Events in northern Africa have helped to enhance ‘Human Security’ as a subject of scholarly research and for legitimate consideration in the realm of International Relations.
The need for a gendered approach to peacebuilding has been acknowledged, but the link between rhetoric and policy implementation remains questionable.
The role of children in armed conflict has not fundamentally changed since the end of the Cold War, but the international community’s legal and sociological perception of it has evolved.
Weak states may be unable to protect their citizens from violence, provide basic infrastructure, create accountable institutions, or set the conditions for sustainable growth.
The West’s democracy promotion has achieved an outcome antithetical to its purpose: an increase in the violence of and destabilization within low-income and conflict-affected states.
Political Islamism has become mainstreamed to such an extent that no regime in the region can avoid engaging with it.
Evidence indicates a clear sign from China that currently it’s intentions are purely cooperative with no noticeable major change in national security strategy.
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 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.
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