Power in international relations

Structural realists say struggles between states are not the result of the human nature but the result of the political system of the international politics. Because no states trust each other, they must build their own military organizations and institutions to defend themselves. This leads to some conflicts and wars between states because nobody trusts each other. Neoliberalism says that society ought to be formed by the free market. It is said that with neoliberalism, what works in the…

the goals and objectives of national interest in such a way as can persuade others to accept these as just and rightful demands of the nation. Diplomats use persuasion and threats, rewards and threats of denial of rewards as the means for exercising power and securing goals of national interest as defined by foreign policy of their nation. Diplomatic negotiations constitute the most effective means of conflict-resolution and for reconciling the divergent interests of the state. Through mutual…

Kant is saying we need to teach everyone how to be happy through a universal mortality system. On the basis of this thinking, we are able to extend its hand to the international level and see how counties around the world would engage in international…

To a large extent, detente did little to stabilise international relations during the 1970s. Despite an initial period of cooperation between the superpowers, detente failed to stop the eventual buildup of tensions between Moscow and Washington DC. However, detente did not fail completely; some advances towards international stability were made during the 1970s. First of all, detente did little to stabilise international relations since it failed to achieve any significant progress towards…

This is because of the fact that gender inequality is a result of the importance of ideas in states and how they’re “more important than power or instructions in shaping international outcomes” (Nau, pg 10). In terms of international relations, the identity perspective believes that states are constructed based upon identities that were formed in the past. These identities in turn “shape interests, interactions, and institutions and change…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal that works to prosecute individuals who have committed heinous crimes, like genocide and war crimes. The organization was established in 1998 and became a fully functioning organization with the implementation of the Rome Statute in 2002. From the beginning of the organization; African countries have served as valuable members of the International Criminal Court. Many African leaders pushed for…

the United States’ would have difficulty maintaining its relationships with other world powers because the country itself was frail, possessed a series of discourses domestically and internationally, and especially had complex relationships with European powers; thus complicating how America lived out in the early nineteenth century. A country is unable to maintain relationships well with other world powers until it is able to manage itself. Under the Articles of Confederation, the United…

as a state is a member of many international organisations, including the United Nations and the Council of Europe. The state is also a party to many international treaties and conventions. However, even though these agreements have been signed and acknowledged, they have no legal force within the state. The reason for this is because Ireland takes a dualist approach to international law. Monism and dualism are theories describing the relationship between international law and domestic law.…

Carol Cohn and J. Ann Tickner both offer a feminist critique of the field of international relations. Cohn focuses specifically on the language associated with nuclear weaponry while Ticker contextualizes Cohn’s work to more broadly analyze the field; however, they would both agree that the field of international relations is dominated by a male perspective that largely ignores the female voice. For this paper, I argue that Joe Nye’s conception of liberal institutionalism manages to be more…

Power and interests have always been the basis of the relationship among societies. International orders emerge to establish how states relate to each other and change due to major clashes between great powers. Along the history, the quest for the survival and development of civilizations around the world evolved around the amount of power they have and the interests they share. With the evolution of societies, distribution of power was necessarily a zero sum situation. To explain this, the…