Regions

Torture at Abu Ghraib: A Technique in Fighting A New Kind of War

Fatmata Samura • Oct 24 2012 • Essays

Calling the event a crime localizes it, but casting Abu Ghraib as a war crime might help make a moral and legal argument out of what happened.

U.S. Foreign Policy and Russia: The Role of Internal Debates and Politics

Jacob Kennedy • Oct 20 2012 • Essays

Imagining a great power-focused, cooperative strategy between the U.S. and Russia will only be possible if internal political debates in the U.S. create an environment for it to develop.

Climate Change Policy Analysis

Lisa Wellman-Tuck • Oct 20 2012 • Essays

The United States will face considerable challenges in reducing the impact of climate change without robust legislation and a political commitment to the issue.

Is New Public Management Irrelevant to Developing Countries?

Abdelfatah Ibrahim • Oct 19 2012 • Essays

NPM is generally an effective replacement for the traditional administration model, but it is not necessarily suitable for all countries around the world.

Does Britain’s Future Lie with North America, rather than Europe?

Mareike Oldemeinen • Oct 19 2012 • Essays

Current events like the European debt crisis seem to only emphasise the need for Britain to look to North America in order to join NAFTA and escape European bureaucracy.

Can an Intervention in Syria be Morally Permissible? Is it Morally Obligatory?

James Morley • Oct 18 2012 • Essays

May a nation intervene in another nation’s conflict on loose humanitarian grounds to serve its own purpose? Interventions must be committed to helping the people who are persecuted.

The Failure of Neoliberal Transition Policies in Eastern Europe Post-1989

Michael Koenig • Oct 16 2012 • Essays

Neoliberal shock therapy in Eastern Europe has helped the West create exporting tigers, competing on the basis of cheap labour costs and opening up markets for themselves.

Personality in Foreign Policy Decision-Making

Caitlin Smith • Oct 16 2012 • Essays

Can personality be used to explain Israeli foreign policy during the 1982 Lebanon War, and can it contribute to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?

Appeasement and the Munich Crisis

Jenghiz von Streng • Oct 14 2012 • Essays

During the Munich Crisis, there was little choice other than appeasement, particularly given that the vast majority of the British and French public, as well as elites, were not prepared to fight another war with Germany.

The 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Elizabeth Gutfreund-Walmsley • Oct 14 2012 • Essays

Like no uprising thus far, world media placed Tahrir Square in people’s living rooms, providing citizens around the world with a sense of ‘global hope’.

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