Argues that there has been a change of norm in relation to the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention in the 1990s. It shows how humanitarian justifications for the use of force lacked legitimacy in Cold War international ...

This thesis explores the modes of subjectivation and the forms of power encompassed by the epistemic category of the secular with specific reference to recent controversies over Islam in Europe. The inquiry moves from the ...

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 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is at the heart of the world's collective security system. It is upon this body that rests 'primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security' (UN ...

This provides the first comprehensive analysis of the concept of the 'security dilemma'. By exploring the theory and practice of the security dilemma through the prisms of fear, cooperation and trust, it considers whether ...

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 ...

The former alliances started to be moved in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, attacks on the United States, Dr. Ayla Gol said that, Washington managed to crack the Russian-Armenian-Iranian alliance getting into a closer ...

An experiment quantifying diversity-function relationships in agro-ecosystems (COST 852) was established at a range of sites in Europe, including two sites in Wales. These were located in Aberystwyth (AB: lowland), and in ...