By recognizing non-state actors as rights holders and duty bearers, the challenge of establishing accountability for international organizations and unrecognized states can be met.
While Marx shares many methodological beliefs with positivism, there are also important conflicts. To label Marx a positivist would therefore ignore or undermine aspects crucial to his thought.
The dollar is seeing its hegemony exhausted and its world reserve status threatened. The concept of virtual currencies is becoming increasingly appealing, particularly the Bitcoin.
Though it has been argued that China will democratize in the near future, only time will tell whether the elites will perceive the benefits of democracy as outweighing the costs.
The War on Terror marked a new security culture of anticipatory surveillance problematic in producing a sense of security that stretches beyond the political realm.
Ultimately, if IR scholars hope to gain greater understanding of the contemporary empirical world, benefits of analytical eclecticism and theoretical synthesis outweigh their weaknesses.
US democracy promotion initiatives are often imbued with undertones of national interest, and are not necessarily the most effective means of promoting international peace and security.
When deconstructing the clash through the security theory, economic and social factors are crucial triggers of hostilities between Islamic minorities and Dutch/Western nativists.
Because workers do not have the same positions, cannot develop their similar interests, and lack a representative of their class, the post-socialist period lacks a working class.
To prevent famine, democracy and a free press trump single-minded agricultural expansion. Where agriculture fails, the lobbying capabilities of citizens enables a political response.
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