Can the Work of Hannah Arendt Help Us Understand Contemporary Conflicts?
While some of Arendt’s description of power and violence are undoubtedly relevant, the same themes and actions are found elsewhere in the study of contemporary conflict.
NATO’s Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan: Origins, Development, and Outcome
The peace operations of the 1990s, Danish initiative-taking, several NATO summits, and Obama’s election were all factors that led to the adoption of the CA by NATO.
Are Negotiations for the Paris Climate Meeting in 2015 Likely to Succeed?
The hybrid and cumulative approach in the lead up to Paris appears to be the most promising mechanism for global political cooperation since the Copenhagen Accord of 2009
The Merits of Treating Severe and Systemic Poverty as a Human Rights Violation
Some of the merits of treating extreme poverty as a human rights violation empower the poor, assign accountability. and ensure non-discrimination.
The Eurozone Crisis and the CSDP: The Problem of Public Opinion
If the EU is hoping to further integrate security and defense polices from an intergovernmental level to a supranational level, then it must take seriously public support
Unknown Knowns: A Groupthink Model on the U.S. Decision to go to War In Iraq
There are clear indications that the decision making process in the buildup to the War in Iraq was influenced by groupthink, which ultimately led to a poor outcome.
Did the Founding Fathers Fail to Consider the Process of Policy Implementation?
The Constitution of the Founding Fathers does not neglect the implementation of policy as its flexible nature allows governmental power to be sufficiently restrained.
Is Recent Asylum Migration Threatening Europe?
Asylum seekers in the collective unconscious are perceived as a threat as numerous social and political platforms may push nationalist and sometimes, racist sentiments.
Neo-realism and Structural Liberalism: Can Anarchy Really Be Transcended?
With force employed as primary resort in international politics, how does the structural liberal argument of overcoming anarchy apply?
The Spratly Islands Dispute – A Discourse Analysis
A constructivist approach through discourse analysis as described by Lene Hansen highlights essential and previously neglected dynamics of the Spratly Islands dispute.
