NAME.
EDEN BEKELE
-DEPARTMENT.
-B/MANAGEMENT
INDIVIDUAL GLOBAL
TREND ASSIGNMENT
August/2021
1. Clearly discuss the major theories of international relation?
The two major theories of international relation are Realism and Liberalism most theories
of international relation are based on the ideas that states always act in accordance with
their national interest of that particular state.
__Realism is an approach to the study and practice of international politics if emphasize the role
of the nation state and makes a broad assumption interest at best national interest disguised as
moral concerns
The Key concepts found in realist theory are anarchl the balance of power and the national
interest
__Liberalism in the main concern of liberalism is to construct institutions that protect individual
freedom by limiting and checking political power
Liberalism holds that state preferences rather than state capabilities are the primary determinate
of state behavior unlike realism where
2. What does Globalization means? and elaborate its negative as well as its positive
impacts?
Globalization is the words used to describe the growing interdependence of the world’s
economies, Cultures and Populations, brought about by cross border trade in goods and
services, technology, and flows of investment people and information.
Example of Globalization 1. Cultural Globalization
2. Economic Globalization
3. Automotive Globalization
4. Diplomatic Globalization
5. Food industry Globalization
Positive impact of globalization
TACS bring wealth and foreign currency to local economies when they but local resources
products and services the extra money creates by this investment cab be spent on Education,
Health and Infrastructure the sharing of ideas experiences and lifestyle of people and culture
Globalization allows companies to find lower- cost what to produce their product it also
increases global competition which drives prices down and lowered costs help people in both
developing and already developed countries live better on loss money
Negative Impact of Globalization
many critics have also pointed out that globalization has negative effects on the environment
thus the massive development of transport that has been the basis of globalization is also
responsible for serious environmental problems such as greenhouse emission global warming or
air pollution
3. What does regional integration mean?
Regional integration is the process by which two or more nation state agree to corporate and
work closely together to achieve peace stability and wealth this means that the integrating state
would actually become a new country in other words total integration
Types of regional integration
- Free trade area.. This is the most basic frame of economic cooperation
- Customs union. This type provides for economic corporation as in a free trade zone
- Common market
- Economic union
Examples of regional integration
Nafta (North America frees trade agreement) an agreement among the U S A ,
Canada and Mexico EU European union countries APEC (Asian pacific economies
couperatis a forum ) This includes nafta members japan and china
Advantage of regional integration
Improve market efficiency
- Share the cost of public good or large infrastructure projects
- Decide policy cooperatively and have an anchor to reform
- Have a building block for global integration
- Reap other non-economic benefits such as peace and security
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Negative effects of regional integration
Based that regional cooperation can strength than the voes of all small actions.
These countries often face severe disadvantage in dealing with the rest of the world because of
their low.
Bargaining power and high negotiation costs the regional integration also can affect the
economic growth
Disadvantage of regional integration
- They include limited fiscal capabilities
- Cultural centralization creation of trading blocs diversion of
trade and surrendering some degree of sovereignty
- Regional integration refers to various economic and political
agreements that are formed between sovereign country
Positive effects of regional integration
Regional may integration may lock in policy commitments leading to more
stability
With a positive impacts on investment and migration flows regional agreements
May encourage intra- regional infrastructure projects that are particularly
Important for land-locked countries regions
4 Examine the foreign policy of Ethiopia in the post 1991?
In the post 1991 period Ethiopian foreign policy is driven primarily by the quest or seek to
ensure national at interest and security I-e realizing the real interest of the people mainly
democracy and development (to create favorable external environment) include to live freely
from poverty disease and ignorance
The foreign policy objective of Ethiopian states under article 86 of the FDRE constitution
The foreign policy of the derg the foreign policy of Ethiopian did not change immediately upon
the demise of the imperial regime initially the countries now
In the formulation of Ethiopian foreign policy since 1991 however the post 1991 world politics
witnessed major change in terms of
Ethiopian foreign policy was primarily uses in Westphalia principle with since then to 1991 the
state power was held by military
