France Relations with the Maghreb Countries: Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia in Past Decade
The international relations between the countries are the process that develops the countries, since they benefit and learn from each other. International relations can be the study of sovereign states and global issues. Also, it would the study of political and economic issues among the countries in order to have a stable political system and to benefit the economy in these countries that have strong international relations. Historically, the idea of international relations has been existed since Thucydides time, who was a Greek writer in the time of Sparta’s war. The international relations between Greece and Sparta played an important role at that time. Countries always act in favour for their benefits and interests. There is no single agreement or political formation without the benefit of the parties participating. Countries always try to ensure their benefits and their political interests. These interests might lay in many aspects and issues. Two main aspects that international relations put the emphasis on are economy and political stability. Economy is, as we all know, the best tool for country development and forward satisfaction of people. When a country has a good economic quota has less likelihood of political threat and regime change. Politics on the other hand plays a major in the international relations system. Countries want to ensure their security and diminish the political threat whether internal or external. Now days, the international relations is the key of success for the countries. For example, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia have strong relations with a developed country such as France, in which they got benefit economi...
... middle of paper ...
...AMBITIOUS TRAJECTORY – OPED." Eruasiareview. 26 Dec. 2012. Web. 15 May 2014.
Lebbar, Sabah. "Morocco-France, an Enduring Win-win Partnership." The North Africa Post RSS. 03 Apr. 2013. Web. 17 May 2014.
"French Embassy." In Morocco. Web. 17 May 2014.
"Economic Relations." France Diplomatie. Web. 17 May 2014.
"French Morocco." French Morocco. Web. 16 May 2014.
"Reporters - Economic Crisis: Young French Graduates Try Their Luck in Morocco." France 24. 03 Aug. 2012. Web. 17 May 2014.
"Tunisia's Relations with France Are "back to Normal"" Middle East Monitor. 24 July 2012. Web. 17 May 2014.
Wood, Christina. "Middle East Policy Council." French Foreign Policy and Tunisia: Do Human Rights Matter? 2002. Web. 17 May 2014.
"Economic Relations." France Diplomatie. French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, 2014. Web. 16 May 2014.
The French occupation is a confrontation between exported modernity and an old regime: the French revolutionaries and their dominance over the Ottoman social order that is markedly different in contrast; and, al-Jabarti reports on how it transfers cross-culturally. Levels of contestation, open and/or secretive acceptances give way to losses and gains driven by high emotion – even for this writer. He “describes very carefully every step in the negotiation of the organization of society, from administration to inheritance, from property to charity or from justice to deliberation.”
Shiraev, Eric B., and Vladislav M. Zubok. International Relations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Generally speaking, the French political system is special in two ways. First, It is neither a parliamentary system like the British one, where the executive emerges from Parliament, nor a system of separation of powers like the American one, where the President must take account of Congress. The French Fifth Republic is a hybrid system characterized by a Presidency that is oversized in the absence of adequate counterweights. Second, France also differs from most major modern democracies in using two-round single-winner voting rather than one-round (United States, United Kingdom) or proportional representation (continental Europe), which encourages a large number of parties (in the first round) and two major electoral coalitions (in the second), left and right. However, there have been many changes to the French sys tem since the foundation of the Fifth Republic: institutions and politics have continually evolved to achieve their present shape.
In conclusion, understanding various states and transnational entities is very important, especially when countries are planning to work together and conduct transnational businesses. There are many cultures, policies, shared values that vary from county to country, from one sovereign state to the other. In 21st century, if these divergent cultures are put together the whole world economy will grow by double digits. The partnership between countries wide apart in transatlantic can form a perfect transatlantic trade that will be beneficial for the economy of many countries such as that of the U.S. and European Union.
The first aspect is reciprocity, which describes how one country will not violate another country in fear of the consequences that the action would bring. It is based on the simple statement: you comply, I comply. (Hillebrecht 2017) International regime also play a huge role in reciprocity. According to Professor Hilbrecht, “Krasner (1983): International regimes are a “set of rules, norms and procedures around which the expectations of actors converge in a certain issue area.” There is the fear that what you do today could affect you negatively tomorrow. Other institutions such as the United Nations (UN) also have a set of rules that each country that is a member is required to follow to avoid conflicts with all the other
To understand the international relations of contemporary society and how and why historically states has acted in such a way in regarding international relations, the scholars developed numerous theories. Among these numerous theories, the two theories that are considered as mainstream are liberalism and realism because the most actors in stage of international relations are favouring either theories as a framework and these theories explains why the most actors are taking such actions regarding foreign politics. The realism was theorized in earlier writings by numerous historical figures, however it didn't become main approach to understand international relations until it replaced idealist approach following the Great Debate and the outbreak of Second World War. Not all realists agrees on the issues and ways to interpret international relations and realism is divided into several types. As realism became the dominant theory, idealistic approach to understand international relations quickly sparked out with failure of the League of Nation, however idealism helped draw another theory to understand international relations. The liberalism is the historical alternative to the realism and like realism, liberalism has numerous branches of thoughts such as neo-liberalism and institutional liberalism. This essay will compare and contrast the two major international relations theories known as realism and liberalism and its branches of thoughts and argue in favour for one of the two theories.
The International Relations textbook written by Joshua S. Goldstein and Jon C. W. Pevehouse describe international relations as "The relationships among the world's state governments and the connection of those relationships with other actors (such as the United Nations, multinational corporations, ad individuals), with other social relationships (including economics, culture, and domestic politics), and with geographic and historical influences." (Goldstein and Pevehouse 2) Many international relations theorists date the contemporary system of from 1648, the year of the Treaty of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years War. (Mingst and Arreguin-Toft Ch. 2) Three key events of the 20th century that shaped the contemporary system of International
However, the structure and process of international relations, since the end of World War II, has been fundamentally impacted through an immense growth of a variety of factors at multiple levels, which leads to the liberalist theoretical perspective of global complex interdependency. The complex interdependency is constructed from the liberalist theoretical perspective emphasizing interdependence between states and substate actors as the key characteristics of the international system (Ray and Kaarbo 7), which means that cooperation can be made more te...
Whenever world politics is mentioned, the state that appears to be at the apex of affairs is the United States of America, although some will argue that it isn’t. It is paramount we know that the international system is shaped by certain defining events that has lead to some significant changes, particularly those connected with different chapters of violence. Certainly, the world wars of the twentieth century and the more recent war on terror must be included as defining moments. The warning of brute force on a potentially large scale also highlights the vigorousness of the cold war period, which dominated world politics within an interval of four decades. The practice of international relations (IR) was introduced out of a need to discuss the causes of war and the different conditions for calm in the wake of the first world war, and it is relevant we know that this has remained a crucial focus ever since. However, violence is not the only factor capable of causing interruption in the international system. Economic elements also have a remarkable impact. The great depression that happened in the 1920s, and the global financial crises of the contemporary period can be used as examples. Another concurrent problem concerns the environment, with the human climate being one among different number of important concerns for the continuing future of humankind and the planet in general.
Despite the international system being anarchical, it is not in a state of total chaos due to a number of significant factors such as those above. It is obvious that the current international system is highly influenced by many significant factors and some are more prominent than others. With the continued existence of international anarchy it is up to the States and the International Organisations to continue to make the decisions that are in their own best interest and to maintain order and an ever-improving way of life.
A country’s location plays a great part in dealing with other nearby countries, and how they can aid, support, or possibly fight each other. For instance, Canada is the closest country to the United States, and near Europe, so trade between these three places is inevitable of course. However, Canada does not exactly have the strongest military in the world, and the country that has what is considered to be the most powerful, and well equip army is the United States, and is closest to Canada, so relations between these countries must be excellent, which allows Canada to be protected by the United States, and Canada having to economically support the United States, while also cooperating with their military forces (http://can-am.gc.ca/relations/security_defence-securite_defense.aspx?lang=eng). With different countries being geographically placed in a variety of different locations, while also having different strengths or weakness in various sectors from one another, it helps nations to try to build a healthy relationship with other nearby nations in order to get support, and giving it. On the other hand, some countries would try to at first have a healthy relation to another country, but later would try to back stab them, or to control another nation. Before 1941, the relationship between Germany, and Russia was rather great as both countries were pretty close
positive or negative interaction with other nations as well as the goals and principles that
The study of international relations takes a wide range of theoretical approaches. Some emerge from within the discipline itself others have been imported, in whole or in part, from disciplines such as economics or sociology. Indeed, few social scientific theories have not been applied to the study of relations amongst nations. Many theories of international relations are internally and externally contested, and few scholars believe only in one or another. In spite of this diversity, several major schools of thought are discernable, differentiated principally by the variables they emphasize on military power, material interests, or ideological beliefs. International Relations thinking have evolved in stages that are marked by specific debates between groups of scholars. The first major debate is between utopian liberalism and realism, the second debate is on method, between traditional approaches and behavioralism. The third debate is between neorealism/neoliberalism and neo-Marxism, and an emerging fourth debate is between established traditions and post-positivist alternatives (Jackson, 2007).
Although, international organizations are largely influenced by the powerful states they contain and reflect those states’ interests, international organizations provide essential forums for communication, and encourage education of new international norms, which in turn, shape the interests and behaviors of states.
Regional economic integration enhances political cooperation. Several group of nation can have significantly greater political influence than each nation would have by individually. This integration is an essential strategy to address the effects or issues of conflicts and political instability that may affect the region. Improved political cooperation due to regional economic integration is also useful tool to handle the social and economic challenges associated with globalization. Countries which are link together will be more dependent on each other that will reduce the likelihood of violent conflict between each nation. This integration will also give countries greater political clout when dealing