International Security

Ukraine Conflict: The Final Push For Peace

Peter J. Marzalik • Jun 17 2015 • Essays

The Minsk Protocols have gradually paved the road toward peace, but serious problems remain both in the formulation and implementation of the agreement.

Why Doesn’t Iran Want the Bomb?

Torgeir Pande Braathen • Jun 17 2015 • Essays

When adding up the potential benefits and impediments, Iran will unlikely upgrade its current civilian nuclear programme to a military nuclear weapons programme.

Current Space Law Limitations and Its Implications on Outer Space Conflicts

Michael Beaver • Jun 16 2015 • Essays

This is an exciting time for the entirety of human civilization, it is important for all parties in the planning of the forthcoming human expansion into outer space.

The Status of the Responsibility to Protect Norm in International Relations

Lauren Grace Fitzsimons • Jun 11 2015 • Essays

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is worryingly tenuous, but there is the potential for it to develop into a robust international norm.

What Accounts for the Sino-Russian Alliance?

Matt Finucane • Jun 8 2015 • Essays

Sino–Russian relations are better today than at any point throughout their troubled history, due to the structure of the inter-state system and domestic factors.

Providing Security? Border Control and the Politics of Migration in the EU

Yasemin Oezel • Jun 8 2015 • Essays

Depicting how certain assumptions are constructed, constructivism is useful to unveil that the security threat of migration is socially produced.

Discursively Constructing a Space Threat: ‘China Threat’ & U.S. Security

Caleb Pomeroy • Jun 6 2015 • Essays

China’s rise in space power, and the United States’ interpretations of that rise, force us to reflect on how threats are constructed and perceived.

Why Are Elections Flashpoints for Violence & Insecurity and Can This Be Avoided?

Mia Lombardi • Jun 5 2015 • Essays

It is crucial to sustainable peace that elections are not seen as opportunities to engage in hostile takeovers, but instead allow for peaceful power transitions.

Australian, British, and US Approaches to Countering Islamic Extremists

Mark Taylor • Jun 4 2015 • Essays

By comparing and analysing the counter-radicalisation strategies of the three countries, disparate approaches are revealed that all contain some degree of effectiveness.

The Securitization of the Iraqi Regime Using the Three Levels of Analysis

Dana Shamlawi • Jun 1 2015 • Essays

The three levels of analysis can explain why contention can emerge when political issues are securitized such as the securitization of the Iraqi regime and US invasion.

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