Although the benefits of globalization continue to be disproportionately angled in favour of the developed global North, GDP can be seen to have risen for developing countries, including those within sub-Saharan Africa.
Given the structural deficiencies that weaken the EMU and consequently the international status of the Euro, it is unlikely that the Euro will rival the Dollar, at least in the short term.
The Dreyfus affair helped the French Republic reassert her power over the army and those parties who wanted to topple the democracy.
In post-communist countries, the most popular method for dealing with the communist past was lustration. Some countries dealt with former collaborators more harshly than others, but ultimately it is not possible to devise a fair system of lustration.
Neither neo-functionalism nor liberal intergovernmentalism provides a superior explanation for why EU member states have ceded some of their sovereignty with regards to asylum policy. Ultimately it is a combination of the two theories that provides the best explanation.
The recent behaviour of international interveners, shaped by the erroneous theories of ‘new wars’ literature, is not useful in the establishment of a self-sustainable democracy.
No culture or society can escape the 1989 revolutions; they marked a distinct caesura in International Relations. The states that emerged had to deal with unique circumstances, being geographically located in Europe but politically worlds apart.
The shift in Turkish civil-military relations post 2002 is a consequence of an emerging reconfiguration of norms, interests, and identity in Turkish politics.
Parties that identify with being on the right of centre, who follow a Eurosceptic ideology and call for the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union show significant growth in electoral support in recent years.
Nationalist ideology provided the moral, political and military impetus to ethnically cleanse contested territories to create a ‘fit’ between nation and state.
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