Do Global Communications Inevitably Lead to Cultural Homogenization?
Global communication developments are creating a patchwork of cultures, but they are also creating homogenization through the spread of capitalism.
Towards a Critical Securitization Theory: The Copenhagen and Aberystwyth Schools of Security Studies
Neither securitization nor desecuritization are in and of themselves positive or negative, which enables both schools to say something interesting about security.
What are the Prospects for the United Nations?
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.
Has “Strategic” Airpower Failed to Live up to its Promise?
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.
Political and Structural Impediments to Universal Human Rights
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.
Bashar al-Assad: A Machiavellian Prince?
The differences between Machiavelli and Bashar al-Assad in their approaches are stark. When compared, Bashar al-Assad cannot be considered a true Machiavellian realist.
Economic Globalisation and Society in Developing Countries
Developed countries possess the means to assist developing countries emerge from the “Third World” and this is most effectively facilitated by economic globalisation.
Western Ideals of Gender Equality: Contemporary Middle Eastern Women
Cultural relativism holds the potential to inhibit progress towards equality if every time a human right’s law pertaining to women is constrained by a cultural specificity.
Three Theories of International Justice
Habermas, Pogge, and Kokaz come to a similar conclusion; the establishment of some form of global constitutional order is necessary to bring about egalitarian global redistribution.
Putin and Medvedev: Instruments of the Russian Security Class?
Even if the security class has grown stronger under Putin’s first two terms, it has never reached the point from where it could fully control the Russian presidency.
