Essays

Towards Presidentialism in Australia?

Habiba Fadel • Jul 17 2012 • Essays

Australia has undergone a wide range of changes, impacting on the traditional role and image of its politics.

‘Groupthink’ and US Foreign Policy

Jean-Baptiste Tai-Sheng Jacquet • Jul 17 2012 • Essays

Groupthink represents a crucial aspect of US foreign policy and is a concept that scholars must not neglect when analysing this topic.

Was Blair’s Britain a ‘Good International Citizen’?

Zahra Yassim • Jul 16 2012 • Essays

Blair’s Britain was more of a ‘good enough international citizen’ than a ‘good international citizen’ owing to the disparity between its foreign policy-making rhetoric and its policy actions

Gacaca Courts and Restorative Justice in Rwanda

Thomas Hauschildt • Jul 15 2012 • Essays

While Gacaca courts have served human needs by exercising retributive and restorative justice, the trials can also invoke retraumatisation and insecurity.

What Are The Main Causes of Genocide?

Dominique Maritz • Jul 12 2012 • Essays

Incidents of genocide are not unique to the modern era; however, ideas of Enlightenment have led to humans’ wish to continually improve their societies.

Unraveling the Mystery of People Smuggling Networks

Marie Ngiam • Jul 11 2012 • Essays

People smuggling networks targeting Australia have a number of common elements, such as flexibility and adaptability, wide range of actors and branching out into other organised crimes.

On State Sovereignty: The End of Territoriality as the Starting Point in IR?

Elijah Bossa • Jul 11 2012 • Essays

Territoriality as the starting point for settling questions of international relations no longer reflects the constitutional reality of state sovereignty within international law today

The Failure of Female Empowerment Through Suicide Terrorism in Palestine

Kinga Szalkai • Jul 11 2012 • Essays

The behaviour of women who undertake a suicide mission is unusual in the traditionally patriarchal Palestinian society, and has the allusion of challenging traditional female roles. In reality, it is a dead end.

Labour Movements: A Prominent Role in Struggles Against Globalisation?

Joe Sutcliffe • Jul 11 2012 • Essays

Neoliberal globalisation creates opportunities for new forms of organisation and resistance, even as it attempts to undermine existing strategies.

Executive-Legislative Conflict over the War Powers Resolution

Alexander Ryland • Jul 9 2012 • Essays

In the post-9/11 era, the US Congress has failed to arrest the growth of the imperial presidency in foreign policy, rendering the WPR little more than a symbolic declaration of lost power.

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