Regions

Jimmy Carter, Human Rights and the Cold War

Hanne van Brienen • Jul 8 2015 • Essays

Carter’s focus on the Cold War and Containment meant that his human rights ideals could never be achieved due to the importance he placed on repelling Soviet influence.

Do Colonial Attitudes Influence the Media’s Response to Humanitarian Crises?

Callum Martin • Jul 8 2015 • Essays

The media’s overwhelming focus on negative events in the South maintains the colonial binaries of our civilisation and their backwardness.

The Responsibility to Protect and the Importance of International Consensus

Torgeir Pande Braathen • Jul 8 2015 • Essays

A constructive debate between the proponents and the sceptics of R2P will lead to establishing a greater consensus around the concept.

The Reagan Administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative during the Cold War

Ramin Karbasi • Jul 7 2015 • Essays

The decision to pursue the protracted, costly, and dubious SDI, the technology for which was not fully understood by US leadership, was ineffective and ultimately unwise.

Are Natural Resources More of a Curse than a Blessing?

Lewis Stott • Jul 3 2015 • Essays

There is no escaping the correlation between resource abundance and poor economic performance. The resource curse is political and brought on by poor policy decisions.

Heroic Narratives Surrounding Humanitarian Intervention

Annelie Wambeek • Jun 29 2015 • Essays

Heroic narratives, through their use of language in particular, intentionally obscure the resort to force that is used during humanitarian military interventions.

Was British Decolonization after 1945 a Voluntary Process?

Jonjo Robb • Jun 22 2015 • Essays

Britain often had little choice but to concede that the constitutional independence of its dependencies was inescapable.

Ukraine Conflict: The Final Push For Peace

Peter J. Marzalik • Jun 17 2015 • Essays

The Minsk Protocols have gradually paved the road toward peace, but serious problems remain both in the formulation and implementation of the agreement.

Why Doesn’t Iran Want the Bomb?

Torgeir Pande Braathen • Jun 17 2015 • Essays

When adding up the potential benefits and impediments, Iran will unlikely upgrade its current civilian nuclear programme to a military nuclear weapons programme.

Development and Good Governance in Egypt

Erin Cox • Jun 10 2015 • Essays

Since the end of the Cold War, development in Egypt, meant to promote sustainability and good governance, instead created a society based on political and economic gain.

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