International Relations (School of): Recent submissions
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Humanitarians on the frontier : identity and access in the socio-political space of voluntary service
(University of St Andrews, 2020-06-23) - ThesisFailures of international humanitarian response to crisis are a prominent feature of contemporary debate, with most analysis focusing on the application of the core humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and ... -
#WeJamminStill : agential realism and Trinidad and Tobago's absent terrorism narrative
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-03) - ThesisThis work examines the limitations of Securitisation Theory by applying it to an ethnographic case study of Trinidad and Tobago – the state with the highest per capita ISIL recruitment rate in the Western World. It ... -
Resistance, reproduction, attachment : unsettling gender through cosplay
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-03) - ThesisMost stories told in popular culture can be understood as being embedded in martial politics, or as militarised; as violent, gendered narratives that invest and are invested in normalising traditional normative social ... -
John Hume : origins of a Derry icon 1960-74
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-03) - ThesisJohn Hume held executive office for just five months out of a political career lasting more than 30 years. Yet he became one of the most influential politicians of the past 50 years and was instrumental in changing the ... -
Decaying beauty? : image(s) of the European Union in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis comparatively examines perceived images of the European Union (EU) in two countries of Central Asia (CA): Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The study departs from the point that the literature on Central Asian ...