Liberalism vs. Realism or maybe both

Right after I left the classroom I opened my laptop and took a look at today's news. For my surprise I saw an interesting topic. The Article is called: "Iran has 'updated nuclear package'; ready to hold talks” And after reading it, it got me thinking that maybe the world has more liberals than we thought. In the UN they are seeking to get to an agreement in the limits of the nuclear program in Iran.

And why is Iran willing to talk to the UN? The only reason they are willing to talk to the UN is because Germany threaten Iran if they did not meet to talk and reach an agreement.

So it gets me thinking maybe we are not just Realist nor Idealist; but maybe just a combination of both. Is this really what we need right now?, or is it the future of International Relations.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/01/iran.nuclear.talks/index.html

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Advantages thet The Cold War brought to human race

While enjoying my weekend I realized that "The Cold War" gave many triumphs to human race. I think it is important to talk about this because if we just talk about the bad things, we would not be able to discuss the things that were invented in this époque of time.

For example, we would not have the ability to collaborate in this blog if it hadn't been for the invention of the transistor, because as we now transistors are used in the fabrication of computers and other technological devices we use in a daily basis.

If it hadn't been for the Russian entrepreneurs that wanted to conquer space we wouldn’t have the ability to make a cell phone call across seas at the speed we can. The Russians were the first ones to send an artificial satellite to space; that satellite was called The Sputnik, after this satellite was put on orbit, a few more started to circle the Earth. This has helped in many process of communication. Another step was when Neil Armstrong arrives to the Moon.

How can we forget about ARPANET??? ARPANET was a net between computers used in the military to send information between military bases. Maybe we can think that the ARPANET is not important for us, but ARPANET is the pre-stage of what we call nowadays "the internet."

So next time you login in Facebook remember that The Cold War was the catalyst for the internet and many other things.

Dasguta Partha, War and Progress. Retrieved August 21st, 2009, from Arizona State Universtiy Web Site: http://cactus.eas.asu.edu/Partha/Columns/09-24-war.htm

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