Non-State Actors / IGOs

Mandate Disclosure in EU Trade Negotiations: The Case of TiSA

Michal Ovádek • May 24 2016 • Essays

The publication of TiSA’s negotiating mandate represents an effort to increase transparency, used by negotiators as a stepping stone towards expanding the EU’s win-set.

Upgrading the United Nations Environmental Programme to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century

Gavin Murphy • May 24 2016 • Essays

Pressure should be increased to create a strong international organisation that harnesses political will and keeps on the path to mitigating the effects of climate change.

Can Flags ‘Speak Security’?

Robert Aston • May 23 2016 • Essays

Fragile national identities can become embodied and even dependent upon flags, and flags will continue to be a major stumbling block to desecuritisation.

Assessing the Relationship between Power and Morality in Nonviolent Action

Sarah Wallace • May 3 2016 • Essays

Nonviolent action can simultaneously be pragmatic in its power to achieve the desired goal and principled by being rooted initially in morality.

A Gendered Critique of the Role of Spectacular Violence in Al Qaeda

Madeleine Nyst • May 2 2016 • Essays

Al Qaeda’s construction of masculinity has given meaning to the use of spectacular violence as a tool for the restoration of a damaged sense of masculinity.

The Legality of Russian Airstrikes in Syria and ‘Intervention by Invitation’

Samuel Mercier • Apr 29 2016 • Essays

Examining the legality of Russia’s claim of ‘intervention by invitation’ & the validity of such a principle when a country fails to respect norms of international law.

The Crime-Terror Nexus: Ideology’s Misleading Role in Islamist Terrorist Groups

Skye Riddell Roberts • Apr 23 2016 • Essays

The Salafist-Jihadist ideology in modern terrorist groups, such as ISIS and Al Qaeda, serves as a disguise for the criminal motivations of money, power, and status.

Allison’s Slow “Waltz” with Structure in Foreign Policy Analysis

Mack Clayton • Apr 17 2016 • Essays

Graham Allison’s Bureaucratic Politics model suggests that structure also operates within the framework of a sub-unit system, thus diminishing levels of agency.

Domestic Violence as Everyday Terrorism: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

Dean Cooper-Cunningham • Apr 4 2016 • Essays

Seeing bride kidnapping and domestic violence as everyday terrorism unpacks the political nature of so-called “private” phenomena and how they reify patriarchal society.

To What Extent Does International Law Reflect the Sovereign Will of States?

Sneha Dawda • Apr 1 2016 • Essays

Although international law reflects the sovereign will of Western states to a large extent, it significantly fails to reflect the will of post-colonial nations.

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