International Theory

Women’s Bodies Are Battlefields

Beth Speake • Apr 25 2012 • Essays

The targeting of women’s bodies in times of conflict has come to light as a systematic strategy which has been used by different actors in many different contexts worldwide. The current situation in Guatemala provides a pertinent case study.

The Return of the Radical Right

Katharina Remshardt • Apr 23 2012 • Essays

After its ideological bankruptcy post-1945, the far right seems to have made a come-back across various European countries during the past three decades.

Mission Impossible: Establishing a Consensus in a Pluralist Democratic Society

anon • Apr 23 2012 • Essays

Rousseau and Rawls attempt to solve the elusive mystery of consensus in the pluralist environment of ancient and contemporary systems of democracy.

Rousseau: Conjectural History and the Political Theory of Organic State

Leonardo S. Milani • Apr 20 2012 • Essays

Rousseau’s entire socio-political philosophy resembles a form of policy analysis of the discontents of human civilization and socialization, designed to discover a remedy for our ‘miseries’.

Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

David Rorrison • Apr 19 2012 • Essays

Iran has no intentions of stopping its nuclear program in the short term. To deal with this problem, the international community must establish a united strategy and overcome inherent divisions.

Causes of the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Annemarie Detlef • Apr 16 2012 • Essays

The massive amount of debt in Southern European countries is not determined by weakness, corruption, and inabilities to deal with public deficits, but by systemic failures and illnesses.

Does it Matter if Autocracies Can Generate Audience Costs?

Kriti Bami • Apr 4 2012 • Essays

‘Audience costs’ can provide democracies with more credibility when making threats on the international stage. The situation is different, however, for autocracies and does not always matter as a means of signalling credibility.

An Evaluation of Neoconservative Foreign Policy

David Sykes • Apr 1 2012 • Essays

Neoconservative foreign policy has a solid core of reasonable assumptions, but America’s attempts to put the neoconservative agenda into practice came at an enormous human and political cost.

SAPs and the Build up to the Rwandan Genocide

Thomas Hauschildt • Mar 31 2012 • Essays

It is evident that SAPs worsened the economic situation of Rwanda, and they had significant effects on the wider social and political environment.

A Postcolonial Perspective on Immigration Regimes and International Order

Hannah Butt • Mar 18 2012 • Essays

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.

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