Regions

Safeguarding a Woman’s Right to Education and Water in Africa

Zachary Gavel • Dec 4 2018 • Essays

Despite the presence of protections in international and domestic law, a woman’s right to education and access to water remains unfulfilled in Ghana and South Africa.

China in Africa: A Form of Neo-Colonialism?

Mary Madeleine Edel WAN YAN CHAN • Dec 2 2018 • Essays

Defying other states, China is acting like a normal emerging power, playing the geopolitical game and inevitably growing its influence on the African continent.

UN Intervention: Help or Hindrance in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Swithun Rumble • Nov 18 2018 • Essays

The UN’s attempts to maintain the peace process in eastern Congo proved mainly ineffective because it failed to identify and engage with key spoilers.

Composing Compositeness: Examining EU Defining Actor Aspect in Russia Relations

Sophia Mård • Nov 17 2018 • Essays

The ‘Christmas Tree’ metaphor best describes the EU’s Russia policy, as certain mechanisms to manage external affairs represent obstacles to a unitary strategy.

Perpetual Conflict of ‘Turkishness’: The Turkish State and its Minority Groups.

Elizabete Aunina • Nov 4 2018 • Essays

Turkishness identity has an effect on the social/legal spheres of its state relations and has Othered the largest ethnic/religious minorities, the Kurds and the Alevis.

What Role did Christian Teachings Play in the American Civil Rights Movement?

Juleus Ghunta • Nov 1 2018 • Essays

‘Christian teachings’ does not denote a unitary worldview, therefore, the concept must be analysed within distinct socio–political, cultural and economic contexts.

(Re)Shaping Territories to Identities: Is the Middle East a Colonial Invention?

Yatana Yamahata • Oct 7 2018 • Essays

Orientalism served as a basis of colonial thought and activity that enabled and justified the intervention of the ‘Middle East’ without considering different identities.

Was There a Soviet-led Menace to Global Stability and Freedom in the Late 1940s?

Michal Šenk • Oct 7 2018 • Essays

It was the lack of soft power that demonstrated how unrealistic it truly was for the USSR to expand globally.

‘Fascisti del Terzo Millennio? No, solo Fascisti’: The Politics of CasaPound

Eugenia Zena • Oct 5 2018 • Essays

Despite some perceptions that the political party CasaPound only selectively invokes fascist ideology, the organization fully adheres to traditional fascist doctrine.

Microfinance and the Mirage of Women’s Empowerment

Shubham Singh • Oct 1 2018 • Essays

Rather than moving women out of poverty, access to microloans led to the financialization of village life, and resulted in a feminization of indebtedness.

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