Do you agree that in the post-Cold War world ‘low politics’ have become ‘high politics’?
The categorisation of low and high politics was in fact a discourse in international affairs, one in which the US-Soviet rivalry was regarded as the most significant feature of the age, thereby rendering strategic considerations of geopolitics and military capability more pressing than economics. And yet, military statecraft during the Cold War could not have been sustained in the absence of economic instruments.
‘Humane Warfare is a Contradiction in Terms.’ Discuss
The task in this essay is to identify the concept of humane warfare by assessing whether it is contradictory to apply humanity into warfare. This essay will attempt to argue that the term ‘humane warfare’ is definitely and always a contradiction.
Does the Idea of a Clash of Civilisations Hinder our Understanding of World Politics Since 9/11?
Even though the clash of civilisations thesis encompasses different levels of analysis from man, civilisation, and the world at large, it concentrates on solely cultural factors. Allowing these factors to override other sectors of analysis in the discipline of international relations does not necessarily lead to enhancing our understanding of world politics.
Hitler’s Foreign Policy and the Third Reich: 1936-1939
In evaluating Hitler’s power as the maker of German foreign policy from 1936 to 1939 this essay covers some of the most controversial debates on Nazi history. It will show that whilst Hitler determined the direction of foreign policy, it was his exploitation of the opportunities placed before him that led to the Third Reich’s diplomatic successes during the period.
