Essays on Burchill

Kwame Nkrumah’s “Unite Now or Perish” Speech As a ‘Classic’ Text in International Relations

Introduction In his May 24, 1963, speech at the inauguration of the OAU Conference in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, doctor Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, gave a stirring speech with a clarion call “we must unite now or perish.” In his speech, he advocated for a strong Union of Independent African States to form one block of states. Nkrumah was convinced that it was only through unity that African states which were getting themselves slowly off the colonial hook would achieve development or progress. According to him, with such a unity, the continent would be able to stand up ...

Part A: Personal Safety

Question 1 Hazard The personal safety hazard in scenario A is the unlocked front door and the open windows while the client is asleep. In scenario B is the client banging the seat on the train platform. In scenario C, the community member who yells abusive things to the support worker and his client and follows them around the shopping mall. In scenario D, the personal safety hazard is the uneven path that exists in the complex where the client lives. In scenario E, the arrival of all customers at once causing much commotion is the personal safety hazard. ...

Chancellor Merkel,

Congratulations for being one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential Leaders and for your continuous steadfast action in the EU Refugee Crisis and the Eurozone. With that said, it is time for you to also consider the current situation to complexities of the Iran nuclear deal which has been a problem to the international community since the end of the Second World War. Iran’s nuclear power started in the 1950s according to Kerr (2012) with the assistance of the United States. The US created a nuclear reactor in the capital city Teheran in order to generate enough electricity ...

International relations looks at the international environment that is composed of the territorial states and it holds that that there is no superior authority over issues which they regard as vital interest. Therefore it tries to analyze the changing relationships between states as well as non state actors. International relations serve to promote peace and good co-existence between states. This is because countries need to communicate and relate well with one another to survive. Every country depends on trade for survival and no country can survive in isolation. Poor international relations can lead to negative consequences for instance during ...

Since the end of the Cold War, the Korean Crisis between North Korea and South Korea remains as one of the world’s longest ongoing conflicts as the region remains in conflict despite the 70 year armistice between the two countries. The North remained hostile against the South throughout the armistice period, attacking the South and violated international law. Several attempts have been done throughout this period to try to get the North to concede to a permanent peace in the Peninsula and the removal of its nuclear weaponry, but the North remained adamant on its position as a hostile country. ...

Abstract

The foreign policy of the United States could be closely related to the way that the United States tries to interact with other foreign states. In addition to that, it is also instituted to analyze the standards that are set related to interaction within its organizations, the citizen’s fraternity as well as the corporations. The foreign policy could be generally involved with the different dockets of which it tries to address. Basing on the United States strategies incorporated in the policy, there are different goals that are related to its foreign policy. As indicated in the latest Foreign ...

International politics and relations remains to be a topic of immense debate for theorists and experts due to the varying descriptions and interpretations of its nature and structure. Some argue that the world order should be seen as it is and power is what leads actors to become selfish and enter war. Others argue that war or power should not be the focus of political actors, it should be progress and the will of a bureaucratic organization that represents the collective interest of its member states. Within ideologies, several schools branch out to provide their own concept of international politics while ...

The nature and characterization of American foreign policy were much discussed in the academic fields. Particular issue which was always actively discussed in the literature is a phenomenon of American isolationism. In this topic, researchers can be divided into three branches. The first ones consider that American isolationism is an undividable feature of American foreign policy. In other words, they suggest that this phenomenon is some kind of national system of values and beliefs. The second type of scholars suggest that not all American foreign policy can be named “isolationist”, and that it was so only in the beginning of ...