Essays

Local Governance and the “Arab Spring”: A Guide to Libya’s Political Transition

Nick Zukowski • Nov 24 2014 • Essays

Assessing the extent and characteristics of the impact of the “Arab Spring” on the political trajectory of Libya has proven a difficult task.

Short-Term Volunteering and Local Development Projects in Developing Countries

Charlotte Lecomte • Nov 22 2014 • Essays

While an important source of aid in achieving local development, short-term volunteering is more suited to the volunteer than to the host community.

The Asian Development State: An Evaluation

Jessica Tselepy • Nov 22 2014 • Essays

The Asian Development State emerged after WWII as an alternative and effective model of economic development when compared to the dominant US model.

Presidential War Powers in Vietnam

Haley O'Shaughnessy • Nov 19 2014 • Essays

With Johnson’s executive mandate for war and Nixon’s justification of executive authority, the Vietnam War set a dangerous precedent for presidential war powers.

Shared Concerns with Opposite Outcomes: Myanmar and DPRK on China’s Border

Curtis Bram • Nov 19 2014 • Essays

The shared threat of China provides an interesting and underutilized way to examine the strategic decision to pursue reform or retrenchment in North Korea and Myanmar.

The Challenges of British Counterinsurgency in Helmand – Why did it go so Wrong?

Joshua Gray • Nov 17 2014 • Essays

Britain exhibited a lack of adhesion to the rules and maxims posited by classical COIN theory and subsequently faced many challenges.

Does Gender Shape the War System and Vice Versa?

Ibtisam Ahmed • Nov 16 2014 • Essays

Contemporary perceptions of combatants underline how the masculine–aggressive and feminine–passive nexus still lies at the heart of gender and the war system.

To What Extent is the EU a Power In and Through Trade?

Sebastian Mang • Nov 16 2014 • Essays

Although the EU is a major civilian and normative power in and through trade, it is conflicted within and faces external challenges from an increasingly multipolar world.

Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon: Gendering Violence through Johan Galtung  

Ellie Swingewood • Nov 10 2014 • Essays

By utilising gender as a key conceptual tool of analysis, different dimensions of the impact of the Syrian conflict on displaced populations can be examined.

Evaluate the Role of Utopian Thinking in Green Political Thought

Lucile Cremier • Nov 10 2014 • Essays

As a mode of thinking, ‘Utopia’ is a crucial part of Green political thought and a mark of its distinctiveness.

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