Category: International Politics & Relations

Nature of International Law International law may be defined as the body of principles and rules generally recognized as binding by the community of states in their relations with one another. It defines the rights of states and the means of procedure by which those rights may be protected and violations of them redressed. Like…

Nature of International Relations. Political science is concerned not only with the internal organization and functions of the state but also with the relations of states to one another. The activities that affect the relations among states may be carried on either by private citizens and corporations or by the authorized public agents or governments…

The Third World emerged in the post World War II era in the context of international relations and conditions when the world was divided into two opposite ideological blocs. During those days the process of decolonization was at its zenith as a result of which many Asian and African countries got independence and they joined…

As already observed in the previous article if there is any outstanding contribution of newly independent states of Asia, Africa and Latin America worth mentioning, it is giving of concrete shape to the concept of non-alignment. The concept of non alignment gained currency in 1955 at Bandung , Conference, albeit it was upper most in…

De-Colonization. Modern imperialism and colonialism appeared on the political horizon of the world in fifteenth century when the European powers like Britain, France, Holland, Portugal and Spain built their empire by over-powering backward and weak countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. These powers ruled the roost for about four hundred years throughout the world….

From late sixties, there is a general shift in East-West relations from the tensions of the cold war to the compulsions and imperatives of detente, especially in the matter of military strategy and security. There was a new ray of hope that the advent of detente would reduce international tensions and bring an era of…

The origin of the new cold war is generally traced back to December 1979 when Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan. However, Brezezinski, the National Security Adviser of President Carter of USA in his book holds that it was in 1978 that things began to go wrong in the Soviet American relationship.1 In the first half…

International relations were very much influenced by the cold war that dominated the international scene particularly after the World War II period. The two great conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century are the discord between East and West and the clash between the rich nations of the North and the poor nations…

A nation formulates its foreign policy keeping in View its various national interests and objectives. In this formulation general, internal and external determinants also play varying degree of role. These were discussed in detail in the previous article. Under the influence of these factors foreign policy takes different forms and shapes in different countries.This article…

It is a known fact that the formation of government is essential to run a state and no state can live without maintaining interstate relations which have become so essential in these days. To that end every government has to formulate a foreign policy. Like internal and domestic policies, industrial policy, agricultural policy, defense policy,…