Essays

Sunni-Shia Tensions in the Iran-Iraq War

Sam Langtree • Apr 21 2012 • Essays

Sunni- Shi’ite tensions came to a head following the revolution in Iran that sought to spread its message, threatening the domestic security of the Sunni Baath party.

Were SAPs Designed to Keep Africa Economically Subservient to the West?

Sophie Crockett • Apr 21 2012 • Essays

Structural adjustment programmes upheld the theoretical concepts of neo-liberal economics, tied with the underlying notion that markets are inherently greater in the distribution of resources and in solving development problems.

Rousseau: Conjectural History and the Political Theory of Organic State

Leonardo S. Milani • Apr 20 2012 • Essays

Rousseau’s entire socio-political philosophy resembles a form of policy analysis of the discontents of human civilization and socialization, designed to discover a remedy for our ‘miseries’.

Exploring the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers

Stian Eisentrager • Apr 19 2012 • Essays

The use of child soldiers will persist as long as the societies within which they operate do not have any conceptual, moral or ethical problems of doing so.

Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

David Rorrison • Apr 19 2012 • Essays

Iran has no intentions of stopping its nuclear program in the short term. To deal with this problem, the international community must establish a united strategy and overcome inherent divisions.

Security and Human Development in Pakistan

Hamza Jehangir • Apr 18 2012 •

Pakistan’s internal and external power relations and its colonial past have led to skewed policy making which prioritises defence expenditure and neglects human development.

The Chicken or the Egg? Causes of the Moldova-Transnistria Conflict

Jonathan C. Lima Matthews • Apr 18 2012 • Essays

Economic, political and social variables were mutually important at the onset of the Moldova-Transnistria Conflict.

China’s Cruise Towards Sea Power

Xu Duo • Apr 17 2012 • Essays

China needs to build up its sea power for the sake of its economic growth, maritime interests and national security. It would do well to learn from Western theories.

Understanding Poverty: the human development approach

Eilidh Mackie • Apr 17 2012 • Essays

The human development approach, underpinned by interdisciplinary capability frameworks, has become one of the prevailing approaches in understanding, evaluating and measuring poverty within the development sector.

Causes of the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Annemarie Detlef • Apr 16 2012 • Essays

The massive amount of debt in Southern European countries is not determined by weakness, corruption, and inabilities to deal with public deficits, but by systemic failures and illnesses.

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