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.
Is Intervention a Useful Tool to Stop Humanitarian Crises?
Humanitarian intervention creates a human rights conundrum, but it is a crucial tool in stopping humanitarian crises and protecting the welfare of civilian populations caught therein.
European Union Democracy Promotion: The Case of Bahrain
While the EU has achieved successes in promoting democracy in its immediate neighbourhood, its normative foreign policy has been less successful within a global context.
Deconstructing Justifications for Invading Iraq
The US invaded Iraq to strengthen and expand its ability to exert hegemony over this key regional area, to control Iraq’s oil reserves, and to liberalize Iraq’s economy.
Private Military Companies in the Contemporary Security Context
The new security context presented by PMCs challenges the traditional Weberian concept of the state as the sole depository of legitimate violence.
Civil War Relapse?: Hezbollah & Sectarianism in Post-War Lebanon
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.
Iraq’s Institutional Internet Use
How are Iraq’s legislative, executive, and political parties adapting to cyberspace, and exploiting its potential for informational transparency and bottom-up communication?
The 1982 Lebanon War was Israel’s Vietnam
Due to factors like nation size, proximity of threats, and regional instability, the legacy of Lebanon for Israel was perhaps more profound than the Vietnam legacy was for the US.
Transcending the Security Dilemma in International Relations
The Chicken game theory is not only applicable to the strategies of current global actors. It forms an explanatory framework for all strategic interactions between any two actors.
The Arab-Israeli Case: National Interests and the Limits of UN Capabilities
It is possible to observe that the US has sufficient strategic reasons to block the creation of a Palestinian State in order to not jeopardize its security strategies.
