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Why South China Sea is victim of disputes? The South China Sea is intentionally sited. It is sited in a way that it overlaps the main lanes of the sea between Asia, Middle East and the Europe. It becomes the main international way for sea trade and transportation, where most of the world’s largest traffic passes. As a global concern, the geopolitical and economic importance of the South China Sea lessens the secure navigation of tanks in water. The region plays a strategic maritime and military…

Follesdal & Hix recognize numerous holes in Moravcsik’s arguments. Though the policies of the EU and voter preferences tend to always align, this is insufficient. Democrats, particularly libertarians, want strong safeguards to ensure that government will be accountable. They want reliable mechanisms to ensure there will be no misuse of power (Follesdal & Hix, 2006). Secondly, they stress that Moravcsik underestimated the importance of the deliberative and pluralist conception of democracy.…

Over two years ago, the United Nations first warned that there are more than sixty million people around the world that had been forcibly displaced, which is the highest it has ever been since World War Two. The war in Syria has been the single largest driver of refugees in the world. According to Acer (2016), the conflict in Syria has displaced more than eleven million people and about five million have fled the country. Although most of the Syrian refugees are being hosted in neighboring…

The Evolution of Collective Security to Collective Defence in NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) adopted the principle of collective security framework based on the concept of collective defence. Collective security and collective defence are different. This can be seen on the philosophies underlying their use. Collective defence affiliated with realism while collective security is liberalism. In international relations perspective, realism main concern is their self-interest. All…

Forty years ago, the British people voted by referendum to join the European Economic Community. But that wasn’t too fair a referendum now, was it? You see, the British people only gave input to join an economic community which has since transformed to the European Community, and now the European Union without the consent of the British people. Since our admittance to the EU, our right to self-govern has slowly dwindled away. Right now, for example, the European Union makes 75% of our laws. They…

The key question of whether or not early European expansion and if it was inevitable is a question still debated to this day. It a tough question but not impossible as demonstrated through Alfred Crosby with “Ecological Imperialism”. Alfred W. Crosby speaks on the origins of European domination over the western world. He focuses on Neo-Europeans as well as North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand. In the prologue, he speaks to how Europeans dominated their environment and other…

Unit 5 Written Assignment 1. There is much criticism that modernization theory is Eurocentric. Introduction. “Modernization theory proposes that there are natural stages of economic development that all societies go through from undeveloped to advanced,” (Little & McGivern, 2013, p.560). One of the criticism of the modernization theory is that, “ widely varying degrees of development observed globally have less to do with natural stages of development and more to do with relations of economic…

What National Identity Could Be National identity is what people identify as on a national level of any given country. Each country in the European Union has one on the individual level. The lack of having one as the European Union has become a factor in questioning what the purpose is of the union all these countries have with each other. Building a national identity can help to unify people, let alone countries, by giving them a purpose or a reason to be unified. The European Union’s case is…

Does a European political identity exist today? If not, to what extent is it possible and/or beneficial for EU policymakers to create one? Political identity is the process through which "individuals recognize themselves as part of a group sharing a set of social and political values and principles" (Lucarelli, p.149). The European Union is still looking for its own identity. This paper aims to prove how European political identity is still 'under construction' and if it is possible or…

Mary P. Wood’s assessment of how European films need to be understood and analysed is indicative of not only contemporary European film scholarship trends but also the sheer importance of the role as financier/exhibitor that E.U. media programmes have played in recent decades. Supporting European filmmaking is a crucial undertaking for these E.U. organisations, serving to preserve and to produce a sense of European culture to varying degrees, while also stimulating its economy, much like…