Essays

Deepening Socio-Economic Relations Across Taiwan Straits

Chris Barker • Oct 20 2013 • Essays

While socio-economic relations encourage a peaceful era in the short to medium term, political realism severely constrains the development of these relations the in the long term.

The Complicity of International Markets in Human Rights Violations

Matthew John Ribeiro Norley • Oct 19 2013 • Essays

Corporate Social Responsibility is a farce: a lack of transparency, increased competition, poor international regulation, and corruption cause corporate violations of human rights law.

The Changing Nature of Sovereignty

Michael Bolt • Oct 17 2013 • Essays

The nature of sovereignty has changed from one which vests states with the right to non-intervention, to one which grants them certain responsibilities towards its own population.

The Discursive Turn in International Relations Research: Bad Science?

Ashleigh Croucher • Oct 16 2013 • Essays

Though it may be considered ‘bad science’ by positivists, the lack of formal methodology in discourse analysis allows for an analysis of the discursive representations of world politics.

‘Bedouin’ Hospitality in the Neo-Global City of Dubai

James Barnes • Oct 16 2013 • Essays

Has hospitality in the Middle East, especially in Dubai, been changed as a result of the construction of new cities, or has it merely shifted to accommodate a new type of guest?

Assessing al-Qaeda from the Teachings of Ibn Taymiyya

Camille Mulcaire • Oct 15 2013 • Essays

This essay assesses the validity of the 9/11 Commission’s assertion that the teachings of Ibn Taymiyya, the 13th century Hanbali theologian, influenced al-Qaeda.

The Securitisation of Ethnicity in Serbia (1987-1991)

Pål Røren • Oct 12 2013 • Essays

Securitising moves and speech acts performed by Slobodan Milosevic paralleled his successful attempts at securing and increasing his political power in Yugoslavia.

Theoretical Approach to Understanding NATO Intervention in Libya

Terence Fernandes • Oct 11 2013 • Essays

NATO’s political objective superseded humanitarian considerations. A liberal argument for the primacy of human rights cannot account for NATO’s conduct in Libya.

Can Objections to Singer’s ‘Famine Relief Argument’ be Morally Justified?

Josie Park • Oct 11 2013 • Essays

There are numerous conflicts between the FRA and our common intuition. Consequent objections against the FRA may be plausible, but do not provide sufficient moral justification to reject the FRA.

Interpretation in Foreign Energy Policy

Morgan Lochhead • Oct 11 2013 • Essays

Shaping foreign energy policy at the state level and international energy relations at the international, interpretation of energy resources grounds an energy policy’s political logic.

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