United Nations Environment Programme

The WTO currently has too many loopholes, allowing Japan to hunt for “research purposes” and Norway to hunt under an “objection” of the ban. I think that the panel should be a part of an environmental offshoot of the United Nations and that delegates that serve on the panel should be a working part of the UN. Science, interests, and morals should be reasonably discussed, weighted on the evidence presented and states must reformulate common jurisdiction. They must also make…

weaknesses in liberalism. China and Japan view the islands as crucial to protecting their individual sovereignty due to the islands’ economic and military value. According to an article published by the International Strategic and Security Studies Programme, “The Senkaku islands matter because they… are close to important shipping lines, offer rich fishing grounds… and lie near potential oil and gas reserves” (Viswanathan). A state’s ability to establish secure sources of raw materials, from…

If states were able to cooperate, would the world be a better place? What would be the likely hood of all of the state’s cooperating? In this essay, I will present two arguments, which will spell out the neorealist point of view and the neoliberal point of view of international cooperation. The neorealist believe that it would be difficult to have international cooperation because they are worried about having equal distribution of power within states, and being able to trust other states. The…

Legal and Ethical Dilemmas: The Media and Terrorism Considering the recent rise in terror attacks across the globe and the predominant effect this has on journalistic reporting, this essay will centre around legal and ethical dilemmas that arise when covering terrorism in the media. Brian Jenkins (1974) states that “Terrorist attacks are often carefully choreographed to attract the attention of the electronic media and the international press. Terrorism is aimed at the people watching, not at…

In the book “Globalization and its Discontents” by Joseph E. Stiglitz, there are a lot of arguments about how the international community can do better when it comes to providing developing nations with aid. He discusses big organizations like the IMF and the World Bank, and how their efforts might even make the situation worse in some cases. The last chapters in the book, Stiglitz also discusses steps he sees are needed and that he argues should be applied by the international community.…

While referencing the terror inflicted on the people of the Dominican Republic under the reign of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the author Robert Crassweiler once said: The extent to which violence, both open and covert, is a constant factor in the life of the region may cause surprise. The incongruous and rather unreal quality of many events, whether fanciful or farcical in appearance, may also prove unexpected. Understanding the Dominican Republic’s cultural atmosphere without discussing the…

impacts on the world economy. The costs of the early global trade versus the costs of the new trade placed a new way that people interacted with each other in a world basis. The costs of the early global trade were on the environment and tension between countries. One of the environment costs due to the fur trading was that the population of beavers, rabbits, sable, marten, and deer had been diminished to extremely low levels of animal population. In return for fur trading was a highly…

matter their proximity to the reader. While Singer’s writing is focused specifically on the 1971 Bengali Famine, the ideals proposed are applicable for modern situations as well. Singer begins by outlining the fact that, if willing, first-world nations and their citizens are more than capable of alleviating states of famine in the third-world, but have not provided assistance of a high enough quantity to do so. This, according to Singer, is morally wrong. He postulates that dying from famine…

Theoretical issues centered around the phenomenon of conflict and war seek to explain an important part of international relations. This is reinforced through Vasquez’s acknowledgement that “Despite claims that interstate war is on the wane, it is still a very serious social problem” (2012, 301). These explanations will be explored through an analysis on the concepts of the security dilemma, deterrence, and alliances. Such issues are not solely rooted in any one IR theory. Therefore, the second…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mark a historic and effective method of global mobilisation to achieve a set of important social priorities worldwide. They express widespread public concern about poverty, hunger, disease, unmet schooling, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. By packaging these priorities into an easily understandable set of eight goals, and by establishing measurable and time bound objectives, the MDGs help to promote global awareness, political…