International Theory

The European Security Strategy: Changing the Global Security Environment?

Liam Fitzgerald • Mar 11 2015 • Essays

The CFSP’s complicated nature is the dominant problem the EU faces in its attempt to create a stronger European voice and a system of global security governance.

One War, Many Reasons: The US Invasion of Iraq

Markus Nikolas Heinrich • Mar 9 2015 • Essays

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the culmination of a long series of events and the product of many complex, different, and yet interrelated factors.

Rhetoric of Responsibility: R2P’s Harmful Application in Humanitarian Practice

Rachel Hao • Feb 15 2015 • Essays

From a well-meaning attempt at humanitarian action following the crises of the 1990s, the Responsibility to Protect has nevertheless become a vehicle for self-interest.

The Main Factors Limiting the Ability of the U.S. to Control World Politics

Haoyu Zhai • Feb 12 2015 • Essays

Increasing economic interdependence between states and the emerging multipolar world order limit the United States in world politics.

Dominant Gender Discourses and the Framing of Female Rebels in Syria

Stina Wassén • Feb 8 2015 • Essays

The gendered framing of female Syrian rebels, prevalent in media sources, de-legitimises the political reasoning behind their individual decisions to be involved.

Simone De Beauvoir’s Feminist Ideals Regarding Prostitution

Elizabeth Feeney • Feb 6 2015 • Essays

De Beauvoir’s feminist approach to prostitution reveals prostitution is ethically acceptable if those involved are willingly and have the same rights as other workers.

Decolonising Structural Realist Understandings of Latin America

John de Bhal • Jan 21 2015 • Essays

Despite the fact that grand narratives inevitably advantage, disadvantage, include, and exclude, scholars should remember that the mind must still be decolonised.

Starvation: A Political Phenomenon

Bede Thompson • Jan 17 2015 • Essays

While their natural aspects and influences should not be disregarded, famine and starvation must be viewed primarily as a breakdown in social and political systems.

Does Epistemology Matter? The Divide Between Critical and Problem-Solving Theory

João Terrenas • Jan 15 2015 • Essays

Critical theory establishes a close link between political theory and practice via its praxeological and empirical commitment to emancipatory change.

Did Structural Adjustment Programmes Assist African Development?

Fraser Logan • Jan 13 2015 • Essays

Structural Adjustment Policies were, rather than effective engines for economic development, in fact an smokescreen for the promotion and spread of global capitalism.

Please Consider Donating

Before you download your free e-book, please consider donating to support open access publishing.

E-IR is an independent non-profit publisher run by an all volunteer team. Your donations allow us to invest in new open access titles and pay our bandwidth bills to ensure we keep our existing titles free to view. Any amount, in any currency, is appreciated. Many thanks!

Donations are voluntary and not required to download the e-book - your link to download is below.