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Questioning the Dominance of Military Means: The Bush Administration’s Fight against Terrorism
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2010 - Volume 4, Issue 1
This work is devoted to investigating the variety of approaches that the US presidential administration of George W. Bush deployed to counter terrorism following 9/11. This topic deserves special attention because Bush’s approach to fighting terrorism is often misconceived as primarily or even only,...
Evaluating Sub-State Participation in the History of International Health Co-operation
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2010 - Volume 4, Issue 1
The Treaty of Westphalia is often referred to as the point of departure in the history of international relations. It was in 1648 that the modern state system was established and the concept of national sovereignty born. Today, these two concepts remain essential elements that govern interstate relations....
Iraqi Insurgent Media: The War of Images and Idea
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 2
Presented primarily in Arabic on an array of websites unknown to most Americans and Europeans, Iraqi insurgent media hover at the margins of mainstream reports in the form of a "claim of responsibility on an insurgent website" or a "video posted to a jihadist forum." Such marginal references fail to...
The Role of Diasporas in Foreign Policy: The Case of Canada
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 2
Diasporas engage in a range of trans-national activities for political purposes. Forcefully dispersed or conflict-generated diasporas are more prone to be politically engaged than diasporas whose members have moved for economic reasons or in order to improve their standards of living. While some of these...
Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Post-Conflict States: Challenges of Local Ownership
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 2
While the term Security Sector Reform has been widely used in the post-conflict peace-building context, further clarification is needed to reveal a larger significance. The OECD's Guidelines on Security System and Governance Reform defines security sector reform as; [it] includes all the actors, their...
Humanitarian Arms Control, Symbiotic Functionalism and the Concept of Middlepowerhood
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 2
This article arises from dissatisfaction with predominant accounts concerning changes in interactions between nongovernmental actors and governments in contemporary world politics, namely the image of a tension between so-called state-centric and transnational worlds. Specifically, it can be conceived...
The Gratuitous Suicide by the Sons of Pride: On Honour and Wrath in Terrorist Attacks
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 2
In the Western philosophic and literary tradition to be without home or country is a fate that both demands our loathing and pity. As Aristotle characterized it, a man born without a city is either a "beast or a god". Such beings Aristotle maintains, since they cannot properly be called human, have a...
Israeli Security Doctrine between the Thirst for Exceptionalism and Demands for Normalcy
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 2
Israeli security has been invoked time and again to explain Israeli behavior and justify Israeli actions vis-à-vis neighboring states and peoples. Yet there have been few insights into the manner in which Israeli security doctrine3 has been formulated, the various factors that have shaped and influenced...
EU Counterterrorism Policy and the 2004 Eastern Enlargement
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 1
The European Union’s counterterrorism policy can be traced to the early 1970s, when the European Political Cooperation (EPC) came into being. The initial impetus for greater intergovernmental cooperation among Member States was the growth of terrorist incidents perpetrated by indigenous Western European...
Conscription and European Security: A Theoretical First-Step
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 1
In the 18 year process of European reintegration, military conscription – as a feature of the European political scene – has largely vanished. The evaporation of sizeable, conscripted militaries reflects the widespread belief that conscription is a political, economic and military anachronism reminiscent...
The Privatization of Peace: Private Military Firms, Conflict Resolution and the Future of NATO
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 1
The end of the Cold War marked the beginning of a new world order and an end of regional strategic patronage of superpowers. Withdrawing support to client regimes created a power void that prompted developing countries – which previously relied on major powers for their security and stability – to look...
Demos and Ethnos: Dangerous Democratisation in Pre-Genocide Rwanda
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 1
The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a worldwide wave of democratisation. In Sub-Saharan Africa alone, twenty-one states had, by 1990, embarked on a process to liberalise their political arena, leading to the ousting of eleven authoritarian leaders. The democratisation process in many...
Humanitarian Intervention, Dirty Hands, and Deliberation
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 1
Let’s begin with a short exegesis of humanitarian intervention couched in terms of just war theory (JWT), in order to establish some practical and moral guidelines for the former. Of course, these criteria of action are meant as relatively specific and tight practical and moral constraints for the purposes...
Search for a European Identity - Psycho-Sociological Perspective
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 1
Many authors distinguish between collective and individual identity, or between the collective and individual dimensions of identity (e.g. Calhoun 1994, Taylor 1989). At first glance it seems quite obvious that European identity is a collective identity or a collective dimension of identity. On closer...
EU Official Development Aid to the Palestinian Authority and the Rise of Hamas
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 1
The economic situation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is to a large extent determined by its security condition. Given that a considerable part of Palestinians work on Israeli territory, the 2000 intifada followed by the closure of the borders, stringent checkpoint controls and eventually leading...
The Political Cartoon and the Collapse of the Oslo Peace Process
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2007 - Volume 1, Issue 1
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been challenging to researchers. The nature of the conflict appears, at times, to defy both the material interests and strategic rationality of the warring parties. The struggle has been described as possessing a primordial intensity, unpredictability and elusiveness...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and Security in Post-Soviet Central Asia
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2010 - Volume 4, Issue 2
Tracing the debate on the importance and influence of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on regional security integration in Central Asia, this work assesses the degree of its integration. It mainly addresses the interplay between individual state security needs, norms and identities. My proposed...