C/L/163. INTERNATIONAL LAW

This assignment will discuss and analyse realist and construct approaches to foreign policy in international relations, and this will be done with particular emphasis on the 1991 Gulf War. This will be achieved by first discussing, in general terms, both the constructivists and realists approach to foreign policy in international relations and this will then be followed by discussion of their application to the 1991 Gulf War. It will be concluded that whilst both realist and constructivism both provide possible approaches to both the American approach and the original invasion by Iraq, ultimately at the heart of these actions was security.