A Paradox of America Power

The 1990s was an odd decade in international affairs. We had the end of the Cold War, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, leading to an unbalanced United States remaining on the world stage. But, there was some US arrogance. Charles Krauthammer (columnist at The Washington Post) wrote in June, 2001 of a “new unilateralism.” While Bush was somewhat muted in the campaign his administration has shown elements of arrogance in foreign policy, for example, pulling out of various international

A Realist Theory of International Politics

The theory must be judged is not a priory and abstract but empirical and pragmatic. In other word, the theory must be judge not by some preconceived abstract principle or concept unrelated to reality but by its purpose: to bring order and meaning to a mass phenomena which without it would remain disconnected and unintelligible. It must meet a dual test, an empirical and a logical one: is the theory consistent with the facts and within itself?

NATO and EUROPE RELATION after COLD WAR

The Cold War ended at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union is marked also by the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact as a true rival of NATO on March 31, 1991, and ended officially at a meeting in Prague on July 1, 1991. So the existence of NATO as a "Defender Of Europe" to be a separate debate since there is no longer a clear and significant enemy that would threaten European security. The question is whether the existence of NATO is still needed for post-cold war Europe.

Post-cold war, the situation in Europe is developing very dynamically in various fields, one of which is the existence and development of the European Union (EU), which increasingly solid. The European Union is an international organization that has been

Ekonomi Politik Jepang

Model ekonomi dan politik jepang digolongkan kedalam 2 kelompok, yaitu penekanan di faktor ekonomi dan yang penekanan di faktor kultural. Pendekatan di faktor ekonomi menekankan pada lingkungan sekitar yang bersifat objekif, yang meliputi persediaan tenaga kerja, persebaran teknologi, atau ekspansi pasar dunia. Dan di lain sisi, model-model kultural lebih memfokuskan pada lingkungan sekitar yang lebih bersifat subjektif, meliputi beragam aspek-aspek tradisional yang masih melekat dengan kultur budaya Jepang seperti orientasi atau kecenderungan kelompok-kelompok di Jepang yang lebih mengarah pada hasil konsensus. Sosial budaya masyarakat Jepang memiliki beberapa kekhasan atau keunikan tersendiri yaitu memiliki ikatan sosial masyarakat yang kuat antar sesamanya, memiliki budaya kerja keras dalam keseharian maupun profesionalitas kerja, memiliki budaya kerjasama atau hubungan yang lebih bersifat kooperatif dan saling menghormati terhadap sesama. Serta masyarakat Jepang sangat