International Relations Essays

Overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Introduction: The Cuban Missile Crisis was a period of extreme tension and conflict between the USA and Cuba and the USSR in October 1962; it was characterized by decisions made by both John F Kennedy and Nikita K...

Terrorist Attacks Causes and Effects
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Introduction: Introduction In recent years, terrorist attacks have increased enormously. According to Paul Wilkinson in his book “Terrorism Versus Democracy: The Liberal State Response” (2011), terrorism still...

Cause of Ethnic Conflict in the Middle East
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Introduction: Politics and the Economy of the Contemporary Middle East: Explain the cause of the ethnic conflicts in the Middle East. When referring to the nature of any conflict, it must be emphasized that no co...

Compliance in International Relations
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Introduction: Abstract This paper seeks to address whether state cooperation via formal international institutions may best be understood as a spectrum of compliance rather than binary states. Prevailing perspecti...

Religion and International Relations
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Introduction: Introduction Religion (noun): the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. In modern times, religion isn’t just the belief and worship of a supern...

Realist Theory of International Relations
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Introduction: Introduction Sovereign States are the main actors in International system, and they are the most influential when it comes to the International stage. States are majorly concerned about their securit...

Public Opinion and Military Intervention
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Introduction: For modern day states, especially democracies, the outcome of a military intervention is not just determined by the outcome on the battlefield but is also to a huge extent determined by the public op...

Political Subjectivity Theories Analysis
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Introduction: Power, Freedom, Justice: Explorations in Political Subjectivity Reflective Logs: The purpose of this paper is to reflect on how the following thinkers studied in the module engaged with Kant`s concep...

Pakistani & Indian Relations
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Introduction: Introduction: From the beginning the seeds of conflicted have been impartially implanted in the roots of Pak-India Relations. These two nations never considered each other as their friends but remain...

Literature Review of US Foreign Policy
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Introduction: Background America’s 1930s foreign policy was based on the realist school of thought. It emphasised international trade in order to achieve economic rejuvenation, whilst its security strategy demon...

Is China Facing a Financial Crisis?
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Introduction: In a first for Chinese Banks and its Big Four, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) unseated Exxon Mobil last year to take the top spot on the Forbes Global 2000[i] as the world’s lar...

International Development Policy
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Introduction: Political, economical and social development of developing countries has been a high priority on the global agenda. International development policy has gained momentum as issues such as poverty in s...

Analysis of Refugee Protection Mechanisms
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION On any given day, thousands of individuals including women and children from all parts of the world are forced to flee their homes for fear of persecution or to escape the dangers of arme...

How Effective is the United Nations?
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Introduction: How effective is the United Nations? Before we say that the U.N is or not an effective institution, we must know or assess their performance in all areas in which they are involved in. And after that...

Voting Behaviour in Nigeria
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Introduction: ETHNICITY AND VOTING BEHAVIOUR IN NIGERIA ABSTRACT This paper tried to give a historical discourse about the relationship between ethnicity and voting behavior using Nigeria as its case study. Lookin...

China's Relationship with North Korea
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Introduction: Table of Contents: Introduction Hypothesis statement Research Questions Literature Review Theoretical framework (Defensive Realism-Kenneth Waltz) Sino-Korean alliance Mutual gain between China and N...

Importance of International Organizations
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Introduction: International Organizations (IOs) are formal institutional structures transcending national boundaries which are created by multilateral agreement among nation-states. Their purpose is to foster inte...

Comparison of 'War on Terror' with the Cold War
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Introduction: Does the ‘Global War on Terror’ inaugurated by George W. Bush have similarities to the Cold War? Since 2001, academics and the United States administration have continuously compared the war agai...

Cuban Missile Crisis Decision Making
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Introduction: Introduction A decision can be defined as the culmination of a thought process analysing a problem. Good decision making is vital for the well being and safety of a man. Many men who have not given i...

Impact of Corruption in Nigeria
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Introduction: CORRUPTION AND ITS IMPACT ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (NIGERIA AS A CASE STUDY) (FEBRUARY 2014) Abstract Corruption is no news in the world today. We can see corruption in our d...

Climate Change and Food Security
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study Our activities are inimical to the environment, our daily work and behaviour domestically, industrially and even agriculturally threatens the stability of e...

Chinese Perception of Global Order
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Introduction: “Chinese perception of global order and the position of China throughout history” Introduction It is obvious that in the last few decades the People’s Republic of China is on the rise, ...

Chinese and Western International Relations Theories
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Introduction: Chinese ancient school of thoughts[1] and Western International Relations theories: A comparative study Introduction Background of the study The study of international relations has classically focus...

Bilateral Relations Between the EU and China
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Introduction: Till the 1978, Peoples Republic of China (PRC) was in self employed isolation because of two things, one was Cultural Revolution and another was the transformation of the society and economy from tra...

'Arab Nationalism' in the Modern Context
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Introduction: ‘Arab Nationalism’ was an important part of anti-colonial struggle. A generation on it has little meaning today. Discuss. This essay will examine to what extent Arab nationalism as an ideology wa...