The world is heading in a direction of increasing complexity, mutual reliance, co-operation, and diversity. Institutions provide the forums for the co-ordination of efforts that are needed if we are to continue on this path to prosperity.
This dissertation aims to establish the cumulative effect that the interactions between the USA and Iran have had on Iran’s identity.
Humanitarian assistance and state building play an essential role in COIN and should be incorporated into all COIN strategies.
This paper aims to disrupt this neat division of internal and external relations, and offer a much more complex view of the contemporary world order.
Upon its creation in 1945 the United Nations Security Council was tasked with maintaining international peace and security but is it the most relevant and capable body to deal with today’s security challenges?
One of the many issues Rousseau covered was the idea of international cooperation or even integration, and its suitability to some of the states of Europe.
A framework favouring humanitarian intervention, based on an emerging norm that places victims at the centre of the decision making process is needed.
Symbolic politics theory is a more accurate account of ethnic conflict. It attributes the outbreak of extreme violence to both elite politics and the socialization of competing identities.
The FAC is powerless compared to other committees; although most recommendations are taken on, many are weak and unsubstantial.
Realists maintain that international law cannot radically alter the behaviour of states; it cannot satisfy the unyielding thirst for power. This paper will begin by examining the realist view of neutrality in international law, after which it will provide two alternative viewpoints.
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