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Rethinking the Relationship between Europeanization and European Integration (2014)
Book Chapter
(2014). Rethinking the Relationship between Europeanization and European Integration. In Europeanization and European Integration (15 - 28 (14)). https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325501_2

Europeanization, understood as domestic change in which the EU is wholly or partially involved, has added an important dimension to comparative analysis of domestic European politics. Indeed, whether it is electoral politics or policy development, th... Read More about Rethinking the Relationship between Europeanization and European Integration.

Understanding Statebuilding Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland (2014)
Book
Richards, R. (2014). Understanding Statebuilding Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Much analysis of state building focusses on dissecting specific projects and attempting to identify what has gone ’wrong’ in states such as Afghanistan and Iraq. What draws less attention is what has gone ’right’ in non-interventionist statebuilding... Read More about Understanding Statebuilding Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland.

Britain's South African foreign policy 1979-1989: bilateralism and multilateralism (1997)
Thesis
Parks, J. F. (1997). Britain's South African foreign policy 1979-1989: bilateralism and multilateralism. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/425087

Much academic thought and material has been devoted to British foreign policy and her relations with the Republic of South Africa. The Thatcher era is no exception to this rule. During this time Britain's South African foreign policy was subjected to... Read More about Britain's South African foreign policy 1979-1989: bilateralism and multilateralism.

Geopolitics in United States strategic policy 1890-1980; with special reference to the post-1945 period (1984)
Thesis
Sloan, G. R. F. (1984). Geopolitics in United States strategic policy 1890-1980; with special reference to the post-1945 period. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis traces and analyses the nature of the relationship between geopolitical theory and United States strategic policy from 1890 to the end of the Carter admin­istration, with particular attention being paid to the post-1945 period. The first... Read More about Geopolitics in United States strategic policy 1890-1980; with special reference to the post-1945 period.

TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS THE KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT (2003-2013) A GLOBALIST ANALYSIS
Thesis
GOVERNMENT (2003-2013) A GLOBALIST ANALYSIS

Despite the shadows cast by their history, Turkey has developed relations with the Kurdish government to the level of a strategic partnership within the last decade, following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This thesis contextualizes this unexpected rapp... Read More about TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS THE KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT (2003-2013) A GLOBALIST ANALYSIS.

How can a study of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests inform understandings of fidelity and change in Alain Badiou’s philosophy?
Thesis
(2017). How can a study of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests inform understandings of fidelity and change in Alain Badiou’s philosophy?

This thesis asks what the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests (‘Tiananmen’) can tell us about Alain Badiou’s philosophy of fidelity and its relationship to change, drawing on the concepts of immanence, rupture and conflict. The thesis consists of: analysi... Read More about How can a study of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests inform understandings of fidelity and change in Alain Badiou’s philosophy?.

The Biopolitics of Resilience
Thesis
(2012). The Biopolitics of Resilience

This thesis analyses resilience as a value which constitutes a telos for contemporary liberal security initiatives. In recent years, resilience strategies have been increasingly employed within liberal states a means of responding to the radical cont... Read More about The Biopolitics of Resilience.

Arms and influence in Saudi Arabia/United States relations, 1973-1983
Thesis
Ishgi, M. H. (1987). Arms and influence in Saudi Arabia/United States relations, 1973-1983

This thesis investigates empirically the realist argument that the United States arms transfers produced political influence on Saudi Arabia's foreign policy behaviour between 1973 and 1983. Within six chapters I set out the conditions and interactio... Read More about Arms and influence in Saudi Arabia/United States relations, 1973-1983.

The United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) 1948-1965, with postscript on the impact on UNMOGIP of the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971
Thesis
Dawson, P. (1987). The United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) 1948-1965, with postscript on the impact on UNMOGIP of the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971

In January 1949 the first UN Military Observers arrived in Kashmir to supervise a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, following hostilities arising from Kashmir's disputed status after Independence. In-accepting the resolutions of a UN Commission w... Read More about The United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) 1948-1965, with postscript on the impact on UNMOGIP of the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971.