International Relations Essays

Africa is the world’s second-largest and second most populated continent (the first being Asia). The African continent is rich in minerals such as Gold, Platinum, Coal and Oil etc. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, European colonization of Africa developed rapidly in the scramble for Africa. In Africa, …

            Idealism allegedly dominated the study of international relations from the end of the First World War until the late 1930s. Idealists are out of touch with current thinking, they put moral principles before practical or prudential considerations, and are naïve about the world around them. They are futurists who …

“This can be said about the generality of men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, dissembling, anxious to flee danger, and covetous of gain.” (Niccolo Machiavelli) The above mentioned quotation summarizes what, to realists, the human nature is. Man was born with an inborn sense to rule and seek personal gains …

Cultural differences, geographical division and other factors HAVE LED to THE constitution of many languages. In today’s world there are approximately 6,800 known languages spoken in the 200 countries of the world. This plentiude drifts us into a state of chaos with regard to international organizations and diplomatic reasons. In …

The question of whether the discipline of International Relations (IR) was in the past, and is still now, a predominantly American social science, is one that has taken up a great deal of discourse in the field of IR. Indeed this question has been the driving force for the IR …

Originating from the German word ‘Realpolitik’ , realism is often used as a term which fits a more realistic and unpretentious political theory, as opposed to an unrealistic ideological theory. It is this theory which has been one of the leading and most prominent ways of thinking in terms of …

Dating back to the establishment of a chair of international relations at the University of Wales in Aberstwyth in 1919, after the end of the first world war the need for a theoretical and analytical study of global politics vise a vise the necessity for international relations was conceived. In …