Current Issue on International Relations: Kosovo Conflict EU center has been dragged frm its pint as a result f war. NAT-Yugslavia cnflict makes it pssible t see sme cnfrntatins that EU and US have. As the end f the war in the Balkans cmes clser, s the jb that Eurpe has already taken upn itself lms larger. It is becming clear that the war culd bring t an end the hegemny f America. It culd braden greatly the scpe f Eurpe and present t Russia a new pssibility f real partnership with the Eurpean cntinent f which it is a part – rather than a funny partnership with the American cntinent with which it has been in rivalry fr much f this century. But it culd g therwise. The war culd als drive Russia and China clser tgether in a dislike f the west; it culd deepen the alienatin f central Eurpe; and it culd cntinue the dependence f Eurpe n the US.
Pluralism thery affects the develpment f the relatinships between EU and US in terms f vilating the human rights. The first challenge is the hardest: t find the legality, as well as the legitimacy, f humanitarian interventin. Actin in Ksv did nt get the legal backing f the UN. NAT, in claiming that human rights were n its side, culd nt cnvince the ther large players in the internatinal game – especially China and Russia – that human-rights cnsideratins were legitimate. The war has thrwn int harsh relief what was nly fitfully evident befre: that the defense f human rights – r, mre accurately, the aggressive prmtin f human rights in an arena, such as Ksv, where they are being brutalized – is a psture cnfined t the rich and secure wrld. The rest f the wrld says it is hypcrisy: t them the real prmtin f universal human rights is far mre threatening than the Westphalian state, r defense f natinal svereignty, and the ntin f a glbal balance f pwer.
The Essay on World War City Russia Russian
: I. -18-02010 Arkhangelsk Archangel, city, northern European Russia, capital of Arkhangelsk Oblast, on the Northern Dvina (Severnaya Dvina) River, near the White Sea (Beloye More). It is a major seaport, although icebound in winter months. The city is also a trade and processing center for an important timber-producing region. A maritime school, a forestry institute, and a regional museum are ...
Glbalizatin thery is expressed in this Ksv issue in the ntin f the shift f the balance f pwer in EU. nce the ntin f a humanitarianism that transcends natinal brders is elevated ut f vague declaratins int actin, the internatinal cmmunity reveals itself as a series f warring tribes. China cannt pssibly agree t take actin against a state fr trampling n civil rights, when it wn’t allw ther cuntries t questin its wn recrd n this scre. Russia, even with a quasi-demcratic system, wants t leave its hands free fr a pssible redrawing f its brders and a regathering f its exiled ethnic kin. And India is already invlved in a lw-level cmbat with Pakistan ver Kashmir that bears sme resemblance t the Ksv cnflict. In these, and in smaller instances, the same rule applies: the yung natinalisms and raw (r lack f) demcracies f the nn-NAT states mean that they cannt share the human rights-based views f NAT members, even thugh these views are simply repetitins f internatinal treaties, charters and agreements that almst everyne has signed.
T find a cmmn basis fr real, rather than rhetrical, agreement is at nce urgent and exceedingly difficult – urgent nt just because the west cannt affrd t becme mired again in a cnflict that the rest f the wrld cndemns; urgent, because if we cannt make the realities that underpin freign plicies bth apparent and cmprehensible, the divisin between the rich humanitarians and the develping rest f the wrld will becme deeper. The secnd task, perhaps easier but certainly mre expensive, is t shift the expansin f Eurpe up the internatinal agenda and ffer the Balkan states, in particular, the prspect f EU membership. The EU has already cmmitted sme f its wn funds t pay fr the recnstructin f Yugslavia. In place is a rather devilish divisin f labr – the US pays fr the destructin f Yugslavia; Eurpe fr its recnstructin. Yet thrugh the fund, industries in the regin can receive a large bst, and a pst-Milsevic gvernment f Yugslavia can develp n a plitical platfrm that need nt be anti-western. T hasten the prcess f jining the EU fr states that are still weak, relatively pr and uncertain f their pst-cmmunist natinhd is t take a number f demanding relatives int the family. Eurpe has nt lived under the mtt: Bring me yur pr, yur tired, yur huddled masses… – it was t used t exprting them.
The Term Paper on Consolidation of Democracy in Post-Soviet Russia
Introduction The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than a political event. The powerful interaction and fusion between politics and economics that characterized the state socialist system created a situation that was unique for the successor states of the Soviet Union. The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of life left the Russian people with little ...
T develp a Marshall Plan fr the Balkans is t pur billins f eurs int an area that will certainly misuse sme f them and will nt be prperly grateful fr a lng time. It als brings Eurpe face t face with the prblem f the frmer Sviet Unin. It is fairly clear that mst f the pst-Sviet wrld wants, in ne way r anther, t remain linked t the west, rather than t put itself under a Russian hegemny. The freign ministers f the three Baltic states f Estnia, Latvia and Lithuania met recently t agree that they wuld cperate clsely in seeking rapid entry t bth NAT and the EU. While these three states may be the mst likely t qualify in the next decade, the psitin f buffer states such as Mldva, Belarus and, abve all, Ukraine nw becmes increasingly desperate, as they are trapped in an in-between wrld where there is neither a state-cntrlled ecnmy nr capitalism, neither a functining authritarianism nr a functining demcracy. If they cannt get themselves ut f this psitin, the EU will sner r later be frced t make a decisin – des it cntinue t wish them a nice day as they slide int anarchy r des it seek a way f recnstructing their statehds? It cannt find a way f ding this withut a wrking agreement with Russia.
Russia has barely knwn itself fr much f the pst-Sviet perid, s it has been unable t be much f a partner. But its interests lie in Eurpe. Russia may never be a member f the EU – thugh sme, such as the frmer Prime Minister, Yegr Gaidar, want it t be s – but it must have a clse partnership with it. Clse partnerships are based n cmmn values, and Russia has nt yet finally chsen the values f liberal glbalism – the values f the US and Western Eurpe. We have failed t persuade it t d s. When the reign f Bris Yeltsin ends, as it shuld d next summer, we shall have t try again. The western Eurpean leaders like t think f themselves as a new breed – left f center, capable f shaking themselves free f the dgmas f scialism and f the cnstrictins f the ne-liberal right.
The Term Paper on Comparing Japan and Russia’s Response before 1914
In the early 19th century Russian rulers did anything in their power to keep the “French plague” from infiltrating Russia. The “French Plague” was a gradual move towards freedom and a more influential say in government. Russia avoided the “French Plague” by a period of isolation and oppression of their people. Japan also had a long period of isolation. The ...
But nw, in the pst-Ksv wrld, they face prblems f glbal architecture that they were previusly cntent t leave t the Americans; if they believe their wn rhetric, they must slve these prblems in Eurpe and be prepared t pay fr the slutins, bear the cnsequences and be patient abut reaping the rewards. Ksv marks the end f amiable disengagement and cntented grazing n the meadws f the peace dividend. We have learnt that Eurpe, in its vastness, is still a dangerus place, and that ur prclaimed values d nt allw us simply t lck the gate against the dangers. References: Gussman, Yan. Ksv Cnflict, frm Natinal Gegraphic, Issue: ctber 2002. Michaelsn, Knrad.
Yugslavia Cnflict: Issues, frm Eastern Ecnmist, Issue April 2003..
