Essays

Are Negotiations for the Paris Climate Meeting in 2015 Likely to Succeed?

Kabir Mehta • Jul 26 2015 • Essays

The hybrid and cumulative approach in the lead up to Paris appears to be the most promising mechanism for global political cooperation since the Copenhagen Accord of 2009

The Merits of Treating Severe and Systemic Poverty as a Human Rights Violation

Annelie Wambeek • Jul 26 2015 • Essays

Some of the merits of treating extreme poverty as a human rights violation empower the poor, assign accountability. and ensure non-discrimination.

The Eurozone Crisis and the CSDP: The Problem of Public Opinion

Jakob Mckernan • Jul 25 2015 • Essays

If the EU is hoping to further integrate security and defense polices from an intergovernmental level to a supranational level, then it must take seriously public support

Unknown Knowns: A Groupthink Model on the U.S. Decision to go to War In Iraq

Vilde Rodin • Jul 25 2015 • Essays

There are clear indications that the decision making process in the buildup to the War in Iraq was influenced by groupthink, which ultimately led to a poor outcome.

Did the Founding Fathers Fail to Consider the Process of Policy Implementation?

Peter Reakes • Jul 21 2015 • Essays

The Constitution of the Founding Fathers does not neglect the implementation of policy as its flexible nature allows governmental power to be sufficiently restrained.

Is Recent Asylum Migration Threatening Europe?

Assunta Soldovieri • Jul 20 2015 • Essays

Asylum seekers in the collective unconscious are perceived as a threat as numerous social and political platforms may push nationalist and sometimes, racist sentiments.

Neo-realism and Structural Liberalism: Can Anarchy Really Be Transcended?

Victoria Fajemilehin • Jul 20 2015 • Essays

With force employed as primary resort in international politics, how does the structural liberal argument of overcoming anarchy apply?

The Spratly Islands Dispute – A Discourse Analysis

Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard • Jul 19 2015 • Essays

A constructivist approach through discourse analysis as described by Lene Hansen highlights essential and previously neglected dynamics of the Spratly Islands dispute.

A Public Reason Defence of Same-Sex Marriage

Gah-Kai Leung • Jul 19 2015 • Essays

Accounts of gay marriage that appeal to nonpublic reasons (and therefore are of the perfectionist kind) should not be pursued.

The Implications of State Failure on Security

Rachael Aldridge • Jul 19 2015 • Essays

The notion of ‘state failure’ is analytically valid, yet empirically the concept has become an imperfect tool of global governance.

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