Israel and Palestine: An E.U. Model For Peace
By Aaron M. Cassidy - The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a perplexing problem that weighs heavily on the world. For over seventy-five years, blood has been spilt over a piece of land about the size of...
View ArticleMining in Latin America: The Interplay Between Natural Resources,...
By Juan M. Arellano - The extraction of non-renewable natural resources in the form of large-scale mining projects has intensified in recent years in Latin America. In fact, the World Bank and other...
View ArticleSomali Refugees in Kenya: Security Deficiencies and Public Health Concerns as...
By Samuel L. Aronson - Somalia is home to roughly 9 million people, the overwhelming majority whom are ethnic Somalis (UN Statistics Division 2010). The country has been plagued with conflict and...
View ArticlePrivatization: Analyzing the Process of Privatization in Theory and Practice
By Evan England - While virtually all governments at any level seek some form of service from private service providers, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, the true scope of privatization is widely...
View ArticleThe African Dimension of Egyptian Foreign Policy
By Tamim K. Kashgari - In the era since the removal of the monarchy in Egypt, a distance seems to have developed between the Egyptian people and the African aspect of their identity. This kind of...
View ArticleUK Membership in the European Union: Undermining Parliamentary Sovereignty?
By Miles G. Kellerman - This account, albeit comical, illustrates the power of geography in the development of a national identity, and perhaps provides insight into Great Britain’s general animosity...
View ArticleSomali Piracy: Causes and Consequences
By Miles G. Kellerman - Since the early 1990s, rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia has become a major issue for global trade and security, prompting strong responses from the international...
View ArticleHuntington's Clash of Civilizations in Yugoslavia
By Fiona S. Ong - While Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations presents a compelling argument for the events that happened in the former Yugoslavia, the main argument that was set forth by him...
View ArticleReassessing the House of Lords: Why the Lords Should Remain Unelected
By Oliver Rieche - Since Lord Rosebery’s well-known speech there has been much debate about changes in the composition of the House of Lords. Major reforms included the Life Peerages Act 1958 and later...
View ArticlePreserving the Role of the French Constitutional Council as a Check on...
By Oliver Rieche - The Constitutional Council was established when the Fifth Republic was born in 1958 (Cole 1998, p. 63). Initially designed as a tool to protect the executive against parliament, the...
View ArticleComparing the Tsarist Russian and Soviet Empires
By Magdalena Noga - Compared to other empires throughout history, the USSR was an exception. The rulers of the Soviet Union viewed empire and imperialism in ideological terms as ‘the highest and final...
View ArticleCedars to the East: A Study of Modern Lebanon
By Constantine J. Petallides - The political history of the Middle East is a complex story wrought with instability, conflict, religious and ethnic cleavages, and artificial imperial and colonial...
View ArticleFraternity and Social Change in the Digital Age: The It Gets Better Project...
By Maxwell G. Mensinger - Throughout the ages, communication has impacted human interactions and relationships. The dawning of the digital age has changed communication, facilitating individual and...
View ArticleTrading For Membership: Effects of EU Candidacy on Trade Openness and GDP Per...
By Constantine J. Petallides - Does candidacy to the European Union (EU) increase a nation’s Trade Openness? A good way to begin examining this question is by asking, what is Trade Openness? Simply...
View ArticleThe Right of Return: An Obstacle on the Road to Peaceful Negotiations Between...
By Antonia C. Stinnett - The level of displacement surrounding the Israel-Palestinian conflict is astounding. At this point there are over nine million Palestinian refugees scattered throughout the...
View ArticleExaming Almond and Sartori on Political Culture and Stability
By Dominykas Broga - Gabriel Almond and Giovanni Sartori provided fruitful insights into the approaches to political stability. Almond focused on socio-anthropological aspects of societal relations and...
View ArticleFree Speech and Abortion Clinics: Protesters, Security, and Patients' Rights
By Tonei Glavinic - Since Roe v. Wade affirmed the constitutional right to abortion in 1974, antiabortion activists have used various forms of protesting and violence to disrupt reproductive health...
View ArticleCyber Terrorism and IR Theory: Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism in the...
By Constantine J. Petallides - This level of exposure and uncertainty creates a new security dilemma faced by all states. In his article “Virtual Defense,” James Adams adopts a strict neorealist...
View ArticleWeber and Nagel on Values in the Social and Natural Sciences
By Alexander P. Young - Due to their different subject matter, the way in which social and natural science inquiries are conducted differs. For some, this difference is constituted in a greater...
View ArticleRussia and Iran: Strategic Partners or Competing Regional Hegemons? A...
By Moritz A. Pieper - Russia and Iran have a long history of being geographic neighbours, rivals, competitors and partners - a history which has coined mutual expectations, stereotypes and...
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