International Theory

The Medical Gaze Between the Doctor, the Patient, and the State

Zeynep Balcioglu • Oct 11 2012 • Essays

Implementation of neoliberal policies in Turkey’s health sector binds both the doctors and the patients to perform as homo-economicuses, strategically structuring their relationship.

The Importance of Ideas in Foreign Policy

Matthew Bamber • Oct 11 2012 • Essays

‘Ideas’ analysis highlights the role of social discourse in constituting the national interest, and how this changes the national interest across time and space.

The Role of Progress in Mill’s Argument in ‘On Liberty’?

Luke Corden • Oct 8 2012 • Essays

While progress does have a role in ‘On Liberty’, it is significantly less than the role of liberty. Used to underpin Mill’s argument, progress is treated as a value-laden principle, erected to justify liberal ideology.

Are Human Rights Universal?

Joe Derry-Malone • Oct 4 2012 • Essays

As has been seen in Latin America, human rights violations are neither formulaic nor predictable. They are far from universal, as their accessibility is currently limited. Nations must accept their moral obligations to promote human rights.

The Difference Principle: Inconsistency in Rawlsian Theory?

Wen Zha • Sep 23 2012 • Essays

Why does the difference principle as outlined by John Rawls in “A Theory of Justice” and “The Law of Peoples” seem to demand less in the international than in the domestic case?

How Far Was Institutional Failure the Cause of the Credit Crunch Crisis?

Connie Lynn Musallam • Sep 16 2012 • Essays

The claim that institutional misconduct was the cause of the financial crisis is only partly correct. Both Neo-Realism and Liberalism led up to the financial crisis.

Modern Media and its Role in Insurgency

Seth Carroll • Sep 15 2012 • Essays

Modern media is a unique and as yet uncontrollable information battlespace with the potential to leverage internal and external forces to act on the side which can best utilize its effects.

A Policy of Violence: The Case of Algeria

Kelsey Lilley • Sep 12 2012 • Essays

Violence and terrorism were used for political objectives, but an entrenched government, be it the French in 1954 or the FLN in the 1990s, must appease its constituents, provide services, and uphold law and order.

The Case for Russian and East European Studies

anon • Sep 8 2012 • Essays

Major processes such as globalisation remain – despite their international appearance – locally embedded. Area specialists can contribute to a more refined interpretation of these developments.

The Governmentalization of the State: Two Questions of Power

Andreas Aagaard Nohr • Sep 6 2012 • Essays

The question of ‘who governs?’ is problematic. We must, therefore, start our inquiry of power with a question of ‘how?’: how is power exercised?

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