Many writers when writing a dystopia write about things that they would never want to happen, but many of these scary, predicted things have. Winston Smith is a lower party member in the capital of Oceania who has no privacy anywhere he goes because the thought police watch him. He also cannot go anywhere without seeing the party’s leader big brother. The Party also has rules against thoughtcrime (committing thoughts against the party) and eventually creates a new language, Newspeak, that ...
Essays on International Politics
The topic that summarises the supremacy and significance of realism in the field of international relations in the method in which the contemporary nation-state cooperates with an international organisation, principally inter-governmental bodies. Throughout the Cold War, zero-sum game politics govern the worldwide arena, with collaboration amid states, predominantly authoritative ones, chiefly decided by compatibility in their political benefits and principles. This method directed to the ...
Realism’s roots can be found in various works through history from authors such as Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes or Morgenthau. The latest with his book entitled Politics among Nations has been considered as the foundation of realism. It is not until WWI and the following crisis that realism encountered its first great crisis with the other ‘fundamental’ theory: liberalism. Since the 70s realism seems to have regained its status of respected theory in the « museum of International relations ...
Realism vs liberalism constructivism Marxism and feminism are 5 main theories in international relations that have defined global governance. Through history we have seen these theories be used within states in the international system. Each theory has different belief systems on how they view Cooperation, Balance of power and decision making methods.Realism is a very historical theory. The origin of the realism theory can be traced back to the conflict between Athens and Sparta. Realists ...
In History it can be seen that communities resisted the western ideologies. Many countries rejected the spread of western beliefs . However it did spread to several countries across the globe. These countries loved the ideology of Communism. Countries like Russia, China, Vietnam and Cuba were interested in communism . It can be said that the conflict between the East and the West had begun in diverse views as to how society should be organised. This emerged in the course of the 19th and early ...
This is an anthology in the area of understanding the attitude and nature of foreign policies of a particular civilizational country, China. It is an example of scholarly works for understanding nation like China who is very frequent in extracting values from its tradition and practicing in modern international politics. The Chinese world order can be considered external order but one can also be convinced that China’s external order is very much dependent on internal order or disorder. ...
Almost everyone has travelled to a foreign place, met unfamiliar people, and foreign culture. But, the different ways in which people will cope in those places differ. Some find life more comfortable, amazing, and better than the places they left. Over the years, people from different parts of the world have chosen to immigrate to the United States to find a better life for themselves or for their families. However, most of the immigrants in the U.S. don’t have proper documents to acquire the ...
Weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) authorizes the possibility to wipe out tons of civilians, sabotage the environment and majorly impact the lives of forthcoming generations. Although Germany has the ability to produce weapons of mass destruction , it has restrained its usage since the world war two. During World War One , Germany suffered several losses which were all evoked by the usage of WMDs. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas, to lethal agents ...
Introduction In 1949 a new military alliance was finalised bringing together 12 nations for mutual defence. However, now in the 21st century, the world has changed and it is time to re-evaluate NATO’s relevance. President Trump has already questioned the commitment of other countries to the alliance in the face of underspending and has shocked allies with a surprise withdrawal from Syria. In line with this global re-examination, I have decided to research the purpose of NATO and why it was ...
The United States of America is considered as one the most diverse countries in the whole world, in terms of racial diversity, culture diversity and sexuality diversity. Diversity is one of America’s best assets; diversity of intelligence, skills, talents, and identity of the residents that brings America qualified to any kind of work. The growing diversity includes the undocumented immigrants from the South America, mainly from Mexico, that are often called illegal immigrants, aliens, ...
Wallander bases her ideas around the liberal institutionalist framework. Although on the surface, it may appear in this article that she has a mixture of realist ideology, due to the idea that NATO would not survive without the US, and also constructivist framework, due to the idea of shared values, in terms of the literature on her, the majority of scholars would claim her work to be of a liberal institutionalist position, contending it is in fact paradigmatic. It is quite telling and of ...
Firstly, Mohan Malik (1999) has a less favourable view on how China has shaped nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament globally. He argues that China primary objective for its Asian policy as to weaken its biggest threat, being India by arming countries around India with nuclear weaponry, to constrain New Delhi (Malik 1999). This went against all international legislation regarding nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, which resulted in China having sanctions imposed on it by the United ...
Pacifism is a spectrum of views centered around the notion of anti-violence, whether this is absolute pacifism to relative pacifism. This raises a series of moral questions of “what-if” scenarios in which violence may be a last resort, or a deterrent, in other words, in what scenario is violence acceptable or not acceptable. This relates to the Just War theory as the Just War theory seeks to establish the parameters of making war and the parameters of conduct during warfare. This essay seeks ...
In the current world, the government is a very important part of society. Each country needs to interact with each other, government is a bridge that will connect two countries. The Ministry of foreign affairs is a department responsible for cooperation with other countries, the functionary in this department will pay attention to work with other country’s functionary. The United States and China are two big countries in the world. Sino-US relations tend to be friendly and cooperative. ...
Since the very beginning, human beings have needed to communicate. At first, they communicated by grunts and gestures, but humans kept progressing and created words, which allowed them to communicate more explicitly. As time passed, humans ended being spread all around the world, but their need for communicating was still there. Each group had its way of expressing itself, and even though they negotiated with the members within their groups, they also needed to connect with other groups, and ...
