International Theory

Bashar al-Assad: A Machiavellian Prince?

Tom Moylan • Jan 27 2013 • Essays

The differences between Machiavelli and Bashar al-Assad in their approaches are stark. When compared, Bashar al-Assad cannot be considered a true Machiavellian realist.

Western Ideals of Gender Equality: Contemporary Middle Eastern Women

Imogen Parker • Jan 25 2013 • Essays

Cultural relativism holds the potential to inhibit progress towards equality if every time a human right’s law pertaining to women is constrained by a cultural specificity.

Three Theories of International Justice

Declan OBriain • Jan 25 2013 • Essays

Habermas, Pogge, and Kokaz come to a similar conclusion; the establishment of some form of global constitutional order is necessary to bring about egalitarian global redistribution.

Jean-Paul Sartre: Existential “Freedom” and the Political

Yvonne Manzi • Jan 23 2013 • Essays

Sartre’s concept of freedom should not be omitted from debates in political thought. His is a valuable ‘technical and philosophical’ concept rooted in questions of existence and being.

Realism and Non-State Actors Revisited

Evan Laksmana • Jan 22 2013 • Essays

A critique of Realism is its supposed inability to consider the growing role of non-state actors. However, without differentiating Realism into its various strands, this is too simple a critique.

Critical Assessment of Cosmopolitan Democracy

Daria Jarczewska • Jan 22 2013 • Essays

It would be beneficial to free the concept of democracy of its territorial, state-bound constraints and work toward a more democratic global order, but a new global structure is not feasible.

An Analysis of a Hobbesian Morality in International Relations

Jan Dobrosielski • Jan 19 2013 • Essays

While global resources are by no means unlimited, the nature of competition for resources between states is not as aggressive as that between individuals in a state of nature.

The Securitization of Legal Immigration in The United Kingdom

D. Morgan Trujillo • Jan 12 2013 • Essays

When differentiating one group from another, whether it is a societal differentiation, national or ethnic distinctions, a process of ‘self-definition’ and ‘other-definition’ occur.

Is a World without Nuclear Weapons a Realistic Prospect?

Thomas M. Dunn • Jan 9 2013 • Essays

It is the possibility of terrist groups and rogue states acquiring nuclear weapons that force the existing nuclear powers to retain overwhelming nuclear capabilities.

An Appraisal of Robert Keohane: Neoliberalism and Liberal Institutionalism

Joshua Colebourne • Dec 22 2012 • Essays

Recognising the existence of an anarchic society of states but also an importance for reaching collective goals is one of the key tenets of neoliberal institutionalism.

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