Foreign Policy

The Three Images of the Syrian Civil War

Torgeir Pande Braathen • Feb 6 2016 • Essays

Employing Waltz’s three images in ‘Man the State and War’ as a methodological framework helps guide analysis of the Syrian civil war, but fails to provide direct answers.

The Falklands War: Differing Causes of Conflict

Alexander Liffiton • Feb 6 2016 • Essays

Explaining the occurrence of the Falklands War through diversionary theory, competing sovereignty claims and Fearon’s exploration of the contraction of bargaining ranges.

Is Rentier State Theory Sufficient to Explain the Politics of the UAE?

Alessandro Zicchieri • Feb 4 2016 • Essays

Because Rentier State Theory insufficiently explains the politics of the UAE, a marrying of Constructivism and RST are needed to best capture the politics of the UAE.

Is There Really a Significant Policy Implementation Problem in the EU?

Mónica Martín Roig • Feb 3 2016 • Essays

EU’s major policy implementation problem is widely recognized, and should be combated through continuously combining plurilateral and hierarchical modes of EU governance.

National Security Strategy: A Case Favoring the Current Global Threat Environment

Sam Ling Gibson • Jan 30 2016 • Essays

As states’ absolute power declines and shared threats rise, the NSS becomes more important for the transition to multipolarism and coordination between disparate powers.

Implications of the Securitisation of Migration

Elisabeth Farny • Jan 29 2016 • Essays

The securitization of migration reinforces a politics of fear and racism.

Why is the Discourse of ‘Islamic Terrorism’ Problematic?

Josh Holmes • Jan 26 2016 • Essays

The prescribed causal relationship between religion and violence is not only contestable but also alarmingly reductionist.

Intervention, Rectificatory Justice and Immigration: France and Ben Ali

Jakob Mckernan • Jan 8 2016 • Essays

Looking at the example of France and Tunisia, past interference in the political and social life of a country should be considered as a criteria of assessing immigration.

The Racialisation of Rape Narratives in British Media Coverage of the Delhi Rape

Scarlett Cockerill • Jan 5 2016 • Essays

The symbolic and emotive potential of rape narratives has, throughout colonial and post-colonial history, been powerfully employed in connection with race.

Analyzing the Threat of Human Trafficking in Europe

Dale Anderson • Dec 29 2015 • Essays

Sweden’s Sex Purchase Act of 1999 has had the unintended consequence of organized crime groups finding a new path of least resistance in human trafficking

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