Devolution represents the most important change that the Westminster model has ever experienced. It has affected its politics in unintended ways, challenging the UK’s territorial and political integrity.
The UN, while far from flawless, is of paramount importance and relevance for maintaining national security and the worldwide protection of human rights.
Even though liberal and realist arguments divide opinion over the UN’s effectiveness in global politics, it is an effective institution for legislating environmental and humanitarian rights laws.
With increasing globalization, the spread of ideas is limitless and states’ borders become porous, which therefore permits radical ideas and beliefs to infiltrate other countries.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization operates in a diametrically different cultural and normative setting to Western International Organizations and must be seen within this context.
The centuries-old mercenary profession lives on in the modern era, and the current use of private military contractors, while at unprecedented levels, does not signify a new type of war.
Global justice is best secured through a cosmopolitan regime of non-dominating, effective and representative states that can establish and protect universal rights of membership.
The high levels of civilian deaths resulting from the use of Predator drones has ignited a new debate: does the elimination of risk to the aggressor necessarily mean they will act with impunity?
China’s water policies will increase regional and international tensions, but will also prevent China’s economy from stalling, which could destabilize the entire international system.
The violence in Beslan was more complex than a purely religion-based attack by Islamic extremists: it was also rooted in the Russian-Chechen wars and dramatic recollections of them.
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