Non-State Actors / IGOs

‘Operation Artemis’: The efficiency of EU peacekeeping in The Congo

Michael Koenig • Oct 5 2012 • Essays

Operation Artemis illustrates that the EU has the capabilities to successfully execute mandates, if the EU member states are willing and agree upon foreign policy actions.

Is an Ethical Foreign Policy Good Domestic Politics for a Governing Party?

Yasmin Lane • Oct 3 2012 • Essays

Ethical foreign policy has been set up and practised in an overly-ambitious way which has caused the public to hold disproportionate expectations towards the governing party.

Gacaca Courts and Restorative Justice in Rwanda

Thomas Hauschildt • Jul 15 2012 • Essays

While Gacaca courts have served human needs by exercising retributive and restorative justice, the trials can also invoke retraumatisation and insecurity.

Privatizing Development: The Limit of Market-Based Approaches to Development

Graeme Esau • Jul 6 2012 • Essays

The free-market is a necessary, yet limited, aspect of development. It must not be relied upon as the sole approach to poverty alleviation.

Did the UNHCR Fail Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong?

Nicholas Hendry • Jun 29 2012 • Essays

The UNHCR faced a difficult situation in managing Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s and 80s. Nevertheless, several of the failures were of its own making.

Peace Education in Sierra Leone

Fatmata Samura • May 2 2012 • Essays

Material repairs to infrastructure are only a small part of any reconstruction effort. Education can provide an incentive for potentially aggressive parties to buy into peace.

Violence against women in Bangladesh

Caroline Wiegand • Apr 30 2012 • Essays

Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world and its estimated prevalence rate of violence against women is extremely high.

Does Cooperation at the International Level Require Trust?

Lucas Van Milders • Apr 29 2012 • Essays

Trust is a valuable, though elusive, concept in International Politics. It is vital, not only to establish fruitful cooperation, but also because it enables actors to minimize the main feature of this realm: uncertainty.

The Role of the State in Development: Re-examining Neo-Liberal Recommendations

Annemarie Detlef • Apr 26 2012 • Essays

Examining the history of development in the UK, the US, Germany and Japan brings the policy recommendations of neoliberalism into question.

Were SAPs Designed to Keep Africa Economically Subservient to the West?

Sophie Crockett • Apr 21 2012 • Essays

Structural adjustment programmes upheld the theoretical concepts of neo-liberal economics, tied with the underlying notion that markets are inherently greater in the distribution of resources and in solving development problems.

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