United Kingdom

Getting Away With It: How Governments Sew Up Foreign Policies in Advance

Peter Harris • Jun 13 2014 • Articles

All foreign policies are stitched together in order to appease the greatest number of potential stakeholders while limiting the number of potential opponents.

Review – Buraimi: The Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in Arabia

Tore T. Petersen • Mar 26 2014 • Features

Morton provides insight into the disputes of the South Eastern Arabian Peninsula, yet fails to provide an adequate understanding of US policy in the region.

Tensions Between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar

Rachael Squire • Jan 24 2014 • Articles

In the modern era, sovereignty disputes such as those over Gibraltar have become commonplace, and have proved an area ripe for academic deconstruction.

Rumsfeldian Logic and the Debate on Scottish Independence

A.B. Evans • Nov 25 2013 • Articles

Whether Scotland votes yes or no in 2014, future years seem to only offer the certainty of doubt. However, we know to a certain degree where such ambiguities & uncertainties are likely to emerge.

Voting ‘No’ on Syria: What Now for the Role of the UK Parliament in Approving Military Action?

Catherine Haddon • Sep 10 2013 • Articles

UK’s Parliament has voted against taking military action in Syria – but what are the political, military and humanitarian ramifications of this decision and will it form a precedent?

Obstacles to the Oversight of the UK Intelligence Community

Peter Gill • Jul 19 2013 • Articles

Effective oversight of state intelligence activities matters: agencies exist to protect public safety and security, but can infringe on privacy and, if unchecked, their actions may be damaging.

British Memory of Colonial Brutality in Kenya and Elsewhere

Laura Routley • May 8 2013 • Articles

British elite’s are slowly agreeing that Britain’s colonial history needs to be debated as the testimonies and documentary evidence challenge “long-cherished views” of this period of British colonial exploits.

Immigration Bonds: An Efficient Free Market Solution or a Discriminatory Policy?

Mary Manjikian • Apr 15 2013 • Articles

The proposal of immigration bonds in the UK raises several issues for IR scholars. Different theoretical approaches can provide an insight into a case that could possibly establish a precedent.

Euroscepticism: Virus or Cure?

John Rentoul • Dec 4 2012 • Articles

If the United Kingdom left the European Union, access to the single market may not be guaranteed to the UK. Therefore contemporary Conservative Party euroscepticism may not be mad, but rather an adjustment to the challenges of the future.

Conservative Euroscepticism: The Etiology of an Obsession

Tim Bale • Nov 15 2012 • Articles

Conflict between those Conservatives who will push things to the limit but then pull back, and those for whom no such limit now exists could destroy, or disable, the Party.

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