Regions

New Labour and post-war immigration policy

Andrei Dumitrache • Mar 11 2011 • Essays

After winning the 1997 elections, New Labour promised to deliver innovative outputs through its political programme that no government has managed before. But the immigration policies under the New Labour Government can be characterised as fairly mixed.

Between Europe and America: Polish choices for the 21st Century

Jeremy Wysakowski-Walters • Mar 9 2011 • Essays

This paper aims at understanding Polish foreign policy over the last decade with a view to predicting future policy. It analyses Polish foreign policy with reference to three rationalist paradigms: defensive realism, offensive realism, and neo-liberal institutionalism.

Why was so much at stake in Cuba in 1962?

Nicola-Ann Hardwick • Mar 9 2011 • Essays

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 constituted a classic foreign policy dilemma between the United States and the Soviet Union and was one of the most dangerous confrontations of the Cold War. This essay gives an overview of the complexity of the thirteen-day crisis. It shows that the balance of power, the credibility of the two superpowers and the future of Berlin were at stake, and makes clear how close it actually came to a nuclear showdown.

EU-US intelligence sharing post 9/11: predictions for the future

Maciej Osowski • Mar 8 2011 • Essays

This research seeks to explore whether, and to what extent the intelligence sharing has increased between the US and the EU member states post 9/11, and to offer predictions on future trends. Different potential scenarios in future intelligence cooperation are presented, based on the threat of Islamic terrorism to the US and EU.

EU-Russia Energy Relations: Lack of Unity in the Union

Silvia Caneva • Mar 7 2011 • Essays

Since the 1990s, the European Union has achieved various successes. A key example is the enlargement to include a large number of Central and Eastern European countries. During this time, the EU has also experienced some failures, such as in the case of energy relations with Russia.

Islamic Fundamentalism in Central Asia: Evaluating Uzbekistan’s Response

Agnieszka Pikulicka • Mar 6 2011 • Essays

Ever since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Islam has undergone a revival among Central Asian societies. The hitherto communist and atheist states with arbitrarily imposed constraints on the freedom of worship, started referring to their religious roots as a step in national identity formation.

To what extent is the ‘battle of Sadr City’ a case of Urbicide?

James Whitcomb Riley • Mar 5 2011 • Essays

Viewed within the conceptual framework of Urbicide, which posits that cities have become the expressed target of military operations, the battle of Sadr City reveals the inherent objectives of counter-insurgency (COIN) theory — the annihilation of place.

What are the consquences of the notion of “Islamist terrorism”?

Harriet Fildes • Mar 3 2011 • Essays

The use of othering discourse and increasing threat levels encourages fear and mass hysteria in Western countries. Preconditioned as we are by Religiophobia, ethnophobia and Islamophobia, the exaggerated threat of Islamic terrorism specifically and religious terrorism generally cannot be negated until dominant stereotypes and representations are subjected to change.

Does the Greek debt crisis mark the beginning of the end for the Euro?

Conor Slater • Mar 1 2011 • Essays

IN 1992, Milton Friedman asked: “how many more fiascos will it take before responsible people are finally convinced that a system of pegged exchange rates is not a satisfactory financial arrangement for a group of large countries with independent political systems and independent national policies?” Maybe the Greek debt crisis is the fiasco.

Was nationalism the primary cause of the wars in the former Yugoslavia?

Harry Booty • Feb 28 2011 • Essays

The wars in the former state of Yugoslavia that endured for most of the 1990’s have an established legacy today. They have come to be seen by those in the West as a gritty, difficult and unpleasant series of conflicts, epitomised by horrific brutality perpetrated by ultra-nationalist thugs. Nationalism was a major feature of the wars as they were prosecuted, but not the primary cause of the Yugoslav wars. The answer is less clear-cut than it may seem.

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