This is a study of regional security in the Middle East from a Critical Security Studies perspective. The main aim of the thesis is to provide an account of the pasts, presents and futures of regional security in the Middle ...

This thesis highlights and interrogates the mutually constitutive relationship between marginality, state power and borders. In doing so, it focuses specifically on the U.S.-Mexican border, and the role of the citizen/ ...

The 1994 Rwandan genocide raised the issue of the role and responsibility of external actors in the prevention and suppression of genocide. The central aim of the thesis is to analyse whether and how so-called 'external ...

Amcan y traethawd hwn yw ystyried sut gall egwyddorion rhyddfrydol gyfrannu at oleuo ein dealltwriaeth o foesoldeb y broses o adfer ieithoedd lleiafrifol. Eir ati i ystyried y mater hwn trwy osod dau gwestiwn ymchwil ...

The aim of this thesis is to examine the role of public opinion on the formulation of British and French foreign policy between the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and the outbreak of the Second World War. More ...

This thesis examines the relationship between security, politics and revolution. It analyzes securitization theory’s assumptions about politics and how these assumptions underpin processes of securitization. This analysis ...

The thesis investigates the role of civil society as ‘an agent of security’ in the passage of United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women and Peace and Security (SCR 1325). This Resolution, adopted ...

This thesis investigates whether talking can contribute to the transformation of conflicts characterized by terrorist violence. It begins by questioning the understanding of terrorism put forward by traditional terrorism ...

The thinking that resulted in this thesis has its roots in the first televised images that marked my childhood. The destruction of Beirut under the Israeli fire was the news item during my first school holidays. I was ...