Essay On Democracy And International Relations

DEVELOPMENT and SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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COL DENNIS GODFREY F GAMMAD

1. Enumerate the three grand theories and describe their underlying characteristics, including: a) unit of analysis, b) relationship between units of analysis, and c) structure governing the behavior of actors.

The Realism, Liberalism and Constructivism are the three theories that are accepted as “the grand theories” by many international relations (IR) scholars. I personally, however, maintain that another theory – Marxism – be considered as one of the grand theories that affect the world’s politics having polarized countries many decades ago. Materials gathered from Joseph Nye (2009) and the lecture delivered at an SIC class define realism

How does International Economics affect International Politics? Cite at least one example in which international economics drove political decisions. Due to the globalization, any country’s economic policy is part of the international economics. And necessarily, any country’s foreign policy is part of or conforms with the international politics. Thus, the question can also be framed as: “how does a state’s economic act affect its foreign policy?”

Even if I am not an economist, I can say that in this era of interconnectedness, it is impossible for a state to have a political action without impacting international situation. A look at the typical day in the stock exchange trading would attest to the fact that a situation in a particular country would have an immense impact to the international trading. For instance, the political decision of the United States to renew its diplomatic relations with Cuba has sent huge impact to the country’s economic movements.

But perhaps, the best example to illustrate the dynamics of the relation between international economics and international politics is the use of oil as a political weapon. It must be remembered that at the height of the conflict between the Arabs and Israel, the Arabs has decided to use the oil as a political weapon thus leading to the oil crisis in the

3046. It provides that the territorial sea of the Philippines is to be measured from the baselines established in that Act. Likewise, in its decision of July 2011, the Philippine Supreme Court referred to the applicability of Article 48 of the LOS Convention to the maritime zones of the Philippines as follows: “The breadth of the territorial sea (and other maritime zones) shall be measured from archipelagic baselines drawn in accordance with article 47 [of the LOS Convention].” (Emphasis supplied by the court.) R.A. 9522, however, did not specify the breadth of the territorial sea of the