Essays about: "national security and international relations"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 37 essays containing the words national security and international relations.

  1. 6. Chinese strategies and American policies in the South China Sea : A qualitative study of a geopolitical conflict based on neorealistic theory

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Mikael Berglund; [2022]
    Keywords : South China Sea; conflict; China; United States; qualitative discourse analysis; neorealism; military; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The tense situation over the territorial conflict in the South China Sea has intensified in recent years with China's increased military presence and actions. This has contributed to increased concern among the ASEAN states in the region. It has also affected the United States´s security policy on how to relate to China as an international power. READ MORE

  3. 7. At the Intersection of National Security and Free Trade – Discussion on the Fit-Analysis of the Security Exception in the WTO Agreements

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Astrid von Heijne; [2022]
    Keywords : WTO; multilateral trade; national security exception; treaty interpretation;

    Abstract : The World Trade Organization’s agreements contain a national security exception, that allows WTO members to circumvent their international trade obligations under the organization if they find it necessary to protect their essential security interests. The exception embodies the complex and difficultly navigated line between national security and free trade. READ MORE

  4. 8. The American Withdrawal from Afghanistan

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Hillevi Pihl; [2022]
    Keywords : Afghanistan; war; America; withdrawal; international relations; realism; liberalism; al-Qa’eda; Taliban;

    Abstract : The American war in Afghanistan is the longest war in American history, yet there has seemed to be no clear argument for continuing the war for almost two decades. Unilateral withdrawals in counterinsurgency wars are not uncommon, especially if the other party involved is viewed as nondemocratic. READ MORE

  5. 9. China and non-alignment : An intertextual discourse analysis of relationality within China’s official statements on military alliances

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Simon Edholm; [2021]
    Keywords : China; alliances; Confucian relationality; discourse; context; ideas;

    Abstract : Conventional realist expectations on great power behaviour in a perceived threatening security environment calls on these nations to balance against the threats in the form of military alliances with other states. China is perceiving security policies by USA and its allies to constitute threats to its national sovereignty, yet has chosen to adhere to a policy of nonalignment, making it an outlier among other great powers and calling into question positivist inspired inferences on Chinese security cooperation. READ MORE

  6. 10. When a region ignores a genocide : A case study of ASEAN’s prevention of the Rohingya crisis

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Natalie Gunnarsson; [2020]
    Keywords : ASEAN; Myanmar; Mass atrocity; Responsibility to protect; Prevention;

    Abstract : In August 2017, the Myanmar military initiated what the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights called a text-book example of ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya ethnic minority. In 2020, Myanmar is called to the International Court of Justice to answer to allegations of committed genocide. READ MORE