International Law

The Status of the Responsibility to Protect Norm in International Relations

Lauren Grace Fitzsimons • Jun 11 2015 • Essays

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is worryingly tenuous, but there is the potential for it to develop into a robust international norm.

Providing Security? Border Control and the Politics of Migration in the EU

Yasemin Oezel • Jun 8 2015 • Essays

Depicting how certain assumptions are constructed, constructivism is useful to unveil that the security threat of migration is socially produced.

A Poststructuralist Perspective on R2P as a Response to Kofi Annan’s Question

Sofia Bianchini • May 29 2015 • Essays

Addressing Kofi Annan’s question in traditional Liberal terms is but one way, of many, to phrase the Responsibility to Protect debate.

UNSC Resolution 1325: A Building Block for Gender Equity?

Andreas Fabian • May 29 2015 • Essays

UN Resolution 1325, although not yet a complete success, can and should be used as a starting point to work for gender equity and towards a violence-free world.

How Should We Govern Lethal Force Short of War? An Evaluation of Jus Ad Vim

Vilde Rodin • May 24 2015 • Essays

With the expansion of drone warfare the demand for a renewal of just war theory has arisen, and the framework of jus as vim may prove a viable alternative.

Global Governance of Maritime Piracy: Closing the Legal Gaps

Charlotte Carnehl • May 13 2015 • Essays

The International Contact Group on Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) is considered a successful example of global governance of maritime policy.

Humanitarian Military Intervention: Assessing the Need for Revision

Annelie Wambeek • May 12 2015 • Essays

Scholarly debates should acknowledge the existence of humanitarian intervention and shift the debate towards evaluating the required behavior during an intervention.

200 Years After the Congress of Vienna

Jochen Klinger • May 6 2015 • Essays

It can be concluded that the European society of states after the Congress of Vienna was one of increasingly intermeshing inter-state relationships and commitments.

The EU-China Partnership and Cooperation Agreement Negotiation Deadlock

Yan Shaohua • Apr 23 2015 • Essays

The stalemate of the EU-China Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) negotiations can be explained by the small size of overlapping win-sets of the two sides.

Are There People Outside of Identity?

Stina Wassén • Apr 22 2015 • Essays

Despite being significantly constrained by preexisting social structures, refugees and asylum seekers actually can and do express agency and political identities.

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