Essays

Civil War Relapse?: Hezbollah & Sectarianism in Post-War Lebanon

Luke Falkenburg • Dec 11 2012 • Essays

Hezbollah has demonstrated itself to be the greatest threat to the stability of post-war Lebanon. It acts outside state control and holds the populace hostage to its demands.

Characteristics of Street Children

Abdelfatah Ibrahim • Dec 11 2012 • Essays

Despite the harsh conditions in which street children live, they make good use of the surrounding environment to survive.

Is Terrorism the Main Threat to Human Security in Northern Africa?

Christopher Grundy • Dec 9 2012 • Essays

Terrorism is undoubtedly an inimical factor in the pursuit of human security, although it is by no means the only issue and not the most significant either.

Habermas on Liberalism: Towards an Intersubjective Paradigm

Yvonne Manzi • Dec 8 2012 • Essays

The study of these rules is what Habermas calls universal pragmatics. If individuals want to come to an understanding, they must let go of conflictual and instrumental methods of action.

Is Failed State a Useless Term?

Neil Renic • Dec 7 2012 • Essays

The label ‘failed state’ is now commonly employed to describe a host of troubled states, seemingly unable to achieve the material requirements crucial to state legitimacy.

Reconciling Actor-Based and Context-Based Theories

Stephanie Perazzone • Dec 5 2012 • Essays

Actor-based and context-based analyses of spoiler problems in peace processes should not be construed as two distinctive, divergent models but rather as complementary and mutually reinforcing.

Iraq’s Institutional Internet Use

Tahira Mohamad Abbas • Dec 5 2012 • Essays

How are Iraq’s legislative, executive, and political parties adapting to cyberspace, and exploiting its potential for informational transparency and bottom-up communication?

How has Nature Been Conceptualised in Modernity?

Luke Godfrey • Dec 4 2012 • Essays

Nature is treated marginally in the discourses of modern philosophy, although we are reliant on nature and our relationship to nature is a cornerstone of modern society.

The Domestic Contraints on US Foreign Policy

Jonathan York • Dec 2 2012 • Essays

Constraints on the foreign policy of the US administration do exist and are most frequently faced by a President by domestic sources. Of these, the most significant constraints are those of the Congress and public opinion.

Differences in Patterns During the Yugoslav Wars

Alexander Langer • Dec 1 2012 • Essays

The Yugoslav Wars were a tragedy, yet parts of Yugoslavia had different experiences. Slovenia’s secession was relatively bloodless, Croatia’s was violent, and Bosnia’s secession was even more so.

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