Essays

When to Hire a Hitman: A Theoretical Framework for Just Assassination

Heather Van Hull • Dec 5 2016 • Essays

With the exponential rise of civilian casualties in modern warfare, political assassination could serve as an effective, more ‘humane’ means of humanitarian intervention.

Terrorism and the PLO: The Effectiveness of Terrorism as a Political Tool

Sarah Gilmour • Dec 5 2016 • Essays

The example of the PLO’s terrorist campaign against Israel demonstrates that terrorism is unlikely to be an effective tool to achieve political goals.

Peacebuilding in and beyond the European Union

Nadezhda Trichkova • Dec 5 2016 • Essays

While the maturation of its praxes allowed the EU to enter the thus defined peacebuilding space, it is its unique nature that brings value to global peacebuilding.

China’s Cooperation on the Mekong River in the Realm of Complex Interdependence

Max Neugebauer • Dec 4 2016 • Essays

As the most important and powerful upstream country in Asia, China becomes imperative to any cooperation on water-related issues.

Are Pre-Second World War Writings on International Politics Still Relevant?

Flamur Krasniqi • Dec 3 2016 • Essays

The Twenty Years’ Crisis by E.H. Carr and The Three Guineas by Woolf are considered seminal texts in the study of IR, yet their relevance to the present is in question.

Can Liberal Democracies Address Transnational Environmental Problems?

Oana Forestier • Nov 24 2016 • Essays

Liberal-democratic systems will not be capable of addressing contemporary transnational environmental problems unless significant reforms are undertaken.

Dependency Theory: A Useful Tool for Analyzing Global Inequalities Today?

Elisabeth Farny • Nov 23 2016 • Essays

Several thoughts and concepts from the dependency approach are still applicable for making sense of global inequalities in today’s globalized world.

Human Rights and the ‘ASEAN Way’: Political Barriers to Progress

Byron Nagy • Nov 16 2016 • Essays

Little progress has been made towards the realisation of human rights in ASEAN, and attempts … will continue to perform poorly.

The Sovereignty Dispute Over the Falkland Islands

Carlos Rodriguez • Nov 11 2016 • Essays

The Falklands War of 1982 was the most obvious example of a dispute which had fluctuated since the 17th century, and pitched arguments of discovery against sovereignty.

Factors Behind Deteriorating Sino-Japanese Relations

Gerald Sim • Nov 1 2016 • Essays

Incidents such as territorial disputes and nationalist protests are but symptoms of deeper undercurrents at work in deteriorating Sino-Japanese relations.

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