Non-State Actors / IGOs

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.

South-South Cooperation and Aid

Megan Pickup • Mar 26 2012 • Essays

Brazil, China, India, and South Africa represent some of the largest contributors overall in terms of emerging donors and are likely the highest contributors to the specific category of SSC.

A Greater Role for International Institutions?

Jan Dobrosielski • Mar 21 2012 • Essays

The world is heading in a direction of increasing complexity, mutual reliance, co-operation, and diversity. Institutions provide the forums for the co-ordination of efforts that are needed if we are to continue on this path to prosperity.

The Role of State Building in COIN

Richard J. Vale • Mar 19 2012 • Essays

Humanitarian assistance and state building play an essential role in COIN and should be incorporated into all COIN strategies.

Is the UN Security Council Fit for Purpose?

Giovanni Pinelli • Mar 14 2012 • Essays

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?

The WTO: Development or the Dollar?

Harry Naio • Mar 2 2012 • Essays

The WTO is nothing if not controversial. Many protests been motivated by frustration towards it’s advocacy of free markets and their effects on developing countries.

The Growing Power of Transnational Social Movements: The Cautionary Case of Darfur

Kathryn Brunton • Feb 3 2012 • Essays

This paper looks to deconstruct the foundations, structure and impacts of the Save Darfur movement. Although the movement achieved some monumental successes, it also served to severely undermine peace efforts and reinforce African dependencies

Do IGOs Decrease the Possibility of Conflict?

Giulia Amparo Bruni Roccia • Jan 3 2012 • Essays

Whether international institutions can promote and achieve a more peaceful world is a question that is being examined more and more in the study of international relations. Literature about this issue has further developed over the last 50 years, as the world has seen the rise of new international organizations and the integration of old ones.

Child Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

Ashlyn Exley • Dec 26 2011 • Essays

The systematic inclusion of children in the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission process was unprecedented in the history of truth and reconciliation initiatives. Given the country’s history of child involvement in the war as both victims and perpetrators, it was especially important to include children in the post-conflict peacebuilding processes.

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