Syria and the Responsibility to Protect: Rhetoric Meets Reality
Syria surely demonstrates, in all too graphic detail, the limits of R2P and the pressing need for creative thinking about profound reforms of the UN which address the P5 veto in the Security Council and the absence of a UN standing army.
Is the UN Security Council Fit for Purpose?
Upon its creation in 1945 the United Nations Security Council was tasked with maintaining international peace and security but is it the most relevant and capable body to deal with today’s security challenges?
Climate Change, the Laws of War and the Military
The laws of war may need to be amended in order to protect those facilities and components such as forests and flood defences that societies will rely upon in the future to protect us from the impacts of climate change.
A Rousseauian Look at European Integration
One of the many issues Rousseau covered was the idea of international cooperation or even integration, and its suitability to some of the states of Europe.
Is Humanitarian Intervention Ever Morally Justified?
A framework favouring humanitarian intervention, based on an emerging norm that places victims at the centre of the decision making process is needed.
The Symbolic Politics Theory of Ethnic War
Symbolic politics theory is a more accurate account of ethnic conflict. It attributes the outbreak of extreme violence to both elite politics and the socialization of competing identities.
To Strike or Not to Strike: What is the Endgame in Iran?
Amid all the debate over whether to attack Iran, the most important question to ask is whether this policy will keep Iran non-nuclear indefinitely?
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee and UK Foreign Policy
The FAC is powerless compared to other committees; although most recommendations are taken on, many are weak and unsubstantial.
A Pyrrhic Victory? The ‘War on Terror’ and ‘The Triumph of Just War’
If we wish to think about whether the triumph of just war is meaningful or pyrrhic, we need to examine how just war discourse functions. The challenge that confronts just war theorists today is to devise new and more sophisticated ways of pursuing this task.
Can International Law Lead to a Fundamental Transformation of Politics?
Realists maintain that international law cannot radically alter the behaviour of states; it cannot satisfy the unyielding thirst for power. This paper will begin by examining the realist view of neutrality in international law, after which it will provide two alternative viewpoints.
