Write a MA level 5000 word essay illustrating your analytical abilities, using one of the questions from the list below.
Care should be taken to answer the question as it is set, and no amendment should be made to the format of the question.  


1. Provide a critique of the argument advanced by Walter Russell Mead that we are now witnessing ‘the return of geo-politics’ and the response to it by G John Ikenberry suggesting that this is an ‘illusion.’(both in Foreign Affairs Vol.93, 3, 2014).

2. How should we account for the demise of the immediate post-Cold War vision of a ‘New World Order’?

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4. Do post-Cold War relations between the West and the Islamic world confirm Samuel Huntington’s 1993 warning of a ‘Clash of Civilizations’?

5. Is the right to freedom from poverty a credible challenge to the established global order?

6. ‘The European Union is a weak foreign policy actor’. How far is this an accurate assessment and why?

7. How successful has coercive disarmament been in relation to stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War

8. ‘Climate change was caused by great powers and so only great powers should have to cut their emissions’. Discuss

9. “The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Union are playing a major part in embedding democracy, good governance and conflict resolution in Africa” Discuss.

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