Essays

Why Doesn’t Iran Want the Bomb?

Torgeir Pande Braathen • Jun 17 2015 • Essays

When adding up the potential benefits and impediments, Iran will unlikely upgrade its current civilian nuclear programme to a military nuclear weapons programme.

Current Space Law Limitations and Its Implications on Outer Space Conflicts

Michael Beaver • Jun 16 2015 • Essays

This is an exciting time for the entirety of human civilization, it is important for all parties in the planning of the forthcoming human expansion into outer space.

The Status of the Responsibility to Protect Norm in International Relations

Lauren Grace Fitzsimons • Jun 11 2015 • Essays

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is worryingly tenuous, but there is the potential for it to develop into a robust international norm.

Development and Good Governance in Egypt

Erin Cox • Jun 10 2015 • Essays

Since the end of the Cold War, development in Egypt, meant to promote sustainability and good governance, instead created a society based on political and economic gain.

Without a True European Identity, Can the EU Ever Be Legitimate?

Tristan Thorn • Jun 9 2015 • Essays

Since its inception the legitimacy of the European integration project has been questioned; a true European identity is needed to legitimise the EU.

What Accounts for the Sino-Russian Alliance?

Matt Finucane • Jun 8 2015 • Essays

Sino–Russian relations are better today than at any point throughout their troubled history, due to the structure of the inter-state system and domestic factors.

Providing Security? Border Control and the Politics of Migration in the EU

Yasemin Oezel • Jun 8 2015 • Essays

Depicting how certain assumptions are constructed, constructivism is useful to unveil that the security threat of migration is socially produced.

Discursively Constructing a Space Threat: ‘China Threat’ & U.S. Security

Caleb Pomeroy • Jun 6 2015 • Essays

China’s rise in space power, and the United States’ interpretations of that rise, force us to reflect on how threats are constructed and perceived.

Why Are Elections Flashpoints for Violence & Insecurity and Can This Be Avoided?

Mia Lombardi • Jun 5 2015 • Essays

It is crucial to sustainable peace that elections are not seen as opportunities to engage in hostile takeovers, but instead allow for peaceful power transitions.

International Negotiations: Atomic Energy and Iran

Alina Ptok • Jun 5 2015 • Essays

It is possible that nuclear negotiations with Iran will continue to prove fruitless and will continue on for an indefinite time.

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