Regions

Does Britain’s Future Lie with North America, rather than Europe?

Mareike Oldemeinen • Oct 19 2012 • Essays

Current events like the European debt crisis seem to only emphasise the need for Britain to look to North America in order to join NAFTA and escape European bureaucracy.

Can an Intervention in Syria be Morally Permissible? Is it Morally Obligatory?

James Morley • Oct 18 2012 • Essays

May a nation intervene in another nation’s conflict on loose humanitarian grounds to serve its own purpose? Interventions must be committed to helping the people who are persecuted.

The Failure of Neoliberal Transition Policies in Eastern Europe Post-1989

Michael Koenig • Oct 16 2012 • Essays

Neoliberal shock therapy in Eastern Europe has helped the West create exporting tigers, competing on the basis of cheap labour costs and opening up markets for themselves.

Personality in Foreign Policy Decision-Making

Caitlin Smith • Oct 16 2012 • Essays

Can personality be used to explain Israeli foreign policy during the 1982 Lebanon War, and can it contribute to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?

Appeasement and the Munich Crisis

Jenghiz von Streng • Oct 14 2012 • Essays

During the Munich Crisis, there was little choice other than appeasement, particularly given that the vast majority of the British and French public, as well as elites, were not prepared to fight another war with Germany.

The 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Elizabeth Gutfreund-Walmsley • Oct 14 2012 • Essays

Like no uprising thus far, world media placed Tahrir Square in people’s living rooms, providing citizens around the world with a sense of ‘global hope’.

How have Russia and France Dealt With the Issue of “race”?

Anastasija Malachova • Oct 13 2012 • Essays

Migrant workers in France (particularly from North Africa and Asia) have been discriminated in the job market as well as in different social aspects of life such as housing.

The Medical Gaze Between the Doctor, the Patient, and the State

Zeynep Balcioglu • Oct 11 2012 • Essays

Implementation of neoliberal policies in Turkey’s health sector binds both the doctors and the patients to perform as homo-economicuses, strategically structuring their relationship.

Hamas and Iran: Nationalism and Islam

David Donaldson • Oct 10 2012 • Essays

Islam provides a strong rhetorical tool for furthering national political projects, providing as it does an empty vessel on many of the questions relevant to the contemporary political world.

Evaluating the Participatory Development Programme in Egypt

Abdelfatah Ibrahim • Oct 9 2012 • Essays

Despite the weaknesses of the programme, it has contributed to urban poverty reduction in some of the most well-known informal areas in Egypt, achieving many tangible results.

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