Singapore an easy target for Malaysia, since its tiny land space makes it easier to be invaded and conquered in theory. Nevertheless, Malaysia has respected Singapore’s sovereignty since her independence and has yet to invade Singapore. The global political and economic landscape has shape-shifted
field in politics is based on core ideas of realists and liberalists. Although there is a clear division between two ideologies, current international affairs of many countries push the boundaries of such ideas and modify. Fathers of classical realism theory Thucydides, H. Morgenthau and E. Carr believe that nations act due to their selfish interests and concerns, their desire to dominate in the world is rational and natural. Whereas Kant and Hobbes, founders of liberalism, argue that liberalism pulls
Rational choice theory argues by the maximization of utility- which means a state first identifies and priorities its foreign policy goals (short term or long term goals) and then identifies and select from the means available to it which fulfills its aims with the least cost. It suggests that states often prefer cooperation to conflict and that in fact they have already constructed a ‘society of states’ . Given the wide scope of problems and possibility that the term rationality invokes, four fundamental
United Nations (UN) peacekeeping was not primarily designed to intervene in conflicts and significant battle violence. Instead, it was developed as a tool to bolster ongoing conflict resolution efforts, primarily between countries. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) located in Central Asia, has one of the most significant records in its internal conflicts and UN resolutions. The DRC’s two wars (1996–97 and 1998–2003) were a concoction of intertwined conflicts. At the regional level, the DRC
Research by: team one Team secretariat: Mostafa Sabry Subject of research: the domino theory Introduction: “You had a row of dominoes set up, and you knocked over the first one, and what would happen to the last one was the certainty that it would go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.” -Eisenhower- The domino theory was very clearly professed by the administration of the United States throughout the
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
Social Contract Theory has exercise an enormous amount of impact on legal and social factors of western democratic state. Although different theorist have different point of view on social contract theory, but the main essence of their ideology is that legal society or state was the result of the contract formed by individual, then living in state of nature .Men used to live in the state of nature, where there were no rules and regulation or law to govern them and in order to escape the state of
such decisions. 3.2 Rule of Law The rule of law is one of the principles in terms of mapping democratic governance. Despite having elections, there should be a rule of law for everyone to be answerable to it. The 6 participants coined the rule of law as one of the thriving factors of a democratic government. One of the participants was of the view that, the; “Rule of law is a vital tool in mapping democratic governance” Impunity can lead to a magnitude human rights abuses or even genocide, as happened
Peace Enforcement: Conceptual Background Peace enforcement can be most simply defined as the use of military force to compel peace in a conflict, generally against the will of those combatants. To do this, it generally requires more military force than peacekeeping operations, and is authorized under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. All peace operations can be generally termed under an umbrella term called Peace Support Operations that is a relatively new term in the public discourse. The scale
have, incompatible goals” (Fisher @ at all, 2000. p.4). ‘Goal Clash’ is the common denominator for personal to community and national to international conflict to be aroused. The cause of a conflict has been explained by many theories; one of most prolific ‘identity theory’ of conflict illustrate that “it is caused by feelings of threatened identity which is often rooted in unresolved past loss and suffering” (Fisher @ at all 2003, p. 8). Most of ULFA