Intercultural relations

Cultural critic Daniel Harris’ “Celebrity Bodies” is a successful informative piece focusing on the impacts of society on Hollywood. Harris is aware of his audience and chooses his diction accordingly adding to the effectiveness of his essay. Evidence presented within the text provides a firm basis which Harris builds his argument upon. The argumentative mode, analytical tone, and use of logos throughout the text makes it successful. From the beginning of the essay, the reader can identify the…

1.The central argument of the Asiaphoria by Lant Pritchett and Larry Summers Asiaphoria was first defined by Lant Pritchett and Larry Summers (2014) as a view that Asian Giants, especially China and India will increasingly shape and dominate the global economy. Although many scholars hare the idea that Asian Giants will continue to grow at high growth rate, like Justin (2016) and Pradeep (2015), let alone similar claim from World Bank, Pritchett and Summers do not agree with Asiaphoria and…

Advertising is a means to communicate a product, service, or idea to a target audience. Companies use a variety of advertising forms: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, internet webpage's, and word of mouth to send their message to the consumer. Companies use advertising to try to convince the target audience their product is what the consumer needs or is better than what is currently in use or is invaluable for everyday life. The focal point of most advertisements is the product that the…

The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a game used in international relations to demonstrate the potential outcomes of two states choosing to either cooperate or defect (Jervis). Neorealists analyze the game by assuming only one round is played and the two participants cannot communicate, meaning that the most beneficial outcome…

Michel Foucault is considered one of the leading theorists in the subject of "discourse", he believes that "in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and redistributed by a certain number of procedures whose role is to ward off its powers and dangers, to gain mastery over its chance events, to evade its ponderous, formidable materiality." (Foucault, 52) Accordingly, Edward Said has used Foucault's concept of discourse to analyze Orientalism; in "The…

From the works of Thucydides, realism was created and has become a major paradigm in international politics. Thucydides studied the Polynesian War between Athens and Sparta, and he studied the relations between these city-states. From his many observations, he put a focus on how the balance of power is a major factor in international politics as well as the importance of the state. The state is an essential component of realism and it is the foundation for many of the central assumptions coming…

International Relation’s Home Assignments Huang Peiyang--177IB03I 1 1. What are the vulnerabilities of mutual deterrence? Mutual deterrence means the maintenance of peace between opposing sides by each having a sufficient strike capacity to deter the other from initiating armed conflict. The typical example of mutual deterrence would be the situation during the Cold War where the U.S and the Soviet Union tried to avoid a hot war throughout the world because of fearing the possible threatening…

2.1.3 Balancing and bandwagoning: Waltz’s variants Balancing and containment While Waltz argued that power maximization is not desirable, offensive-minded neorealists argued that power maximization by great powers is unavoidable. This view is best represented by Mearsheimer’s (2014) book The tragedy of Great Power Politics. Arguing for great powers’ ambition to seek regional and international hegemony, the book argues that balancing behaviors of existing great powers against rising great powers…

Arguments against the “clash of civilizations” (CoC) theory have been made by authors such as Chiozza, Henderson and Tucker. According to these authors, civilizational factors alone are insufficient in producing greater risk of conflict. Other factors such as regime-type, geographical proximity, modernization, military capabilities, Cold war blocs, and major power status affect the prospects for conflict involvement between states as well. I will focus on regime-type, geographical proximity and…

Introduction In this research paper you will read about children with autism and some of the treatments that have been used to treat symptoms of autism. It appears that depending on the severity of the symptoms there is flexibility to choose which intervention would work best, of course what works for some may not fare well with others, so it is important to get to know the family and allow them to be included in which treatments will work for them. From what I have seen working in the mental…