Essays on International Politics

One of the enduring beliefs of modern times is that war and its associated military spending has created positive economic outcomes for the U.S. economy. The paper aims to highlight the various macroeconomic effects of government policies and spending on the U.S. economy over America, Iraq conflict and its everlasting economic impact. Increased military spending...

Poverty The best pathway out of poverty is a well-paying job. To get back to prerecession employment levels, we must create 5.6 million new jobs. To kick start job growth, the federal government should invest in job-creation strategies such as rebuilding our infrastructure; developing renewal energy sources; renovating abandoned housing; and making other common-sense investments...

The state, as a system, pursues two major goals: firstly, preservation integrity and, secondly, maintaining this integrity at the maximum possible term. It is impossible to realize these needs without interacting with other actors in international relations, which is expressed in foreign policy. To implement their foreign policy, states use a variety of instruments. Undoubtedly,...

Introduction Certainly, if poverty is the business from which you earn, more poverty means more business for you. This explains why if any effort to stop aid was to emerge, it would find the strongest resistance not from local people but from the NGO officials and from donor nations. Let us still flashback to 1957,...

Concept of Foreign Aid According to Riddel (2007), foreign aid consists of all resources which includes physical goods, skills and technical know-how, financial grants (gifts), or loans (at concessional rates) transferred by donors to recipients. Also, the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) defines aid as Official Development...

The European Union was initially set up in 1952 in the aftermath of World War two in order to stop any sort of atrocity from happening again. However, throughout the 20th and 21st century it has developed in to a political and economic entity with goals such as: promoting peace, offering freedom, security and justice[footnoteRef:1]....

One of the main problems within the analysis of the European Union’s foreign policy is the characteristics this policy possesses. Whether we can talk about the EU as an empire by the power of example (Zielonka, 2008, p. 483-485) or an empire in search of a mission (Ungureanu, 2012, p.17-21) , it is obvious that...