Non-State Actors / IGOs

Is Universal Health Coverage Always the Best Solution to Health Challenges?

Jed Lim • Apr 19 2019 • Essays

While Universal Health Coverage remains a goal worth pursuing, it faces numerous local and global challenges rendering its meaningful implementation difficult.

Egypt’s Security Paradox in Libya

Kay Westenberger • Apr 8 2019 • Essays

Direct security concerns have pushed Egypt into a security paradox regarding Libya. By supporting militias, Egypt is directly contradicting UN unity efforts.

Armies of Women: The Syria Crisis and the New War Thesis

Timothy Abington • Mar 27 2019 • Essays

The Syrian Civil War constitutes a “new war” from the feminist perspective when it is contextualised within the literature of the new war debate.

Can International Organisations Become “Autonomous Sites of Authority”?

Isabella Lowenthal-Isaacs • Feb 18 2019 • Essays

While international organisations can become autonomous sites of authority, they are never fully independent actors.

(Impossible) Women and Boko Haram: The Paradox of Female Support to Sharia Law

Eugenia Zena • Feb 17 2019 • Essays

A nuanced and contextual analysis is necessary to understand Nigerian women’s agency and their involvement with Boko Haram.

The ‘Chilling Effect’: Are Journalistic Sources Afforded Legal Protection?

Laura Broome • Jan 29 2019 • Essays

Because the United Kingdom’s journalistic protections fall short of the European Convention on Human Rights, whistleblowers may be deterred from disclosing information.

National Identity and the Construction of Enemies: Constructivism and Populism

Lena Johanna Kappenberg • Jan 27 2019 • Essays

Constructivism elucidates how populist parties use identity construction and interest creation to portray their policies as necessary protections of national identity.

The Governance of Savagery: International Society, Sovereignty and the Islamic State

Jonathan Burden • Dec 8 2018 • Essays

The gap between the analytical tools of IR and its epistemological western framework has contributed to the failure to predict major ‘upheavals’ in the Middle East.

UN Intervention: Help or Hindrance in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Swithun Rumble • Nov 18 2018 • Essays

The UN’s attempts to maintain the peace process in eastern Congo proved mainly ineffective because it failed to identify and engage with key spoilers.

Incubators of Terror: Anatomising the Determinants of Domestic Terrorism

Blair Welsh • Nov 11 2018 • Essays

The presence of domestic terrorism in a state is linked to government strength and the territorial control of the terrorist organizations themselves.

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