INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Relations and Iraq Conflict

International Relations and Iraq Conflict

Introduction

Since the origination of civilization, differences of patterns and culture emerged on the land of Iraq. People living in the Iraq had different goals and orientations. There were some advantages because of these differences. These differences appear to be pedigree and the ability to development, revival, and maintaining the state of collective perception and collective sense in common people and the nation. As Iraq started to built, the conflicts on the land arises religious, political, international, and other social issues become frequent in Iraq (Jervis, 1999, p. 454).

Conflict in Iraq

The Iraq conflict can be associated to two theories of the International Relations that are Realism and Liberalism. These theories can be applied directly to the conflicts in Iraq. Realism has long been one of the main theoretical approaches to the study of international relations in Iraq. It is an intellectual tradition built on distinct concepts and arguments about what governs politics among states Iraq has gone (Jervis, 2000, p. 971). As such, fundamental precepts assert that the international system characterized by anarchy states are its principal actors, which are sovereign and rational acting on national interests the main ones of which are security and survival. To ensure the latter, states are constantly in the pursuit of power, which ultimately leads to the security dilemma. Leading proponents of the classical realist perspective include Hans Morgenthau, E. H. Carr, Reinhold Niebuhr, John H. Herz, Arnold Wolfers, Charles Beard, and Walter Lippman.

The demolishing of foreign policy realism has one of the costly and horrific failures of Iraq political and conceptual system. Political Realism constantly set in a tenancy position. Purely because it is packed to both sides by differing idealism and it has constant jeopardy of degenerated into cynicism. At one side, it filled with idealism that linked with the left, for an open and pacific globe where the United States of America not required interfering or be tangled. On the other side is the idealism of the truth, which places extraordinary faith in the capability of force to release, or in more negative term, occupying, nation that are under authoritarianism. Realism also faced the underlying problem that in acceptance limits about what can be accomplished; it will offer on trying to make a difference at all.

The Theory of Realism in Iraq Conflict

Over the last 20 to 30 years, a new form of realism, known as neorealism or structural realism, emerged in response to internal and external debates that challenged key realist assumptions. In particular, neorealism sought to redefine classical realism into a more positivist social science (Bernstein, Lebow, & Stein, 2002, p. 43). To that end, neorealist scholars (such as Kenneth Waltz, Stephen Walt, Robert Gilpin, Randall Schweller, John Mearsheimer, Robert Jervis, Joseph Grieco, and Robert J. Art) reformulated realist rhetoric in favours of a systemic approach to international relations. More specifically, neo-realism introduced the concept of international structure in order to construct a systems theory explaining what governs relations among states ...