Brazil, China, India, and South Africa represent some of the largest contributors overall in terms of emerging donors and are likely the highest contributors to the specific category of SSC.
‘The Roots of Violent Radicalisation’ report reviews the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy PREVENT. It identifies suspected places where radicalisation takes place despite there being little evidence to suggest that any of these forums drive the process.
“Nationalism”, asserts Fred Halliday, “has been one of the formative processes of the modern world”[1]and many argue that nationalist ideology continues to play an important part in the political discourse and decisions of the developed and developing world. In the dialogue of this essay I will; briefly define the ‘nationalist ideal’ and the complications such a definition raises; examine the nature of contemporary nationalism and whether this can be ascribed as ‘new nationalism’; ascertain the impact that modernity and globalisation has on the nationalist ideal; and present a discussion on the relevance of nationalism in the conduct of politics in the United States, with particular focus upon the internationalist scope of American nationalism and the need to securitize subjectivity in times of uncertainty and existential anxiety.
The economic implications resulting from the rising Chinese influence in Latin America are differentiated from country to country, but also within each country’s economic sector.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,’ but as seen in western discourse over Ukrainian migrants ‘European’, ‘White’, and ‘civilized’ seem to be freer and superior.
Pragmatism rules the roost in Muslim states, yet the role of Islam must not be underestimated. The faith inspires, promotes and legitimises the actions of Muslim states and whilst it has little causal role in foreign policy, it nonetheless has an integral part in advancing it.
Even if international politics granted a political union between the two Koreas, the domestic conditions in South Korea cannot sustain the successful implementation of a reunification.
Since the end of the Cold War many academics and politicians have argued for a broadening of the ‘Security Studies’ agenda. The Realist emphasis on military threat seems to be less relevant for much of the world, with the number of inter-state and civil conflicts falling dramatically since 1989 (Human Security Centre, 2005: 1).
The second part of e-IR’s exclusive interview with Professor Bas de Gaay Fortman, Chair in Political Economy of Human Rights at Utrecht University Law School, Netherlands.
The chances of Iraq sustaining its fragile democracy are grim. However, manipulating religious and ethnic groups into favourable behaviour, may lead to peace.
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