Millie Tran

This paper was submitted for “Political Science 20: World Politics” with Professor Richard Anderson in Spring 2009. The PDF will be available shortly.
Before 1648 and the Peace of Westphalia, states were grouped in geographical blocks, with a focal point usually being the capital of the empire. However, following the treaty, which recognized the territory and [...]

This paper was submitted for “Political Science 20: World Politics” with Professor Richard Anderson and Michael Stone in Spring 2009. The PDF will be available shortly.
Globalization, as suggested by Nau, is the process of consolidating into a single global economy (273). Nau uses Thomas Friedman’s The Earth is Flat as the framework for the history [...]

This paper was submitted for “Global Studies 100B: Globalization – Contemporary Issues” with Professor Russell Burgos, Professor David Rigby, Professor Dominic Thomas and Aron Ballard in Spring 2009. The PDF will be available shortly.
Globalization has increased communication and decreased transportation costs throughout the past decade, enabling countries to prosper and thrive. Why, then has African [...]

This paper was submitted for “Political Science 20: World Politics” with Professor Richard Anderson in Spring 2009. The PDF will be available shortly.
Realism rests on the assumption that the international system is anarchic, where the key actors are sovereign nation-states who must guarantee their own security in a constant struggle for power. Given that there [...]

This paper was submitted for “Political Science 20: World Politics” with Professor Richard Anderson in Spring 2009. The PDF will be available shortly.
In the international system, there are various lenses or perspectives to view war and conflict and the intentions or rationale behind it. There are three dominant perspectives that exist: the realist, liberal and [...]