Essays

What Status Should Case Studies Be Given in the Study of Comparative Politics?

Haoyu Zhai • Jul 29 2015 • Essays

Case studies ought to be utilised more frequently and widely due to the irreplaceable value and significance they have for the comparative analysis of politics.

The Impact of Nationalism on Chinese Foreign Policy Towards Japan

Mark Purvis • Jul 27 2015 • Essays

In China, the CCP promotes the narrative of humiliation as part of a nationalist discourse, projecting opposition outwards and making the CCP a harbinger of stability.

Neo-rationalism: A Third Way? How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the “Isms”

Jimmy Zhongmin Zhang • Jul 27 2015 • Essays

Neo-rationalism describes a third approach to the teaching of IR that combines the most positive elements of “rationalism” and current paradigmatic approaches.

Death from above: Drones, Visuality and the Politics of Killing

Frederick Neve • Jul 27 2015 • Essays

The drone camera, and the drone vision it produces, has a complex and nuanced impact on the psychology of killing in war.

Can the Work of Hannah Arendt Help Us Understand Contemporary Conflicts?

Thomas Richards • Jul 26 2015 • Essays

While some of Arendt’s description of power and violence are undoubtedly relevant, the same themes and actions are found elsewhere in the study of contemporary conflict.

NATO’s Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan: Origins, Development, and Outcome

Sverrir Steinsson • Jul 26 2015 • Essays

The peace operations of the 1990s, Danish initiative-taking, several NATO summits, and Obama’s election were all factors that led to the adoption of the CA by NATO.

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.

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