Essays

UN Peacekeeping: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan’s Troop Contributions

Priscilla Cabuyao • Jun 18 2014 • Essays

From a realist perspective, the impressive devotion of top-troop contributors to UN Peacekeeping is rooted in several political, professional, and economic motivations.

Climate Change Politics Through a Constructivist Prism

Tim Pfefferle • Jun 18 2014 • Essays

Constructivism captures the political nature of the climate change issue and is able to put it in its respective historical and social context.

Coping with the Legacy of the Civil War in El Salvador

Korbinian März • Jun 18 2014 • Essays

The Commission on the Truth for El Salvador partly failed but has also reached significant successes.

Analysing the Lord’s Resistance Army Through Liberalism & Social Constructivism

Daphny Roggeveen • Jun 16 2014 • Essays

Using the case study of the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda, liberalism’s approach to peacebuilding is inadequate compared to social constructivism’s.

Was the Communist Party of Yugoslavia a Leninist Party?

Matt Finucane • Jun 15 2014 • Essays

The Communist Party of Yugoslavia was a thoroughly Leninist party. Even at those moments when it appeared to go against Lenin, its adherence to him was near complete.

The ‘Intelligence Special Relationship’ between Britain and the United States

Jonjo Robb • Jun 15 2014 • Essays

The UK-USA relationship has stood the test of time and evolved to meet the requirements of intelligence consumers as old threats have dissipated and new threats emerged.

Constituting Latin America

Kevin Doherty • Jun 14 2014 • Essays

Early US foreign policy understood and utilised modernity in a manner distinct from Europe, but on the same problematic epistemological grounds.

The Neoconservative Influence on US Foreign Policy and the 2003 Iraq War

Patrick Corscadden • Jun 14 2014 • Essays

For the Neocons ideas are everything. Unfortunately, as proven by the insurgency which rose in Iraq, the rest of the world has very different ideas about global society.

To What Extent are Gangs Sources of Security or Insecurity in the Global South?

Kit Nicholl • Jun 13 2014 • Essays

In certain communities, gangs may appear to be providers of security, while in others, their violent measures to achieve their goals generate fear for millions.

Critical Approaches to the Functions of International Institutions

Ben Holihead • Jun 13 2014 • Essays

Critical approaches can not only identify the flaws of neoliberalism but also possible contradictions between neoliberalism as a concept and how institutions perceive it.

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