International Relations

Article Review # 116777

Reviews three articles discussing issues of international relations.

990 words () | 0 sources | 2009 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper summarizes and comments on three articles about international relations. The paper first discusses Robert Jervis' article "Security Regimes" and explains that, in it, Jervis asks whether restraining behavior in hopes that other nations will do the same is a good or bad for national security. The paper then discusses David A. Lake's article, "Anarchy, Hierarchy, and the Variety of International Relations", noting that the author argues that international relations will always take either an anarchic or a hierarchy relationship. The paper concludes with Russett, Oneal and Davis' article "The Third Leg of Kantian Tripod for Peace: International Organizations and Militarized Disputes, 1950-85", which claims that the ideologies laid forth by Immanuel Kant are an excellent model for achieving peace on a global scale.

From the Paper:

"This second form of relations is a hierarchy, where one country will have a dominance over the others in its sphere of influence. Since "security is a complex phenomenon dependent upon a state's assessment of the likely behavior of another", there are differencing opinions on how to interact with other counties. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union had a hierarchy with the countries in its sphere of influence. This means that it was the dominant force making all of the decision in its side of the world because its leaders believed that this was the most efficient way to do things."