International Relations: Recent submissions
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Rhetoric or reality : US counterinsurgency policy reconsidered
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-23) - ThesisThis study explores the foundations of US counterinsurgency policy and doctrine in order to better understand the main historical influences on that policy and doctrine and how those influences have informed the current ... -
Practicing peacebuilding differently : a legal empowerment project, a randomised control trial and practical hybridity in Liberia
(University of St Andrews, 2014-05-30) - ThesisHybridity, as it is currently understood in the Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) and International Relations (IR) literature, is defined by the complex interactions between ‘the liberal peace’ and ‘the local’. However, ... -
The war of identities amidst the Syrian uprising : the continual reproduction of sub-state identities and the quest to reconstruct Syrian national identity
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-01) - ThesisThis thesis is about identity clashes during the first two years of the Syrian uprising (from 15th of March 2011 to 15th of March 2013). Chiefly, it attempts to answer the following questions: what roles do identities play ... -
The politics of engagement : diaspora and religious actors' involvement in the Liberian peace process
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-23) - ThesisThis dissertation examines the involvement of Liberia's religious and diaspora groups in the peace process that ended the 14-year Liberian Civil War (1989-2003). Its aims include determining the extent of, the rationale ... -
‘Bomb’, ‘sanction’, or ‘engage’? : the theory/political practice of the Iranian nuclear crisis from the American perspective (1998-2014)
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06) - ThesisThis thesis argues that the debate over the relationship between Theory and political practice has reached a dead-end in IR. Most scholars taking part in this debate based their claims on meta-theoretical assumptions, which ...