Global communication developments are creating a patchwork of cultures, but they are also creating homogenization through the spread of capitalism.
Neither securitization nor desecuritization are in and of themselves positive or negative, which enables both schools to say something interesting about security.
The CEFAM class on gender is a new addition to the course this year. To illustrate the silencing of women in international discourse, the civil war in Congo was used as a central case.
The United Nations have gained the chair of global moral arbiter in an essentially anarchic international society and will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
While airpower is an important and powerful arm of military force, in today’s unconventional wars, it cannot alone be employed to fulfill an actor’s grand strategy.
In the case of Kony 2012, when the desire for individual satisfaction of the donor is more apparent than advocacy based on thoughtfulness and reflection, the result is an unethical advocacy.
Despite the successes of the Montreal Protocol, the challenges facing global environmental governance have intensified over the last two decades due to changes in rules and attitudes.
Sport as a form of public diplomacy or social intervention has often been overlooked. However, it can help with reconstruction, resolution and reconciliation, playing a vital role in progress.
Human rights have emerged as a central tenet to IR, however, the international human rights regime faces impediment as a guarantor of universal human rights.
Drawing on the case study of Cambodia, this look at NGO contributions to peacebuilding debates the balance of power between the liberal peace system, the state and civil society.
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