The promotion of unfettered and intense marketization is the foremost causal factor contributing to Cambodia’s inability to consolidate democracy following a UN-sponsored transition.
Factors such as exclusion and poverty have a important causal relationship with armed conflict and social division. Economic and social rights, therefore, must be central to post-conflict societies.
Whilst giving money to the poor is necessary to alleviate certain aspects of poverty, this social protection method in itself is not sufficient to reduce the multifarious aspects of poverty.
Both the donor and national governments are equally responsible for the poor performance of ODA in Nepal due to a mismatch of priorities between the two parties.
The R2P has not only offered nothing genuine to solve the initial humanitarian intervention dilemma, but also “de-links” us from it.
A theoretical examination of North-South and South-South development projects shows how these programs reinforce global systems of economic dependence and strucures of inequality.
Engagement with the UN should be prioritised in Australia’s foreign policy, requiring a rethink of diplomatic capacity and the development of a broad platform for engagement.
Natural resources in Azerbaijan attract significant FDI, but dependence on oil-sector revenues does not always suggest good governance.
Whilst its programmes have not been comprehensively successful, The Worker’s Party has been a largely democratising force in what is a continuous, evolutionary process.
The causes of Africa’s failed states must be researched within those states. External relations of dependency and neocolonialism have aggravated their situation but are not the main causes.
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