International Relations

I’ve chosen to review an article on International Intermodal Transportation (Shashikumar & Schatz, 2000). Specifically, this article is about whether and to what extent US regulatory decisions impact the broader context of international intermodal transportation. Intermodal transportation, generally, is the transportation of goods using more than one mode (hence intermodal)...

All the three sources of law have varied levels of normative value in their form, function, and nature of application in international law. Article two of the United Nations charter is of particular value when it comes regulating state actions that tend to violate provisions of this charter. As per...

Liberal international relations theory sees international relationships and dynamics as having positive power in alliance and coordination. Power politics are rejected, since the concept assumes winners and losers, where liberal IR seeks all nation states to be winners through constructive efforts (Burchill, Linklater, Devetak, Donnelly, Nardin, Paterson, Reus-Smit, and True,...

The UN Charter was signed in June 1945 upon the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization (United Nations, 2018). It came into force in October 1945 (United Nations, 2018). All member states of the United Nations are required to comply with the UN Charter. Article 2(6) also...

The channels that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can use to formulate demands on, and lend support to, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) include mostly those structures which operate under the authorities of IGOs. These channels serve to bridge the networks of development by taking on the difficult task of making the connections between...