Major Essay Assignment 14221020 Leung Lai Chong 1. Explain the conception of human security. Does human security raise a challenge to traditional conceptions of national security? The Historical background and development of the Concept of Human Security In the post-Cold War world, a dozen of horrendous internal conflicts
The concepts of regional and global security are used interchangeably in our society today. Regional security denotes the security of geographical area, whereas global security refers to the collective security of everyone within the planet. Security in this context implies the freedom to live a safe life inside a peaceful environment without harmful interference. Considering that every region has its own security challenge, this essay will discuss three security challenges present within Asia Pacific
This essay contends that Doyle’s neo-Kantian argument—that liberalism has overcome the security dilemma posed by international anarchy—is flawed because it fails to provide a causal link that explains how liberal domestic rights and institutions translate into an international liberal peace. First, I will outline the freedoms and institutions Doyle claims all liberal states agree upon, and therefore, have domestically. Then I will ventriloquize Doyle’s argument that domestic liberalism has led to
Nuclear Proliferation Nuclear Proliferation has been for the last 50 years one of the most controversial and heated topics of debate because of its importance to international security and the impact nuclear weapons make in the forming of international policy. This paper’s aim is to explain the views of both schools of thought, that of proliferation and the of non-proliferation in addition to strong points in each argument and in addition to revealing the weak spots in their claims as well. In
In order to fully grasp the impact of Humanitarian Intervention in a postmodern international stage, questions will be addressed in this essay; can intervention ever be genuinely and purely ‘humanitarian’? Can humanitarian intervention ever be reconciled with the norm of state sovereignty? To solve of these questions, research from experts, such as Andrew Heywood and Noam Chomsky, will be interpret and study. For the purpose of this work I intend to use this term with the following limitations,
the wide scope of problems and possibility that the term rationality invokes, four fundamental tensions will be sketched out- between procedure and substance, the individual and the collective, efficiency and democracy, normative and positive. This essay adopts the stance that the concept of rationality is only useful to a small extent
Realism is an often overlooked theory in international relations, and it is fair to say that this approach to foreign policy is often overshadowed by other ideals in the world, namely liberalism and neo-conservatism, and the United States is no exception here. In this essay, I will explain how the United States does not act upon realist assumptions, and is in fact a country that is hinged on its liberal and neoconservative values, from the individual and bureaucratic levels respectively. I will outline
Human rights and fundamental freedoms are concerned with the inherent dignity and security of all human beings which, when upheld and encouraged respect for, ensures that society operates by the rule of law which secures equality, justice, peace, democracy, development and better standards of living and unity. The legal protection of basic human rights is often found in a Bill of Rights. A Bill of Rights is the formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of citizens of any federation which
civilized her conquerors, and will have learned all the technique of what transiently bears the name of modern industry; roads and communications will give her unity, economy and thrift will give her funds, and a strong government will give her order and peace (Durant, 1935). While delivering his ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’ speech to the Royal Geographical Society a few decades earlier, Sir Halford Mackinder, the eminent British geographer, ended his famous article with a disturbing reference to
Scholars try to distinguish between and identify different non-democratic political systems from the past. The 20th century ideologies (or as many scholars say political religions) used by the totalitarian regimes were chosen wisely by leaders; fascism was something new that united nations (everybody could identify with their own) and did not divide them by class like the old interest ideas (Arendt 6). On the other hand communism unified classes (manufacture and agricultural workers) to break away