Archive for 2013

Has Russia Become a Destablising Force in the World Today?

Matt Finucane • Oct 22 2013 • Essays

Modern Russia is a status quo power, only acting in response to NATO and US-backed actions without intent to enlarge its territorial or military influence beyond its own region.

Feminism and the Post-‘Arab Spring’

Bronwyn Winter • Oct 21 2013 • Articles

The transformation heralded by the 2011 uprisings still remains a very long way off. Replacement of one type of authoritarian state by another is very far from a feminist revolution.

International Relations on Screen: Hollywood’s History of American Foreign Policy

Ian Scott • Oct 20 2013 • Articles

U.S. cinema’s dalliance with U.S. foreign policy started in 1897 when it was entangled with the audience’s own nationalist fervour. Today, nationalist fervour and international relations are alive and well in Hollywood.

The Taylor Appeal Judgment: Achievement or Fragmentation of International Criminal Law?

Marina Aksenova • Oct 20 2013 • Articles

The importance of the Taylor Appeal judgment lies beyond strictly legal considerations, as it deems culpable involvement of the heads of states in political violence in another state no longer accepted.

Deepening Socio-Economic Relations Across Taiwan Straits

Chris Barker • Oct 20 2013 • Essays

While socio-economic relations encourage a peaceful era in the short to medium term, political realism severely constrains the development of these relations the in the long term.

The Complicity of International Markets in Human Rights Violations

Matthew John Ribeiro Norley • Oct 19 2013 • Essays

Corporate Social Responsibility is a farce: a lack of transparency, increased competition, poor international regulation, and corruption cause corporate violations of human rights law.

The Changing Nature of Sovereignty

Michael Bolt • Oct 17 2013 • Essays

The nature of sovereignty has changed from one which vests states with the right to non-intervention, to one which grants them certain responsibilities towards its own population.

Documenting the ‘War on Terror’

Bruce Bennett • Oct 16 2013 • Articles

One of the most striking ways Anglo-American filmmakers have responded critically to the ‘war on terror’ is through a generic and stylistic turn to the production of documentaries, docudramas and dramatized documentaries.

The Discursive Turn in International Relations Research: Bad Science?

Ashleigh Croucher • Oct 16 2013 • Essays

Though it may be considered ‘bad science’ by positivists, the lack of formal methodology in discourse analysis allows for an analysis of the discursive representations of world politics.

‘Bedouin’ Hospitality in the Neo-Global City of Dubai

James Barnes • Oct 16 2013 • Essays

Has hospitality in the Middle East, especially in Dubai, been changed as a result of the construction of new cities, or has it merely shifted to accommodate a new type of guest?

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