Essays

US Foreign Policy Challenges: Cyber Terrorism & Critical Infrastructure

Natalia Tereshchenko • Jun 12 2013 • Essays

A multidisciplinary approach to understanding cyber terrorism is essential to compiling policies capable of responding to today’s problems and to future threats.

Africa’s Burden: Labour Markets, Natural Resources and the FDI ‘Reliance-Rejection’ Paradox

Andrea de Mauro • Jun 11 2013 • Essays

Sub-Saharan Africa is locked in an FDI paradox that prevents it from funding its own development, a problem for which international financial institutions bear much responsibility.

International Politics & Human Nature

Rosie Walters • Jun 9 2013 • Essays

Realists claim that international politics are derived from human’s nature to war and cause destruction, which emphasizes masculinity and eschews women from the international arena.

Hedley Bull: Constitutive or Reflective of International Society?

Abigail Temperley • Jun 7 2013 • Essays

Bull’s conception of diplomacy is constitutive of international society and its constituent rules, norms and conventions – which have been shaped by institutions.

The 1940 Election and US Foreign Policy

Luke Devoy • Jun 6 2013 • Essays

FDR was able to traverse the minefield of elections without changing the substance of his policies, due to his political skill, favourable events, and the approach of his opposition.

Why Has R2P Not Been Applied to Syria?

Filippos Aligizakis • Jun 6 2013 • Essays

Syria warrants the application of R2P as there is an on-going government campaign of extermination against civilians; however, no country is willing to commit to a military intervention.

Iraq Invasion: A “Just War” or Just a War?

Nipunika Lecamwasam • Jun 6 2013 • Essays

The 2003 invasion of Iraq clashed with the longstanding standards set forth by the Just War theory, and any attempt to defend it as such is a misinterpretation of the concept of Just War.

How Iron Curtain Despots Continue to Dictate

Andrew Anzur Clement • Jun 5 2013 • Essays

Despite disadvantages inherited from communist regimes, it is possible for nations to modernize their economies, but those with the least repressive regimes have fared the best.

To What Extent is Nuclear Deterrence Important in the Post-Cold War World?

Giorgio Bertolin • Jun 4 2013 • Essays

The reintroduction of strategies contemplating the use of nuclear weapons by non-state actors has forced traditional deterrence theories to expand to fit a new security environment.

Towards a Multi-Polar International System: Which Prospects for Global Peace?

Andrea Edoardo Varisco • Jun 3 2013 • Essays

Multi-polarity will not only carry the risks entailed in the research of the balance of power among great powers, but will add a new wide-ranging nuclear threat into equations.

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