International Relations (School of): Recent submissions
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Kyrgyzstan 2015 : a country adrift?
(2016-03-01) - Journal articleIn August 2015 Kyrgyzstan completed the accession process to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Bishkek now firmly gravitates in Russia’s orbit. In October parliamentary elections returned a six-party national assembly, ... -
Norms without the great powers: international law, nested social structures, and the ban on antipersonnel mines
(2015-09-01) - Journal articleIn the past two decades, a series of major multilateral treaties were created in the absence of support—and often in the face of sustained opposition—from the United States and other emerging global leaders like China, ... -
Forged in the crucible of defensive jihad : Arab foreign fighters and their trajectory to involvement in Islamist terrorism
(University of St Andrews, 2017-07-18) - ThesisThis thesis challenges the conventional wisdom that tends to conflate Arab foreign fighters with Islamist terrorists, and ‘martyrdom operations’ with ‘suicide attacks.’ Overlaps notwithstanding, it aims to draw distinctions ... -
Dissonance and decision-making mistakes in the age of risk
(2016-02-18) - Journal articleScholars of public and foreign policy have emphasized the role of decision processes in the creation of policy failures and fiascos and have demonstrated the importance that psychological factors play in policy mistakes. ... -
Political resilience and EU responses to aviation terrorism
(2016-02-05) - Journal articleIn this article, we examine how European authorities have responded to reported threats to aviation resulting from individual terrorist tactics. We do so by applying the notion of political resilience and drawing on Palonen’s ...