Essays on International Relations

There have been claims that democratic states are more peaceful than autocratic states. This led to refinement of the democratic peace theory. It is believed that as much as the democratic states do fight with other countries, few cases have been reported of a Republican state fighting against another democratic...

The debate between neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism has been dominating the IR debate for quite some time now. Some of the issues of contention between the two schools of thought include; international cooperation, anarchy, priority of state goals among other issues. Neorealism as a school of thought aims at separating...

Cold war experiences continue to shape the way that the present age of leaders look at international issues. For instance, the Cuban Missile Crisis opened the eyes of the leaders of this era. With the constant risk of nuclear war resulting in mass sufferings and death at any moment, individuals...

In the next ten years, India and China are expected to be the biggest economies. Almost a quarter of the world's population lives in these two nations. Huge population size in India and China is likely to increase the rate of innovation, manufacturing and consumption. Increased rate of manufacturing and...

Globalization is putting increasing pressure on the and strains on the resources, coherence, sovereignty and principles of self -governance on the nation states.  As result to this, the rate of emigrants and immigrants has tremendously increased making some of the nation states adopt the principle of walling their states for...

Bilateral Relations and Foreign Policy Bilateral relations are agreements ties between any two sovereign states. These ties dictate the way of conduct of the political, economic, and cultural activities between the two countries. The two countries also exchange diplomatic agents in order to facilitate negotiations and adherence to the laid cooperation...

According to the international theory The term anarchy can be coined as the absence of any form of supremacy, authority or sovereignty by the world. Consequently, it can be attested that in an archaic nation, there is absolutely no form of a hierarchical supervision or perhaps coercive authority that can be...

World order is the power and authority distribution on the global stage by political players (Duncan et al. 30). The term "world order" may seem strange in the face of conflicting realities. Although it is assumed that states are the same in a formal sense, there are blatant inequalities between...

At the end of the cold war, there was increased volatility of the economy within the country. Therefore, the emergence of the political movement out of the framework of territorial states suggests the importance of considering the territoriality of the states within the historical context (Agnew, 1994). Therefore, the conventional...

Amid the increased disparities and differing opinion brought about by social classes, concepts have been developing regarding these classes on the power and political directions. In that case, international relations which profoundly impact the world politics seem to be entangled with respect to social stratifications. In that respect, therefore, essential...

Understanding and explaining the relationship between states and their behaviour towards each other remains a complex undertaking even to the political scientists. Tracking the historical occurrences and comparing them to the contemporary global developments reveals a host of contradictions and parallels in the ever dynamic international stage. Due to the...

Thailand has experienced rapid economic growth since the 1980’s. The country has experienced contractions and troughs in its economic cycle on only three occasions since 1980; in 1998; during the 2010 world, during the Great recession in 2010 and in 2013. Currently, the country is ranked at 26th by the IMF...