policies in homeland that the government itself goes against in other countries. While it promotes working standards at home, it also allows sweatshops to violate basic human rights abroad. The US has always venerated democracy, but…

Foreign aid provided by developed states and international institutions, may result beneficial to many developing states, and few times allow them to prosper more than they otherwise would have on their own. It can be argued that such lucrative advancements in recipient countries are only temporary and in fact bring many impediments to the future progression of a nation. This is due to the many conditions that donor states or international institutions attach to their aid giving (packages);…

peaceful and cooperative. Yet, there are places where wars are still happening. In a democratic way, it is believed that people of a nation are the ones who have the authority to control the government. Politicians believe that international actors, more specifically the international institutions such as the United Nations, hold the central authority. The arguments keep going; as such all actors wish to be involved in making the decisions of a governmental system. However when aiming for a…

Ethnic lobbies play a very important role in the Creation and development of American foreign policy, but some ethnic groups are consistently more successful at influencing policy than others. Various foreign relations scholars have tried to explain this phenomenon that crops up again and again in American foreign policy. Among them are Tony Smith and Alvin Tillery, Jr., who developed different but complimentary theories to explain the origin of the discrepancy and analysis of how ethnic groups…

based on an exaggerated conception of a hegemon as omnipotent; In fact, the US has always had to deal with occasional major setbacks in foreign policy. The important point is that the US still enjoys greater international influence than any potential competitors and largely sets the international agenda, even if it does not always get its way. U.S has the most extensive cultural and educational soft-power ressources. In researches,U.S is in advanced in biology ,technology and has an unmatched…

The international system is like a food chain of predators; everyone has a taste for blood, but very few countries have the ability to "eat". If you are not the hegemon, you are prospective prey to someone else. What type of predator a state is depends of if the are realist or neorealist. Realists believe the primary objective of the state is to survive. They see other countries as threats, and are proactive in procuring power. These states chase security and relative power through both war and…

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strategy in dealing with other nations. The goals of foreign policy is to preserve the national security of the united states, promote world peace, secure global environment,maintain a balance of power among nations, work with allies to solve international problems, and promoting democratic values and human rights. However the united states was not successful at meeting the goals of containment. They failed to keep communism from spreading among the nations besides soviet union in europe. To…

United States has been the world hegemony since the end of the Second World War and 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…

The field of International Development and Foreign Relations is an interesting and complex area in the study of politics and public policy. In this paper, I will discuss three very different but intertwined organizations. Walmart, the Center of Global Development, and the United States Agency on International Development are not commonly associated, however they all play a major role in global policy. This paper is going to show how each organization is interrelated in the field of global…