International relations

2012) This course created the opportunity to learn the benefit in the analysis and comprehending the rational for leaders decisions. My knowledge of current event and global issues was minimal. However, I now know that realism explains international relations in terms of power and that realists and idealists differ in…

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Tillerson outlines the intention of the United States to further relations with India to address the rising Chinese power. He describes the nature of US ties with India as a “strategic relationship.” Moreover, Tillerson highlights how the United States and China will “never have the same relationship” due to China’s communist society and infringements of several international conventions. In his speech, Tillerson makes it evident that the United States views…

argues that Modern realism began in a reaction to the breakdown in the post-World War One international order. Wohlforth’s main ideology is realism and states how the rise and fall of realism has taken place, but stresses that international world events cannot weaken or destroy the realist ideology. The collapse of the great power cooperation helped emerge realism to be a dominant position in international relations. The central question presented in this article looks to seek to ask, did the…

The state system has been imbedded in international relations and international politics since the creation of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 AD. The Westphalian ‘state system’ saw the end to the destructive thirty-year war in the seventeenth-century, creating a peaceful resolution to end the conflict and establishing territorial sovereignty. The fundamental roles states have been assigned include create justice and order, welfare, freedom, unity and most importantly protection of the people…

down if you don’t. At the same time, you also need not to obey nor respect the rights of others. When applied to a much broader idea of international relations, each nation has to protect itself and self-help is the domineering belief. The dilemma of attacking before being attacked comes into play. As nations desire for power is never-ending, international relations, then, is in the state of constant war. An exemplary example…

Realism is a broad comprehensive theory of international relations with many diverse assumptions and sub-theories articulated by several scholars. New ideas have been introduced by scholars who interpreted traditional philosophers and historians to generate some branches within realism such as classical realism (Thucydides, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes), and neo-realism/ structural realism (Kenneth Waltz).However, there are four key assumptions that are similar within all branches of Realism…

While international relations scholars primarily focus on the present interactions between states, and the events which lead up to them, they also predict future the development of the global system. Therefore, there are two diverging paths upon which the state of global affairs can develop in the future: degradation or utopianism. The international relations scholar, Fukuyama, thinks the latter will occur. Believing that history is "a battle to determine which form of government is the…

There are many reasons that draw me towards wanting to attend the Cuba International Field Program this summer. Firstly, it would provide an extremely rare opportunity and experience, especially for a global studies undergrad such as myself, in an advanced graduate research study. Secondly, the fact that I would have the ability to go to a country that is an underexplored gold mine and study race relations has been a dream of mine. The issue of race has been something the United States, and the…

The international arena is full of rapid change, challenges, and uncertainty. Scholar use theoretical tools to further understand global politics. The most prominent theory driven tools used today are Realism and Liberalism. These two theories vary in definition and people ascribe to them as ways of viewing the world, predicting the future of events and furthering their understanding of state behavior. Two great books that exemplify such theories are “The Tragedy of Great Powers” by John J.…

different views on various issues, such as climate change, trade deals and cooperation with other countries. From realism to neo-Marxism, there are many contending theories on international relations, and the candidates’ policy can be interpreted through the different lenses. There are several principal theories of international relations that prove useful in evaluating foreign policies. Realism, mainly contrasted with liberalism, focuses on the conflicts of world politics. The principal actors…