Chen, Ching Chang(Department of International Politics, 2008)
This thesis investigates the relationship between Taiwan’s threat perceptions and
its national identity formation, with a focus on Taipei’s foreign policy conduct. Its
central question is: how is China seen as a threat ...
The Breslau translator and popular writer Christian Garve was a good deal more typical figure of the German Enlightenment than was Immanuel Kant. Although a number of years younger than Kant (Garve was born in 1742 and ...
In the 'war on terrorism' waged by the United States the activities of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been in the spotlight of discussions for several years. Such activities include extra-legal renditions ...
Hillebrand, Claudia(Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen Clingendael, 2009-03-30)
In the 'war on terrorism' waged by the United States the activities of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been in the spotlight of discussions for several years. Such activities include extra-legal renditions ...
Ethical cosmopolitanism is conventionally taken to be a stance that requires an ‘impartialist’ point of view—a perspective above and beyond all particular ties and loyalties. Taking seriously the claims of those critics ...
This article explores the development of political relationships between people and politicians since around 1820 in Latin America. In particular, it develops the idea of client‐ship as a form of political agency and ...
In 1948, the Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD) embarked upon a global anti-Soviet and anti-communist propaganda war. Drawing upon recently declassified records, this article investigates IRD's Middle ...
This paper will explore the question of membership society and how it shapes the character of world perennial difficulties of grappling with this question reconcile the freedom implied by state sovereignty of non-interference, ...
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) is largely absent from the narrative of Welsh devolution, in particular from the left’s engagement with the national question, as it is from much of the discussion of Welsh ...
Tan, Er-win(Aberystwyth UniversityDepartment of International Politics, 2008)
The view that uncertainty resulting from the condition of anarchy causes defensively-motivated entities to engage in self-defeating security competition has been explored in various periods of history. This introductory ...
The argument that there is a link between conflict and the spread of HIV has become commonplace in both the academic and policy world. This article examines five key reasons offered for this link: the high HIV prevalence ...
The International Conflict System established after 1945 has proved remarkably durable in the face of deep and profound systemic alterations. Aimed at providing states with a menu of dispute resolution techniques, it rests ...
Dennis, Peter; Doering, J.; Stockan, J. A.; Jones, J. R.; Rees, M. Elaine; Vale, Jim E.; Sibbald, A. R.(2004-06)
Current policies for upland pasture management in the UK encourage the integration of environmental objectives with livestock production through extensification of grazing systems. This study tested the hypothesis that a ...