Religion, culture and politics are historically interdependent influences, constantly reimagined and reconstituted throughout history, that shape the space that women occupy.
Whilst its programmes have not been comprehensively successful, The Worker’s Party has been a largely democratising force in what is a continuous, evolutionary process.
Adam Smith’s greatest social and economic legacy lies in his theory’s contribution to the development of the fundamental civilizational factors that formed the modern West.
If states act according to self-interest and material capacity, as the dominant paradigm suggests, why do values and common humanity even matter?
How can we set limits to state sovereignty and power without lapsing into a form of utopianism, directed towards an end point, that entails the paternalistic and imperialistic policies of cosmopolitanism?
The causes of Africa’s failed states must be researched within those states. External relations of dependency and neocolonialism have aggravated their situation but are not the main causes.
Euroscepticism is becoming much more mainstream and it is now almost expected of all political parties to openly criticise the EU in some form or another.
Gacaca was not a successful experiment in restorative justice. It did not contain a strong enough reparative element and was hampered by factors of capacity such as a lack of legal expertise and sufficient compensation for victims.
Although Gorbachev’s merit in ending the Cold War has been eroded by new evidence, it was his skillful diplomacy that prevented its violent end.
Given growing Chinese cyber-assets and activity, cyber foreign policy and espionage could pose a threat to US interests and Sino-American relations.
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