Europe

Judging Susceptibility to Ethnic Conflict

Charlotte Clapham • May 6 2012 • Essays

There is nothing inevitable or predictable about ethnic conflict; it is far more complicated a phenomenon than simply a foreseeable clash of ethnicities.

The European Union’s Newest State: Iceland?

Peter Sherwood • Apr 30 2012 • Essays

The origins of the Icelandic bid for EU membership lie in a national crisis never before experienced and the purpose of membership remains a hotly disputed topic in the nation of just over 300,000.

Undermining Security? The Post Cold War Enlargement of NATO

Katharina Remshardt • Apr 29 2012 • Essays

The process of enlargement has been accompanied by a vigorous debate, both within academic and executive circles, especially during the 1990s.

Healthcare Governance in Britain, Germany and Sweden

Jakob Hauter • Apr 28 2012 • Essays

Structural differences are not the sole explanatory factor in the transformation of healthcare governance. Other factors lead to common trends across very different systems.

Hyper Globalisation, Regionalisation and the Czech Republic

Charlie Smart • Apr 27 2012 • Essays

Globalisation fails to adequately explain the real world situation of the Czech Republic in relation to its interactions with other EU member states and, indeed, other states throughout the world.

The Role of the State in Development: Re-examining Neo-Liberal Recommendations

Annemarie Detlef • Apr 26 2012 • Essays

Examining the history of development in the UK, the US, Germany and Japan brings the policy recommendations of neoliberalism into question.

Is There a Future for Social Democracy in an Era of Globalisation?

Sean McDaniel • Apr 25 2012 • Essays

The restraints supposedly placed on social democracy by globalisation are misconceived and damaging. It has a future in the international economy, but the terms of the debate must be reconsidered.

The Return of the Radical Right

Katharina Remshardt • Apr 23 2012 • Essays

After its ideological bankruptcy post-1945, the far right seems to have made a come-back across various European countries during the past three decades.

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.

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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