Power Politics: The Framework Provided
Understanding contemporary world politics is by no means an easy feat. To merely begin the process, one must first have an ample knowledge of historical as well as modern trends in international relations, the issues at hand both now and in the past and major events that affect the field. Several g....
Realpolitic vs. Ideologies � Islam vs. Islam Fundamentalism, State Nationalism vs. Tribalism
Let us analyze the behavior and its consequences of Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov in the international arena and in domestic politics since it declared independence on 27 October 1991 and look for the sources of evil in the modern world and explore the battle between good and evil and then an....
Russia-Ukraine Relations And How Realpolitik Affected Them
Russia has been one of the states that has had an important role in the international arena since the 17th century. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, until the year 2000, it was not powerful enough to protect its own interests. During this time, it lost much of its geopolitical advantages....
Unification of Italy and Germany
By 1871 both the kingdom of Italy and the empire of Germany were united. Even though both countries used popular trends to that time, both liberalism and nationalism, the process unifying these two countries was very different. The end result was Germany emerging as a strong nation and Italy appro....
What makes IR a Discipline
Q1. What makes International Relations a discipline, and why did the discipline not develop in the 17th Century rather than in the early 20th Century?
Introduction
The journey of the modern man, which began in Africa, with a small band of hunter-gatherers, has come full circles, after nearly 8....