The lack of consensus surrounding the Third Pillar of R2P, as well as the ambiguity of R2P’s framework, prevents its establishment as a global norm.
Japan is likely to be the ultimate determining factor in peace and stability in East Asia. To avoid insecurity and great power war, diplomatic efforts should be pursued.
DDR programmes continue to fail at meeting specific needs of children associated with armed forces and groups. A reconceptualisation of these programmes is needed.
Due to unchecked authoritarian practices, pre- and post-Soviet Russia has grossly mismanaged its nuclear facilities with disastrous consequences.
Rather than ‘ancient hatreds,’ the primary causes of the Yugoslav Wars were competing groups’ need for societal security and the elite exploitation of structural anarchy.
Contemporary religious terrorism is not a “new terrorism,” but instead displays similar features to previous forms of terrorism.
Fear not only plays an assumptive role in the international system, but is a central notion and emotion in IR that can arise in any context to shape states’ behaviour.
When Foucault’s theory is analysed in the context of contemporary surveillance, it suggests that we are living in a post-panoptic society.
Clear asymmetries of power existed between Japan and the hegemonic Cold War powers during the Non-Proliferation Treaty negotiations, yet each party received concessions.
The Syrian Civil War constitutes a “new war” from the feminist perspective when it is contextualised within the literature of the new war debate.
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